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by avar 4y ago
That's easy to do, but if you want to make it compatible with incremental builds the best way is to create a "I did it already" empty file as a dependency marker. E.g. "build" a ". build/called/apt-in
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by avar 4y ago
A comment <-> PR is a many-many relationship. For a lot of workflows it's practically a one-to-one, as people would only comment on a commit starting from a PR, but you can just comment on any given commit you find. E.g. here&#x2
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by avar 4y ago
I wrote 3 substantial GNU makefiles from scratch and regretted it largely because it lacks this split -- it has a very tortured way of doing build "metaprogramming". GNU make definitely still has a lot of rou
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by avar 4y ago
I used an iBook G3/G4 for years as a primary development laptop running Linux, and I think your recollection here is a bit off. The state of it was that: - There were numerous laptops with near-full Linux support, the Apple hardware wa
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by avar 4y ago
I'm referring to a "color" in the product customization sense of the word. You could buy a red toaster or a blue toaster, and you'd have every reason to think that it's different paint or dyes, but an otherwise equi
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by avar 4y ago
Stainless steel as darker than that, and typically "brushed". That's chrome. In any case, many people might have a vague idea that stainless steel is more durable, but not be able to tell the difference between stainless stee
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by avar 4y ago
It's interesting to think about examples where we've been moving to a better world, or more rational choices based on these seemingly more boring color selections, or where external factors are driving them: 1. White as a car colo
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by avar 4y ago
Upon closer analysis, all analogies will break down. I don't know if this has happened, but e.g. BMW will sell you different types of maps to load into your car navigation. What you paid for is centrally licensed through auth
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by avar 4y ago
Don't confuse stainless steel with galvanized steel. The latter is just normal steel dipped in melted zinc, once you're past that thin coating it'll rust just like normal steel does. Stainless steel is an is an alloy, you can
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by avar 4y ago
That's interesting, do you happen to know which one & which wildlife exhibit? I suspect it'll come down to a "not really" in that it's using electric cooling rather than some direct thermal connection. I.e. it c
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by avar 4y ago
If you mean the over-confidence of asserting that water you can comfortably swim in (31C / 88F) would "boil a river" as the GP did, I agree. There's been ongoing discussion about nuclear power on HN for months now in res
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by avar 4y ago
They've got egress cooling water limits of 26-30C (78-86). It's an entirely manufactured problem. There's trivial solutions to this, but they all probably run into other regulatory stupidity. They could easily solve this just
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by avar 4y ago
Let's leave the specific numbers aside and just assume that there's a huge gap, e.g. ~$10 to ~$30k. You still haven't explained why that "doesn't work". Clearly it would make some truck operations uneconomical,
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by avar 4y ago
Why doesn't it work? Those vehicles would either need to add more axles[1], or you'd spread the same shipment over more lighter vehicles. Such a tax should be as close to an approximation of the actual cost of road maintenance, fu
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by avar 4y ago
As the sibling comment noted I meant an SDS. I hang pictures on walls with a kit gun and fast drying kit usually. You can buy kit (or glue) that could easily hold your bodyweight if applied to an area the size of your palm. Of courses you&#
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by avar 4y ago
You can splurge on router bits, but I've also got a set of perfectly usable 12mm bits from AliExpress that I've even used for hardwood, and which will be just fine for any plywood. You can also spend a lot of money on drill bits
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by avar 4y ago
Most home owners with any DIY interest should purchase an electric drill, because what they'll be purchasing is almost certainly a cordless model with a torque limiter. Those are useful for everything from assembling IKEA furniture to
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by avar 4y ago
The router instructions make no sense to me. Why plunge a router and then switch to a jigsaw to make a large circular hole in a sheet of plywood? Just move the router around instead. You can use a bit that can follow a template to make this
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by avar 4y ago
Partially ironic. I seriously do wish someone would write a book called "The case for a Chernobyl plant in your neighborhood!". Such a case wouldn't concede the point about the safety paranoia surrounding nuclear power, but i
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by avar 4y ago
We don't even have a good way to dispose nuclear waste. Sure we do, just aerosolize it and vent it into the atmosphere! At which point... Nuclear energy is [...] massively [subsidized] by the state. ...You&#x
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by avar 4y ago
It does, and I think that's a reasonable argument & comparison, but it isn't the same as the one you were making initially, which is all I'm pointing out.
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by avar 4y ago
If you look at EU standards for asbestos removal [1] this really isn't the case. Ditto for the other examples you cite. Almost nobody doing industrial work with comparable PPE doesn't spend at least 1-2 hours of a typical workday
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by avar 4y ago
I'm talking about what should be done today, not crying over the milk spilt in the 70s. I only mentioned the 70s to show how rapidly nuclear could be built to replace other energy sources. If you look at any longer term projections on
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by avar 4y ago
Even if you think that's insurmountable problem there's an easy solution: Pay the French to build and operate them, they already do that for other foreign customers. But look at France's portion of nuclear at the start of the
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by avar 4y ago
They weren't because of Germany's energy policy, not because nuclear is a bad fit for residential heating. We're talking about "[nuclear on] the timespan of several decades".
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by avar 4y ago
> nuclear plants were never a substitute for residential gas heaters[...] Yes they were, France uses around 40% electrical heating[1], Germany around 5%. Norway is almost entirely electrically heated. 1. From some quick online searching.
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by avar 4y ago
Isn't this always going to be less efficient than profile guided optimization? Of course that assumes you can profile your program with realistic "production" workloads, and it'll need two compilation passes, so having s
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by avar 4y ago
Even if you suppose that Git had some extreme UX overhaul to the point of renaming builtins like "branch", the existing names would still survive in the popular zeitgeist, as they predated Git. So, I think it's an interesting
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by avar 4y ago
The "git log" "follow renames" logic isn't the same as conceptually related merge logic. I think there are unfortunately still cases where what the GP is suggesting improves the UX, i.e. I think some shortcuts are t
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by avar 4y ago
It stores a full copy of every node, not the diff. The diff is just something that's rendered on-demand, and "gc"/"repack" compaction and it being content-addressable makes sure that the storage space doesn&#x2

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