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by a_humean 3y ago
Exactly, that housing is super desirable by UK standards - probably amoung the most desirable housing in the UK. Pretty much all of those houses will have loft conversions (you can see the loft windows in the roof) made possible in part by
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by a_humean 3y ago
The big cost is the upfront cost of insulation and removal the existing heating systems. Speaking about the UK (article is mostly about he US which will have their own problems), we have very poor quality housing stock with effectively zero
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by a_humean 3y ago
My main problem with this implementation in python is that they are statements and not expressions. They would be a lot more natural to use if they were expressions, but python is a very statement oriented language. That is a thing I dislik
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by a_humean 3y ago
Not sure its right to blame the code when changing the base image/allocator results in 30x performance improvements on the same hardware. I would be inclined to blame a poor choice of base image/allocator.
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by a_humean 3y ago
Last I checked still very early days with most of the work/experimentation happening in the driver space. However, it doesn't seem like its facing a lot of resistence and Torvalds seems reasonably positive about it atm.
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by a_humean 3y ago
I'm aware that Rust has something similiar for things like `std::collections::HashMap`. By default: > The default hashing algorithm is currently SipHash 1-3, though this is subject to change at any point in the future. While its per
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by a_humean 3y ago
You say that none of the interventions made any impact globally, and that is true, but only if you ignore all of the times that climate/ecological interventions through global agreements did work.
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by a_humean 3y ago
The enforcement is that the state regulators can fine them quite substantially. In the EU and UK a lot of things around regulating business behaviour with consumers happens with consumers complaining to regulators rather than consumers suin
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by a_humean 3y ago
In London, which is a much denser city that any in Northern England, that attitude to buses and public transport is not shared. We have had a lot more sustained investment into reliable and affordable public transport. The lack of comparabl
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by a_humean 3y ago
Not sure what the point of this article is. Billionaire potentially wastes a small % of his own money on his girlfriend's business. So what?
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by a_humean 3y ago
They are just saying that if you assume this following: * There is a rough fixed % of people that are capable of doing interesting things and maybe useful things * There are minimum levels of resources, time, and comfort that enables you to
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by a_humean 3y ago
No, and Yes and No. No because there is nothing wrong with the EU telling Turkey these are the entry standards for membership. Turkey didn't meet those standards and were backsliding on lots of issues esp around human rights and politi
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by a_humean 3y ago
Sorry, I just assumed that if the leaders of the main leave campaign were to shortly become the government then they might share some responsibility. Apparently Johnson, Gove, Cummings and Sunak have no responsibilities for the things said
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by a_humean 3y ago
You have to be ignorant on this topic or a liar to say that Turkey is going to join the EU for the foreseeable future. I accept that you might be ignorant (no shame in that), but the people that created that campaign material were lying bec
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by a_humean 3y ago
Sorry, I don't need to provide citations for the non-stop BS peddled for years and years in UK politics or list all of the policy positions of the last 5 conservative governments we have enjoyed for the past 8 years.
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by a_humean 3y ago
Except the leave campaigns lied and/or mislead about the consequnces of leaving or their own intentions for the exit negotiations and post-brexit policies for everything from single market access, fishing rights, to net immigration red
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by a_humean 3y ago
The only justification is that its a filtering mechanism. You likely won't use any of this, but its a proxy to certain characteristics you might find desirable in a candidate - some baseline intelligence and motivation. That you have t
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by a_humean 3y ago
Web browsers are extraordinarily large and complex applications that conform to reams and reams of constantly expanding standards adding up to tens of millions of lines of code. They have to maintain backwards compatibility with software da
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by a_humean 3y ago
These are literal string types. Its a feature of at least two languages that I know of: Typescript: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/literal-types.h... Scala: https://docs.scala-lang.org&#x2
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by a_humean 3y ago
All of these rust libraries and frameworks are in their infancy and there are no clear winners yet. Its probably less of a sign of a healthy ecosystem, and more of a sign of an immature ecosystem. There are a few projects that seem promisin
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by a_humean 3y ago
I agree the intial onboarding is a bit confusing. The appeal is for small private and semi-public communities. You are right that it is more like IRC than a web forum, but it serves much the same purpose for many people with its server chan
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by a_humean 3y ago
Its not really a templating system - its just syntactic sugar for making very nested function calls that evaluate to a tree like data structure. JSX: <div><div><div></div></div></div> Compi
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by a_humean 3y ago
I apologise, I think I actually meant to reply the the parent above you. I was intending to criticise the implied premise that the problem with filing is that tax code is too complex, when its very possible in other complex tax justidiction
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by a_humean 3y ago
Take a moment to look outside of your borders. In the UK we have a mostly progressive income tax system with various tax brackets, tax free allowances up to 12k GBP, claw backs of said allowance over incomes of a certain amount, national in
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by a_humean 3y ago
They are very much far right Hindu nationalist, but its probably a stretch to call them ethnonationalist given the ethnic diversity of that grouping.
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by a_humean 4y ago
London is basically one big urban circle. Everything in London is directed towards the centre of the city. Zone 1-6 is roughly a measure your distance from the centre of London, which is also the centre of economic activity with many intern
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by a_humean 4y ago
So I live in zone 3 in south west london and my rent is 1500pcm. I signed that rental contract in 2021, but since then average rents in my area have gone up 25% (my salary has gone up by ~10% in that time). My contract is coming up for rene
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by a_humean 4y ago
Those excessive property checks are pretty limited to basically the construction of object literals, and it does it because its normally an error if you have a very explict type but your literal expression doesn't match it. Typescript
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by a_humean 4y ago
Basically the way of thinking about is that there is a runtime that knows what component is rendering, and your hooks are communicating with that global runtime. This is why hook order and consistency matters - there is basically something
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by a_humean 4y ago
I remember doing a head to head comparison between Flow and Typescript back in 2015 or sometime around then, and flow came out top at the time. Main pull for flow for me was strict null checking and disjoint unions, which typescript lacked

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