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The "3-story barracks" you speak of - they're actually the most humane compromise we have. Something that is relatively cost-effective to throw up, but accommodates a decent number of people, and when built throughout a neigh
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Seconding the idea that you don't use something like this prolifically. The point is to only go slightly past the limits of the tooling and still primarily be writing C in the style that C is best at. For similar reasons, "cute&qu
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A dataflow language overlaps with functional programming in many respects but has one key difference - components are defined to allow some form of many-in, many-out, rather than a mathematical function's many-in, one-out. This change
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You will have a lot of other things on your plate that don't involve an unfamiliar stack. Experience is more important to delivering reliably. If you're grabbing at new stuff without a hard requirement, the external conclusion is
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What all fiction tends to do - crime stories, disasters, horror, action, romance - is make ordinary life look relatively muted. Maybe you don't want to become a mafioso in real life, but you do want to feel validated in your more minor
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How is "ownership" over a domain resolved?
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It really is different for everyone. I found that milk protein was actually the lynchpin of my diet troubles. But both our medical practice and food culture don't speak in terms of food sensitivity outside of "you swell up and die
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Examples of contemporary Gibbon discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/10xtf2/theor...
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Because contemporary historiography has moved on and refutes many of Gibbon's propositions. So Decline and Fall is a good read, but also old enough to be a part of history itself.
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Athletes are optimized to perform, but they can still be unhealthy in that many of them get injured, take unsafe risks, etc. For example, bodybuilding is known to be relatively safe and healthy in terms of training injuries and average-case
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Perhaps this example would have been better if it were written in C and didn't muddy things with object construction.
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One thing oft asserted in economics textbooks is price as an "information signal." That is, if we step back from its various origins that tie it to land, labor, and energy, pricing has similar utility to any other valuation method
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As you point out, many of these features are dependent on how well they're handled by the application developer. If Unicode were "just" about rendering pre-made glyphs consistently it would not be nearly so hard, but it aims
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Both statements are hyperbolic, but the original is tongue-in-cheek and is saying that these moral judgments, themselves, are not logical. It also makes an elitist gut punch at the American mindset, too, but I'll forgive it. If either
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Yes and no - it's a tradeoff abstraction. The borrow checker is a whole-language design directive, and its strength comes from giving up something in other areas - in this case, having to use generics everywhere. A language, as I said,
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When it comes down to it, everyone seems to have their pet abstraction. Everyone except the old grumpy programmers. And YAGNI always applies, to some degree, because you can always build back up to some approximation of the "gotta have
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The usual rebuttals are: Overhead rails are smaller and cheaper than highways for the capacity, standardized pods can be lighter and smaller-scale, and the automated guidance allows shorter timings for acceleration and braking. However, whe
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Nobody wants to willingly insure some random Uber driver. Would you? Or would you start demanding references, background checks, the backing of a larger entity?
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They have the image of all of history's doomsayers to overcome. Just because it's science-doom doesn't make it different. Most people are concerned about immediate risks because it's the best average-case strategy, even
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According to Wikipedia's stats, the population of New York declined slightly between 1950-1960, recovered 1960-1970, and then declined again, more sharply, 1970-1980. The big growth years started after 1980 - i.e. around the same time
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As a modality, rails have two upsides: energy cost and passenger density relative to space use(you can run a much longer train than a bus) and a signalling of intent that changes expectations for the area's other investments. Because a
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Transit fights are usually a rich vs. poor issue with a streak of racism running through the middle, with different arguments used by the left and right as representatives of the rich, while the poor are largely uncourted(except as a minori
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Public transportation will take up the same advances as private. Eventually. Private is going to jump on that stuff first, of course. Robocars constitute a percentage improvement at the surface, but don't overcome inherent capacity&#x2
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I'm thinking about the discovery problem and how this relates to distributed technology now. File storage looks solved but creating content relationships like lists of similar files sounds much harder and still reliant on a authority t
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The main thing that is unlike the original hardware is the 128kb memory target and the addition of a mouse. The 64kb era was effectively ushered in with the C64 and 800XL in 1982, but 128kb came a few years later and concurrent with a marke
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It took me a moment to realize why I was stuck in the internet revisionist mindset even though I know many of the early computer crime stories. It's because the security game has played out generationally - the publically known techniq
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I remember how when laser pointers started proliferating there was a media panic over their potential use in downing aircraft and blinding people. Schools swiftly moved to ban them(I recall being in a few assemblies where someone brought in
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It's the timing that's the important part. People learn really quickly not to push their hands against sharp or hot objects, because the pain feedback is instant and biologically determined. And they learn to like sweet and salty
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Everyone's style is going to be differ on the high-level stuff - and you are surely well beyond the point where any random blog post blabbing about software architecture can guide you. Keep walking back to the user and business require
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A basic question comes up: Do you know what you want? Your goal is described in terms of acting the way you thought you were supposed to - finding some woman and starting a nuclear family with her. You're unhappy about not having that

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