bialpio

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by bialpio 3y ago
He decided it was for life, just not his.
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by bialpio 3y ago
And yet the register magically knows how much tax to add for each and every item you buy. I could maybe agree with your argument if taxes changed often, but they don't, and it's very much possible to calculate them beforehand and
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by bialpio 3y ago
Do you agree with this statement? "If you paid for a product with a known platform restriction, don't expect it to Just Work, & don't leave a negative review if it doesn't." I'm asking because IMO you initi
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by bialpio 3y ago
Gotcha, so I guess it'll only protect from electrical hazard but fire hazard is still going to be there... Breakers are probably going to be a bit cheaper and easier than opening all the walls to redo the circuits though...
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by bialpio 3y ago
Are safety concerns alleviated here by GFCI breakers? In what cases could this appliance pull more amps than it was designed for? I know it's not required for circuits outside kitchen and bathroom, but I was thinking about just replaci
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by bialpio 3y ago
Not sure if I understand - can you clarify? Did you mean that a normally safe 1.5kW appliance runs the risk of cooking itself if it's connected to a 40amp circuit? If yes, then sure, that makes sense. > Lots of smaller (kw) circuits
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by bialpio 3y ago
It starts to become annoying when you have a home office for 2 people though. 2 PCs + 4 monitors and some random things in a room can start approaching the wattage limit. Especially given that I think it's not too common to have one ci
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by bialpio 3y ago
Your comment literally says "It's super efficient" though.
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by bialpio 3y ago
IIUC this should be fine - MemoryChunk doesn't seem to deallocate the memory (so we leak), unless there's a dealloc somewhere (sorry, not logged in to GH so cannot search). Which is not the worst outcome here, because as you said,
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by bialpio 3y ago
Yeah, I think I understand why you had to write it this way, but the fact that this lifetime needs to be bubbled up so far up is really non-intuitive to me. > If there are better ways to do this, I would be really happy to learn, though!
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by bialpio 3y ago
My understanding is that if Rust let you compile it, then there is no bug with a lifetime (the code doesn't use `unsafe`). There may be something magical happening under the hood that I do not fully understand, but in Rust I trust. ;)
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by bialpio 3y ago
Rust noob here so please be gentle - can someone explain why in `Vm<'a>` the lifetime is needed? I see that in tests, `Vm<'static>` gets created, presumably because there's nowhere to grab a better lifetime from?
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by bialpio 3y ago
I doubt I'll ever be able to quickly add fractions in base-2 (it doesn't happen often enough to train this), so pen+paper will always be a necessity if I wanted to stick to imperial. I could see getting the intuition for "whi
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by bialpio 3y ago
It's already natural when using metric, so I'll stick to it.
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by bialpio 3y ago
Ah, well, I only did PEX and ABS for my reno, very idiot-proof so I managed. ; )
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by bialpio 3y ago
WDYM by minimum radius? Are you referring to the part of my post where I wrote that you just look it up in the building code (as opposed to trying to calculate it), or when actually designing where the pipe runs?
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by bialpio 3y ago
Plumbing is another example where imperial works and is even used in Europe. It doesn't matter that a pipe is 3", it may as well be called "type B", since all you care about is if it's big enough for the purpose (yo
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by bialpio 3y ago
Sorry, I dabble with woodworking and disagree heavily. I usually don't care for bigger precision than 1mm (so between 1/16" and 1/32"), and adding things up is a nightmare ("umm... 7 3/16" + 2 1/
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by bialpio 3y ago
It isn't easier, but 6.112cm + 14.446cm is fairly easy. Especially if you drop thousandths, which you can only maybe get when measuring with a caliper...
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by bialpio 3y ago
OTOH, I can probably whip up a small windmill using the scrap wood I have laying around under my carport. I'll need to buy some parts for mechanisms / power transmission though...
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by bialpio 3y ago
I think you forgot to price in the fact that some people live with what is effectively a time limit sometimes counted in months or weeks (like the person from the linked article).
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by bialpio 3y ago
IIRC the H-1B application period is some time in the first half of April every year (so all the ones that would be filed this year have already been filed), but IDK if renewals need to catch that train. Edit: clarifications.
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by bialpio 3y ago
I think that may be outdated. Searching at https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-and-studies/h-1b-employe... yields around 60 applications in 2023 (but note that I'm not sure how things are counted given that H
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by bialpio 3y ago
Driving around Yosemite or Yellowstone is gonna be closer to in-town riding than to highway riding. I wouldn't be too surprised if time spent on driving at the destination was ~50% of my driving time at some road trips I took.
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by bialpio 3y ago
Inertia, laziness, crappy equity to begin with so the cliff isn't that big, concerns RE resetting immigration process progress. Source: I was at Microsoft for ~6 years and those are some of the reasons why I stuck with them for longer
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by bialpio 4y ago
There's also presumption of innocence so publishing personal info of someone not convicted is akin to doxxing to me. Edit: typos.
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by bialpio 4y ago
Poland. I think folks there are more price-sensitive and it helps keep the prices at a more reasonable level. Coming from Poland, my price-setting approach would not take into account how much something is worth to the customer, just how mu
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by bialpio 4y ago
I have experienced a culture shock after moving to the US and looking at prices for some items. The best summary I have is "in USA, the thing is worth as much as people are willing to pay for it", unlike the previous mindset I had
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by bialpio 4y ago
I don't know, but I would not be too surprised if local / smaller producers are a bit better represented for restaurants. In any case, profit margin should not be sensitive to this.
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by bialpio 4y ago
It's probably better to look at the margin, I could see how the profits increased in absolute numbers as people may have switched from eating out to home-cooked food.

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