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by _dain_ 3y ago
again, specifics please. which languages are you thinking of? I don't see how e.g. [1] or [2] are "falling flat on their faces". [1] https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/designing-with-types... [2] h
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by _dain_ 3y ago
> There are numerous academic studies that show that type checking does not reduce errors in shipped code by an statistically significant amount. i've read some of these studies, they don't prove much. it's typically lan
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by _dain_ 3y ago
>it actually is hard to see pedestrians who have a bad habit of walking around wearing all black at night because they don't want to use the crosswalks that may be 1/2 mile away. It's not on pedestrians to wear reflectiv
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by _dain_ 3y ago
something like select * from employees qualify row_number() over ( partition by role order by join_date ) = 1 although I don't disagree with you. and `qualify` isn't standard SQL iirc
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by _dain_ 3y ago
Put it in the garage. Or a dedicated laundry room.
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by _dain_ 3y ago
[submitter] One thing this article doesn't mention is the bizarre washing-machine-in-kitchen habit of British households. I grew up with it and never thought about it until it was pointed out to me by foreigners, after which I realized
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Six Years of Living in Substandard British Housing (2017)(matthiasbrinkmann.de)
3 points by _dain_ 3y ago|3 comments
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by _dain_ 3y ago
> Should not be lethal.* oh gosh I didn't notice that > I really love this one about how cyclists are effectively geofenced thanks! I'm in a much more bike friendly city now. although that may change again soon ..
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by _dain_ 3y ago
>Sometimes we want it to mean a penetration that requires exceptional knowledge and effort. Sometimes we just want it to mean "fiddled with the internals". oo-err
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by _dain_ 3y ago
> NixCon 2023 what happened there?
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How governments become addicted to suppliers like Fujitsu(theregister.com)
57 points by _dain_ 3y ago|11 comments
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by _dain_ 3y ago
why don't you know the way to work?
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by _dain_ 3y ago
Reading this thread is kinda bizarre to me. Do people actually ... talk to their phones? Like for real, not just in cringeworthy scripted adverts? I've never used any of these voice assistant things and nor does anyone I know. It alw
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You Don't Need a License to Walk(strongtowns.org)
4 points by _dain_ 3y ago|0 comments
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by _dain_ 3y ago
You are victim-blaming, stop it. Telling people to just act in the "correct" way 100% of the time does not work , it's just a way for engineers and designers to deflect responsibility for design failure. The existing crossin
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by _dain_ 3y ago
"How To Be A Pandas Expert"[1] is a good primer on dataframes. There's a certain mental model you need to use dataframes effectively but it's not apparent from reading the official docs. The video makes it explicit: data
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by _dain_ 3y ago
Dataframes and SQL have overlapping functionality, but I wouldn't say that dataframes are an "alternative" to SQL. The tradeoffs are very different. You don't have to worry about minimizing disk reads or think about conc
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by _dain_ 3y ago
pandas dataframes but faster
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by _dain_ 3y ago
I've never met a "European" in real life. Frenchmen, Spaniards, Poles, yes, but never a "European". They only seem to inhabit internet forums.
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Just Another, and Another, and Another Pedestrian Killed on State Street(strongtowns.org)
4 points by _dain_ 3y ago|5 comments
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by _dain_ 3y ago
>But really, your whole life is sustained by providers driving. Taxes in the city comes from humans being able to physically move their bodies to the right location. because the only way to get around in a city is by driving, right?
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by _dain_ 3y ago
Sounds like a skill issue. Paris made itself bikeable pretty quickly. As for disabled: improvements to walkability and bikeability are also improvements to disabled accessibility in almost all cases. Not all disabilities are visible, and so
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by _dain_ 3y ago
Also "The High Cost of Free Parking" by Donald Shoup.
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by _dain_ 3y ago
It sounds like the parking was underpriced. EDIT I am rate-limited so can't reply, but this part: "If you have 200 cars" This is only the case if the demand for parking / driving is perfectly inelastic, which would be qu
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by _dain_ 3y ago
>there is no need I'll be the judge of that, not you.
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by _dain_ 3y ago
heaven forbid someone build infrastructure because of the profit motive
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You might want finer-grained control over when deallocation happens.
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by _dain_ 3y ago
>So why does Austral use linear types, not affine types? Affine types give a safety guarantee: you can't use it more than once. The bad thing (double free, use after free) does not happen. Linear types give that same safety guar
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by _dain_ 3y ago
Because it doesn't have to be something you'd ordinarily think of as a "destructor". e.g. you might have multiple possible functions that consume the value, because you're modelling a state machine with several outg
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by _dain_ 3y ago
the animations are overwhelming. i don't want to see so much shit moving around on screen. they also don't respect the user's "prefers-reduced-motion" setting.

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