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by drewmate 5y ago
I'm with you! But what does a hot new startup do when a rich old legacy corp sends them a data dump that isn't a custom sqlite database? Slowly but surely, the startup begrudgingly uses csv "just this once" until they g
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Hotels Try Out Fees for Using the Pool and Checking in Early(wsj.com)
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by drewmate 5y ago
As one data point, Age of Empires 2 DE takes up 13.7 GB on my desktop, so you'd probably be fine with even the smallest one (though I'm sure it will still fill up quick!) Form factor is another consideration. You'd probably
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What Your Kid Thinks About Your Job: ‘It Goes on All Day’(wsj.com)
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NYC agency floats nightlife district plan(apnews.com)
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by drewmate 5y ago
+1. The first thought I had when I saw that email was that I felt bad for the tester/dev; it's not really their fault, but they're certainly going to get at least some backlash for this. Really, it's a director/VP
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$46M San Francisco Spec House Is One of the City’s Priciest Listings Ever(wsj.com)
1 points by drewmate 5y ago|0 comments
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by drewmate 5y ago
Of course, but much of the food for desert dwellers can still be grown in less drought-prone regions. In the US, we have a fertile region in the midwest where there's enough water to grow millions of acres of corn just for ethanol fuel
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by drewmate 5y ago
I'm not optimistic. People (it seems especially in the US) seem to think once they have something it is morally unconscionable for anyone to take any action that might affect that (even in the light of new facts.) You see this with wat
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by drewmate 5y ago
Thanks for writing (the code and the blogs!) What are you up to these days?
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by drewmate 5y ago
There is an inherent tension in Factorio (and software engineering!) between trying to get everything right up front and just building anything that works and fixing it later. I've found a balance that is fun for me in the low-stakes
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by drewmate 5y ago
It's not about the literal beliefs of religions. It's about having a 'tribe' or in-group. That was helpful to our survival as a species, and that instinct has not gone away. If it's not religion, it's politi
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by drewmate 5y ago
This is a great point, and I wish productivity gains in all sectors had been more equitably split. In fact, I think that automation-based productivity gains could extend to the other sectors I mentioned as well (more surgeries/hour, e
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by drewmate 5y ago
It's worth reading a bit about the history of BART. The Bay Area's NIMBY roots run deep. Initial plans would have included lines in the peninsula, with eventual connections all the way around the bay. Santa Clara County never jo
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by drewmate 5y ago
The divide between 'hourly' workers (even if paid a salary) and white-collar knowledge workers is likely the largest obstacle to changing the 40-hour workweek in the US. Many jobs, and often the highest-paid, could be nearly as p
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by drewmate 5y ago
I think you're mostly right, but it's not as straightforward as 1 dwelling per household and everyone just moves up a rung. Market housing could get bought up by people who are currently living with roommates (but would like thei
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Why the extra red light on freeway ramps?(youtube.com)
2 points by drewmate 5y ago|0 comments
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by drewmate 5y ago
I think that metered entrances don't necessarily reduce the number of cars on the freeway, for exactly the reason you mentioned. Instead, it is designed to break up 'platoons' of cars from trying to merge in at the same time
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by drewmate 5y ago
I'm not sure about Amazon in particular, but generally companies (especially tech companies) hold some percentage of stock in reserve for employee compensation. However, the company can also buy back stock on the open market either to
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by drewmate 5y ago
It seems reasonable enough to me, but I don't own any land. I think I'm realistic enough to admit that if I had been born 35 years earlier and had two homes that I paid off in my 40's and had appreciated 350% since then, I wo
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by drewmate 5y ago
You might find Georgism [0] interesting. Its tenets include a (steep) land value tax that proponents believe would sort out the 'best use' of land in city centers. It's a compelling idea, but unfortunately the driving force
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by drewmate 6y ago
Godot has support for many programming languages [0] through 'GDNative' which generally lets you access the API through any programming language that can bind to C++. I see that there is D support [1] but I have no idea how robus
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by drewmate 6y ago
Step 1 - Buy leveraged options at the right time Step 2 - Do not buy leveraged options at the wrong time [0] [0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/be-attractive-dont-be-unattra...
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by drewmate 6y ago
I agree that this is definitely a trend, so I feel like highlighting a great example of educational content that is very dense, concise, and with just a touch of whimsy: 3Blue1Brown on Youtube[0]. He has been doing math education videos on
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by drewmate 6y ago
This is a fantastic insight! I had never considered the Sharpe ratio of my career choices before, but I think subconsciously, I have been all along. As someone without a prestigious university reputation (or accompanying network) backing me
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by drewmate 6y ago
> I would HATE writing a full and secure operating system in Go For the record, it _can_ be done.[0] [0] https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/122734
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by drewmate 6y ago
I think you're both right, and it just goes to show you that (in spite of what it might feel like sometimes) we've all actually got a lot more in common than we think. I'm a mountain-states native who went to the Bay for wor
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by drewmate 6y ago
I, like many of my peers, moved out of Oakland this year over the summer. For a while, I was considering staying around and trying to lock in a lower rent on a larger space, but rents really didn't budge. Your effective rent _did_ dro
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by drewmate 6y ago
I agree, and have tended to keep a low profile online. Unfortunately, much like the unspoken rule to code in your spare time (the subject of Emily's video), it seems like there's always pressure to have an online non-coding prese
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by drewmate 6y ago
Currently, yes. The first season was _much_ better, and there has been a decline (at first steep, then gradual and consistent) with each season since then. This was the last episode they aired due to COVID-related production shutdown. The

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