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  • I feel the same way about Charles Bukowski. I can read, understand and appreciate the books without liking the guy. He also paints himself in a negative picture, but the thoughts are still worth considering or just knowing of. Whether or not it's intended, I think it's okay for litterature to provoke the reader to think that the author is wrong or plain crazy, because at least it makes me think about stuff instead of just entertaining my existing views.

    I did read Lila 25 yeas ago, but I hardly remember it. It's been a long time since I last read any books at all. Perhaps I ought to give it a second chance.

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  • It's worth a read.

    I think it's often frowned upon for being somewhat of a naive juvenile pocket philosophical rambling, or the dairy of a madman, but I'd say that it introduces some valid points about the concept of quality that you can then think about yourself.

    It's definitely on my top 10 list of books. Not because it's great, but because I can often relate to it in miscellaneous situations even 30 years after reading it.

  • Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs

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  • The mentioned cars are somewhat outdated.

    You might also want to consider newer models like Renault 5, Skoda Elroq or Hyundai Ioniq.

  • Your TV Is Spying On You

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  • Sometimes hundreds of snapshots a second.

    That's a pretty neat FPS for a tv.

  • Why do we enjoy music?

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  • Yes patterns, but also basic physical resonance.

    Sounds in harmony creates more powerful standing waves which will affect your cochlea more than noise.

    Whether that is also more pleasant will depend on context, but music will definitely get your attention more easily than random sounds due to this basic physical property.

    Pretty much everything in the universe are frequencies. Things that resonate are simply more powerful better than things that don't.

  • The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26]

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  • My guess would be yes, somewhat, probably. but maybe not much. As he says in the last part of the video: If it gets hot, you have a problem.

    Better ask an electrician.

    The devices sold as "EV wall chargers" are not really chargers. They're simple power suppliy units, whether or not it has bells and whistles to time the charging and what not.

    The actual battery charger is in the car. It will attempt to suck as much energy from the PSU as it can and it will itself balance the load and all that. Having a separate unit also trying to regulate the load seems like something that will inevitably create more heat than necessary somewhere in that chain.

    Generally speaking you do not need to protect the car from unstable supply. It will protect itself.

    I will still recommend getting a proper "EV charger" to ensure that it can utilize all the phases unlike a regular garage plug. Also to ensure that it is properly grounded, which can be an issue for some cars.

    At least here in Europe, where we have 3 phases. It's much better to have all 3 phases wide open and let the car suck a little on each, instead of having it overloading a single phase through a granny plug.

    I know the American 2 phase circuit is different, but I still believe it's better not to put any more heat inducing obstructions in the chain.

  • The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26]

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  • It's not fucking overkill. There's no such thing.

    I'm really disappointed with the video. That dude usually knows his shit, but he's way off the mark here. It's just plain wrong.

    Getting a smaller charger might save a few hundred, but it will also increase your chances of burning the house down. Good fucking advise, huh.

    Fuck that. You'll always want to charge as fast as your main circuit breaker will allow.

  • What's your advice for someone driving their first manual transmission car?

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  • Most modern cars have hill assist, but it might still be a help to use the handbrake when starting on a hill, or at least know how to do it.

  • Trump orders ICE vengeance on ‘No Kings’ protest cities

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  • Defundly not.

  • Some things don't change

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  • Newton's book is from before the industrial revolution and widely used in physics today.

  • Trump says Musk went 'CRAZY,' suggests cutting government contracts for his companies

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  • Sounds about right. The strategy is chaos.

  • Trump says Musk went 'CRAZY,' suggests cutting government contracts for his companies

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  • They're improvising the whole thing.

  • Trump says Musk went 'CRAZY,' suggests cutting government contracts for his companies

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  • It's method acting.

    Everyone from the lowest LARP'ing ICE agents to the orange faced chief of clowns have been in role for so many years that they all forgot what reality is outside of their theatre of the grotesque.

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  • Good to know.

    It seems kind of half assed though.

    I've only used it briefly to access the filesystem. Having to paste code into the reference field in the name manager is a special kind of masochistic practice.

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  • Well, you can't make Tetris in HTML without including some other language that has loops and variables.

    I'm also not sure if you can do it in Excel without using VBA, which is a programming language. Excel doesn't do circular logic in the document sheets.

    Anyway the issue or joke is the lack of definition of "programming".

    HTML is a text encoding system. It's not that different form something like the Morse code. It's only instructions for how to decipher a series of codes. It takes input and presents it as an output, starting from the beginning and working its way to the end.

    In my very unofficial opinion, a "program" is something that is able to "run" by itself, so that the code itself has instructions for which part of the code to run.

    If you decipher a morse code, it doesn't suddenly have instructions that force you to go backwards in the code and decipher from there or to jump to different sections. The text output might tell you to do so, but if you follow the text, then you're doing something else than deciphering morse code.

    HTML works the same. It start from the top and interprets its way down. It can have some conditional statements, but nothing that will make it go backwards and rerun the same instructions again.

    The interpretation is of course more advanced than Morse code and it can call other languages to do stuff, so HTML is basically a document describing a job procedure in that way. The individual jobs can be reoccurring tasks, but the document itself isn't.

    So in my opinion it's not "running" anything. It's just a document being printed on screen.

    I'll admit that "one-shot" programs are a thing, and documents with variables do exist, so it's not clear cut. A programming language should be capable of those things though, and HTML isn't one on its own.

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  • They're not above. One of them is to the left.

  • Any chance the greatest heavy metal show of all time later this year will be streamed online, Ozzy's last performance?

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  • I don't know if it it'll be live streamed, but it will definitely be filmed.

    They are currently making a documentary about him which will include the final show, so I think it's very likely that the full concert will also be released separately. That seems to be the standard for these kinds of events.

  • Highway to hell!

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  • Germany has fewer than average road fatalities than most of the world. Less than average in Europe too.

    It's not really statistically noticable in that regard. Not the best, but far from the worst.

  • No one suspects a thing

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  • I think Star Trek lends itself well to memes, because it's already a show where obscurities are questioned.