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by cwalv 4y ago
We sometimes also rule out other ways it "could" have happened, because they're further from our current paradigm, or just harder (or maybe impossible) to verify. In this sense, it may not be a "religion", but there
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by cwalv 4y ago
It's a least common denominator thing: there a places where you can easily run a terminal app but not a browser/electron, which are probably the next level up in the portability/fidelity tradeoff.
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by cwalv 4y ago
It can still be difficult to find what you're looking for (inventory is low), and with prices increasing as they had been up until very recently, you end up running the risk of not being able to find a replacement before you're pr
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by cwalv 4y ago
> before covid made disease doom a political issue Seeing how the hyper-policization of covid "facts" made common-sense discussion almost impossible has been interesting to me. It's not the first time I've noticed it
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by cwalv 4y ago
> I was never someone to comment much, because I thought there was no value for other people in what I have to say. I think this as well: if my thoughts are already well represented in other comments, or in popular/common thought in
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by cwalv 4y ago
I think having all those in the next 5 years is very likely .. assuming $500 is adjusted for inflation
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by cwalv 4y ago
> But inability to generate their own code is not a common failure mode! This has been my experience too. It's also common (maybe even nearly universal) for devs to go thru a stage where "rewiting" feels like the path of l
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by cwalv 4y ago
It's definitely One of the reasons. I've compared some real estate prices in some low-cost areas to relatively high-cost areas, and found that once factoring in property tax, the actual cost was close to the same.
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by cwalv 4y ago
> Nevada is not a good candidate for a desalination plant. No, but it's a good candidate for a solar power plant, and the water source is shared with major coastal metro areas. You'd of course want to move the power to the coa
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by cwalv 4y ago
You wouldn't have to pump it back up to refill the reservoirs: just slow the release from the reservoirs by the same amount you replace we desalinated water.
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by cwalv 4y ago
Or you could use transmission lines to push the electricity to the coast, and just keep the equivalent water from flowing downstream.
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by cwalv 4y ago
> This isn't something cities could or should solve by switching to (expensive) desalination In 2015, the Southern Nevada Water Authority completed a "3rd straw" into Lake Mead to safeguard water availability, at a cost of
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by cwalv 4y ago
Some people do .. maybe even many. It does have "neural" in the name, so it's the same, right?
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by cwalv 4y ago
You can think of them as library functions, but they all have the same signature: a pair of (byte[]) streams for input and output (plus another for errors), and then `args: string[]` and `options: map<string, string>`. If you're
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by cwalv 4y ago
And the must-sell, can-hold (and I'd add must-hold, where you can afford what you have but any buy+sell would be result in an untenable downgrade) statuses have a big impact on prevailing prices .. since you don't get the fire sel
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by cwalv 4y ago
I used to find the workaround pretty jarring: lfoo = nonlocal_foo if isinstance(lfoo, ...): Since the checker is correct in these cases, I accepted the ugly and got used to it pretty quickly
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by cwalv 4y ago
This is a pretty long article that should have started with the last section: > So what? > What’s the point of this whole thing, can’t you just do os.system(...)? Well, yes. > Given that you need to be able to execute arbitary Pyth
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by cwalv 4y ago
The US has way more than 10 "cities" with over 1M population, unless you ignore ground truth (metro area) and only count people within random city boundaries
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by cwalv 4y ago
> Most of us only work for the sole purpose of actually doing things in that outside world. If the main point was to do things outside, I'd spend most days doing what I do (outside) on the weekend. I suspect for most people it has m
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by cwalv 4y ago
I don't think it is actually harder to manage people well when they're remote. But if you're not doing it well, it's more obvious to everyone, including yourself.
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by cwalv 4y ago
> I don't think the privilege is just about being handled things easily It seems like there are many cases like this where people have different perspectives because they have different understandings of certain word. E.g. "pri
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by cwalv 4y ago
> Maybe the problem is that those other guys as vital and stressful are not being paid enough? One possible reason for this is that in software the "means of production" is much more accessible, so it's easier for a group
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by cwalv 4y ago
The valuation of growth stocks (of any sort, not just tech stocks) is very heavily influenced by interest rates
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by cwalv 4y ago
I think the key is near OOM. In some cases (e.g. runtimes with configurable heap sizes that trigger garbage collection when the max size is reached) it's easy to setup a system that operates near OOM
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by cwalv 4y ago
There's a more configurable userspace alternative: https://github.com/facebookincubator/oomd
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by cwalv 5y ago
I don't know what the demographics of HN are, but while reading this I had similar sentiment. I don't like having to hear leaf blowers, but I really don't like other ppl telling me I can't use one. All regulations have a
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by cwalv 5y ago
Maybe also not a bad thing, given that the real return on those assets will likely be negative for years to come.
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by cwalv 5y ago
If that's the case, it seems unlikely that they'll be able to get the hoped for performance improvements
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by cwalv 5y ago
> they’re likely a millionaire. Almost certainly; if not, it's not because they didn't make enough to be one. Of course, "past performance is no guarantee of future returns."
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by cwalv 5y ago
And they won't mention the company they work for, so even if you want to go for the one in existence that does you'll never find it. Or maybe there is no such company, and we're just being trolled.

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