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Yeah, No chance I would have seen their feet if the circle wasn’t there.

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What is a congestion charge in this case? It sounds more like a traffic/road maintenance thing than related to emissions?
Most places I’ve lived (US and Canada) only require emissions testing if the vehicle is old enough not to have modern emissions control sensors. The test costs maybe $20 every couple years, which is nothing compared to all the other costs of owning a vehicle.
Presumably your 2010 Polo doesn’t have a check-engine light if the catalytic converter has a hole in it, but your 2021 4x4 most certainly does.

Edit: (See comments below about emissions systems).
Specifically Washington State only required emissions testing (tailpipe test on a Dyno) on model years 2008 and older, after which the only requirement is California’s “CARB certified” with no testing other than at the factory. And as of 2020 they don’t even do emissions testing anymore.

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Interesting, thanks for the explaination. That’s definitely not something I’ve seen around here. If anything there’s more fees for having a new vehicle because they’re all heavy SUVs / Trucks / EVs, and you end up paying a heavy vehicle tax that older (and generally lighter) cars don’t hit.

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It’s honestly amazing because a decent amount of work had to go into making the brake lights work like this. The number of people involved who didn’t notice or care how bad this is, is baffling…

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Amazingly, both vegetarian and vegan pizza exists.

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Wow… they’ve been having quite the first day on Lemmy.

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y <= MAX_INT will never be false, since the loop will overflow and wrap around to MIN_INT

(You can escape code with backticks, and regular markdown rules)

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The backticks worked in the preview, and showed up correctly to start, but there must be a bug in the lemmy ui, since now it’s double-escaped. No idea /shrug

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It’s not like reserving a car ahead of time actually does anything, except maybe get you a discount. Not once has the rental company actually had the right car available for me. Usually I get “upgraded” to an SUV or something that costs me 1.5x in gas over the trip.

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They probably had true unlimited, not the 10gb then throttling “unlimited” that’s offered now. AT&T has like 3 different levels of unlimited plan…

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<span style="color:#323232;">do {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    say("I use Arch btw");
</span><span style="color:#323232;">} while ( they.interested );
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This loop never runs twice.

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Yep, needs to check if the next step has ground, otherwise you’re already falling.

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Apparently you can still buy leaded race fuels in the US today, wtf? Ban that shit. I was watching a video yesterday of someone why brought their time-attack racecar to Australia and they had to retune it for unleaded because leaded is banned there. I was blown away they were using leaded fuel in the first place.

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My entire music collection consists of lossless FLAC files I’ve ripped from CDs or downloaded as a lossless web release. Most artists I listen to still do CD releases, and I can pick up a copy at their concerts, which is a good way to support them. I don’t pay for any streaming services since I basically run my own via Plex which can stream lossless to all my devices.

Lego drops prototype blocks made of recycled plastic bottles as they "didn't reduce carbon emissions" (www.cbsnews.com)

Lego drops prototype blocks made of recycled plastic bottles as they “didn’t reduce carbon emissions”::Danish toy giant Lego said 2 years of experimentation with blocks made from recycled plastic bottles showed they “didn’t reduce carbon emissions.”

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The article says the recycled plastic was able to meet their quality requirements, just not with any reduction in emissions. They’ve also tried many potential materials that didn’t meet their requirements, and presumably some of the other options could have reduced emissions at the expense of quality.

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I’ve been doing that longer than 2000 has been old enough, so it’s been Jan 1, 1990 for me.

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I had to check, and my current phone (Gslaxy S10) was released 6 months before the iPhone 11 Pro Max. I have no plans on upgrading any time soon.

Escalating scandal grips airlines including American and Southwest, as nearly 100 planes find fake parts from company with fake employees that vanished overnight (fortune.com)

Escalating scandal grips airlines including American and Southwest, as nearly 100 planes find fake parts from company with fake employees that vanished overnight::Why are so many flights getting canceled or delayed? Blame a mysterious British supplier accused of falsified documents for plane components.

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TIL 95% of people eat carrots at least once a week.

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Alpine linux is already in the lockercontainer.

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I think it’s something about HTTP cross-origin headers that they’ve configured incorrectly. I’ll have to confirm later when I’m on a desktop browser.

Edit: It’s actually uBlock Origin blocking the images from loading! There’s a rule in EasyList that is matching *.website (it’s a lot more complicated of a rule, but that’s the gist). It blocks it unless it’s coming from one of a few whitelisted pages like lemmy.world.

