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by 16bytes 2y ago
Since you wrote this it looks like Anders replied [1] to one of the threads. I have to agree with the sentiment that is a success story that the team is allowed to use the best tool for the job, even if it suffers from "not built here&
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by 16bytes 2y ago
> I view the fetus as a person, even if they aren’t born yet. What changed my mind here was the realization that this position comes out of Catholic doctrine that defines "a person" at the moment of conception. Once you made t
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by 16bytes 2y ago
> Everyone could learn how to make these with a 10 minute youtube tutorial which flooded the market, independent of AI. I remember back in the 90's a friend who had the same critique of EDM and Daft Punk. After all, you have to do i
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by 16bytes 2y ago
They're betting that they can make supersonic travel sustainable and profitable with a new aircraft and engine design. The Concord wasn't either of those. The business case is apparently solid enough that several airlines are par
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by 16bytes 2y ago
Agree. Apparently the grid is not made up of one letter squares and you have to figure out the row and column, it's made up of two letter rectangles. What it looks like when you select that rectangle to give you more precision, I coul
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by 16bytes 2y ago
Looks like HN uses `line-height: normal`, so it would be the same factor of 1.2 times font-size that's used on the Monospace page.
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by 16bytes 2y ago
I thought you meant line width and was confused because it's in the generally accepted range (~70 characters). The line height, I agree, is too tight. 19.2px at 16px font size is too cramped at only 1.2x. Making it 24px is a big impr
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by 16bytes 3y ago
To paraphrase Feynman, I can't explain to you how the universe expands in terms that you are familiar with because I don't understand it in terms that you are familiar with. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930S
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by 16bytes 3y ago
The universe is everything. There's no outside the universe, since whatever that "outside" was would also be part of our universe. It's not empty space, since that too would be part of the universe. There is no edge o
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by 16bytes 3y ago
The balloon analogy is a 2 dimensional example. If you are on the surface of the balloon, there is no "edge". You can go forever in any direction. If the balloon is inflated, it doesn't expand into something (remember we&#
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by 16bytes 3y ago
I think you're probably right. A tug (or two) hypothetically could've provided some emergency directional control. When they reopen the port, it'll be interesting to see what early mitigations they put in place.
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by 16bytes 3y ago
There is already something like this in use: harbor pilots, who have specialized knowledge of specific ports and board vessels to navigate them through critical transit zones. It is reported that there were pilots on board navigating at th
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by 16bytes 3y ago
What you are proposing isn't feasible from an engineering perspective. This isn't like putting a guard rail up. To make damage from collisions "impossible" you'd have to build embankments up so high that the bridge
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by 16bytes 3y ago
Thank you. Even after spending 10 minutes reading, I still have only a vague idea of why this project exists. All of the code examples look like a slightly different syntax for express.js. So it's a server side javascript framework fo
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by 16bytes 3y ago
Aviate comes before navigate and communicate. The pilot in charge is ultimately responsible for the safety of the aircraft, not ATC.
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by 16bytes 3y ago
The issue with attributing failure, no matter how little suffering there is, is that it provides a huge incentive to not self report and/or downplay incidents. Unless you are acting with malice, your actions are a product of the system
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by 16bytes 3y ago
Be 2000+lbs lighter? That puts it in the same class as a 4runner, which is already heavy for an offroader. The crosstrek that climbed the hill the cybertruck couldn't is about 1/2 the weight.
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by 16bytes 3y ago
Housing density can largely be solved with multi-family units that are only 3 stories high. The majority of land-use in Oklahoma City is dedicated to single family houses on traditional plots. You don't need a super skyscraper that&#x
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by 16bytes 3y ago
Being broadly critical of something outside of heteronormative behavior is ok. Telling somebody you don't know in a situation that you aren't familiar with that they aren't secure in their relationship comes off as ignorant a
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by 16bytes 3y ago
You're coupling anecdotes ("where I live"), hypotheticals ("perhaps the solution"), and confounding variables (improved overall vehicle safety isn't just due to vehicle size). The evidence is clear. Increased
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by 16bytes 3y ago
This is a hypothetical scenario. Larger cars impose more risk to both pedestrians and smaller cars. Even if it was an overall reduction, as the IIHS puts it, "The models that rank among the best and worst performers on both lists poin
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by 16bytes 3y ago
> I loved Houston, TX Houston is famous for its nonsensical zoning and inefficient infrastructure. It's difficult to react to Houston being "freakishly well-designed" with a straight face. I've been to Houston and it
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by 16bytes 3y ago
Go ahead and point out the lies and/or misinformation. You are asserting anecdotes ("it'll make driving slower for sure!"), compared to strong towns and https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustBikes , who are pr
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by 16bytes 3y ago
The question wasn't if you enjoyed driving vs. other modalities, it was "do you enjoy driving on a stroad?". Personally, I hate them. They're chaotic, prone to accidents, ugly and well, everything TFA talks about. Well
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by 16bytes 3y ago
These kinds of arrangements are all over the commercial industry. For example, grocery stores charge slot fees to determine which products go on which shelves. Pepsi and Coke have exclusive distribution deals at thousands of retail points
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by 16bytes 3y ago
If you watch the launch broadcast, the hosts set the expectation that they success meant achieving thrust-to-weight of >1 and clearing the launch facility. Furthermore, we don't know there was a failure to separate. If I had to gues
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by 16bytes 4y ago
Heat pumps are not an evaporative system. You can't lower the temperature across a gradient lower than the fluid temperature, no matter how fast that fluid is moving. You can cool things down faster, but you can't go lower. So if
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by 16bytes 4y ago
From a purely pragmatic point of view, how do you proof to make sure you didn't miss a double space after a paragraph? IMHO, it's better to do something that can be followed consistently no matter the authoring platform you use.
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by 16bytes 4y ago
I can't speak to Vaadin, but adopting GWT was a huge mistake at my old company. We bought into the promise that you didn't need front-end developers or retrain on front-end tech, you can just use Java that you know and love! As i
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by 16bytes 4y ago
Yes, this is the first thing that struck me. I don't know why people invest so much time inventing new languages and then fail at the last mile. If the front page of a new lang site doesn't have language examples showing not just

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