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by cturner 5y ago
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I have some respect for the gum ban. The tile surfaces outside Wimbledon Station are ruined by gum stains, and it lowers the feel of the area. Each time I notice it, I admire the Singapore ban.
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> I still fail to understand what is arbitrary in scientific notation I used the word arbitrary, but did not say that scientific notation was arbitrary. I will try to explain another way. The equation is an assertion. For me, it does not
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His approach works well for me. I don't retain arbitrary facts. At least part of this is a fear that if I don't properly understand its dynamics I will misapply it, better to discard it. The windowing explanation shows me a path f
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I feel the same - V7 is significant - but for different reasons. (1) V7 did not use a MMU, there are no shared object libraries. The whole stack feels simpler, less layered. It is straightforward to hand-craft a binary on a pre-ELF system.
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"It's completely global" It doesn't have to be. You can have a launcher for a project that sets PYTHONPATH just when you launch that project. What is bad practice is to be setting PYTHONPATH in your .bashrc, and for the
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I was slow to get to grips with venv. It sounds like you are on the same path. This note tries to be constructive advice - * Some distro software uses python. Let the package manager take care of dependencies for that. * For everything else
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This would be a powerful point with a reference - can you cite it?
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"We could do computing your way, but it'd be phenomenally more expensive" It must be viable - Windows prevents overcommit. But it has slow child-process-creation (edit: previously said "forking"), and this steers de
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Putting it in liberal/conservative terms moves it to a simple matter of opinion. But most code spends most of its life maintenance. Would anyone argue against the importance of maintenance?
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Reprocessing is uneconomical for the sole purpose of energy generation. But is it uneconomical as part of the disposal chain? For example, if you had to send a whole lot of waste to another country, and pay their cost of reprocessing, it ma
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Inflation des not necessarily target rich people. In some cases the wealthy will have significant land holdings. These act as a store of wealth. Inflation is damaging to ants who keep money aside in case of medical emergency or unemployment
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I have wondered whether the 50c army will go global, and what would become of forums like this one if it happens.
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The US has easy economies of scale for many types of business due to its large population. If you come up with a successful business model in one state, there is a low barrier to expanding it. Trivial example, if you manufacture a successfu
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"breach of a worldwide agreement" I don't see anything in NPT that forbids the US and UK from supplying nuclear propulsion to Australia. They are not supplying nuclear warheads. The reason the French are pissed are strictly c
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Have found static builds of awk useful in low-dependency work. I bundled it with a windows installer to do some wrangling we needed at install time. Another time I was sending packages to a unix cluster, but did not have access myself. Used
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Happens with florists, also.
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"If your country is centralized parliament works best. If it is decentralized then any parliament is going to be toothless like the UN" The Australian example undermines this claim. Australia is a true federation. Similar to the U
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"Indeed, South Korea is the only country that successfully made its transition from a former colony to an advanced economy." This is not right. Each of the following meet the same criteria, including the author's caveats - Ta
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Idea: have event streams between microservices always be bilateral (two party) contracts. When you want to make a change, you can pick up the phone to the other end and get it done quickly. Multilateral contracts easily lead to email chains
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When a service operates in bad faith, it is a scam.
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Three years ago, we had a month in Australia, and drove through the SA wine regions and then the coast road to Melbourne. Some time after crossing the border, we stopped at a town Lorne which was much like the previous coastal town, except
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Not sure if this is helpful, there are some notes at cthulix.com.
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There is a trap in distributed system design - seeking to scale-up from a single-host perspective. An example - we have apache and want to scale it up, so we put it in a container and generate its configuration so we can run several of them
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If the Iranian leadership did not have Israel, they would find something else to fill the same role - Turkey, India, Saudi. Picking fights with neighbours is an effective way to keep the focus of your citizens away from internal corruption
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BeOS kernel was written in C, "It may come as a surprise to some BeOS developers that in our wonderful, buzzword-enabled, OO-powered OS, there is not a single line of C++ code in the kernel." ( https://www.haiku-os.org&#
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There may be opportunity to build a Robin Hood competitor by transparently passing the PFOF fees through to users, rather than pocketing them (as Robin Hood does). Imagine if you paid a monthly $5 subscription to be a member of a broker, an
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I agree with the thrust of your comment. The current situation is the result of decades of us (west) misreading the situation, rather than a single event of one US president. We saw what we wanted to see, rather than what was there.
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My post could be read as a correction to yours. Unintended. Perhaps I should have replied to randomopining. You made a significant point about the number of Chinese warheads. Once nuclear misses are discounted, I think it is significant tha
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It is not equivalent. The US presence in the west pacific is welcomed by almost all the countries in the region, including Vietnam. All of the countries supporting the US presence want to see the current rules-based order continue, and are

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