Varriount

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by Varriount 3y ago
Beware of the Nirvana fallacy! While banning plastic bags isn't perfect by any means, it's at least a start.
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by Varriount 3y ago
Well, there's a difference between something entering your body through your digestive tract, and something entering your body directly through the bloodstream. Additionally, different substances have different bioaccumulation characte
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by Varriount 3y ago
Good to know I'm not the only one who has done this! I once wrote a template generation tool that embedded its input configuration into its output files as base64-encoded gzip'd JSON. Worked quite well at allowing template regener
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by Varriount 3y ago
I still mourn the disappearance of the game development and distribution scene that Flash made possible. It seems like all we have these days are walled-garden app stores filled with pay-to-win, ad-filled games.
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by Varriount 3y ago
Which makes me wonder why HDMI seems to be the default for laptops, etc. Is it just a matter of one industry (HDMI forum) pushing other industries to adopt one standard over another?
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by Varriount 3y ago
> Most people wouldn't even bother with public charging, since they can just top up at home overnight. Unless, of course, you only make enough to live in an apartment.
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by Varriount 3y ago
Which is annoying, as there are various GC systems that are near, or even equal to, performance of comparable non-GC systems. (I personally blame Java for most of this)
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by Varriount 3y ago
Does Go use direct syscalls on Windows? Last time I looked, I could have sworn Go's source used the standard Windows system DLLs.
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by Varriount 3y ago
If your PR is that big and has that many interconnected pieces, then it should probably be broken up and serially merged anyway. Otherwise it becomes a pain for the reviewers to read, and a pain to make any large changes to.
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by Varriount 3y ago
From a technical perspective, what are the differences between the two?
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by Varriount 3y ago
What kinds of noise do the trains produce? Do you think there are any ways to lessen it, and/or have any been implemented? (I'm thinking something like sound barriers).
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by Varriount 3y ago
This was the situation I found myself in recently. I would have been more than happy to rent an electric car, but charging infrastructure was a big, unknown variable.
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by Varriount 3y ago
Might want to put an epilepsy warning next to "ribbon", those patterns were really trippy.
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by Varriount 3y ago
If I recall correctly, Lego Mindstorm's GUI-based programming application (along with its various iterations) did something similar too, starting at a "leftmost" side of an infinite canvas.
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by Varriount 3y ago
I've heard about oily rags, but not about green hay - what happens?
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by Varriount 3y ago
I know this is a purely subjective opinion, but I feel that Inko looks a lot nicer than Rust, from a syntactic perspective. I could never get over how many symbols and keywords Rust has, not to mention how it requires semicolons (despite th
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by Varriount 3y ago
Huh, I never knew Unity used its own CLR implementation. Any idea why?
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by Varriount 3y ago
Doesn't OpenBSD have an API that has this kind of functionality too, albeit in a slightly simpler form?
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by Varriount 3y ago
Are the Android APIs that bad? (I've yet to develop an Android app)
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by Varriount 3y ago
This is something that's always puzzled me - why is searching in Windows always so gosh darn slow? You'd think with an entire background service dedicated to file indexing, I'd be able to quickly find files in a directory tre
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by Varriount 3y ago
Sounds like me and the Magic Thread [0]. I read that story when in elementary school, and it's still something I think on semi-regularly. [0] https://www.davidgaultiere.com/the-magic-thread/
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by Varriount 3y ago
Surprisingly few attempts even seem to get over the bar of understanding what currying is, and why it isn't just partial application. Huh, what is the difference between currying and partial application? I always thought the
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by Varriount 3y ago
I found this design decision rather odd: Allocators may send messages to any other allocator. In a naïve implementation each allocator would keep a queue of batched messages for each other allocator. The number of queues would then eith
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by Varriount 3y ago
Could you expand on the declarative schema features? Isn't SQL more or less declarative by default?
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by Varriount 3y ago
At least one of the claims in the suit[0] asserts that it's lower vacancy that lessers want: As a former industry executive explained, the market structure is "a classic prisoners’ dilemma." Since residential real esta
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by Varriount 3y ago
> But I did find a study published in the World Salt Symposium where researchers successfully grew pyramid salt from waste salt water in large, steel crystallizers. Wow, I never knew that there was an entire symposium dedicated t
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by Varriount 3y ago
What occurred with the F35's logistics backend?
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by Varriount 3y ago
I wonder if building a faraday cage around it would do anything.
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by Varriount 3y ago
Do shareholders actually act as a substantial check on companies though? And it's this a check towards positive behavior, or negative behavior (for the company, society, etc.)?
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by Varriount 3y ago
Believe me, if it were that simple, I wouldn't have spent 3+ months looking for a job. In any case, what check boxes are you specifically referencing? Appearance?

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