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spotlesstofuon How the New York City steam system works

Looking forward to the steam coming from nuclear power plants

spotlesstofuon Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds

Could you make an example? In any town I know that stepped away from cars, you can easily go around on foot/bike/wheelchair. I don't see how the same wouldn't be feasible on other towns too

spotlesstofuon Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds

Cars are being banned from towns and city centres. You shouldn't listen to car slogans/commercials, they sell a reality that can't exist.

spotlesstofuon Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds

The automotive industry is moving to self driving cars. Screens will be needed for entertainment and trip planning. You won't need simple physical buttons to quickly actuate while you're driving, since you won't be driving. The car will drive. You'll be a passenger like on a plane for most of the time.

I like physical buttons and dislike cars :)

spotlesstofuon Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B

What about effectiveness of the vacuuming? That's where Roomba is superior afaik, and the feature is pretty essential since you buy them to clean floors and carpet, not to delight you with the smoothest navigation.

spotlesstofuon I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome

Mozilla plugin to Translate web sites without using the cloud https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/firefox-translation...

spotlesstofuon Beginner's Series to Rust

You may want to check out Rustlings https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings/

spotlesstofuon Ask HN: Visualizing software designs, especially of large systems (if at all)?

I love the open source diagrams.net (previously draw.io). I save the files as editable SVG so I can include them directly in markdown READMEs. I use diagrams both to help me design and to show during demos

spotlesstofuon Dutch digital identity system crisis

Government ID providers in Italy lock people to proprietary apps even when all they need is the most ordinary TOTP https://blog.jacopo.io/en/post/spid-google-authenticator/

spotlesstofuon Ask HN: Why can't I learn anymore?

Slow down. Dedicate less time to work and more time to leisure and relaxing. Go on holiday. Don't think about work for some time. You have to do this until you feel recharged.

The first time it will take longer because you amassed lots of stress. Once you learn how to do it, you'll incorporate slowdown days in your routine and feel energized

spotlesstofuon Ask HN: Connect to the Internet the old way during next Ethiopian lockdown?

What where the main issues?

spotlesstofuon Ask HN: Connect to the Internet the old way during next Ethiopian lockdown?

If nobody is moving around, you're right (actually the range might be greater since wifi can be used too).

If people move around, they relay the messages along their route, thus considerably extending the range.

spotlesstofuon Ask HN: Connect to the Internet the old way during next Ethiopian lockdown?

You could use https://briarproject.org/ for decentralized messaging. Once someone in your decentralized network has internet connection (by moving closer to Kenya for example) all the messages they collected would be relayed to the internet