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by ezrast 8y ago
> Low-income people who use public transit ride the bus, which costs half as much per passenger mile Where are you seeing that? From your link: > Bus systems have the lowest cost per vehicle revenue mile and revenue hour, $3.1 and $4
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by ezrast 8y ago
This was the answer for me. I accumulated 200 rep basically goofing off on codegolf.stackexchange.com and no longer feel hindered on other SE sites even as a mostly-passive user. If that's not your bag there are plenty of other subsite
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by ezrast 8y ago
Here's the full context of that quote: http://web.archive.org/web/20170119234745/http://www.alexstj... (spoiler alert, it's the first one)
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by ezrast 8y ago
Okay, you've re-serialized the data structure in a slightly different format. Is there a step 2 I'm not seeing?
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by ezrast 8y ago
> Out of curiosity would the GPLv3 at least force providers like Amazon to release any modifications they make to FOSS stuff to turn it into a hosted/managed service? With things like Apache/BSD/MIT, does AWS currently mod
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by ezrast 8y ago
To minimize collisions, and so we're not retreading this argument in another ten years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19063727
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by ezrast 8y ago
According to NHTSA, it was about 2.3[0] accidents per million miles driven in 2016, or one accident per 0.43 million miles. However, you probably shouldn't directly compare those numbers without at least separating highway miles from s
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by ezrast 8y ago
I find that after you've picked up the basics, reference materials are usually the most useful part of documentation by far. For programming languages I always add the standard library reference into my browser's search engines. F
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by ezrast 8y ago
Lidar generally operate by rotating a laser that pulses at a fixed rate, using optics to sweep the beam up and down to get a reasonable vertical FoV 360 degrees around the car. They output a stream of samples - basically a continuous series
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by ezrast 8y ago
Typically when you sign up for a mobile line in the US the carrier will assign you a number whose area code (first three digits) is "correct" for your address. But it's not strict, and you can keep that number anywhere you mo
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by ezrast 8y ago
Syncthing is designed for decentralized syncing, but I've forced it into a hub-and-spoke model by running one instance on a cheap VPS, with my client machines configured to connect to only that with all the discovery/relay feature
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by ezrast 8y ago
Save independent software companies from having their lunch eaten by the behemoths after doing the legwork of proving product/market fit - no different from any industry dominated by a few large players. Amazon is not in the wrong for
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by ezrast 8y ago
MongoDB was already under the AGPL; Amazon just replicated the API on top of their own storage engine (or an existing permissive-licensed storage engine? Who knows?). If we're at the point where Amazon can just re-implement whatever pr
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by ezrast 8y ago
Sounds good; thanks for the reply!
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by ezrast 8y ago
I tried out InfluxDB a while ago in my spare time and was intrigued by the feature set, but ultimately couldn't get past the abstruse query language, especially coming from the simpler and more flexible PromQL (not being able to do ad-
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by ezrast 8y ago
That's not convenient when you're putting things into the box piecemeal, especially with `git add -p`. A thing I do frequently is to run `git diff`, scan through it, and add files (or parts of files) one by one in a second termina
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by ezrast 8y ago
Not to put too fine a point on it, they once said that - the linked paper from Brin and Page was published in 1998, when they were still students.
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by ezrast 8y ago
-r searches directories recursively instead of single files; -n displays line numbers; -I ignores binary files. -A, -B, -C, and -l set how much context is shown: 5 lines of content before the match, after the match, or both; or just the fil
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by ezrast 8y ago
Look for places with diverse workforces. My experience is that managers who expect long hours also expect everyone to be 100% aligned with the company vision, and people with different backgrounds tend not to last. Consider the compensation
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by ezrast 8y ago
Your use of the term "condescending" as you paint the picture of elite Western saviors uplifting the poor, rotting Chinese clamoring for access to modern technology is pretty ironic.
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by ezrast 8y ago
Configuration management provides opinionated abstractions over inconsistent and frequently user-unfriendly systems. You might as well say that C is superfluous because it all maps down to assembly.
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by ezrast 8y ago
I see the PO box question every time this discussion comes up. For starters, you'd have to be okay with living a lie to your coworkers and putting your career at risk if you ever let the facade slip. You can't ever talk about loca
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by ezrast 8y ago
Okay, that's generally reasonable, but in the context of the current US political climate I think you're concerned about the wrong thing. While the national situation is frequently described as being rife with political intoleranc
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by ezrast 8y ago
I don't know why you're bringing burden of proof into it. Of course people get fired for unjust reasons all the time. If those reasons are petty prejudices that have existed for the duration of humankind's existence, and that
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by ezrast 8y ago
If by "justifies" you mean "doesn't explicitly outlaw" then yeah, I am, because libel laws also exist. Is it your position that the real problem with McCarthyism was that actual communist spies were being denied job
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by ezrast 8y ago
Do you have any examples in mind?
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by ezrast 8y ago
Political philosophy is not a protected status, nor should it be, and private entities should not be under pressure to give up their freedom of association. Consumers should have options, of course, but we get that through good old monopoly
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by ezrast 8y ago
This headline is peak 2010's.
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by ezrast 8y ago
Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon have all broken into TV/film production after being a distributor first, which is interesting since Amazon in particular has the capital and strategy to buy their way into a market (see: Twitch, Whole Foods) b
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by ezrast 8y ago
Absolutely. A bunch of people in here are suggesting that the effort is wasteful considering Lego's current emissions, but this is R&D work that could have impacts far beyond their current facilities. Given Lego's quality and

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