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by ak217 2y ago
I think it's a combination of that and curtain air bags which are often packaged on the pillars. And of course the rollover requirements are predominantly due to SUVs and trucks being so high off the ground (needlessly most of the time
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by ak217 2y ago
Getting hit by a car is much more survivable than getting hit by an oversized pickup truck/SUV whose designers deliberately chose a huge, blunt frontal cross-section with poor visibility over the hood. This deliberately unsafe design n
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by ak217 2y ago
What's wrong with taxing dangerously oversized/overweight/unsafe trucks out of existence?
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It was previously a read-only mirror.
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by ak217 2y ago
This research is focused on modeling individual protein binding sites. Pleiotropic effects and off-target side effects are caused by interactions beyond the individual binding sites. So I don't think this tool by itself will be able to
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by ak217 2y ago
Epic's behavior has been consistently ethical as long as I can remember (and I've been following them since the 90s). The reason Sweeney is an interesting person is that he has been developing the industry (not just his company) f
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by ak217 2y ago
Most school districts in California don't have any parcel taxes. There are definitely some like Palo Alto and other Bay Area and LA school districts that do, but they serve as a relatively small boost (0 to 20% of the district's b
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by ak217 2y ago
I don't think the lack of usable rights-of-way explains public transit issues in the Silicon Valley. Tech companies had very modest participation in the Caltrain PCEP project, and still barely participate in the Dumbarton rail corridor
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by ak217 2y ago
I don't think your analysis is valid in California. Public high schools in California receive most of their funding on a per-pupil, attendance-weighted basis from the state on a redistributive basis (all property taxes from across the
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by ak217 2y ago
Absolutely true. Also I find it strange that the companies in question could easily resolve their workforce issues by forming a fund to build better/faster public transit to link up their offices with less NIMBY-dominated cities, but c
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by ak217 2y ago
The flight you linked was a Boeing 737. We are talking about the 777. To date, neither the 777 nor the 787 have had any passenger fatalities from any aircraft engineering flaw. That is a monumental achievement.
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by ak217 2y ago
The delay observed happens after the train has stopped. The delay is due to laggy software and can be eliminated without extending anything from the train while it's moving. The old trains have no moving steps.
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by ak217 2y ago
That is correct, pdfjs is not usable for printing. Chrome uses Skia for printing, not sure what Firefox uses.
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by ak217 2y ago
Agreed that Sphinx is extraordinary and wildly underrated. Sphinx is the only architecturally sound , extensible, widely used documentation framework that I know of. Its plugin ecosystem is amazing and gives me incredible leverage to impro
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by ak217 2y ago
I've never used Dark Sky, but the most innovative weather app/site I've used is definitely Weather Underground. Their radar and 10-day view are second to none. It does sound like Dark Sky had one useful feature that has no ma
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by ak217 2y ago
https://www.science.org/ https://www.eurekalert.org/ https://phys.org/
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by ak217 2y ago
> a proper explanation (which I didn't find skimming the article) needs to cover why tech is more influenced by that than say travel & leisure sectors. Sure - the explanation goes like this: in the tech industry, a larger number
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by ak217 2y ago
People have mentioned a bunch of successful visual programming applications, but one that I've been thinking a lot about lately is Figma. Figma has managed to bridge the gap between designers, UXR, and engineers in ways that I've
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by ak217 2y ago
> even the classic .env seems like a better choice in every way That's a pretty thorough misunderstanding of the value that secrets management services provide. We can start with the idea of never storing secrets in files. I think m
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by ak217 2y ago
I'm not sure how IAM is any more difficult or harder to comprehend than any alternative. I've been using AWS since 2010 and frankly IAM has never been an issue. Can you give some examples? In any case, IAM and its essential featur
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by ak217 2y ago
Did you have arrays in your jsonb data? I don't currently use jsonb for production performance sensitive queries, but in the past what I learned was that it's great at automatically indexing everything except arrays. You have to m
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(correction: phased array, not synthetic aperture)
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Not sure about compute. But > Achieving higher scandium concentrations in aluminum nitride films can help increase RF filter performance. Pulsed laser deposition can take the scandium concentration in the film to at least 40%, up from th
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by ak217 2y ago
Yes, precisely. The escalating complexity, maintenance burden and constraints eventually cause the whole system to lose momentum, lose support and become obsolete.
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by ak217 2y ago
The Linux kernel has an incredibly strong userspace API stability guarantee. I think in practice this guarantee is unmatched in modern computing, and it's what allows things like containers to deliver such incredible long term value. S
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by ak217 2y ago
Lots of others mentioned key downsides of QR codes that make them generally unsuitable for this purpose (they are stateless, trivially copied, easily fouled from repeated use, too slow because of fundamental optical constraints, require a 1
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by ak217 2y ago
It's not really standard and I think the comparisons don't quite work. In Airbnb's case, Apple's policy is comparable to forbidding hosts from offering extra services (not related to lodging) to users off-platform once t
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by ak217 2y ago
Thanks for the write-up. How does this fit into the broader NFC ecosystem? What do other big metro systems like Omny, Clipper, Smartrip etc use? Apple and Google seem to implement some NFC protocols in their devices but in a much more progr
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by ak217 2y ago
I love rebasing, and use it most of the time. At work we also enforce squash-merging, which is the only scalable way to prevent low quality commits from polluting the main branch history. While rebasing works most of the time, the problem a
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by ak217 2y ago
Solar and wind are not "unreliable" any more so than any other power source we've used in the past. Just like transformers have been replaced by power electronics in many applications, the reliance on flywheels for frequency

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