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Git doesn’t automatically recursively add all files in the directory to the repository though - VSCode decided that should be the default behavior, while other editors (intellij) ask if you want to add newly created files to version control

The library is a mile from me too, that’s a 30 minute round trip, or I have to drive and pay for parking

I bought a $60 inkjet 10+ years ago. Every 3-4 years I buy a multipack of aftermarket ink for $30. Every 18 months when the cartridge dries up half full in my printer I chuck it knowing the $5 of ink I just wasted saved me $400 in billable hours

1. if I didn’t have a printer I would need a standalone scanner, which costs almost the same amount

2. Driving to Staples to print a $0.10 page wastes $50 worth of time and gas

A cheap printer pays for itself very quickly.

The poster above asked for a use case. I gave one.

Frankly I don’t give a shit if the market penetration of said use case doesn’t meet whatever arbitrary cutoff you have deemed sufficient for something to “exist” or not - the QR code on the back of every north american bag of Starbucks beans is proof enough. Whether its more or efficient than a traditional RDBMS is irrelevant

Once again, we are talking about blockchain, not Bitcoin

You realize blockchain is used by many large companies for practical purposes, not just by hobbyists swapping magical internet money, right?

Many large retailers (e.g. Walmart) and pharmaceutical companies use managed blockchain solutions (e.g. IBMs supply chain software) to track end to end process flow and see the pedigree of products at their end destination, because it means the end user doesn’t need to request unfettered access to 6 different companies ERP systems to know when the hell their purchase order is getting delivered

The valuation of Bitcoin is a completely separate topic than practical use cases of blockchain.

It’s a solution that allows two parties, who are so paranoid they don’t trust banks, let alone one another, to send funds and maintain a record of transactions with one another.

To be fair it’s power consumption is effectively zero at standby and only 4-5W at idle/light usage.

If you were worried about this amount of power usage you would be better off unplugging your microwave when not in use to avoid running the clock display

also for the environment, I would think. It saves a ton of useless traffic

GPT is worse and it’s not even close.

My PC can serve up a hundred requests per second running an HTTP server with a connected database with 200W power usage

It takes that same computer 30-60s to return a response from a 13B parameter model (WAY less power usage than GPT), while using 400W of power thanks to the GPU

Napkin math, the AI response uses about 10,000x more electricity

AFAIK if you spend at least 2 years studying here you automatically qualify for a 3 year work permit. I think rolling that into permanent residency is a lot easier than just applying for a work visa or PR out of the gate

International student tuition is way more expensive here in Canada than it is for citizens, but I’m not sure how it stacks up against normal US tuition.

Grain of salt, everything I’ve said is based on anecdotes from people I know who went through it

Glass will absorb and retain more heat for longer;steel will absorb energy and heat up more quickly, and dump it just as fast.

Which was my point - 400g of room temperature ceramic is going to absorb way more heat from 250ml of boiling water than would be lost from the glass-air (or even steel-air) interface during the 2 minutes it takes to do a pourover.

If both cones are preheated thoroughly, yes, the steel cone will shed heat faster, however I feel like this is also negligible compared to evaporative heat loss and subsequent transfer to a cup

stainless has ~10x the thermal conductivity of borosilicate glass

Glass has double the heat capacity, and I would assume greater mass due to thicker construction. So unless you are preheating fully to boiling temps first every time, there will be more heat loss to the glass over the course of ~1-3 minutes

Or if you are on a Boeing plane and a side panel/door spontaneously flies off off you don’t get sucked out

/s, but not really /s

“making me look bad doesn’t make you look any better”

Do you think an open Hario switch basically IS a v60?

It is. It’s just a glass v60 with a seal at the bottom

Abolishing the monarchy would involve rewriting the constitution - if that was happening every province would want to slip in their own terms - Quebec would want specific French language rights and autonomy and if Quebec got their way Alberta would want something similar. We successfully altered the constitution back in 1982 - it took 2 years and the country almost blew up over it.

Basically it would be a total shit show. Considering the impact the monarchy has on our day to day life (basically zero) it’s easier to just let sleeping dogs lie

Murica.

This was literally the overarching plot for the last season of curb

https://youtu.be/dHIPXbLsY_Q?si=KG-IWg7GTeqQ8jiT

There is no “list of citizens”, though. Well, there are things like social security, but they aren’t tied to where you live the way that voting has to be.

There is no need to have it tied to where you live though, which is the point. Every other democracy in the world is content to verify a) citizenship and b) proof of address independently, but it’s just the states where you need to register ahead of time to a 3rd list specific for voting and remain vigilant that you haven’t been purged off that list come election day

it’s just that most states don’t want to do it same-day since that bogs down the lines on election day

It literally doesn’t though. 95% of the people at every poll station are known ahead of time because they still live at the same address they last procured government services from - they can move through the line at the speed it takes to verify their name and cross it off the list. Each station has a separate line for day-of voters, and it takes 2-3 minutes to get set up at most (I’ve done it at least a half dozen times)

My point is that “registering to vote” just means proving that you can vote, and no matter where you live, you have to do that somehow

This isn’t disputed, the OPs question above is why it needs to be explicitly done as a separate step in the states. It’s the only place in the world where stopping 2-3 ineligible voters from casting a ballot seemingly takes a greater priority than allowing dozens of eligible american citizens from participating in democracy

Canadian here.

if you moved across your country, how would you vote in those local elections?

I would literally just show up to the polls on election day and show a piece of ID and something (utility bill, etc) with my new address and tell them I want to vote. Or I would bring a friend and they would sign a statement affirming I’m who I say I am.

You may not see it that way, cause that “registration” may be dual purposed with some other act (like getting a new drivers license)

This is the problem, the list of citizens, and list of registered voters should not be two completely separate lists. You should be able to vote no matter what if you are a citizen