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by dagw 2y ago
In addition to what everybody else has mentioned, uv plays nice with other people's build tools. I use scikit-build-core for building most of my python packages and making scikit-build-core play nicely with poetry was somewhere between
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by dagw 2y ago
I don't see much evidence that software quality is improving Does it matter? Ever since FORTRAN and COBOL made programming easier for the unwashed masses, people have argued that all these 'noobs' entering the field is lead
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But at some point usability is more important than branding. I have never worked for any company or organisation that believed this. Most clients will send you their branding guidelines before sending their feature requests. If they get t
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by dagw 2y ago
It sure is nice living in a sane country where I don't have to even think about this "tipping" bullshit 5-10 years ago I also lived in such a country, and it was very nice. Now, not so much (despite not having moved). More
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by dagw 2y ago
If you didn't like the 'painful detail' in The Martian, you will positively hate Project Hail Mary. Much more of the 'painful detail' as you call it with much less interesting characters. If you loved The Martian (l
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There are 4 workers taking turns looking after 4 kids. So while at any given time 1 worker is looking after 4 kids, you need 4 workers to cover all the shifts. Thus one-to-one
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Depends on what you mean by "care for". Calling your parents a few times a week to make sure they're doing OK and dropping by on the weekend doesn't take too much time and effort. But as people get older they need more a
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by dagw 2y ago
A lot of new and popular features in VSCode are only available in the official MS version of VSCode. Using any of the forks of VSCode thus becomes a lesser experience. Microsoft Embraced by making VSCode free and open source. Then they Ext
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by dagw 2y ago
Judging a whole urban design philosophy by the most fringe members of the most fringe groups hardly seems like a good faith argument. Especially when those people are almost never even urban designers or in any way related to the field.
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Relative to the current situation or in absolute terms? If there was a Shinkansen style trains between LA and SF with the same quality and timetable as the Shinkansen between Tokyo and Osaka, do you not think Americans would flock to it?
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As long as you are just going between two cities with a direct train line it's trivial. The problem is if you are trying to take a train between two cities without a direct train line, like if you wanted to go from Berlin to for examp
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Trains are significantly more expensive that flights Unless you actually want to travel around ALL of Europe (or even all around a few countries in Europe), in which case trains get cheaper again, thanks to things like the interrail ticke
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The US actually has a handful of pretty nice passenger rail corridors, with decent schedules and nice trains. Washington DC to Boston is one such corridor. Portland to Vancouver is another one I've taken that also worked pretty well.
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it's faster to just fly there. As some who used to travel for meetings quite a lot to a city 3 hours away by high speed rail, it really isn't. Once you take into account that you can show up for your train 5 mins before it leave
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by dagw 2y ago
Unlike in Europe, where rail maintenance is heavily subsidised by the government, in the US it is paid for by the private rail operators to a much greater extent. Thus the rail operators have much more say over how the rail is used and obvi
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by dagw 2y ago
To be fair, Europe also kind of sucks at long distance trains. If you want to go the same distance as Seattle-Chicago in Europe by train (say Lisbon-Warszawa or Rome-Northern Sweden) you're often looking at 40-50 hours, mainly due to h
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by dagw 2y ago
The US has actually pretty good train infrastructure, it's just almost entirely dedicated to freight. The US moves far more goods by rail, farther and cheaper than just about any other country in the world.
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apartments can be pretty expensive Poking around sites online it was quite easy to find apartments fairly centrally in Tokyo for $1000-1300/month if you were staying for 3-6 months. While that is far from cheap, I certainly wouldn&#x
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by dagw 2y ago
I cannot think of any circumstances where someone would be demanding to see your passport and then accept a photo of your passport instead. That being said having a photo of your passport and relevant stamps is good advice, but only to make
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Love it! I use ctrl+space to switch, but your idea sounds even better
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It's been 20+ years, and I don't remember the exact steps the course went thought. But basically we started with defining N using the Peano axioms (although I don't recall the name 'Peano' being mentioned) and provi
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Basically the Peano axioms
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Or combine them into gladiator motorsports
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by dagw 2y ago
The first math course as math major in university involved proving that a+b=b+a and that a+(b+c)=(a+b)+c. It's quite fun to go from 'advanced' calculus during the final classes of high school, to "OK, let's consider
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by dagw 2y ago
I learned anything professionally useful in English Even as someone who went full 'STEM' for both my education and career, English is probably among the most professionally useful courses I did in high school. A surprisingly lar
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by dagw 2y ago
As someone who did my GCSE's but then moved abroad before my A Levels and ended up taking the International Baccalaureate, I'm in hindsight really glad I didn't do A Levels. Had I stayed in England I would have studied just m
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by dagw 2y ago
Why not cut out the middle men and pretences and just go back to classic gladiator style fights to the death?
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The problem isn't necessarily voter registration per se, but how easy or hard you make it. Giving politicians or bureaucrats the power to disenfranchise voters by requiring jumping through seemingly arbitrary hoops or based on vague ru
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by dagw 2y ago
Fun fact: pure research positions don't pay as well. Where do you get this from? The people I know with pure research positions get paid basically the same (after correcting for 'rank' and seniority) as those who split the
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by dagw 2y ago
Wow! At least for me this is by far the best, clearest and most useful quick intro to Rust I've seen.

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