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eCa··on Tennis balls serve as decent bicycle tires that don’t easily puncture
For normal world applications, a tubeless[1] setup will perform infinitely better. Though less eye-catchy.

[1] https://www.bikeradar.com/advice/buyers-guides/tubeless/

eCa··on PyCharm 2023.1
> It has been created to reduce visual complexity, provide easy access to essential features, and progressively disclose complex functionality as needed – resulting in a cleaner look and feel.

I’ll probably try it out in a while, but the only thing I potentially care about of those things is ”easy access to essential features”. If clean look makes things harder to find, then that would be a sign that they don’t know their users.

But I’ll wait to judge until I’ve tried it.

eCa··on ChatGPT 4 saved my dog’s life
If I give Google the same prompt you gave ChatGPT:

> Here's the reassuring truth: Headache, by itself, is rarely caused by a tumor. According to a neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins' Comprehensive Brain Tumor Center, the chance that your headache is a sign of a brain tumor is very remote.

eCa··on Sam Altman didn’t take any equity in OpenAI, report says
Some people certainly believe so[1], there are also plenty of other links if searching for ’facebook myanmar genocide’ (though I would assume they a few common sources). But intentions are of course hard to prove.

[1] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...

eCa··on Sucralose is a negative modulator of T cell-mediated responses in mice
Maybe a comma helps:

> 99.9% of the time, sharing mice studies has negative value.

eCa··on The magic of traveling alone
Also, travelling for work vs for pleasure is vastly different.

I probably also average about two nights per town when going train travelling in Europe. Sometimes one, sometimes three.

eCa··on Credit Suisse sheds nearly 25%, key backer says no more money
An unfortunate metaphor. Judging from the first sentence I assume it’s pre-iceberg-Titanic we’re talking about.
eCa··on Show HN: AI explanations for other people’s code
You shouldn’t even consider pasting $work code into a random site on the internet, full stop.
eCa··on My startup banking story
There are people approaching their 40s who have never experienced pre-internet banking (as adults). Crazy times.
eCa··on The Door Close Button
In my building (northern Europe) the doors are open for quite a while (maybe ten seconds). The door-close button closes immediately on push, as long as nothing/no-one is entering/leaving the elevator.

If it didn’t, I’d use the elevator even less than I do. Stairs to/from the third floor is just about the same time as the elevator.

eCa··on Crab crisis in Bering Sea a sign of ‘borealization’
> estimated 600 million barrels over the next 30 years

This doesn’t help: This project will cover six days of current global consumption.

eCa··on Emptying the dishwasher with systems theory
Dirty dishes can be stored inside or outside the dishwasher. I wouldn’t even consider running a dishwasher at less than ~75% load, unless very unusual circumstances.

Which is why I, as a single household, don’t use mine.

eCa··on Emptying the dishwasher with systems theory
At some stage it will be completely empty[1], so it should be possible to weigh the contents.

[1] No readonable person could possibly consider begin to fill it before it’s completely empty, right?

eCa··on HSBC to Buy UK Arm of Silicon Valley Bank
As anyone who has played Civ4 knows, everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

But yeah, they surely should have been able to find someone willing to pay 100-10000% more than that.

eCa··on French workers protest plan to increase retirement age
> If the system is expecting population to grow infinitely

The system is built on everything growning.

eCa··on Where has all the Chartreuse gone?
> artificial limiting of supply

It’s a drink produced by one monastic order from (presumably) locally harvested herbs. There most certainly is a natural limit on how much can be sustainably produced before it no longer is the same drink.[1]

They chose to maximise availability over time (and work/pray balance) rather than maximise short term availability.

[1] Where that limit is is of course up for debate, though.

eCa··on TikTok-owner ByteDance planning to layoff thousands in coming months
> i’m

The issue with critizising someones grammer are that it always slips in an error or two.

eCa··on Goodbye, CSS-Tricks
> for eight years!
eCa··on Google Maps Hacks (2020)
In my experience, my Iphone 11 is quite often wrong up to 20-30 meters, depending on nearby buildings or other environmental factors. Other phones at the same location at the same time can also differ the same distance, but not necessarily in the same direction.

Depending on the use case, within 50 meters of each other may or may not be considered ”the same location”.

eCa··on Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”
Someone might argue that shutting down a bot/computer system is harmful to said system. Movies have been made on the subject.
eCa··on EU lawmakers approve effective 2035 ban on new fossil fuel cars
The Vatican isn’t in the EU.
eCa··on Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
What the OG commenter meant (as I read it) was that the page was slow in FF solely because the developer didn’t test the page in FF.

It does in no way imply that FF is worse than Chrome, but it does imply that (some) web developers are lazy.

eCa··on An Update on Leap Seconds (2022)
And then you have sports, some of which are (or have been determined) on the level of 1/1000 of a second. I’m not sure how that level of precision goes hand in hand with that definition of seconds.
eCa··on Testing Noctua’s NH-P1 with Ryzen 7700x and Intel’s i9-13900K
Some of LTT’s money goes towards the not-yet-launched LTT Labs, which is meant to become a serious test facility.
eCa··on Paper map sales are booming
When it comes to cycling maps, I’d recommend checking out cycle.travel[1], its routing (at least over here in EU land) has been awesome. I’ve done a couple of week long trips planned on it.

No affiliation, just a happy user.

[1] https://cycle.travel/map

eCa··on Google to reduce workforce by 12k
I guess someone has to write this comment:

> I take full responsibility for the decisions that led us here

As usual, he says nothing more what the consequences for him are.

It seems like all of the FAANGs have made severe strategic cockups when it comes to hiring lately. I wonder if it will affect their longterm attraction as employers.

eCa··on Remastering Colin McRae Rally 3 with SilentPatch
Not really the place to joke about Colin’s death, in my opinion.
eCa··on Alphabet unit Verily to trim more than 200 jobs
I guess Microbros would not be a good fit then.
eCa··on The Style Guide for America’s Highways
While (as a European) I agree with your point regarding speed signs, I think an important point is that there are plenty of traffic laws that differs (even) between EU countries. So when going driving in a foreign country one really should look up at least basic rules beforehand, and speed limits will most likely be front and center.
eCa··on Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat flight 236
> quite a string of issues

Also known as the Swiss cheese model[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model

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