jwkpiano1

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by jwkpiano1 2y ago
As far as I can tell, that number is completely speculative, which makes this essentially misinformation in my view. Here’s a more balanced look at the decision: https://calmatters.org/environment/climate-change/20
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by jwkpiano1 2y ago
He literally listed a bunch of provable facts, then suggested reasonable concern about folks’ safety. This isn’t a game. People’s lives are at stake here.
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by jwkpiano1 2y ago
A piece written by the interns is absolutely not a withdrawal of the endorsement by the Nation. Please don’t mislead people.
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by jwkpiano1 2y ago
True, but none of that contradicts what I said.
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by jwkpiano1 2y ago
Nah, I was just pushing back on the notion that Houston is that much “lower” than SF, when it is not. Wild to get downvoted for that factual statement.
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by jwkpiano1 2y ago
The elevation of Houston is _higher_ than the elevation of SF. Yes, there are many hills, and the _max_ elevation is obviously higher, but there are also plenty of low lying areas and areas at sea level.
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by jwkpiano1 2y ago
7000 fpm is not all that unusual during a descent. What’s unusual here is the proximity to the ground. Nothing in this story indicates there is necessarily anything wrong with the aircraft, and I think more likely this is pilot error. I’m a
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by jwkpiano1 2y ago
Metrolink goes right from Rancho Cucamonga to Union Station in about 75 minutes. Did you bother to check that before posting?
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by jwkpiano1 2y ago
This is a terrible prediction. This project is extremely easy in comparison to California HSR because it’s all running in the I-15 right-of-way. There’s also no reason whatsoever to think you can’t run high speed trains on this route.
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by jwkpiano1 3y ago
(2015)
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by jwkpiano1 3y ago
Agreed. The reply I was responding to went way too far in the other direction, though, which is why I took issue with it.
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by jwkpiano1 3y ago
Except this was an actual real accomplishment, whose out of patent idea was used later by the Navy: https://physicsworld.com/a/a-tale-of-two-lives/ . The application was indeed original, as evidenced by the receipt
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by jwkpiano1 4y ago
Take this nonsense elsewhere.
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by jwkpiano1 4y ago
Yeah, Bazel’s ergonomics can leave a lot to be desired, but to me the results are worth those issues. In general, changes to Bazel rules are much less common compared to code changes, so at least it’s only a small subset of time where you m
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by jwkpiano1 4y ago
It’s a somewhat steep learning curve, but in my experience once you have your Bazel rules set up properly, it’s incredibly powerful, enabling lots of time savings from caching, as well as helping enforce reproducible outputs.
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by jwkpiano1 4y ago
Bazel is supported by Google and is quite good. I’d certainly take it over CMake.
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by jwkpiano1 6y ago
2017.