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by clarry 7y ago
I'd love to see lights that somehow indicate they're about to go from green to yellow in 5-10 seconds or something like that. I hate the feeling when the light turns yellow when you're very close to the intersection -- a sna
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by clarry 7y ago
> Solar PV power has high embodied energy compared to alternatives such as wind, water, or human power . Did they calculate the energy required to construct a human that is capable of powering this server?
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by clarry 7y ago
> According to the information I read, you want to bring your body temperature down for a more restful sleep. I've heard the same thing, except the suggestion was for a hot shower, because supposedly the heat makes your body work le
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by clarry 7y ago
If the 2% mortality rate is correct, then the risk of dying to the virus is significantly higher than my risk of dying in traffic. It is bad if such a potent virus were to spread everywhere. That said, I don't trust the numbers so at
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by clarry 7y ago
I think a comment is appropriate if the problem cannot be factored out. But in my experience such things can be factored out most of the time, hence the argument that most code should be boring and immediately obvious.
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by clarry 7y ago
I see a lot of this at work, sigh. The better a variable / function is named (and the better its scope or purpose is limited to one thing), the less it needs comments. So there are a lot of self explanatory variables or functions with
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by clarry 7y ago
const database_year_offset = 7; fix_start_year(year): return year + database_year_offset; process_record(record): record['start year'] = fix_start_year(record['record']); In this version wi
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by clarry 7y ago
Most code should be boring and immediately obvious. I don't run into lots of real world code that needs much explaining. Sometimes you do something weird or not-obvious for good reason, but I see plenty of comments explaining things
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by clarry 7y ago
I don't understand why that would make a fixed length of road be so much more expensive, unless commute time for blue collar workers is compensated better than lawyers. Shipping a truckload of asphalt plus the required machinery can&#
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by clarry 7y ago
> The relevant number here is the cost to repave, not reconstruct, which is about $330,000-$350,000 per mile for a minor arterial road in a rural or urban area. Sounds a tad more expensive than it needs to be. Skimming search results fo
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by clarry 7y ago
Could you spoil us? I'm not in a position to run this experiment.
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by clarry 7y ago
You don't want to share that data? I keep running into the same phenomenon everywhere; everyone thinks they know whether they've been infected or not. I suppose everyone is a malware expert, so there's no need to share the d
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by clarry 7y ago
> Most viruses aren't stealthy Do you have data?
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by clarry 7y ago
Yea, first you just have to get your debugger (and maybe the rest of your toolchain) installed in the container, along with your source code.. and then you run into things like crazy wonky terminal support. Sucks if you want to use a more a
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by clarry 7y ago
So much for the forever, then.
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by clarry 7y ago
I don't think about Spanish flu when I think about travel to Spain.
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by clarry 7y ago
I don't understand what is so hard about WINEPREFIX and WINEARCH? Instead of a new VM, just use a new wineprefix for each application. Wintetricks works in your prefix, it doesn't take any special setup.
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by clarry 7y ago
How do you handle a single atom? How do you know there's only one atom?
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by clarry 7y ago
And it probably would be expensive enough that funding might be impossible to secure. It's not like it'd be an enabler for some sort of massive economic activity. Shame we don't have a Musk to start The Suspending Company.
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by clarry 7y ago
I wonder how they planned to route from Stockholm to Helsinki. Going around the gulf is a damn long sidetrack (1700 kilometers). I feel rather disconnected from central Europe since the only practical way to get there involves flight or sh
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by clarry 7y ago
I agree that there are cases where a naive implementation would have a hard time distinguishing implementation from program (and even in case of a non-naive implementation, it can be a line drawn in water), so this sort of thing might be wa
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by clarry 7y ago
Reserved identifier. > If the program declares or defines an identifier in a context in which it is reserved (other than as allowed by 7.1.4), or defines a reserved identifier as a macro name, the behavior is undefined.
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by clarry 7y ago
Undefined behavior is not strictly limited to runtime. For example, defining a function called toilet is undefined behavior in C, but function names are hardly a runtime construct (except as far as dynamic linking is concerned).
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by clarry 7y ago
Where does it say your distro? For me, it just detects that it's Linux (all time: 8.15%), while Platform is Linux x86_64 (all time: 10.93%). Kinda funny that there are more x86_64 Linux users than Linux users. Makes me wonder whether
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by clarry 7y ago
Of course most sites that try to track you are also storing cookies or local storage. It only takes one to tie your two unique fingerprints together... of course your IP address might suffice. Or account/email address, if you're
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by clarry 7y ago
> It's a cat and mouse game as fingerprint parameters keep increasing, but I think it's possible to win this one. I don't think it's possible to win this one without dramatic changes to the web (e.g. abandon JS). Pan
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by clarry 7y ago
I don't need HN critically, and there are alternatives. Even if I did, let me clarify something. When I go to amazon.com and start looking for pens, I don't really consider the product listings to be ads at that point, even thoug
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by clarry 7y ago
I fully agree, and furthermore, I think that if ad-supported sites were wiped out, the people who genuinely cared about the content would come out and make a replacement with just the useful content. People who have a need find a way. Righ
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by clarry 7y ago
It would be nice to conduct these experiments while actually saving the searches (and results) for further study & ideas from the community on how to improve them. I hear a lot of anecdotes about search working/not working but conc
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by clarry 7y ago
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