jwilliamson

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by jwilliamson 3y ago
He's describing row polymorphism. Only some forms of polymorphism require explicit interfaces.
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by jwilliamson 6y ago
You can copy existing sections of your factory with Ctrl-C and paste ghosts with Ctrl-V. There's also a paste buffer that you can scroll through with the mouse wheel.
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by jwilliamson 6y ago
Depending on how old your kids are, they might enjoy playing Factorio with you. My daughter is 3, and she is always up for playing "The Train Game". She mostly enjoys telling me what colours my trains should be and where I should
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by jwilliamson 6y ago
Facebook was banned after they refused to identify rioters who were using Messenger to communicate. Google was banned because they wouldn't comply with content restrictions.
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by jwilliamson 6y ago
To further this, American apps like LinkedIn or Github are still allowed in China because they obey the law.
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by jwilliamson 6y ago
They do. There are also operators whose numbers Twitter won't accept for signing in. I had to borrow someone's phone to sign up for Twitter because they didn't like my number.
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by jwilliamson 6y ago
Some WW2 battles were fought at significantly shorter ranges than that. Just in the Malta campaign, at Cape Passero the Italians closed to around 1700m before opening fire. In the attack on the Tarigo convoy, the British closed to 1800m bef
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by jwilliamson 6y ago
Western social media that complies with Chinese laws (like LinkedIn) are allowed to operate in China.
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by jwilliamson 6y ago
Sport coats evolved from riding and shooting jackets. I suspect some mobility has been lost over the years, but neither of those sports requiring raising your arms very high.
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by jwilliamson 6y ago
There was an article in the Globe and Mail a few days ago saying each store was averaging about 10 sales/week, which certainly meshes with the store always being empty.
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by jwilliamson 6y ago
Using nation-level data seems questionable. By late January, most cases in China were still in Wuhan, so why wouldn't they look at the incidence rate and flight data for just Wuhan or Hubei?
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by jwilliamson 6y ago
The US government is currently trying to extradite a Chinese citizen from Canada for defrauding a British bank. The idea that a country's laws only apply to its own citizens or companies did not originate in China.
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by jwilliamson 6y ago
Remember when the American government got all the payment processors to blockade WikiLeaks because of political speech? Don't pretend that the American government doesn't suppress speech.
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by jwilliamson 6y ago
The last year Britain had a capacity factor for wind that low was 2010. The capacity factor last year was 33%.
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by jwilliamson 6y ago
So do coal, nuclear and gas. What forms of power generation don't lobby governments?
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by jwilliamson 6y ago
A big driver is that wind and solar have only recently become economical. The price of solar power has fallen by 80% since 2010, so large scale plants are all very new. Capacity factors for wind are also improving rapidly, from 25% in 2000
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by jwilliamson 6y ago
This is not true. The town of Radisson was built in the 70s during work on the James Bay Project and is still mainly francophone. It's about 2° north of Dunkirk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radisson,_Quebec
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by jwilliamson 6y ago
The Congreve rockets were inspired by the rockets used by Mysore starting in 1780. So there were military rockets in use at the time of the US war of independence, they just weren't being used by either of the combatants in that war.
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by jwilliamson 6y ago
The bubble popped early in 2000. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Nasdaq_C...
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by jwilliamson 6y ago
Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada is trying to make the students do this for exams this year.
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by jwilliamson 6y ago
China doesn't produce much natural gas domestically, and the last few years have been a lesson to them in how dangerous relying on other countries for manufacturing inputs is.
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by jwilliamson 6y ago
Just FYI, uBO blocks YouTube ads if you are using Firebox on mobile.