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Trump rolls back Obama fuel economy rule

petecox — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 22:23:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/31/21201036/trump-epa-obama-fuel-economy-rule-rollback-emissions-consumer-cost

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22743369

Points: 16

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New comment by petecox in "Coal mines emit more methane than oil-and-gas sector, study finds"

petecox — Sat, 28 Mar 2020 22:33:26 +0000

There is no intellectual curiosity in climate change denial. Don't editorialise.

New comment by petecox in "Suggest HN: No April Fools this year"

petecox — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 10:22:32 +0000

parrot VM: initially a joke until someone twigged that a dynamic-lang runtime to compete with .Net & JRE wasn't so absurd.

New comment by petecox in "New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support"

petecox — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 22:05:24 +0000

Well at least it finally has a trackpad, after years of insisting that no one would ever want to manipulate the UI with a mouse pointer.

un-prevention, of sorts.

New comment by petecox in "Chloroquine has shown apparent efficacy in treatment of Covid-19"

petecox — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 03:57:55 +0000

It's commonly used for malaria. A related '-quine' is the active ingredient of Gin and Tonic.

New comment by petecox in "Hydroxychloroquine in vitro against SARS-CoV-2 [abstract]"

petecox — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 00:25:59 +0000

The (poorly worded) background suggests no previous research has been done concerning this compound w.r.t. corona.

New comment by petecox in "U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days"

petecox — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 02:34:00 +0000

UK (and Ireland) are outside Schengen.

Even if they don't restrict it to British passport holders travelling to the USA, it's still arguably easier to screen for the virus through one departure point than, say, 30.

New comment by petecox in "Progress on /e/, the de-Googled Android fork"

petecox — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 09:56:25 +0000

> the/e/ name will be abandonned for something else quite soon.

Good to know; a word that's more easily duckduckgoable may help with branding.

Coronavirus Meets Linguistic Diversity

petecox — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 07:48:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.languageonthemove.com/coronavirus-meets-linguistic-diversity/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22510416

Points: 1

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New comment by petecox in "Folding@home takes up the fight against COVID-19"

petecox — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 11:45:36 +0000

Indeed, there was a [0] story yesterday - an initiative Vodafone are supporting to compute a cure for cancer while your phone is charging.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22479644

New comment by petecox in "Corellium releases tool to run Android on an iPhone: Sandcastle"

petecox — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 01:39:00 +0000

The article mentions a mismatch of 4KB (Linux) vs 16KB (iOS) page sizes. Further reading:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Pe...

New comment by petecox in "New iPhones might be forced to have a removable battery"

petecox — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 22:41:11 +0000

At least here in Australia, corner shops doing repairs are a dying breed - there's no money in it once you factor in rent and electricity and wages. An online search replacing a popular Samsung was $AU99.

My current 3 year old phone is also a dying breed where when the time comes, I can buy a genuine Moto battery for $AU16 delivered and replace it myself in under 30 seconds.

New comment by petecox in "Things about the new Firefox browser for Android"

petecox — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 02:37:24 +0000

What part of "it ain't finished yet" would most users not understand?

It's a Preview release for a reason. Mozilla aren't exactly pulling a KDE 4 here.

New comment by petecox in "Brave Browser and the Wayback Machine: Working Together"

petecox — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 02:30:00 +0000

Yes, to see what the fuss was about with respect to donating those coins to creators.

I didn't view sufficient ads to be rewarded with any crypto in the timeframe (monthly?) and none of the webpages I visit regularly seemed to be eligible for BAT donations. The latter seems a chicken and egg problem; it's an opt-in system for the website administrators who might already have alternative monetization (Google ads, patreon).

New comment by petecox in "NeutralinoJS: Lightweight Electron alternative using native browser controls"

petecox — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 23:53:35 +0000

Windows 10 (Edge), Chrome OS and Android all now bundle Chromium, while it's packaged in desktop Linux. That really leaves only macos.

VSCode, say, as a slimmer download sans web runtime is a possible outcome.

New comment by petecox in "Brave Browser and the Wayback Machine: Working Together"

petecox — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 03:40:55 +0000

After reading an article here on HN, I gave Brave a crack for a week but returned to my regular browser. The thrill of dopamine hits from earning a BAT oken for viewing a brave-blessed ad for the underprivileged wasn't worth changing a browser for.

A "drop in replacement for Chrome" just isn't my thing as a Firefox user - I just didn't love the browsing experience otherwise.

If the company were to expand their market for postive-ads and crypto coins by releasing a Firefox plugin as a "drop in replacement for uBlock Origin" it might tickle my fancy.

New comment by petecox in "Open-source, minimalistic Android Launcher focused on privacy"

petecox — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 23:09:05 +0000

It has potential as a mouse-based launcher.

I use Taskbar from f-droid, which activates by touching a screen corner and draws a retractable taskbar over the current application.

New comment by petecox in "Setting up a Raspberry Pi 4 as an development machine for your iPad Pro"

petecox — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 00:13:26 +0000

A detailed introduction to setting up a RPi as a network device using the usb gadget interface.

It's good to have options if you already own an iPad.

c.f. tablets supporting Crostini, WSL2 or termux - or GNU/Linux native with the (forthcoming) PineTab!

Gender Diversity in Greek and Latin Grammar: Ten Ancient Discussions

petecox — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 06:37:04 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/ad-meliora/gender-diversity-in-greek-and-latin-grammar-ten-ancient-discussions-df371fe19af8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22324435

Points: 2

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The language of Dario Fo, an outward-looking reinvention (2019)

petecox — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 03:46:07 +0000

Article URL: https://termcoord.eu/2019/08/the-language-of-dario-fo-an-outward-looking-reinvention/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22286284

Points: 1

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