I found a workaround mentioned here: lemm.ee/comment/3068996

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It should be technically impossible, not just illegal. Scamming people is illegal too but it happens all the time.

We have the technology to stop it, just like I can’t spoof google.com or one of their IP addresses.

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I remember going to restaurants as a kid and being asked if we wanted the smoking or non-smoking section. It seems kind of surreal these days that this was ever a thing. I’m probably the last generation to remember indoor smoking.

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This is inaccurate incomplete

This meme says nothing about the state of people 40+.

Sorry for my pedantry.

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WednesdayOS is arguably the best one. Please prove me wrong. I want more Wednesday Frog

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Pretty sure Ubuntu LTS is completely unaffected by this.

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Gmail is only 19 years old, but okay.

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We almost need a new term for this, because Digital Rights Management (DRM) is usually for digital media. I’d almost want to call this Physical Rights Management, since it’s controlling our right to physically repair and swap parts.

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Yep, spend your money where you spend your time. This applies to basically everything.

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Right to repair is the term from the consumer perspective. I’m talking about a term for the anti-repair locks that Apple is putting in their products (since DRM doesn’t quite fit, though it’s close)

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You sold yours? Damn, I should have tried that. I made hundreds of them out of graph paper while bored in math class.

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I thought it was pretty obvious what you meant. Maybe if they thought about it for 2 seconds they’d realize we’re only talking about active emergency vehicles.

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They probably mean like private ssh keys and developer credentials, not production keys. Microsoft does not give signing keys to developers, code releases have to get signed through the build servers.

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Wow, not even A tech company, but THE tech company that rhymes with frugal.

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It’s the Home/End keys on US keyboard layouts. I use them all the time when coding.

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I hear that WireGuard is even more complicated to set up than OpenVPN.

I don’t know where you heard that. The exact opposite is true in my experience. OpenVPN is a shitshow compared to Wireguard.

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The way I see them get used, the driver is never going anywhere themselves, they’re just working as a taxi. I’ve never seen Uber reduce the number of cars required, but I have been in situations where we needed to call 2 Ubers when everyone would have fit if the driver’s seat was available.

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That’s definitely what the term ride-share used to mean, but companies like Uber and Lyft call themselves ride-share services now when really it’s just a taxi service where drivers use their own cars.
I don’t think the drivers have any control over which direction their next fare will take them. I’ve never met a driver that wasn’t driving either full or part-time as a second job.

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“The collapse of Thwaites would cause seawater levels to rise by around 2 feet (65 centimeters). This could, in turn, destabilize neighboring glaciers, potentially increasing future sea levels by almost an additional 10 feet (3 meters).”

Thwaites melting would raise water levels by 0.6 meters, not 60 meters. You’re off by a factor of 100x

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As covered by my quote, the neighboring mainland glaciers melting would raise water levels by 3 more meters (3.6m total). You’re still off by a factor of 20x

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This whole wiki is excellent. So many well written pages on logic, philosophy, rhetoric, and history.

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Wow, that’s a new one. Somehow your post has -1 downvote, and it’s counting as an upvote?

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Meanwhile I’ve made chargebacks on my credit card after being ghosted by the seller and never receiving anything. Nothing to do with having my info stolen. You’re shit out of luck if that happens with crypto.

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I took an Accounting 101 elective in high school, and it was basically this. Completely separate from the other math classes though.

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What about an Ice Cream Sandwich? No bread, but sandwich is in the name.

Lyft and Uber say they will leave Minneapolis if the mayor signs a minimum wage bill for drivers (www.cnn.com)

Lyft and Uber say they will leave Minneapolis if the mayor signs a minimum wage bill for drivers::Lyft and Uber threatened to stop doing business in Minneapolis after the city council adopted a new rule Thursday that would set a minimum wage for rideshare drivers.

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Uber prices in some cities are absolutely insane. Seattle for example: Right now a ride to the airport from where I am is 13 miles / 25 minute drive. Uber is quoting $51 at 10am on a Friday. Minneapolis’ new minimum wage would only be $20.47. Even if the driver came all the way from the airport, that would still only be $41. Somehow I doubt all that money is going to the drivers right now.

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The ecommany is doing just fine!

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You’d be surprised how much engineering goes in to designing a product to be as cheap as possible without being literal garbage. It seems like everything sold on Amazon is right on the line these days.

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