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by ak217 6mo ago
> Connections are Brief This doesn't make sense, in the context of the author's chosen example (postgres). Postgres connections are very heavy and there is a huge performance penalty for cycling them quickly, and a whole range
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by ak217 6mo ago
I have my Kindle permanently in airplane mode to keep it away from Amazon's shenanigans and use Calibre to upload books to it, but if/when it breaks I have a feeling my next e-reader will be a Rakuten Kobo.
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by ak217 6mo ago
I spent a long time educating teams of developers about git's usability quirks. I don't do that as much anymore - partly because the quirks have been worked out, partly because the developers have better guardrails and resources t
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by ak217 6mo ago
All the time? That's very inefficient, especially when running your boiler outside heating season and without a vacuum flask. The actual solution is to boil small quantities of water. I can boil one cup in 90 seconds or so, even with t
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by ak217 7mo ago
Right, the 1.8C difference is substantial in terms of human physiology and indicates a diminished level of comfort as the body fights to keep the temperature up. I also found it funny how they mentioned that modern clothing keeps you warmer
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by ak217 7mo ago
No, their use of “solves for this” is with regards to disincentivizing an incredibly dangerous habit that randomly kills the most vulnerable bystanders in the vicinity at the rate of many thousands per year
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by ak217 7mo ago
Where I live, our work has definitely been successful. The cities I bike in have been steadily improving their bike lane and pedestrian networks, and increasingly prioritizing them in plans and projects - though there is a long way to go.
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by ak217 7mo ago
To be honest with you I really don't give a shit about my reputation when it comes to this, I care about me and my kids not getting splatted by a speeding SUV when we dare to use the street, because I face this situation daily.
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by ak217 7mo ago
Oh it's quite practical, many cities have done it. It just requires standing up to a bunch of selfish assholes who would rather pave over every bit of available space so they can drive around really fast in their giant SUVs while pedes
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by ak217 8mo ago
As someone who has biked and rode trains to work for the past 30 years and continues to do so, I think requiring bike lanes whenever streets are repaved is a pretty awesome idea. ADA ramps are pretty great too, they are not just for disable
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by ak217 8mo ago
> Civil engineers don’t tell your mayor or your highway commission what to build, their only job is to figure out how it can be built. I would disagree. The engineers absolutely steer the space of available solutions. Caltrans is a prime
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by ak217 8mo ago
There is plenty of information about this in trusted sources, the way you're describing this is incorrect. Overcorrection and badly designed simplistic optics can make myopia worse in childhood when the eye is growing. Your eye is no l
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by ak217 8mo ago
If you liked Sheldon Brown (who was a treasure but the content is out of date now), definitely check out the Park Tool videos on YouTube. Calvin Jones, their director of education, recently retired after building an incredible library of in
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by ak217 9mo ago
> That might be because Japan did have a huge railway accident in 2005 due to excessive speed. No, Japan more or less invented ATC in the 1960s for the purpose of running the Shinkansen safely.
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by ak217 9mo ago
That's exactly right. I have so many frustrating stories from local politics that go exactly like you described. There is hope. Scott Wiener is a California politician who saw that these problems can't be resolved at the local lev
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by ak217 9mo ago
That's a really hilarious take given Nvidia's history with TSMC.
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by ak217 9mo ago
Look, I don't care, I know there are strong opinions about how these discussions sway people one way or another. I'm as much of an EV technology fan as anyone, but I'm speaking from personal experience with this exact situati
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by ak217 9mo ago
Sorry, I love Technology Connections as much as anyone, but that's a ridiculous argument. Even people who drive less than 40 miles a day will occasionally need to drive 100 miles a day for two days back to back. That's not even a
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by ak217 9mo ago
I have a hacky piece of code that I used with OpenSSL 1.x to inspect the state of digest objects. This was removed from the public API in 3.0 but in the process of finding that out I took a deep dive in the digests API and I can confirm it&
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by ak217 9mo ago
I've had my eyes on this Asus for a while now, but the rtings review mentions aggressive matte coating that seems like it might negate the high PPI advantage by randomly blurring the result. What's your impression?
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by ak217 10mo ago
When I used to ride Caltrain to/from work, I would often have an uninterrupted stretch of 45+ minutes in a cozy single seat (I would always take an upper deck seat in the "gallery" car) to either doze off or use this time to
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by ak217 10mo ago
Yeah. I have also been to China myself, and have first hand experience walking around Hong Kong with people who later found themselves in jail, or riding the subway getting bombarded with saturation level jingoistic propaganda urging attack
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by ak217 10mo ago
Yours? I'm sick and tired of whataboutism from people who are somehow motivated to carry water for aggressive dictatorships that threaten the rest of us. I've already lost my birth country to zombies like that (they call them z-pa
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by ak217 10mo ago
China is governed by the CCP, which holds the world record for the number of people murdered by the state, feeds its citizens militaristic propaganda at scale, is currently controlled by a guy who fancies himself a dictator, and is politica
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by ak217 10mo ago
Alas is right, China is poised to dominate battery, solar, and EV technology and to translate it to military technology as well. Meanwhile the Republicans are blowing up US alliances and sabotaging the battery/EV industrial development
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by ak217 10mo ago
Exactly - the author thinks all these tools just materialized fully formed in their software ecosystem instead of surviving years of competition with other, less memorable tools. It takes many years of work, luck, and yes, marketing to get
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by ak217 11mo ago
I actually have two more monitors, one on each side of my main one, in portrait mode :) And yes, I turn my head when I want to see them. I'm glad the low resolution monitors work for you. I just don't want people to proclaim that
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by ak217 11mo ago
Take a look at this article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64679-2 - the limits at "normal visual acuity" (18 observers ~25 years old) are far beyond what you imply. You need over 95 ppd to exhau
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by ak217 11mo ago
Pixels are very noticeable at 32" 4K. If you don't notice them, your eyes still do - they try to focus on blurry lines, causing eye strain. You might not notice, but it adds up over the years. It's simple math. A 32" 4K
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by ak217 11mo ago
Correct. At the risk of stating the obvious, indoor plumbing (and public sanitation in general) is not something required for you as an individual. It's something required for society as a whole to sustain value added activities that

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