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by bjt 5y ago
Once generics are released, anyone will be able to trivially write an Underscore or Lodash-like library providing filter, map, reduce, etc.
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by bjt 5y ago
That's not a blanket policy or typical law. Commercial broadband providers lobbied to have state laws passed specifically prohibiting or restricting municipal broadband projects.
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by bjt 5y ago
> rainfall is the same Compared to the last 1,000 years, yes. Compared to the abnormally wet 1900s-era patterns that established our current expectations, no.
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by bjt 5y ago
But who's to say they're descending rather than ascending? A person can ascend stairs, or descend. A drummer could play an ascending pattern on their toms, or a descending pattern. But neither the toms or stairs have an inherent u
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by bjt 6y ago
Now define "improved". Does it mean "faster"? Or "more general"? Now you're back in the territory covered by the article.
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by bjt 6y ago
On top of the survivorship bias I would add the fundamental attribution error, or a close cousin to it. Our stories about successful people tend to attribute their success to inherent qualities and under-emphasize the role of their environ
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by bjt 6y ago
I don't know about "ceded". The container execution environment wasn't a very defensible position. People recognized very quickly that Docker's execution environment was a very thin layer over existing Linux kerne
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by bjt 6y ago
Buildpacks predate Docker. They're standardized build scripts for popular app runtimes. Heroku created the concept and applied it for their PaaS years before Docker was a thing. They're not a competitor to Docker containers. T
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by bjt 6y ago
From the Nature article: > Moreover, the intensity of the majority of the EL units varied by <15% even after repeated folding along different directions (Extended Data Fig. 3a–h), and the intensity of the EL units at the folding line
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by bjt 6y ago
Rewind to before the internet, and you never had the right to get your opinions into the 6 o'clock news or the printed newspaper. There are still plenty of places you can put up your own website. Free speech doesn't mean that othe
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by bjt 6y ago
But you're also not having to pay to produce the back catalog, and the cost of the streaming infrastructure scales well. Every person who stays subscribed because their toddler wants to watch Moana for the 53rd time is free money.
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by bjt 6y ago
The GMP change is the most exciting one for me! Years ago when I was really trying to get into Haskell, I wanted its binaries to be as portable as those from Go. I was so sad to see that this _one_ library made that impossible.
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by bjt 6y ago
They've been doing that quite a while. https://sfplanning.org/project/inclusionary-affordable-housi...
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by bjt 6y ago
And you can carry your guitar with you. Unlike a pianist, a guitarist almost never shows up to a gig and plays someone else's instrument. So standardization is a lot less important. The other thing guitarists have going for them is t
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by bjt 6y ago
Growing up, we had a Wurlitzer spinet piano with narrower-than-standard keys. I don't recommend getting one. Our narrower-key piano was what I would do all my practicing on. I didn't really know the difference at the time though
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by bjt 6y ago
August 2019.
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by bjt 6y ago
Source? Once your immune system is trained to attack the known pathogen, it should be doing that before the virus is ever able to gain a foothold in your body and spread from you to someone else. People who have been vaccinated will not sp
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by bjt 6y ago
"worthy open-sourced competitor to Ableton" is a very tall order, but if we're just looking at open source DAWs, a friend pointed out this one to me recently. https://lmms.io/
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by bjt 6y ago
They pay it, just not directly. The percent borne by them vs the landlord will depend on how elastic the supply of housing is in that market. https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wmopen-microeconomics/chap...
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by bjt 6y ago
I think you're arguing a different point. Sure there's a relationship, but these are not the same question: "Did Joe kill Dave?" "Given that we've decided that Joe did kill Dave, what should Joe's punishm
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by bjt 6y ago
I'm scratching my head trying to figure out why you're being downvoted while the least well-informed comments along the lines of "Customs officials are dumb!" are at the top. This is very likely a design patent case, not
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by bjt 6y ago
There's more than just trademark. I used to work with some attorneys formerly at the US International Trade Commission. From what they told me, most goods that they had seized at the border were caught in "design patent" ca
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by bjt 6y ago
Having grown up in Utah, and living there now, I agree with the assessment of self reliance being emphasized much more here than other places I've lived (England, California). When thinking about causality though, it seems to me like a
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by bjt 6y ago
Exactly the point I came to make. In a blog about data, I would like to see color recommendations backed by research and data, not just the author's aesthetic preferences.
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by bjt 6y ago
> the government does not succeed if students are stuck in debt forever. Therefore when government gives the loans, incentives are aligned and lending goes down. That's a double edged sword. Yeah, the government doesn't have
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by bjt 6y ago
Worth noting that he didn't actually lose a ton of money. Bad UI just made it appear so.
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by bjt 6y ago
It's not easy, but you can. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuAMczraBIM
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by bjt 6y ago
As of Postgres 12 this has changed substantially. Instead of being materialized, CTEs are inlined and optimized with the rest of the query. Exceptions: 1. If the results of the CTE are used more than once then it is materialized by default
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by bjt 6y ago
Exactly my question. If improving on SQL also means that I have to throw out all the maturity of Postgres, it's very unlikely to happen. But if you can define a new query language that can be implemented by existing relational DBs, yo
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by bjt 6y ago
Well within the short bucket that he describes.

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