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[–] cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

How are women archers in this analogy?

[–] cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

A long time ago Elon promised that full self-driving would be coming to existing cars that had their self-driving package installed which was cameras only. Elon is probably sticking with cameras only to avoid a lawsuit.

[–] cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Franco-Prussian war had 2 million on French side and 1.5 million on Prussian side and resulted in an overwhelming Prussian victory per Wikipedia

[–] cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The CIA reported no wmds before the invasion of Iraq too

[–] cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Fun fact: Robespierre was nicknamed the incorruptible (prior to the reign of terror) for his strong moral convictions including his opposition to the death penalty.

[–] cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

Seconding the Organic Maps recommendation. They added address lookup earlier this year (or late last year?) and it does everything I need now.

Still room for improvement on search, looking up restuarants by a general type, like BBQ doesn't turn up BBQ places that don't have BBQ in the name for example. The only other feature I think people will miss is reviews, but you can at least search that online without using another map.

[–] cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Moore's law is kinda still in effect, depending on your definition of Moore's law. However, Dennard Scaling is not so computer performance isn't advancing like it used to.

[–] cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Typically the dissenting members are in competitive districts. So if the policy works well they can claim responsibility by association, but if it goes wrong then they can say they didn't vote for it.

It's strategic voting for reelection while still accomplishing their agenda.

[–] cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

He's referring to the

Path of pain

which is in The White Palace

[–] cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Sure but inflation will eat into that over time. The point of the market approach is you can withdraw that amount in real dollars for 30 years after accounting for interest and inflation

[–] cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

This tech allows them to use a standard RGB subpixel. The increase in brightness means they no longer need the white subpixel.

 
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