jasondozell

The US in particular has many oversized cars. Fuel is cheap, the roads are wide and there is a general imperative to get a car bigger than others for safety and status. If this pollution could be used as a means to reduce sizes to something more proportionate to what they’re generally doing it will be a good thing.

As if… Firefox’s popularity and then decline stems from consumer perceptions of functionality and general availability (i.e. marketing)

Reddit mods are often terrible and exploit their position of power.

A sub's popularity is invariably because it covers a topic that is popular outside of reddit and through whatever reason (often fortuitous or unrelated to current mod behaviour) that incarnation of it got the most users which lead to monopolisations.

I guess because future plans could be negated via 3rd party apps. Getting rid of them now will ensure future plans can be enacted without risk they'll be circumvented.

I’d assume if the lid was kept on then there’s little scope for new bacteria to enter the chamber

Gonna dispute pretty much all of that but in particular there are not frequent delays due to suicides.

I use it on a standard spec windows laptop and it works fine… Little bit slow and stuttery in places and definitely a resource hog when screen-sharing but it has a ton of functionality that makes up for it.

From what I can figure this is kind of inherent when apps are electron based to be cross-platform. Similar experience with vscode.

The first hour was entertaining and interesting but as it became more cluttered with fight scenes i found it boring. Maybe it’s just me but I don’t see the appeal of fight scenes where there is no jeopardy or realness.

Back in the day Jackie Chan would do scenes where you knew he would win but the physical impressiveness of what he was doing kept it entertaining. As it’s just a load of CGI that element has gone and it all feels pointless filler. The fact that is in a unreal (matrix) environment just increases the pointlessness.

I look for fun in other things than 'tech stack' but i do find .net more enjoyable to work with than typescript/html/css as it feels more obvious in how it will work.

Based on previous IPOs of internet giants I think Reddit is a good bet but obviously lots of dynamics about the inner workings of cash flow etc that a layperson is only guessing about.

One area that seems inevitably would have to change is Reddit’s linking to pirated video clips. I’m sure the clips won’t go away but would be altered in a way so that reddit has deals with copyright owners and unskippable ads are played.

Ultimately all these media funded platforms under-weight advertising to begin with to build a user-base so become worse to use once established.

Teams has been a phenomenally successful product. It might not work great in all dimensions but overall it delivers in so many ways.

To talk of it as broken implies it is there to do one thing (which it doesn’t) however it’s role is multifaceted and in totality it delivers.

Don’t think a hose that costs $10 is comparable to everything going into these contraptions that cost $1.5k

It’s not half and hour a day. More like an hour a week. If you don’t enjoy the process of gardening you shouldn’t do it. Over-engineered robotic solutions for small plots are never going to make much sense.

Don’t disagree with any of that however all the effort is before the robotics gets involved.

Agree. Long-run, a drone type machine may well become successful (flying around zapping weeds) but this is way over-engineered for what it does.

That’s not that true and the robot will hardly help.

The reason people don’t do it is that commercial farming is so efficient once you factor in costs growing your own is not cheaper than buying from supermarket.

No doubt the tech is interesting but conceptually this is pretty awful.

Anyone who has done it knows if you have irrigation sorted there is very little needed for seedlings to grow to full size. Even with no irrigation we’re only talking 5mins watering on dry days.

Adding all this electronics and metal to an otherwise organic and natural process is environmentally, economically and spiritually detrimental.