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by jamincan 4y ago
A lot of people seem to get hung up on String vs. &str, but never seem to have trouble with Vec<T> vs. &[T], which is pretty much completely analogous except for the fact that the UTF-8 representation of strings makes it so yo
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by jamincan 4y ago
Wouldn't someone have said the same thing about PVs 20 years ago, though?
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by jamincan 4y ago
I strongly relate to your example - I find crowded places extremely stressful, but not in a way that leads to impaired functioning, but that seems to take an inordinate amount of time to recover from. I'm not sure how I feel about for
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by jamincan 4y ago
Yes, and that has been done in the past. It comes at the cost of lower power production, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Nuclear_Generating_Stati...
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by jamincan 4y ago
Nuclear technology has never really matured to be industry-led, and is quite obviously heavily subsidized now; surely it's not inevitably always going to be that way though. At one time, the wisdom re: solar power was that PVs were sim
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by jamincan 4y ago
The Bruce Nuclear plant in Ontario had an industrial development adjacent to it to take advantage of steam from the plant, but I don't think it ever really went anywhere and they demolished the infrastructure related to it in the early
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by jamincan 4y ago
This is a ridiculously ungenerous interpretation of Amos's blogging motivations. What troll waits two years to stir the pot? There's absolutely no need to be inflammatory and I think his posting history demonstrates that he absolu
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by jamincan 4y ago
It seems to me that progressive images address this in an elegant way - both showing progress in loading and providing content immediately. They are surely a better option than a spinner, yet they seem far less common on the web now.
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by jamincan 4y ago
I don't use Amarok, but looking at screenshots, it looks similar to other Qt applications on Windows that seem to sit in this uncanny valley of coming quite close to looking native, but just different enough to feel strange. I also don
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by jamincan 4y ago
I imagine serial-liars like this are a lot more common than I realize, and they seem to be attracted to endurance sports like moths to a light, for some reason. This guys deceptions are at an entirely different level, though. It seems to be
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by jamincan 4y ago
Well someone pointed out the Sea of Galilee (which is a lake, but then so is the Caspian Sea and the Dead Sea).
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by jamincan 4y ago
It's funny, because having grown up near the Great Lakes, the wide open land of the prairies and tundra appeal to me in a way that the geography of S. Ontario just doesn't. I like to see the horizon, and you just can't do tha
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by jamincan 4y ago
It seems like a no-true-scotsman problem. The examples of seas that are freshwater are dismissed as not actually seas since they're freshwater.
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by jamincan 5y ago
Beavers were arguably greater engineers than humans when modern humans first emerged several hundred thousand years ago.
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by jamincan 5y ago
It's already on nightly: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/lazy/struct.Lazy.html
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by jamincan 5y ago
censorship ≠ incarceration
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by jamincan 5y ago
If my country (Canada) is anything to go by, instead of allowing market forces to increase low wages, they just change the rules to temporarily import workers instead. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-ot
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by jamincan 5y ago
I occasionally watch Simon on Cracking the Cryptic and find it interesting how different his approach to solving Sudoku is to mine. I wouldn't even be able to start most of the puzzles he does, but nevertheless, I almost always find my
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by jamincan 5y ago
Russian invaders are a subset of Russians. Acting against a subset is not the same as acting against the whole. The 'invaders' is the critical part and whether they are Russian, Chechen or Syrian makes little difference.
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by jamincan 5y ago
Yeah, that is the syntax for a type alias. You can use NewType to create an actual subclass of the type instead. https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#newtype
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by jamincan 5y ago
Sometimes connecting unsynchronized grids is the primary reason. The Outaouais HVDC Intertie is only about 35km long, but it allows the import and export of electricity between Ontario and Quebec.
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by jamincan 5y ago
I use ridewithgps.com, but rely heavily on my own local knowledge to avoid problem areas.
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by jamincan 5y ago
If he has thousands of nuclear warheads, he's not just a rat and he's not cornered. ie. there are still diplomatic ways out of this open to Putin. If he is not open to considering them and feels cornered, it is his own shortsighte
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by jamincan 5y ago
It's slow for me, but I'm not working on a very powerful machine. That said, cargo check is fast, and my general experience with Rust is that it generally works once it compiles. People getting into more advanced features might ha
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by jamincan 5y ago
Doesn't a majority of Republican voters believe the 2021 election was stolen? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/24/republicans-...
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by jamincan 5y ago
Canada has never had a vaccination mandate for truckers and in all likelihood never will. It has a requirement that truckers crossing the border are vaccinated which reciprocates a requirement first put in place by the US.
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by jamincan 5y ago
Since you donated money to them, you probably would like to know that the manifesto of the organizers who setup the GoFundMe and started the convoy explicitly wanted the Governor General and Senate to meet with the organizers and form a com
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by jamincan 5y ago
There are also a lot of Canadians who don't support mandates and want easing of restrictions and also oppose the protestors.
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by jamincan 5y ago
It seems that you can click on a box and add a letter, or click a letter to remove it. It's only once you complete a word that it registers a guess.
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by jamincan 5y ago
I think you could keep the timed aspect, but the current format of the game makes it too prominent for those of us who are primarily interested in reducing the guesses. The first thing I'd do is get rid of the sad faces for missed star

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