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geonic··on People buying SUVs are cancelling out climate gains from electric cars
I don't doubt that there are some legitimate use cases for SUVs. The problem is all the people living in cities have virtually zero need for an SUV. Since it is absolutely unfeasible to require people to provide proof that they need an SUV before purchase the only way seems to outlaw them.

The massive push for EVs while simultaneously allowing car manufacturers to build larger and larger ICE SUVs seems stupid and counterproductive.

geonic··on People buying SUVs are cancelling out climate gains from electric cars
A huge percentage (about 20%) of all cars I see are SUVs. Even for smaller cars there seems to be a trend towards really bulky bodies. Cars have become larger and larger over the years.

We have a giant problem with climate change yet car manufacturers keep making larger and larger cars. And people buy them. This does not make any sense to me. It only accelerates climate change, parking spaces become even harder to find in cities, and most people don't need an SUV at all.

I think SUVs and all large trucks that are not real utility vehicles should be outlawed.

geonic··on How long does it take ordinary people to get good at chess?
Maybe I’m reading the plot wrong but doesn‘t it show people getting worse after some time of improvement?
geonic··on Curated list of userscripts
Does any know if there‘s an extension for Safari that allows injecting site-specific CSS rules into pages? I know I could do this with a user stylesheet (but not site-specific) or Tampermonkey (but cumbersome via JavaScript).
geonic··on macOS Monterey is now available
Doesn't show up for me yet in the Mac App Store
geonic··on Software is eating the car
150 million lines of code in a Ford F-150? How is that even possible? A Volvo with 100 million lines including 3 million functions. This sounds like generated code to me. I can’t believe this is handwritten or even necessary.
geonic··on Deep JavaScript
It is. JavaScript seems to have quite a few ways of getting it wrong though.
geonic··on Deep JavaScript
I wasn't saying it is more convoluted than other languages. I just found it interesting that there are so many idiosyncrasies and gotchas.
geonic··on What would you pay for autonomous driving? Volkswagen hopes $8.50 per hour
It's an interesting question. I bought the car. Ownership transferred to me. What if I decide to rewire some of the electronics and unlock heated seats or some other paid extra?
geonic··on Deep JavaScript
This looks like a good book but boy, is JavaScript convoluted. Not bashing it. Just read the chapters about shallow and deep copies.

https://exploringjs.com/deep-js/ch_copying-objects-and-array...

geonic··on Tabula – Extract tables from PDF files
It’s a nice tool. Found it by chance a couple of days ago. It did save me a lot of typing.
geonic··on Microsoft's low-code strategy paints a target on UIPath and other RPA companies
Outlook is next on the list. It does replace Lotus Notus though which is why I believe it can only get better.
geonic··on Microsoft's low-code strategy paints a target on UIPath and other RPA companies
I‘m not a Microsoft user, haven’t been for over ten years.

Recently I had to install and register for Teams at work. I haven’t seen an application as clunky and messy as this in a long time. Nothing in its UI makes any sense to me.

On top of that the login process is extremely wonky and unstable.

To me this Microsoft doing again what it does best. Pushing some crappy software into the market by leveraging its market position.

geonic··on Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B
Is there really so much money in SO to justify $1.8B? AFAIK they just run some some ads and show relevant job offers.
geonic··on Missing line in a smart contract leads to $10M hack
For the crypto currency layman this reads like an article from some other weird parallel universe.

You get the idea that the article is talking about money but the details seem crazy like a dream.

geonic··on Transition to React Native
Could elaborate on why to avoid expo? I found it super easy to use when I dipped my toes into RN development. Also, what alternative are you suggesting?
geonic··on Germany restricts use of AstraZeneca vaccine to over 60s in most cases
> One of the five reported cases was fatal, MHRA Vaccine Safety Lead Philip Bryan said, adding that the cases were all among men aged between 19 and 59.

This is weird. In Germany almost all of the cases were women.

geonic··on ISO 8601: a better date format
That’s why I use it exclusively to prefix my file names. It’s sortable, easy to parse visually and always has the same length.
geonic··on Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces
Can you expand on that? I store my backups on B2. Are you saying I can download all data via cloudflare without paying for B2 egress?
geonic··on State of JavaScript 2020
Svelte is pretty cool. I‘ve only used it for a small app so far but it was very easy and quick to work with. I don‘t know how well it will scale for larger and more complex apps though.
geonic··on Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?
This goes for many many things. Most products are produced and marketed for the general consumer. It‘s time-consuming and frustrating to sort through all that marketing crap when you‘re looking for a new device/product/part when you know what you want.
geonic··on Google Has a Color Picker
I found that yesterday by accident when I was looking for an online color picker.
geonic··on macOS Big Sur
It shows up for me in the App Store but Software Update doesn’t find it for some reason.
geonic··on The Exploding Whale remastered: 50th anniversary of legendary Oregon event
Does anyone know why they decided to blow up the whale? I mean, the consequences should have been obvious to anyone. Where did they expect the pieces to go?
geonic··on Netflix raises monthly charges for U.S. subscribers
Where can I see the rating that other people gave? The only thin I see is a top 10 for my country.
geonic··on Can lab-grown brains become conscious?
There is a famous definition of consciousness by Thomas Nagel which states that an organism is conscious if there is something that is like to be that organism. I‘ve always liked that definition even though it doesn‘t tell us how and why it emerges. But nobody knows that anyway.

The amazing thing for me about consciousness is that it seemingly emerges from the gray matter of the brain. From the outside there is nothing that would suggest such a thing yet it exists. We don‘t know when and how exactly it comes into existence but there seems to be a connection between the complexity of the neural network and the things it is capable of.

Then there is the argument that consciousness may not be reserved for human or animal brains but instead is a state emerging from a system of sufficient complexity. What if there a consciousnesses out there that operate on time scales beyond our means of recognition? This is a philosophical point of view but fascinating to think about.

geonic··on A tale from the trenches fixing an NES
I‘m not much of a handyman myself but I found the video fascinating to watch. Very impressive to see the before and after pics in comparison.
geonic··on You’ve Got 0-Click Mail: Unassisted iOS Attacks RCE via Mobilemail/Maild
Is it possible to use the exploit to send e-mails From the compromised device?

I’ve had a problem with lots of bounce mails today on one of my accounts. Apparently somebody used my SMTP for spam which I find hard to believe since I keep my password safe. It’s not part of any known public data set.

geonic··on 20,000 Startup Ideas
> Select sizes and types of molds according to instructions.

Fair enough

geonic··on Ask: How to announce my 14 years old web development framework?
There are email credentials in your repository. Change immediately.

https://github.com/xeora/v7/blob/master/Framework/src/Xeora....

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