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by gcanyon 2y ago
Most houses in the US are made of wood. In Los Angeles they often have tile/concrete roofs, but I've read that in a situation like this the problem is the vents under the edge of the roof that lead into the attic: if anything burn
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by gcanyon 2y ago
LiveCode is still a thing! They just released version 10 a bit ago. If you need to build standard-ish interface apps -- text, images, sliders, radio buttons, checkboxes, menus, etc. -- nothing (I've seen) compares for speed-of-delivery
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I knew Key back in the day, and I feel a twinge for him every time kagi comes up on HN.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Yep, I had a vague notion that I was doing too much work, but I was headed out the door so I wrote the naive/better than the original solution, benchmarked it quickly, and posted it before leaving. Yours also has the advantage of being
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by gcanyon 2y ago
As far as I can see, all the proposed solutions calculate the sums by doing division, and badly. This is in LiveCode, which I'm more familiar with than Python, but it's roughly twice as fast as the mod/div equivalent in LiveC
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by gcanyon 2y ago
That blue and that green are... not very different.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I’ve been thinking about this market, and I’d love to talk with you. If you’re interested in discussing, reach out at the email in my profile.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I did <any research at all> and found the following in case anyone is interested: 1. It appears Amtrak sleeper cars accommodate between 30 and 50 people. 2. An Amtrak coach car seats up to 80 people (fewer than I expected).
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Sure, I'm dramatically oversimplifying, but I think my point still stands: putting it another way, trains have an ability to accommodate travelers in a way that nothing else -- planes, cars, buses, etc. -- can even approach. It wouldn&
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by gcanyon 2y ago
The whole point is to offer sleeper accommodations. That requires more people to clean up/prepare the train for the next trip, but not (many) more for the actual operation while running. Although the goal is to get more people to take
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by gcanyon 2y ago
This is the part that really frustrates me. Not that I've researched, but it seems like trains should have basically unlimited space for passengers, at very little increase in cost -- a five-mile-long train takes maybe 1-2 more people
822.
by gcanyon 2y ago
And high speed in India is apparently 100mph/160kph.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I'm curious what you intend by your comparison to the Russian train system -- Russia has more distance to cover/is more spread out, but the U.S. has over twice as many miles of track. I'm pretty confident that that comparison
824.
by gcanyon 2y ago
This is awesome, thanks!
825.
by gcanyon 2y ago
Interesting. For me, while I don’t love the idea of being forced into something I don’t want, psychologically I understand that my choice is being taken away. In the case of deception or fraud, I would feel complicit and stupid, and that wo
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I’ve known about the möbius strip since I was a kid, and the idea of existence proofs based on continuous functions having to cross since my early teens. The idea that the möbiu strip is more than a pointless novelty has never occurred to m
827.
by gcanyon 2y ago
Nice! I looked for meta data and found only an anemic thing, but embedding a whole file with structured data makes perfect sense. But of course this only pushes the responsibility back a step: why the heck isn’t Adobe pushing developers to
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I’ve seen interviews with the comedian/actor out of character, and he insists that Uncle Roger is exactly what uncles from Malaysia are like (I assume exaggerated at least a little for comedic effect). So maybe it’s okay? Or maybe in a
829.
by gcanyon 2y ago
Uncle Roger looking on, unsurprised, as Jamie Oliver tries for two hours and fails. "Like Uncle Roger tried for two hours with ex-girlfriend. <I'm so sorry children>"
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Informed consent is missing in both cases.
831.
by gcanyon 2y ago
You're missing a key word: informed consent. Both are lacking that.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Ugh. I vividly remember when my stepfather tried to get me involved. He was retired, and had a nice nest egg built up from a small business. He was a smart man. But he was paying thousands of dollars per year for a monthly newsletter that c
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by gcanyon 2y ago
The real question is: why is everything stuck in PDFs, and the more important meta-question is: why don't PDFs support meta-data (they do, somewhat). So much of what we do is essentially machine-to-machine, but trapped in a format de
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by gcanyon 2y ago
That would be awesome! I love tldraw, but I’ll admit that more than once I’ve had to go through my web history to find a project I forgot to bookmark
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I guess it's kind of intuitive that if you are playing an exhaustive game (all 52 cards) that the optimal solution would not only be optimal but deterministically so. But I wonder if that idea just feels good and isn't true. Is it
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I'm not 100% sure why, but this is incredibly compelling to me as a fun developer-y thing. I want to use this.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Oh, 100% if you're burying one in an obscure place on your car, you want to set it and forget it, and you have the space, so the 10-year battery makes sense. I'm thinking of the more portable use cases.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
File > New Shared Project -- and your problem is solved. Remember to bookmark your work, since there is no login/account/automatic storage.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I know the concept here is set it and forget it, but still: wouldn't it make more sense to have a smaller (but still probably larger than the current setup) rechargeable battery? I admit I haven't done any research on this, but th
840.
by gcanyon 2y ago
Given that the algorithms powering present LLM models hadn't been invented ten years ago, I have to think that they are (potentially) far from optimal. Brains have gone through millions of iterations where being efficient was a huge

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