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tbossanova··on Dust from car brakes more harmful than exhaust, study finds
Thanks for your deep sorrow for this idiotic cynical nissan leaf owner. Love you too
tbossanova··on Dust from car brakes more harmful than exhaust, study finds
Apparently you need to use the friction brakes now and then so they don’t degrade early, which could be a safety issue. I think as long as you’re using the car frequently it’s incredibly unlikely to be a problem though.
tbossanova··on Dust from car brakes more harmful than exhaust, study finds
Most EVs will not use regenerative braking when the battery is over 80% which is where the damage mostly happens
tbossanova··on Balcony solar is taking off
Or do both?
tbossanova··on WikiTok
Good point! It’s random wikipedia pages, in a tiktok-ish style i.e. main article image and short summary on a page plus scrolling UX so you can easily flick through to the next one.
tbossanova··on WikiTok
Interesting! I tend to use right hand index finger to swipe up so didn’t have that issue. Just tried it with left hand thumb and I kinda see what you mean.
tbossanova··on WikiTok
So perhaps your question is “how does this choose articles differently from wikipedias own random page?”? Which I also wondered.
tbossanova··on WikiTok
I personally would hate it, but I can just turn sound off so no reason not to do it.
tbossanova··on WikiTok
I would prefer at least an option to keep it on random mode. Both for the occasional exposure to cool stuff and to make it less rabbit-holey.
tbossanova··on GitHub reveals how software engineers are purging federal databases
Curious as to how the Nazi salute thing is seen by you? Just a little forgivable misstep?
tbossanova··on Removed content related to the January 20, 2025 "Woke Removal" Executive Order
Ah yes, removing such awful wokeness as “making forms easy to complete, even in times of stress” and “waiting for a clear directive to collect personal data”.
tbossanova··on Deferred resignation email to federal employees
I guess it will become as “horrendous” as the USA norm, while having lower pay and worse conditions.
tbossanova··on FTC takes action against GoDaddy for alleged lax data security
Also your data will probably just be leaked somewhere else sometime anyway. Punishing a single company once unfortunately does next to nothing at this point.
tbossanova··on Zildjian, a 400-year-old cymbal-making company in Massachusetts
Yes, but rarely
tbossanova··on Researchers find high levels of lead, mercury and arsenic in Beethoven's hair
Love
tbossanova··on Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI
Compensation isn’t just money. Staying near family and friends is hard to measure. I’ve never moved country for $ alone.
tbossanova··on Active turbulence cancellation makes bumpy flights smoother
Probably not the “final solution” to airplane turbulence, though it might help a lot!
tbossanova··on HTML Web Components
What kind of audit are you talking about?
tbossanova··on Interesting Bugs Caught by ESLint's no-constant-binary-expression (2022)
For being explicit that I’ve deliberately chosen to leave a function empty, I like to have a single noOp function defined that’s documented and use that to show I meant to do it. Only if you need it more than three times though of course!
tbossanova··on Apollo astronaut Frank Borman has died
Libraries typically keep archives of newspapers accessible for free. I imagine the long record of obituaries in this archive would be invaluable for certain types of research.
tbossanova··on Using Goatse to Stop App Theft
Was expecting to be rickrolled!
tbossanova··on Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release
Oh I'm sorry, is this a five minute argument, or the full half hour?
tbossanova··on Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it (2021)
Why is 23 partners a red flag?
tbossanova··on NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2
I accidentally read the 2nd book first, and going back to read the first afterwards was kind of a struggle. You could totally just skip the first and read the other two.
tbossanova··on BBEdit: Where Respect Is Due
I used to use windows notepad before I took my files into uni to put them into CodeWarrior
tbossanova··on Hotel Owners Start to Write Off San Francisco as Business Nosedives
I was there in May. It’s actually probably better than the last time I was there, which was admittedly almost 20 years ago. But now, yeah, just normal stuff that anyone who lives in even a smaller city is used to.
tbossanova··on Targeted attack on our management with the Triangulation Trojan
Aand I just reloaded and it bounced around between cookie modal and nothing before letting me in without further interaction
tbossanova··on Targeted attack on our management with the Triangulation Trojan
Didn’t read the article, because on my oldish phone the cookie options defaulted to disallowing necessary cookies and allowing all others. I’m fairly confident this is a bug
tbossanova··on Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (2012)
Apparently, boiling one in clarified butter works OK:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Biy5776ec

tbossanova··on Study: ChatGPT outperforms physicians in quality, empathetic answers to patients
There are other places with a similar experience that don’t have the same oil wealth. I wonder though if it’s different at the higher end of things, like expensive treatments for major issues which a tighter public purse might not stretch to.
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