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by ddulaney 5y ago
And it has a negative impact for the people without checked bags, but they’ll never realize that something changed — their life just gets imperceptibly worse. Big oof.
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by ddulaney 5y ago
It's a little more complicated -- if living in a city means that you switch from a car to public transit, that's a major environmental win. If living in a city means you switch from a free-standing house to an apartment building,
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by ddulaney 5y ago
From the link: > The PDP-11 is a series of 16-bit minicomputers It’s a class of computers in the 1960’s that was distinct from mainframes because they were so much smaller and cheaper, even though today all 60’s computers feel equally hu
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by ddulaney 5y ago
“Octopi is what's known as a hypercorrection” might also be overcorrection (meta-hypercorrection?) now that octopi is an understood plural with enough usage that it’s in some dictionaries.
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by ddulaney 5y ago
In general, new industrial equipment is priced for businesses who spend so much money on other expenses that they don’t really care if a PLC is $50 or $500 as long as it keeps their $50,000/day line running. For home use, you can try e
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by ddulaney 5y ago
In addition to hydro and fossil fuels, (most) energy storage setups are quickly dispatchable. I don’t think the question is “is natural gas better than nuclear?”. It’s more “nuclear isn’t quickly dispatchable, which is what we need”. It’s n
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by ddulaney 5y ago
You’re not wrong, but this is closer than a lot of the research posted here: it’s in Phase 1 trials, so it is at least starting to move into human subjects.
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by ddulaney 5y ago
When I worked in a USPS facility, it was always a mix of emotions when a box started chirping. On the one hand, cute baby birds! On the other hand, they’re going through an ordeal right now (they got special non-machine handling, but it sti
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by ddulaney 5y ago
That's an awesome set of tools! I've written much jankier versions of these myself, and I'll definitely look into using the official ones. That said, I don't know that they would have helped in the article's case. I
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by ddulaney 5y ago
This can be accomplished more simply and reliably by marking modulus as const. The compiler currently has to reason about the whole compilation unit to determine that modulus is not modified, which works. However, if future code modifies mo
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by ddulaney 5y ago
There is! Lots of places already rely on marine sand, but extracting it has its own challenges and environmental issues. Lots of details here: https://worldoceanreview.com/en/wor-3/mineral-resources/depo...
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by ddulaney 5y ago
I’d push back on the idea that human curation is infeasable at Google’s scales. It might be more costly, but remember that Wikipedia did roughly the same task (accurate-enough text + image descriptions for every reasonable topic) with only
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by ddulaney 5y ago
I define Open Source to mean that I can see the source code. The OSI defines open source one way, and I just defined open source another way. This is an inconsistency that trips up lots of people on HN and elsewhere. There isn’t one definit
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by ddulaney 5y ago
I would argue that this happened with smartphones. "Real" cameras are generally for people who want to chase that optical precision, but for people who are satisfied with a good-enough post-processing solution will generally be sa
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by ddulaney 6y ago
On the other hand, podcasts can be listened to in the background, while text must be actively read. There are pros and cons to each format as a consumer, not to mention differences in production workflow.
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by ddulaney 6y ago
This is a little further from the beaten path, but Wireshark, especially with custom per-project plugins, is a complete game changer for network application debugging.
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by ddulaney 6y ago
It could be, and the article acknowledges that possibility. For example, a cursory check of the musl sscanf [0] suggests that it does not (though I may have missed something). However, whichever implementation Rockstar used apparently does.
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by ddulaney 6y ago
If you read the article, you’ll see that he has admitted guilt as a part of the deferred prosecution agreement. The thing that worries me is that he was able to use money to avoid prison. This is an example of a different law for the rich a
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by ddulaney 6y ago
Yep! Moving air pollution sources somewhere else is always good (though coal is so much worse than gasoline that any increase in coal burning might be a net negative). This is one reason to be super excited about coal plant shutdowns: often
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by ddulaney 6y ago
At least in the US, that statement was much more true 20 years ago than it is today [0]. Today, swapping “natural gas” out for coal is more accurate. There are three big points to consider: - Overall, the (US) electricity mix is lower-emitt
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by ddulaney 6y ago
> In my country WhatsApp is used for everything from talking to friends through setting up a date with your hairdresser to group activities like school parents groups. Presumably because they would like to be able to set up a date with t
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by ddulaney 6y ago
ROI is (net benefit)/(cost), where net benefit is (gross benefit - cost). Net benefit can be negative, making ROI negative if cost exceeds benefit. GP was using benefit as a shorthand for net benefit, which can certainly be negative.
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by ddulaney 6y ago
I wonder as well. I was thinking the submitter name might be a hint, but I know for sure that is still widely used globally.
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by ddulaney 6y ago
For me (Eastern US) “is not definitely a failure”, “won’t necessarily fail”, and “isn’t guaranteed to be a failure” all indicate that something would be expected to usually fail, but might not. To me, they can be optimistic or pessimistic b
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by ddulaney 6y ago
There aren’t many full open-source solutions available, but you can buy 100TB 3.5” SSDs for data center use.[1] At Storage Pod densities, that’s 6000TB in 4U. I’m not sure if some other factor comes in that limits density, but that’s a firs
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by ddulaney 6y ago
I’m not sure what the parent was referring to, but the simplest and most common queue model uses a poisson process[0] for both queue entries and exits, which means inter arrival and processing times are both exponentially distributed. This
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by ddulaney 6y ago
I am generally skeptical about the “market-ness” of the labor market. There are many situations in which people are not as free to switch jobs as a free-market proponent might want them to be. There is the obvious example of slavery, histor
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by ddulaney 6y ago
I think they’re referring to the fact that in the Ferrari, you’d experience both 1g eyeballs out plus the 1g of normal gravity, for a total of sqrt(2) at 45 degrees, when compared with looking at your feet producing 1g down.
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by ddulaney 6y ago
“Some people claim there is a Time Sharing system that runs on OS/370, but after careful study I have come to the conclusion that they were mistaken.” https://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html
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by ddulaney 6y ago
DisplayLink is something that comes to mind. For Arch (btw i use) it needs DKMS and comes out of the AUR[0]. For Ubuntu, it looks like you need some 3rd-party packages that will need to be compiled for modern kernels. [0] https:/&#x2F

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