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by fyfy18 7y ago
I think this hits on one of my biggest complaints with the Elixir and Erlang ecosystem. As a high level toolkit for building distributed systems it's great, but if you need to do something more low level you are often left on your own
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Maybe not exactly the same, but the B mode on hybrid cars sound similar. When you are driving down a large hill (e.g. on a mountain) eventually the battery will become fully charged, so you can't use regenerative braking anymore. To pr
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by fyfy18 7y ago
How would you suggest to store and calculate things like taxes? For example in NYC the retail sales tax is 8.735%. Obviously the final amount could be stored as an integer in cents, but I'm talking about the tax rate and the calculatio
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by fyfy18 7y ago
So is the neap tide level zero elevation?
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Are you talking about a safety razor[0] or a straight cut razor? I also switched, and find I cut myself a lot less than with a cartridge razor. If I do cut myself it is usually not so deep. The cartridge razor I used was Gillette Fusion, so
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Does anyone have any reading material on how the simulators work? Do they run the same computer hardware as actual aircraft, or is it all simulated? If it's simulated, how do they avoid the issue of a bug not being present in the simul
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by fyfy18 7y ago
On my desktop with a GTX 1060, Chrome can play 4K60 YouTube videos without issues. But yeah on my laptop with Intel integrated graphics (I thought Intel was supposed to be better supported vs Nvidia under Linux?) I can barely play a 1080p v
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by fyfy18 7y ago
> dependency pathing is a pain in most other languages This has been a solved problem in the Ruby community for nearly a decade thanks to bundler. When I first started writing Ruby it had all the same problems as other languages, there w
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by fyfy18 7y ago
The death of any loved one is hard on any family, but IMO a quick, relatively painless, death is definately easier. My mother-in-law died from cancer a few years ago, and after many months of pain and constantly in and out of hospitals, whe
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Bit of a tangent, but do the blue LEDs that hand driers often have now do anything? Or is it just marketing buzz?
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Reliability of trains in the UK really varies by route. When I was studying and when I first started working I extensively used mainline routes and had no issues. The last train I could take on a Friday night was 10pm, but given it was a 3
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Part of it is a mindset thing. I was raised in the UK and had this mental idea that flats are somehow bad quality or for lower classes. If you visit basically any other European city you can find good quality and affordable flats (usually t
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Why built before 1960? Were there regulations restricting the build of new coal heated houses in London after this?
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Actually this sort of thing has been going on for hundreds of years in most European countries. In my city over half of the old town is owned by the Catholic church. This includes over 30 churches, but there are also many more adjacent buil
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by fyfy18 7y ago
> sounds like it has a completely legit use... The original purpose of silent SMS was to send voicemail or missed call notifications to handsets, which would trigger an icon to be displayed on the device. Sending a regular SMS would be a
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by fyfy18 7y ago
I will admit that I am not a professional, but in my spare time I have designed some parts in CAD software (Fusion 360) which I've then 3D printed. My experience was once I understood the key bindings to manipulate the view, it was ver
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by fyfy18 7y ago
In the world as it is today, the only way that is going to happen is if someone like Facebook or Google sponsors a decentralised solution. Projects like Matrix/Riot are technically great, but that alone is not going to make regular peo
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by fyfy18 7y ago
> takes longer to bring online For anyone wondering how long that is, the largest pumped hydro plant in the UK can be at full capacity in 16 seconds from standby, or 75 seconds from cold. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by fyfy18 7y ago
That is around £114k, which is a high salary for London, but nothing in comparison to what you can make contracting (and at the same 'salary', as a contractor you'll pay less tax in the UK). The base rates for web technologie
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by fyfy18 7y ago
I would not be suprised if we get something along the lines of "Unfortunately, this repository is currently unavailable in your country" sometime soon. Many websites still completely block EU users post GDPR, e.g. Chicago Tribune.
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by fyfy18 7y ago
There was an unofficial build of XP called TinyXP that I used to like to use for VMs. It would use under 200mb of disk space, yet somehow be fully functional.
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by fyfy18 7y ago
I feel that overall much didn't change in the past decade in the tech world. Bitcoin is a great example of that, there was a big bubble where you could raise money just by mentioning Blockchain, and then just as quickly it faded away.
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by fyfy18 7y ago
You just need a contract detailing the conditions of what happens in case of dispute up front.
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by fyfy18 7y ago
I originally started my career as a Rails developer, and for the last few years have been doing more frontend JavaScript (React), as that's where the €€€ is. For all of the projects I've worked on, server-side rendered Rails would
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by fyfy18 7y ago
> this is an issue in, for example, Spain where the radio communication is often in Spanish and many pilots flying there don't understand Spanish How does that happen? I was under the impression that all flight communication was sup
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by fyfy18 7y ago
This is my point of view as well. Even (especially?) for things like politics. I might read a quick summary about whatever the current big issues are every few weeks and around elections, but that's it. Issues that may affect me (which
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by fyfy18 7y ago
500ms sounds like quite a lot. What causes the latency and are there any improvements that can be done to improve it?
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by fyfy18 7y ago
I find reverse parking easier to reason about spatially. Ok I do have a backup camera, but even without that you can roughly see where the back of the car is in the mirrors. With the front of the car I have absolutely no idea at what point
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by fyfy18 7y ago
In my country I can use the ATM of any bank (even competitors) and won't be charged by my bank or the ATM owning bank. It's not a feature on my account, it's just the standard way things work here. It's not reimbursement
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Most of the work done during servicing of modern cars is simply inspecting and testing mechanical parts for damage. EVs still have mechanical parts (brakes, suspension and drive train) that can wear out and fail. EVs still have brake fluid,

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