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vgivanovic
·4 mesi fa·discuss
It depends.

My indoor-outdoor cat only catches small animals if they run between her paws. But she did chase a rather large raccoon around the house once, as I did.

In my suburban neighborhood, we occasionally have coyotes. They are known to prey on fat cats (the feline kind).

My feeling is that predation by domesticated outdoor cats is overblown.

I also feel that small wild cats were likely native everywhere. Birds were probably not their primary prey; small reptiles and mammals, i.e. animals that don't fly, nest in trees, or live in flocks.
vgivanovic
·4 mesi fa·discuss
Huh? I'm a native English speaker and the sentence looks OK.

Advances have demonstrated... The NLLB part is an adjectival(sic) phrase that modifies the noun "Advances".

Hopefully I'm not wrong...
vgivanovic
·6 mesi fa·discuss
>Actually faking the existence of billions of people would require a global conspiracy orders of magnitude more complex than anything in human history.

No true. All that is required is for incentives to be roughly aligned for people to tend in a similar direction.
vgivanovic
·6 mesi fa·discuss
I've used Nova Launcher for years (don't know if I'm paid), but I'll be happy to pay for an ad free version.

I know there is a long history of companies buying another company for a product and then killing it after a period of time. I'm willing to give Instabridge the benefit of doubt... for a while. If they do decide that Nova Launcher is not a fit, I hope they open source it so that current users are not left on the lurch.
vgivanovic
·9 mesi fa·discuss
I am very happy with the software that powers my Hyundai Tuscon hybrid. (It's a massive system that runs the gas and electric engines, recharging, shifting gears, braking, object detection, and a host of information and entertainment systems.) After 2 years, 0 crashes and no observable errors. Of course, nothing is perfect: maps suck. The navigation is fine; it's the display that is at least 2 decades behind the times.
vgivanovic
·11 mesi fa·discuss
Why was this post flagged?
vgivanovic
·anno scorso·discuss
You get what you pay for, one way or another. I prefer to pay in cash rather than in eyeballs, so I use Kagi. No regrets.
vgivanovic
·2 anni fa·discuss
Hmmm. What about the pencil shavings? Makes me wonder if the story is true.
vgivanovic
·2 anni fa·discuss
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vgivanovic
·2 anni fa·discuss
The demofox.org page I see has blue text against a black background - unreadable. No other web page I can recall has this color combination.
vgivanovic
·2 anni fa·discuss
I bought a Hyundai Tucson plugin hybrid after a Toyota dealer wanted $8000 over list for an equivalent RAV4.