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I use whatever pronoun I see fit and if I offend someone by using the wrong pronoun I will apology to that person and move on.

Only when they are significantly smaller than current cars. It isn't just about the emissions, it's about the space that cars take and the speed they are moving.

Do they use their internet dominance to invent a bunch of complex html elements so google becomes the only one being able to parse html effectively in the future? I hope not.

I eat eggs from my parents chickens for my whole live. Some of the eggs have dirt and shit on them, but I don't think I ever cleaned an egg before I opened it. I am still alive and healthy :)

That's a lot of trees though and it cancels out only a decade.

EDIT: I just looked it up: there are roughly 4-10 trillion trees on earth right now.

> It takes fifty lines to create a dialogue with a button. Why?

Because it isn't just a dialog with a button. You need to specify the element positions, resize behaviours, tool tips, separators, element selection, animations etc. The deeper you dig into UI design the more you see the "bloat" being justified.

> It's probably in my best interest, and the interest of the community as a whole to leave tracking on.

I hope this is sarcasm. If not, what did I miss? This is the same empty phrase that facebook, google, etc. use. Why is Microsoft more trustworthy in that regard? I am 100% sure they use the data to make money in short terms or in a long run. They for sure use it to make VSCode better, but only to get more people use VSCode and make them dependent on it. VSCode is a prime example of the Embrace, Extend and Extinguish strategy. I already see them grasping for the Python community.

And I am flabbergasted (again) because of the pro nuclear power comments. Why should we create energy from something so complicated and hard to control when we have something simple and easy to grasp like water, solar and windpower? I understand statistically speaking a nuclear power plant is save, but the risk is calculated by multiplying propability of occurance and potential loss. The potential loss in a maximum credible accident of a power plant is much much higher than in any other form of energy generation.

Sure, we can build nuclear power plants, but let's make sure that we have used our potential for wind-, water- and solar power generation first (besides other stuff, like having good insulation on buildings, LEDs, etc).

I also feel like people are pro- or contra nuclear power to show their alliance to their political parties more than for rational reasons. We should stop that.

and not get your users tracked by google.

What are they even trying to find on your phone?

We probably will never run out of oil, because we find new deposits, new ways of extraction, etc. What people have said and are saying is that with the deposits we know of and with current equipment we will run out in X years.

I only read the Abstract, but it might also be an unusual change in odour that the dogs detect instead of a specific "seizure-odour".

Why no plastic bottles as well? The vast majority of plastic I use is from bottles.

Might as well put them on rails (Smart-Rails(TM)) and make a railway network for smart people. Transportation problems solved!

Good. Every country should deal with their waste on their own, otherwise no one will ever do something to reduce it.

Why would someone prefer a nuclear plant over a hydro plant?

I have a rather cheap monitor (as many other people probably have) and I can barely make out the grip of the scrollbars when I don't sit straight in front of the display. What about people with bad eye sight or colour-blindness? I am sure they have even more trouble than I have.

Windows 10 does BTW not allow to change the scrollbar colours even though it was possible in most older Windows versions. They simply don't care about accessability and userability these days.

Rant:

Everyone who has put at least a little bit of thought into UI design knew from the beginning that flat design is bad.

But no, it is 2019 and we still have scrollbars and buttons that are barely visible. Just because Google and Microsoft unreasonably decided to do it that way and every other one blindely copies that (because how can a those big, big companies be possibly wrong?). Fuck accessibility, even though we serve billions of customers on a daily basis.

The german localisation is so so bad. If you speak german and you need a laugh please install it.

The document view is called "Ms. Pacman" Hahah :D

I wish him to have 150 Mio. users, but there is no reason to spread information that is just wrong.

1.5 Mio. visitors =/= 1.5 Mio. people

Vienna, Austria

There is hardly anything that really bothers me, the streets and walkways are sometimes dirty and of course everything is kinda crowded all the time, but hey, that's a property every city has.

My guess is because GitHub is American, GitLab is European.

Also the shunting tracks at the train stations aren't electrified most of the time.

I sure like the search result settings (lanugage and search results for which country), but it doesn't show nudes in the image results. My theory is that a search engine that doesn't show nudes on default, will not be able to gain wide spread usage.

Look here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17967366

I found out that when you fold your cables (repeatetly fold it into halves until it is a small enough package) instead of rolling it up that they almost never entangle. I have no idea why that is.

In mine too. Weird.

A foundation like for a skyscraper and they can get pretty big if the ground isn't rock.

That only works in theory. In practice the reflector, light, whatever gets dirty and you would have false alarms non-stop.