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by byw 5y ago
I'm surprised there doesn't seem to be more interest in type-checking in the Rails community at large (maybe I'm wrong). TypeScript has been make-or-break when choosing a company I apply for.
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by byw 5y ago
>They just aren't in very convenient locations (e.g. not enough jobs to sustain those areas and no one wants to commute in traffic to where their are jobs). I wonder how will WFH affect it though. Even with cultural resistance, WFH
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by byw 5y ago
When was the book published? I've seen older footages of Tokyo (1960s) where the streets were pretty chaotic and dirty. Also Miyazaki described how the rivers used to be very polluted, which inspired the bath scene in Spirited Away. No
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by byw 5y ago
Can this also be used for electric car inverters?
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by byw 5y ago
To be fair most modern small & mid-size SUVs are the sizes of wagons with similar fuel consumption
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by byw 5y ago
It's reliable because you changed the fluids on time. Also you lucked out with a particularly reliable model. I can guarantee you there are plenty of 20-year-old cars that are riddled with engine and tranny problems.
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by byw 5y ago
With EVs, you may not even need any hydrocarbon for cooking and heating. I've seen some existing ICE van conversions that run induction cooking purely off of solar and about $1k of lithium batteries in warmer climates. Some also have f
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by byw 6y ago
Sorry to go on a tangent, but gotta say, I'm impressed by the level of civility in the thread, and on this topic in particular. It's a rare sight in these troubled times. I am kinda interested in the reading the discussion further
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by byw 6y ago
An American trucker recently told me trucking is 90% about looking cool. Apparently in the US and Canada, brands are heavily segmented for cultural reasons. Large fleets buy modern, streamlined trucks from Volvo and Freightliner (Mercedes)
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by byw 6y ago
I'm surprised there hasn't been a spiritual successor of the original ThinkPads from a premium small-scale producer in Shenzhen (that I'm aware of), given the amount of niche mom & pop phone/PC producers over there.
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by byw 6y ago
Is it just me or does the workmanship look like a step up?
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by byw 6y ago
I'm guessing it's only available if you already have the package with distronic/lane-keep/autobrakes, which has the computing hardware.
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by byw 6y ago
This type of vehicle could be a game-changer for emergency response and rescue though.
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by byw 7y ago
>Notice how the richest countries have the cleanest environments Per capita rich countries produce much higher CO2 though.
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by byw 7y ago
Probably least likely place in the first world for conflicts/nuclear strikes.
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by byw 7y ago
I think they did a really poor job advertising this fact. The only reason I joined ZipCar was I had no idea about this policy.
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by byw 7y ago
Shouldn't there be low-interest financing for this? Seems like a no-brainer if the savings more than make up for the cost + interests.
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by byw 7y ago
Elon Musk could use this advice. But then again he probably uses deadlines as both carrots and whips. Also seems makes good PR and gets people excited, even when exaggeration is accounted for.
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by byw 7y ago
I'd say China is probably closer to Taiwan or South Korea, who followed a similar development model.
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by byw 7y ago
Probably has to do with people not wearing seatbelts. I remember years ago the taxis had covers on back seats so you couldn't even reach the buckles. Then Shenzhen enforced belts on all seats and things got better there. I wonder if it
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by byw 7y ago
Depends on how you define a regime. If we can be a bit wishy-washy, Deng rewrote the constitution from scratch and was essentially running it like a new regime, but still paid lip service to Mao to prevent mutiny. A similar change is not un
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by byw 7y ago
Don't know if this is common, but when I'm tired my accent sort of turns British. Seems North American accent requires more effort.
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by byw 7y ago
Luxembourg and Switzerland have really hit the jackpot.
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by byw 8y ago
Sorry to go on a tangent, but if they were going the redesign the airframe anyway, why didn't just make the plane aerodynamically stable with the bigger engines (make landing gears longer?), instead of lifting the engines and using sof
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by byw 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamization_of_Xinjiang
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by byw 8y ago
Don't know if it's possible with Hololens, but one thing I thought would be pretty neat is a flight sim with physical instruments you can touch. Render the world outside the plane in a gaming rig and project it in Hololens as a vi
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by byw 8y ago
Regenerative braking, significantly simpler drivetrain, pure electric for the cities. Only problem I have is they use normal car engines as range extenders. Could've gone with a simpler/cheaper wankel or microturbine optimized for
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Why you should not build your startup as Single-Page Application (2017)(amberbit.com)
17 points by byw 8y ago|6 comments
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by byw 8y ago
Also I'm not sure where SpaceX gets its methane from. If it's from above-surface sources wouldn't its net carbon contribution essentially be zero?
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by byw 9y ago
One of the biggest complaints of Elm is the lack of typeclass. I'm not aware of a similar abstraction in OCaml. Does Reason have similar limitations, or are there ways to get around it?

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