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by chao- 7y ago
Houston, a city proud to be without zoning, and where being a "city planner" is barely a notch above a registered sex offender (I wish I were joking), has just voted for the third time to expand LRT transit, and expand Rapid Bus l
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by chao- 7y ago
How about starting medium? Houston to Dallas. https://www.texastribune.org/2019/05/15/texas-bullet-train-a... I don't know the full list of requirements, but a route has been chosen, some number of feder
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by chao- 7y ago
Nothing is particularly special about the Broadwell X1, in that it isn't better than the subsequent models (thajt . It was, however, point where the X1 line hit its sweet spot and stabilized, while also having the first Intel iGPUs t
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by chao- 7y ago
Two things on my mind reading this article are: 1. I am not convinced the idea of commuting as "self-correcting mechanism" was presented well (or much at all). I was expecting to learn a bit more about this point. 2. Half of the p
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by chao- 7y ago
The purpose is to position products in a way that avoids a negative impression, in a manner that might impact sales. I would not be surprised to hear that OEMs view this quirk product positioning in a positive light. It doesn't take mu
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by chao- 7y ago
I could not agree more. Among some of my professional contacts I am the person they go to for Linux advice (a role I am not sure that I deserve, to be frank). I try to help nonetheless, and over the last few years my attitude of "Well
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by chao- 7y ago
And defense.
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by chao- 7y ago
I feel like there are a few unstated assumptions in whsheet's post. Even with those, of course, no advice is universal or without exception. They do make a good point, though. My version of the thought process is that, all else equal,
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by chao- 7y ago
> Yeah, I've been hearing about that for 10 years. You weren't paying attention then ;) because you could have been hearing about it as far back as the 80's, when Southwest first lobbied it to death (the twice-an-hour-tak
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by chao- 7y ago
One of the many state/public attempts to bring HSR to Texas was built on a "Texas T" route (or "Texas T-Bone", some branding like that) that would have lines from San Antonio, Houston, and Dallas all meet at Austin,
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by chao- 7y ago
Vonlane by chance? If so, that company is great. I cannot recommend them enough to people. There was a rocky bit in 2016 for them and I am so glad they survived and are growing their routes and times.
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by chao- 7y ago
I agree with your sentiments overall, so don't take my "it's not all gloom and doom" comment as a disagreement... But there are people out there trying! The project from Texas Central Railways is looking like a sooner be
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by chao- 7y ago
My first ask would be just some help cutting through the jargon. I can guess from the wikipedia article, and general political context, that the "L/" and "R/" stands for "Left" and "Right",
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by chao- 7y ago
It seems intentionally disabled. The about:gpu page reports the following: >Accelerated video decode is unavailable on Linux: [137247]( https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137247 ) >Disa
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by chao- 7y ago
I will take a look this weekend and if I can properly explain and document the issue in detail, I will definitely give you everything I can. I should add that for an identical Linux distro-and-version, and identical browser versions, my lap
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by chao- 7y ago
I have the opposite experience with YouTube. With an AMD GPU on Linux, Chrome churns, drops frames, and stutters horribly on even 1080p videos at 30fps. Firefox, meanwhile, handles 1440p60 video with no problem. Even two such videos simulta
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by chao- 7y ago
The term "reek" is normally negative in connotation. I have seen (at least on HN) the famous Netflix culture documents praised as straightforward method to assist in defining culture. Not that it "solves" culture in some
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by chao- 7y ago
> but we can have it again with these incompetent, ignorant, appointee bureaucrats. I agree with your sentiment completely, but do want to serve as a footnote on the sentence I am quoting: Being an "appointee" does not imply c
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by chao- 7y ago
As an adamant aficionado of PSP over Photoshop, I never forgave Corel for buying Jasc and turning PSP into just another CorelDRAW. If I had wanted CorelDRAW, I would have purchased CorelDRAW. I did not. I wanted Paintshop Pro, and I had it,
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by chao- 7y ago
Yes you did miss the memo, but most of America did. My first awareness came about five years ago through friends who are in (or adjacent to) the HPC space. What has surprised me most is the difference in awareness and framing between the Ch
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by chao- 7y ago
The strategy summarized as "introduce a foreign technology to the market, absorb it, and then innovate to make China a leader" is doubtlessly true, and I am for re-leveling the economic playing field (so-called) between the US and
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by chao- 8y ago
I will happily stand corrected, because I was only implying based on very limited awareness. I am only directly familiar with workstations, where I've seen replacements occur on the order of 4-7 years, not servers or entire datacenters
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by chao- 8y ago
At work most of our developers run Linux. The hardware mixture is Dell (XPS 13, XPS 15), some Thinkpads and two who use System76. Several of us use 4K displays, and I can't remember the last time anyone had trouble with a projector. M
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by chao- 8y ago
This a really neat historical perspective, although I do find one detail odd: > If you are sneering at the memory requirement, note that this was back in 2010. Most Google servers were maxed at 32GB. As I recall, Nehalem EP (launched 20
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by chao- 8y ago
I agree that they are ultimately separate and differentiable in a grammatic sense. Mostly I was taking issue with the sentiment in the GP's summary: "Mandarin introduces new grammatical requirements that English ... [doesn't
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by chao- 8y ago
> 'X' in Xi is not 'sh', and 'Q' in Qing is not 'ch'. That is basically what I was trying to relay: That the choices of letters were picked to represent something "different but close enough&
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by chao- 8y ago
> don't have constructs for... counting words Having learned both Mandarin and Japanese, I go back and forth on this. While yes counters are more front-and-center in these languages, they are not completely absent in English. We do
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by chao- 8y ago
I lived down the road from the Chinese consulate in Houston, it being along my walk from home to the grocery story. I would see a decent-sized protest once or twice a month. One was always Tibet-related, the other would vary, but at recal
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by chao- 8y ago
It doesn't preclude it, sure, but what stinky613 said does mean that a blockchain does not offer particular advantages over a more traditional datastore (regardless of how that datastore is accessed). I believe that was their point: th
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by chao- 8y ago
So I am using the word "center" instead of "moderate" intentionally, because the latter might not exist--at least not in the way the common use of the word "moderate" suggests. There is some research (will dig

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