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by ajuc 2y ago
> Folks took their bay area salaries and moved to cheaper suburbs and totally wrecked the RE market. Isn't that what we want? Land prices averaging out? Then we can build where it's cheaper so more people have homes (with acces
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by ajuc 2y ago
> Unfortunately this can be a race to the bottom This works as an argument against 8h work day and 5-day work week too. Ultimately if something is better for the society (and WFH obviously is - commute time, carbon footprint, land prices
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by ajuc 2y ago
This is my main problem with introducing functional programming in OOP languages (like streams in Java). If it was a for loop I'd know at first glance at the exception what exactly failed... If your language & IDE does not support
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by ajuc 2y ago
There's orders of magnitude more libertarians than oligarchs. It's even in the name :) Most libertarians aren't rational egoists, they are just naive losers oligarchs take advantage of to get more power.
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by ajuc 2y ago
SV made the choice before (by accepting money from dictatorships for political influence via social media). Attempts at regulation were a reaction to that. There's no way the situation can stay like that forever. There will be regulati
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by ajuc 2y ago
There's a Polish guy that volunteered in Ukraine building drones, he talked about this. There are tricks to avoid most of the GPS jamming, long-distance drones use them (he said the evolution is crazy fast, every 3 months there's
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by ajuc 2y ago
The main application would obviously be missiles and autonomous military drones. If you can use GPS - you should. It's crazy cheap and it doesn't accumulate errors over time. But in a war GPS can be jammed. This can't.
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by ajuc 2y ago
> Ideally, you'd seal a lava tube and put in air and you could live in it with the plants being natural oxygenators. There's a LOT of oxygen on the Moon (basically in every rock). There's effectively no carbon. If you want
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by ajuc 2y ago
This is a rare advantage nonenglish programming teams have. We have additional namespace for free. If it's the class it's account. If it's just an account it's konto or however you say account in your language. Sometimes
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by ajuc 2y ago
It's the old joke about tossing a coin so you can realize what you root for, just in real life.
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by ajuc 2y ago
On Earth you need to compete against other people doing the same. So you design on the edge of performance to extract the last few percents of efficiency to compete on price against all the other people doing the same thing. Which means the
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by ajuc 2y ago
This should be a rule on hacker news.
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This is mostly because when you write from scratch you have to understand the whole control flow. Frameworks encourage learning stuff on "as-needed" basis, and you often don't know what you should know. So you do stuff on lay
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by ajuc 2y ago
> Sure, not everyone is an adventurer, but level 1 adventurers probably aren't particularly rare in the world. How often do you meet other adventuring groups when you play D&D? Post-scarcity magic utopia is one solution, but it
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by ajuc 2y ago
Villages are smaller so they are easier to generate and fit on a page than towns. But people design based on what they experience (in games and in real-life). So most adventures take place in towns or in the wilderness. Americans probably n
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by ajuc 2y ago
D&D is theme park based mostly on modern-day USA with some Wild West influences. It's very obvious for people from Europe playing it :) The biggest thing is that in D&D most of population lives in towns & cities, and there
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by ajuc 2y ago
In EU the number of pedestrian fatalities decreased between 2010 and 2019 from 5962 to 4628 per year and kept at around 20% proportionally the whole time [1]. EDIT: in 2022 it was even better - around 3700 per year and 18.1% of the total tr
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by ajuc 2y ago
Fun fact - I had to localize this kind of logic to my language (Polish). I realized quickly it's fucked up. This is roughly the logic: function strFromNumOfObjects(n) { if (n === 1) { return "obiekt";
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by ajuc 2y ago
> 'ii' over 'i' You don't need to search for local variables, nobody names global variables "i" - so the "ii" advice is pointless. You often do need to search for places where global stuff is
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by ajuc 2y ago
I'm of the opinion that giving a global name to an anonymous function should result in a compilation error.
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by ajuc 2y ago
Sure, that's why it should still be regulated, just less than drugs for everyone else. In particular drugs should still be checked for efficacy before getting on that list. But requirements for long term safety and side effects when pe
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by ajuc 2y ago
You can have a class of drugs allowed if you're going to die anyway.
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by ajuc 2y ago
The opposite - if you turn around and there's something that wasn't there the last time - you'll likely not notice if it's not out of place. You'll just assume it was there and you weren't paying attention. We
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by ajuc 2y ago
> Why are these service providers being punished for what their users do? Because they let their users do it and benefited from it. Try doing the same thing as a bank :) Or a newspaper :) Internet cannot be anarchy forever. Every anarchy
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by ajuc 2y ago
But you have to search for a parking space and walk from the parking space to the actual destination anyway. Which is like another 10 minutes on top of everything. So buses win over cars in the city center (as long as you can plan to the ex
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by ajuc 2y ago
Yeah, I checked the routes I take and it's 40 minutes for 25 bus stops so about 1.5 minutes between stops.
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by ajuc 2y ago
I often walk from the place I live at one end of the city here in Lublin to the artificial lake at the other end of the city and I drive a bus back. It goes through the city center. It's 12 km on foot one way and probably like 20 km in
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by ajuc 2y ago
It takes like 10 seconds. And you have to keep the schedule anyway - if you skip this bus stop you'll be waiting at the next one longer.
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by ajuc 2y ago
> And at off-peak hours, almost all the stops are optional at least from what I've seen in Chicago. Do you not have schedules at bus stops? If you skip almost all the bus stops you'll be like 10 minute early at the first non-em
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by ajuc 2y ago
Exactly the opposite. It sucks for intercity buses, cause there's no point. Bus stops are rare and buses don't "bunch up". It's essential for city buses. This is how it works in every big city in Poland, it's w

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