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by crzwdjk 8y ago
Having tried to build a much simpler jankier version of the same thing, I agree that Rust is great for a) performance and b) making compilers for query languages. In particular, algebraic data types are great for representing syntax trees a
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by crzwdjk 8y ago
I would think that the reason few women are "Juniors" is because the assumption is that they will likely marry and lose the family name anyway. I'm not actually sure what happens to the suffix when Sue Smith Jr, daughter of S
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by crzwdjk 8y ago
It captures the spatial externalities, as opposed to the US system of minimum parking requirements and on-street parking, which sets aside valuable urban space that could be used for more housing (or stores or whatever) and wastes considera
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by crzwdjk 8y ago
There are also situations where a sticky note can be a vital piece of safety equipment because an instrument is malfunctioning. And even though the pilot knows the instrument is showing bogus data, they're so used to looking at it that
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by crzwdjk 8y ago
The microsecond level competition comes from the fact that the HFTs can't compete on price below one cent, because the minimum quote increment is one cent. So they have to compete with each other on speed. There have been proposals to
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by crzwdjk 8y ago
Is pixel perfect UI really what you even want these days? With high-DPI screens and screen scaling being a thing, not everyone's pixels are the same. And that's not even talking about accessibility for people with low vision who w
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by crzwdjk 8y ago
Aren't there also linker issues with cross-building for some targets like i686-pc-windows-msvc? At least, I don't think I ever got it to work properly but I don't recall what the exact problem was.
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by crzwdjk 8y ago
Expanding on this a little, the developers who can survive in the current restricted environment are not going to be happy about getting more competition, and are likely to favor a relatively restricted environment like the one that they cu
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by crzwdjk 8y ago
In California with Prop 13, the current tax payers' property tax rates are well below those of newcomers regardless. So they have no incentive to change things, since their taxes stay at the same low rate either way, whereas in a norma
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by crzwdjk 8y ago
Each new major generation of NVIDIA GPU was accompanied by an upgrade to the power transformer to the building that the software teams sat in, because it turned out during bringup that the building was already exceeding the capacity of the
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
> pressure on hospitals to find ways to reduce prices This might be the case if hospitals had to actually show their prices rather than sending bills after the fact for a price you aren't allowed to know when you consent to treatmen
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
It's pretty tasty but it's also mostly palm oil so may not be the most healthy thing to eat in large quantities.
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
Not only does Japan have a homeownership rate similar to the US, but a pretty significant fraction of those owners own single family detached homes, which make up the bulk of Japanese suburbs. The main difference from the US is the differen
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
> Also, if you have a bunch of `mod.rs` files open in your editor, you have no idea what module they corresponds to, as they all say `mod.rs`. Now they'll say the file name instead. This is probably the most important reason to make
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
And the market in SF and other Bay Area cities is _really small_. I recently read that Cupertino has only a dozen houses on the market total, and SF may have as many as hundreds or even a couple thousand (in a city with a population over 80
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
Good to see that building Servo on ARM will return "i686" as the cpu architecture. Because there are plenty of sites that will just match /arm/ in the user agent string and redirect you to the mobile version, regardless
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
Unfortunately, it doesn't always work out that way, because congestion tends to be the limiting factor for demand for car trips thanks to a very low perceived marginal cost. So as soon as congestion reduces somewhat, that extra capacit
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
The problem is that the number of such places is small and generally not growing particularly fast because transit isn't being expanded all that much (and often expansion comes in the form of rail lines to suburban park and rides), whi
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
Like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_status_referendum...
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
That's easy enough: Google is sufficiently big and well known that even if they have an alarmingly high false negative rate, they will never run out applicants, and "weeding out" even a lot of high quality applicants doesn&#x
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
As a point of comparison, Massachusetts does not have a mortgage interest deduction for individual homeowners, but for landlords income is computed using the federal Schedule E with only a few state-specific adjustments, so mortgage interes
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
You've got a profitable site that you developed, so you're already a developer. Yes, you can do this, and the money coming into your bank account is solid evidence of that.
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
Typically hardware will have the base layer, a cursor layer, and possibly a video overlay. But in many cases, the video "overlay" is actually emulated by the driver using a shader to do the colorspace conversion and the texture ha
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
I mean, it sort of does and sort of doesn't, but the hardware manufacturers just aren't used to thinking about things in the proper way. Just like the hardware is a black box with no user serviceable parts inside, as far as they&#
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
The point is that the rail is already there, and the rail line is already pretty much the best in the US, and already has electrification, that the commuter rail trains don't use for entirely stupid reasons. And sure, buses are great,
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
It's not about the absolute wealth of the neighborhood so much as customers per linear foot of fiber (with some scaling for how hard it is to lay that fiber). Apartment buildings with lots of potential customers can end up being much m
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
> I live in Boston suburbs, my roundtrip commute to work is about 3 hours. Picking up strangers along the way without losing a lot of time, I save the environment a little bit The DC area has already has a system for doing just this and
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
Amsterdam has plenty of suburbs, they just look different from US suburbs because of the different land-use and planning approach that they have in the Netherlands. Interestingly, Amsterdam actually does have urban freeways, though they run
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
The thing is, Amsterdam in the 70s looked a lot like DC does today, with no protected bike lanes and cars parking all over the place. So change is possible, as evidenced by Amsterdam and Copenhagen, but any shift away from driving and cars
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
From what I understand, at the physical level PCI-E uses an 8b10b encoding, which allows the clock to be recovered from the data. Each lane's clock might still be skewed with respect to other lanes, but there's some deskew logic t

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