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by _dain_ 4y ago
>They need to be huge to avoid being nauseating to be on at anything resembling sufficient "gravity", We don't know if a full Earth gravity is necessary for human health in the long term, or if we could get away with somet
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>A point in favor is that normal earth-like atmosphere is a lifting gas on Venus, so just large, lightly built structures would float naturally. That's not really a point in favour compared to an orbiting spinhab. You only need it t
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by _dain_ 4y ago
so let's get this straight: VCs/startups are bad because they didn't scrutinize the bank's finances before putting money in it (how many businesses actually do this for their bank?). and they were somehow supposed to kno
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by _dain_ 4y ago
do you understand the difference between a depositor and an shareholder?
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>they put their money in a bank which was lobbying for less regulations so they could make riskier plays my bank does that. your bank does that. every bank on the planet does that. depositors don't have any say in what the bank do
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>Python is untyped and untestable. Completely untrue. You're conflating static typing with strong typing. And pytest is a great test framework. And you're recommending shell for better typing and testability? The language whe
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by _dain_ 4y ago
$ shellcheck myscript Line 1: #!/bin/bash -eux -o pipefail ^-- SC2096 (error): On most OS, shebangs can only specify a single parameter. Line 4: trap "rm -rf $TMPDIR" SIGINT SIGTERM
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by _dain_ 4y ago
The oil shell is an attempt to move forward: https://www.oilshell.org/
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by _dain_ 4y ago
First, I doubt that the SLOC conversion ratio between sh and Python is really as high as 10x. Second, yes, I do think the 5000 line Python script would be more maintainable than than the 500 line sh script. I'd choose real types and da
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by _dain_ 4y ago
I'm not convinced. >when should i use shell? >in short; when the problem you're solving is small, well defined, and unlikely to change, consider shell. If you have to caveat it this much, it's a pretty weak statemen
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by _dain_ 4y ago
yes I thought perhaps I should remove it but the editing window had passed
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by _dain_ 4y ago
illegal as in, it is substantially illegal for anyone to alter the built environment to make it more walkable/bikeable -- be it landowners or the local government. because of strict zoning/planning regulations, outdated road desig
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by _dain_ 4y ago
it's happened to me in public toilets. at least the motion sensor detects movement inside the cubicle so you don't have to open the door, but I shouldn't say more in case I give the devil more ideas.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>relatively simple >pressure sensor, infrared heat sensor, CO2 sensor we have very different definitions of "simple". and they need extra work to account for other use-cases (I cringe to use this term), such as lying mot
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>There's no reason to have the hallway or bathroom lights on all the time, just have them turn on with motion and turn off X minutes after no motion is detected. goes dark when you're taking a long shit. so you have to get up a
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by _dain_ 4y ago
I live car-free, formerly in a very hilly city, now in a flat city. I can tell you 100%, the problems I have day to day are not because of the hills or lack thereof. how did I solve this seemingly omnipotent, insurmountable problem of HILLS
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by _dain_ 4y ago
Don't forget Notepad++. And honourable mention: voidtools Everything. It's freeware, not open-source, but it's the best search utility for Windows around. It beats the Windows Explorer / startmenu built-in search on ever
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by _dain_ 4y ago
How did his disability prevent him from doing his job? You realize it's perfectly possible to type and code using voice control, with the right setup?
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>I try to keep many interactions and animations to 0.25 seconds. That seems the slowest "acceptable" time for interruptions. I like the way old desktop UIs used to work: the action happened immediately, but there was also a f
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>These are a step beyond “it feels like you made the thing happen”, they are more primitive, like maybe “it feels like you are the thing”. That's a great way of putting it. I imagine VR developers have to deal with this.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>0.1 seconds or less: the illusion of direct manipulation is maintained. 100 milliseconds is still an atrocious amount of latency in many contexts (typing for example). There were some Microsoft usability studies of tablets, people dragg
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by _dain_ 4y ago
I will not "consume content"
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by _dain_ 4y ago
no, this is BS. pretty much every big political sub does "brigading" against other subs, it's impossible to stop. a handful of bad actors can ruin it for everyone. reddit admins apply the anti-brigading rules selectively. the
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by _dain_ 4y ago
no, it's just a carelessness
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>Whenever gmail, thunderbird or office365 outlook notices a working unsubscribe link in a message, it puts its own unsubscribe link at the top of the message, right next to the address of the sender's email. I've never seen s
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by _dain_ 4y ago
Why not just keep exactly the same address but add an update to the contents?
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by _dain_ 4y ago
A better explanation is Lindybeige's video about pre-decimal British coinage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2paSGQRwvo It goes into the underlying mindset behind this seemingly bizarre system. Basically: - the penny
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by _dain_ 4y ago
Just want to say, I loved clicking on that mta.info link and seeing the SVG load in gradually, first the coarse map elements, then the coloured subway lines, then finer and finer details and labels. Felt like some kind of crescendo of datav
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by _dain_ 4y ago
> China is in a state of terminal decline and closing off to the world, barring any huge macro trend reversal (CCP loses power) While everyone would love this to be true, I've been hearing this shit for a decade. I'll believe i
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by _dain_ 4y ago
fora eunt domus

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