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Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
“inevitable”? hardly. how many first-year Leafs are out there on the original battery? a lot, i’d reckon most. how many dead Leafs are out there which were totalled because of needing a new battery? certainly less than those which were totalled due to rust, collision, etc., ie the things that kill gas cars too.
Comment · 3 years ago
Is it obvious? Waymo has hundreds of driverless taxis in SF where you literally cannot sit in the driver's seat. Stuff that consumers can currently get their hands on isn't really driverless but the tech exists now.
Comment · 3 years ago
This has been possible for years. I actually got in the habit of porting my qt projects to the web target because they ran better than native compiled on some of my older machines.
Comment · 3 years ago
No - 3-tier is an infrastructural pattern, not a software design pattern. It means you have a front-end, back-end, and database.
Comment · 3 years ago
Usually winter coats are offered at steep discounts in the summer.
Comment · 3 years ago
Edge is just chromium. It is not a competitor.
Comment · 3 years ago
Yes, wget and curl are web clients. This is not.
Comment · 3 years ago
Ruby is much better on the package management front and may be better suited to this task overall.
Comment · 3 years ago
Such as the website this project is hosted on.
Comment · 3 years ago
> I'm guessing this is not an Electron app. If I am right, that alone deserves praise.

Thunderbird is, and has always been, essentially a Firefox distribution which implements an MUA instead of a web browser.

Comment · 3 years ago
They don’t even do server side encryption, though. Might as well use Gmail.
Comment · 3 years ago
“Default” container tabs have no user-facing UI. Tab Containers gives them a ui.

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