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There is something to be said about this particular style of argument, as it's akin to the "paradox of tolerance".
Ultimately I think the most fair thing is to let both sides attempt to build support until a clear victor emerges.
I'm not saying that Firefox on Android has significant market share; rather that Android has significant market share, and those users could be served by switching to Firefox solely for the purpose of using an adblocker.
If all Android users did this, something would change.
Firefox on Android supports it without any issue. That would cover a significant enough segment of the population that it might encourage actual change in the industry if people started moving to that platform.
You'd be required to jump through the hoops to get your custom firmware approved by the necessary regulatory bodies, just as Tesla did for theirs.
It's not really feasible for a private owner, so I can see why it's not offered as an option.
I live in a not-so-great area of town. There were two murders in the last 6 months. One in my neighborhood, and the other in an adjacent public park.
The always-on lighting is a deterrent to anyone trying to hide from police.
The lights are indeed outdoor, and cover most of my backyard. It's a neighborhood within a major metropolitan area, but the light doesn't bleed beyond my property lines.
As for the "why", the answer is security. If someone attempts to hide in my yard, they'll find it quite difficult to remain unseen.
Most of my neighbors have floodlights of their own (though mine are easily the brightest), and I've gotten no complaints in the years I've had them. If any of my neighbors voiced concerns about them, I would try to work with them to find a solution. I have to live next to them, so it only makes sense to stay on good terms.
I have a pair of PAR38 LED bulbs from Cree Lighting (2100 lumens) that are rated for 25,000 hours. They're in a flood-light mounted under the eaves of my house.
I never got around to putting them on a dusk-to-dawn timer, so they've been burning 24/7 since I purchased them at the end of 2020 (except for the occasional power outage, of course). I paid $20/each for them.
Sample size of 1 (technically 2), but there are definitely products on the market that meet your criteria.
As the saying goes, "past performance is not indicative of future results"
If we consider that roughly 73.6% of Americans are overweight[0], perhaps there would be some benefit if substantially more people started taking GLP-1 medications.
It's 40% of the _starter dose_ (2.5 mg), which is what patients begin taking to get their bodies accustomed to the drug. The "maintenance dose" that patients build up to can be many times higher (10-15 mg).
40% of the starter dose (40% of 2.5mg = 1mg) would be between 6-10% of the "maintenance dose" (betweeen 10-15mg).
Not all supporters of a given political party agree on everything. They may simply align with the party on the topics that are most important to them, even if they disagree with other topics that are lower on their priority list.
It is disingenuous to suggest that any group of people unilaterally agree on a diverse collection of topics.
Not to mention that these "phone books" also included everyone's address, and married couples were usually listed together.
If they already have your password (i.e. it has been compromised) there is no social engineering taking place.
In fact, they're doing the honorable thing and not simply trying the credentials to see if they work.
What would be the benefit of using SFP+ on mainstream consumer motherboards? It would further increase the effective price to consumers as they'd have to purchase a separate transceiver, which are bulkier and might overly crowd an already compact I/O shield layout.
The comment is referencing the "Dropbox" comment of lore
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Basically, something along the lines of (paraphrasing) 'this can be done today by using existing tooling'
I'm having a hard time reading this as a reasonable suggestion, so I apologize in advance if I'm being closed-minded.
Do you not believe that this would lead to further bad outcomes? Children need something to do during the day, and with neither the ability to work, nor other obligations (not to mention their brains are not fully developed) it seems like they would end up far worse off than they would otherwise, even if the school was under-performing.
All the browsers on my machine report my resolution as 1080p despite using 4k. I assume this is because I run at 200% scaling (I believe this is relatively common among anyone using a 4k resolution)
If the above-linked website uses data reported by the browser, I wonder how this scenario might be taken into consideration (or even if such a thing is possible)
There is a level of trust involved as unless you pull down the code, audit it and only ever run it locally, you really have no way of knowing that on any given page load the code hasn't changed.
While I also appreciate tools that don't send data, I don't like the normalization of teaching people to paste (potentially) private data into a browser while blindly trusting that it's not being offloaded to some server somewhere.
I think you're referring to a similarly named N64 game. This story is about a game played using the seeds of horse chestnut trees.
The widespread adoption of Chrome was largely driven by word of mouth, people like you and I installing it on our friend's/relative's computers and telling them it was safer/faster/better.
Nothing stops us from doing the same thing again. I've been recommending Firefox to all my family/friends/colleagues for years (ever since I've seen the writing on the wall for Chrome). While Firefox isn't perfect, it's in a much better place than Chrome is, and meets the the needs of nearly 100% of people.
If you don't acknowledge them, they'll get bored and move on. They're only looking for attention, so your best weapon is to not give it to them.
Definitely agree about it being cute/impressive. There's lots of clickables that further showcase things. Don't forget to explore!
you cannot avoid all ads (for example, sponsored segments).
Look into SponsorBlock, as it allows the community to mark such segments, and your browser will automatically skip them.
I went to pick up my dog from the groomer and they asked me for a tip as soon as I said I was there to pick him up.
I replied "Can I see my dog first?"
It just shows that there's an expectation, and at that point it should simply be built into the advertised price.
I fully expect the data to be de-anonymized and then used against people that have familial links to those who have donated their data.
"Oh, your great great-great-grandfather had <disease>, so now you're classified as a high-risk individual and you have to pay a higher monthly fee for insurance"
Only they won't tell you why you have to pay more, just that you do.
The initial QR code isn't a TOTP code, it contains the secret used to generate the TOTP codes.
what does high GI mean?
Glycemic index (GI) is a measure of how quickly a food can make your blood sugar (glucose) rise.
Source: https://medlineplus.gov/ency/patientinstructions/000941.htm
I use the N64 controller with my PC, it's available for purchase by anyone who subscribes to NSO. It connects via bluetooth (the USB connection is for charging only).
https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/nintendo-64-contr...
If you were standing on top of Mt. Elbrus (elevation: 5.6km above sea level), you could see the horizon roughly 271km away (assuming the horizon was at sea-level, there were no obstructions, atmospheric or otherwise, etc). The inverse of this is that if you were at sea level, 271km away from the peak of Mt. Elbrus, you could theoretically see the peak of the mountain.
So, assuming you weren't at sea-level, it's reasonable that you could see the peak of this mountain from 300km away.
However, seeing the peak of a mountain on the horizon isn't sufficient. You'd need to see a large portion of the mountain on the horizon in order to determine that it's actually the mountain you see in the distance, and not a closer peak that's less tall. This means that the observer would need to be at sufficient altitude themselves in order to view the mountain from this distance. I don't know enough about the math to calculate the necessary altitude required by the observer, but I would estimate an elevation of many hundreds of meters above sea level to be necessary. If anyone else can calculate this better, I would love to know how to find the answer myself.
Without knowing the general area of where you were, all I can say is that it sounds very unlikely.
Due to the curvature of the earth, it's unlikely you were able to see anything 300km away.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_distance_observations#Gro...
I wonder what the efficiency losses become in this configuration; using the grid to charge a battery to charge a vehicle.
A quick google query says that efficiency of L2 residential EV chargers is somewhere in the neighborhood of 85%, and for DC-DC chargers the efficiency is in the order of 90%. I don't know nearly enough about this to state anything definitively, but it sounds like the efficiency losses start to accumulate pretty quickly.
I wonder what the break-even point is in terms of cost compared to an average ICE vehicle.
Apply a healthy dose of "Don't let perfect be the enemy of good enough" of course, but I am curious about the economics at play.