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by efficax 8y ago
CO2 is only one environmental impact factor. Plastic waste is devastating for our oceans. Reducing plastic usage and CO2 should be twin goals.
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by efficax 8y ago
SF is full of rich people but it also has a normal share of middle and lower income residents. As high rents eat up more and more of their budgets, they have less and less money left over for other things, like dining out. If the restaurant
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by efficax 8y ago
This is nuts. This means there is now only one last-mile broadband provider in plenty of big markets. Milwaukee, for example, now no longer has any competition in the broadband space.
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by efficax 8y ago
Modern statistical theory has adopted techniques of causal inference from statisical data. There are some questions about the theoretical foundations but the stats folk by and large have run with it and feel perfectly comfortable talking ab
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by efficax 8y ago
Rust brigade engage! Not sure why you're lumping Rust in with C here. Rust has automatic memory management as part of the language, without a runtime, and it has excellent libraries for dealing with Strings, unicode, and concurrency
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by efficax 8y ago
I've been working remote for 3 years now in software and I agree completely. The biggest downsides are: loneliness, feeling like a shut in, and working all the time because you're only two steps from your "office". These
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by efficax 8y ago
The screen size/device size ratio looks great. Seems like it will be more durable. I thought it had a headphone jack but I guess not. Has 128gb of storage at the price point where the Pixel 2 only had 64gb (at the original price). At $
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by efficax 8y ago
I had never even heard of this phone until now, and I think I would've bought it over the Pixel 2. Think I'm the target audience, but word never reached me. Maybe they just whiffed on marketing.
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by efficax 8y ago
lol you explained the fishing proverb
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by efficax 9y ago
This is where I mourn the discontinuation of the Chromebook Pixel with it's glorious 3:2 high res display. A moment of silence please
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by efficax 9y ago
Email address validation is basically an impossible problem. In practice, the best strategy is: 1. Check if email is wellformed, with an *extremely* lenient algorithm. Basically, do we have .*@.* ? 2. Check that the domain is rea
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by efficax 9y ago
Eh, but consider online shopping carts. I go to some ecommerce site, enter in my email to buy something. If I have to verify the email first, conversion rates will plummet. Instead, (and this is what we do at my company), we attempt to vali
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by efficax 9y ago
There's no reason to think that the ARM chips they use won't be as powerful as their intel equivalents in a few years.
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by efficax 9y ago
Sometimes things should be commented. Like, for example, every time I have to do pointer arithmetic, I make a comment explaining why, because pointer arithmetic is opaque and error prone.
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by efficax 9y ago
Will the canary URLs always be to the same domain? If so, can't I circumvent this just by using custom dns locally to map that domain to somewhere else, like localhost? If it's not a domain, but an IP address, can't I just ro
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by efficax 9y ago
Rust has no runtime... so... not sure what you mean by that.
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by efficax 9y ago
We literally just had this thread 3 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16238937
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by efficax 9y ago
I've been running postfix+dovecot for years on a virtual server and have never not once had to do anything to administer it once I got it up and running. Edit: it's been so long that i forgot it was in fact postfix.
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by efficax 9y ago
> And BTW, I have yet to encounter a problem that is hard to solve in my preferred language, but is way easier to solve in another. I think the key to that is to choose carefully what you're going to commit to. Long-running light-we
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by efficax 9y ago
goto is kind of a necessity in any complex C codebase unless you want to duplicate tons of code. Sometimes you need to jump way out of the context, especially to handle errors, and C does not have "exceptions" (although you could
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by efficax 9y ago
This fails to explain a lot of things, such as why there was no "industrial revolution" in China, for example, which was technologically far more advanced than Europe up until the 17th century. Anyway, the answer is not so complic
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by efficax 9y ago
> Go obviously isn't. You can use atomics and syscalls and even assembly in Go to have complete control over the system in the same way that you can in C/C++. It's definitely not trivial to bypass Go's memory model an
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by efficax 9y ago
MDN is the OG greatest of all time.
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by efficax 9y ago
Just a warning, :hover on buttons breaks them in iOS (they require two taps, users get confused. Sad!).
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by efficax 9y ago
Finnish (and Hungarian) are part of their own linguistic group (Finno-Ugric languages). They both basically have no cognates with the Indo-European language group (which includes not only the Germanic languages like English and German but a
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by efficax 9y ago
French is basically the same as any romance language. It is a little trickier for native English speakers to pronounce than Spanish, but that is really the only difference. Its grammar is basically the same as Spanish, Portugese, Romanian,
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by efficax 9y ago
The biggest danger in evolutionary thinking is "just-so" rationalization of the present state of things where we take the way things are and assume they are the way they are because they were evolutionarily efficient, and then con
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by efficax 9y ago
"Every emotion has a purpose—an evolutionary benefit" Stopped here. (Got bored!). This just isn't true. Boredom might just be evolutionarily neutral. Or it might be negative but outweighed by other features of our species w
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by efficax 9y ago
It's almost like the fact that police face zero consequences for their violence might play a role.
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by efficax 9y ago
I also love the 12" MB keyboards. And the new MBP keyboards are even better. I treat my 2016 12" MB like shit, throw it in my bag without a case, eat in its general area, and I've never had an issue with dust messing up the k

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