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excalq commented on EVs are starving states of tax money to fix potholes and build roads fortune.com/2025/03/18/ev... · Posted by u/ryan_j_naughton

jfim · 9 months ago

It could if they make it so that the tax is also applied based on the miles driven whenever the car changes ownership or is disposed of at the end of its life. Cheating on the self reported mileage would only defer the tax, not avoid it.

excalq · 9 months ago

I forsee even more dead vehicles ending up in blackberry thickets if that happens.

excalq commented on Ask HN: Replacement for Rackspace SMTP Hosting? · Posted by u/entrepy123

rglullis · 10 months ago

migadu.com Their micro plan is $19/month and works really well if you have a handful of domains and stay within their 200 in / 20 out emails per day.

excalq · 10 months ago

Isn't that per year? I'm on their bigger $90/year plan which is excellent.

excalq commented on Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after reneging on promises to not sell their data theregister.com/2025/03/0... · Posted by u/tempodox

kristjank · 10 months ago

For what it's worth, Waterfox has issues with the mozilla addon store at the moment. I was planning on Firefox Sync'ing everything over to my waterfox install, then deleting my account, but it's unable to install and reconfigure my shitload of plugins I'm using.

excalq · 10 months ago

I've noticed that it's trivial to install addons directly from their xpi packages on GitHub release pages.

excalq commented on Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox blog.mozilla.org/en/produ... · Posted by u/pentagrama

czk · 10 months ago

I’m kind of addicted to tab containers right now and I have them set up in a way where I can proxy specific containers out different socks proxies that go through different VPN tunnels. Niche I know but it’s keeping me on FF.

excalq · 10 months ago

Tab containers are a godsend when managing multiple AWS accounts as well.

excalq commented on Google Kubernetes Engine's third consecutive day of service disruption status.cloud.google.com/i... · Posted by u/rlancer

human_error · 7 years ago

> When an entire region is down what I have noticed is that all things are fucked globally on aws.

Do you have an example on this?

excalq · 7 years ago

On 17 October, there was a multi-AZ network failure at us-east-1. It only lasted 3m35s, but it was enough that our customers were calling about our site being down.

excalq commented on Watson for President watson2016.com... · Posted by u/derEitel

HillRat · 10 years ago

Watson will agree with whatever training corpus you feed into it, so like most candidates it can't tell you anything new or novel. However, unlike actual political candidates, Watson would be able to directly answer questions.

The problem is that Watson has been talked up as almost a strong AI, when it's actually a really good classifier, annotator and summarizer. While there's a great role for Watson-style systems in policy development and practice, they are only one in a battery of ML and analytic techniques, none of which can stand alone without a fully human point of view.

excalq · 10 years ago

What if Watson read Conservapedia thinking it to be factual. That's a startling thought.

excalq commented on Ask HN: How does a 1990s web developer get back on track? · Posted by u/neLrivVK

dandanisaur · 10 years ago

Imo I'd hold off on susy. Bootstrap is a great start for a beginner abs it's used in a ton of environments.

excalq · 10 years ago

I took several years away from the front-end to focus on Backend and DevOps, only recently re-upping my front-end-fu. Since I knew CSS 2.0, I found Bootstrap quite easy to pick up and be productive with in about a day, not previously knowing CSS griding. And I found myself saying over again, holy shit where was this back in "my day"!

excalq commented on Google engineer writing Amazon reviews on USB-C cables that don't work amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile... · Posted by u/evmar

organsnyder · 10 years ago

I've also started buying Anker exclusively. Their chargers work with every device at full-rate, and their cables are decent. I have had the clips break on a couple of MicroUSB cables, including the 1ft from a similar 5-pack. I had my phone attached to a battery pack and stuffed both in my pocket. The stress of bending the cable in strange directions messed up the clips on the cable. Not quite bulletproof, but not bad (and I was lucky I didn't damage the phone instead).

excalq · 10 years ago

They also make a ridiculously amazing Solar charger array, which when I took across a border to Israel, had the inspectors in serious awe and wishing they could get one as inexpensively as we can in the States.

excalq commented on So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish aralbalkan.com/notes/so-l... · Posted by u/lelf

excalq · 11 years ago

Why not Ireland? You do have a .ie domain, afterall!

excalq commented on 'Silicon Valley Is Coming' Warns JP Morgan CEO americasmarkets.usatoday.... · Posted by u/pyabo

tjradcliffe · 11 years ago

Yet in other countries similar processes are no where near as painful, so the claim that "having human beings involved necessarily makes things painfully in efficient" is not very plausible.

For reasons I don't understand American government systems tend to be very difficult and painful to deal with. This not unique to the US, but in the developed world most other nations have seen improvements since the '70's. The US, not so much.

Getting a driver's license or health card in Canada used to be pretty painful. Today it's very streamlined. You still have to deal with people face-to-face, but the process has been designed to be quick and efficient.

excalq · 11 years ago

In my experience the Canada DMV has incredibly hot young women working at the DMV. Back home, it's Patty and Selma.

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