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Aussie living in the San Francisco Bay Area.Coding since 1998..NET Foundation member. C# fan https://d.sb/Mastodon: @dan@d.sb

  • Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are Back

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  • I hope European-style adaptive headlights become the norm in the USA eventually. Some higher-end cars have a matrix of LEDs instead of one bulb per headlight, and they can programmatically dim just some of the LEDs. If you have your headlights on but there's a car in front of you (or on the other side of the road, whatever), the high beam will dim just the area the car is in. This happens automatically while you're driving.

    This is an option in some European vehicles (or may be standard on high end ones) but they have to explicitly disable the feature when exporting to the USA.

    The USA did approve something relating to this, but it must not be sufficient since the European manufacturers are still disabling the feature in the USA.

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  • I wish adaptive lights were legal in the USA. Manufacturers like BMW have to disable the feature at the factory because their implementation isn't approved for usage in the USA.

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  • I think you want a 2007 Toyota Corolla lol

    I've currently got a 2012 Mazda 3 but swapped the radio for one that supports Android Auto and Apple CarPlay. No other fancy features.

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  • Tactile controls cost more to install

    Not just more to install, but also more to design. Physical controls have to be designed so they fit the aesthetic of the car and don't look out of place. On the other hand, a touch screen can just reuse a generic UI design across every vehicle made by a particular manufacturer, or even across different manufacturers if the same vendor supplies the same OS for all of them.

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    The .io domain might be in trouble

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  • They could change the rules, but it took them many, many years to get to finalize the rules they've got today. IANA isn't exactly a fast-moving organization.

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  • I'm pretty sure that the country of Tuvalu (population 12,000) love that .tv is so widely used. It's estimated that GoDaddy Registry (who run the TLD) pay around $10 million per year for the rights, which is around 1/7 of the entire country's GNI (gross national income).

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  • .website is too long though.

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  • Maybe people will move back to .ws. Western Samoa, but it was popularized as "website". It was the popular misused ccTLD before .io became popular.

    Or maybe this will stop ccTLD abuse.

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  • The comment you're replying to didn't mention ccTLDs?

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  • I think they're referring to the fact that to get a very good .com, you'll have to buy it aftermarket (eg via Sedo, Dan, Flippa, etc) which can be very expensive. On the other hand, there's far more domains available under country code TLDs.

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  • Two letter TLDs are reserved for countries. No gTLDs use a two letter TLD.

    I guess in theory you could make a new country called "Input Output", get ISO3166 to be updated to specify "IO" as your country's two letter abbreviation, then request the IO TLD from IANA.

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  • .su only exists because the ccTLD retirement policy wasn't fully defined until recently.

  • Airplane seatbelts

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  • Australia had ads like that too.

    https://youtu.be/jyYTPRX1CCQ

    They relaunched this one a few years ago because of how effective it was in the 90s.

  • Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year

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  • Extended updates always cost money, and this is pretty cheap relative to extended support for previous versions of Windows. I don't understand why it's newsworthy?

    Windows 10 is nearly ten years old.

  • FCC and the broadband industry argue net neutrality’s future

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  • I'm glad my ISP supports net neutrality, in addition to providing 10Gbps symmetric fiber for cheaper than 1Gbps with Comcast or AT&T. https://www.sonic.com/transparency

    IMO internet service would be better if we had more small(-ish) local ISPs like Sonic, and more municipal ISPs (ran by the city, usually as a non-profit), instead of most people in the USA being forced to connect through one of just a few very large companies that don't really care about you as a customer.

  • Dropbox lays off 20% of staff, says it overinvested and underperformed

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  • What do you mean? Dropbox is integrated into Windows using the Cloud Files API, which handles dynamically downloading files as needed, the ability to mark files so they're always available offline, etc.

    Or did you mean a deeper integration like how Windows shows ads for OneDrive?

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  • For the same money Microsoft offers equal storage, plus office.

    Plus email! Same with Google (Google Workspace).

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  • The point of including worldwide stock is to reduce risk in case the US has a recession, as not all other countries will be affected by that. The aim of the Bogleheads three-fund portfolio is to be reasonably balanced in terms of risk vs reward, which is why it includes bonds too. Past performance is not indicative of future performance, and in general it's better to diversify (investing entirely in a single country isn't really diversifying)

    If you're not risk-averse then 100% US stock is fine, just be prepared for larger drops than if it was more diversified.

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  • Reusable code is usually pulled out into a library and reused that way, rather than copied and pasted into a new project. You might copy and paste some boilerplate to new projects but it wouldn't be anywhere near 25% of the code.

    I'm not sure why someone downvoted you (it wasn't me!) because your comment did seem like a genuine question.