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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Harpa’s got some halls that size, but I don’t think I’ve seen anything there at less than 5k ISK per ticket. Gaukurinn is still going, with something on the schedule almost every night. The only time I’ve been inside Háskólabíó was as an
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> Now, as far as I know there are none I don’t really follow the music scene here much, but there seems to be a pretty steady stream of concerts coming through Harpa, Gamla Bíó, and Háskólabíó, along with several bars that have live musi
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
The “superclass” can take a config object with a well-defined interface in its constructor, and call methods on this config object when it might need to do something differently.
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It’s tricky to nail down how much revenue loss each switch to ad-free will cost because you’re splitting your demographics. If you’re playing ads in the paid version, it’s by definition not ad-free; it’s some kind of hybrid that I haven’t
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Variable width fonts are generally more readable, which is why they’re generally used for prose. Fixed-width fonts allow for easy tabular rendering in a text editor. Some programming styles use this heavily but it’s not universal. Particu
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> The extra money will come from people not wanting to watch ads. Having both an ad-supported and paid ad-free versions of the same product is likely an unstable equilibrium— Customers with disposable income will gravitate towards the ad
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
The motivation behind the idea seems reasonable enough but, as always, the devil will be in the details. Obtaining one of these permits could be as simple as posting a cleanup bond for the case your company fails. Or it could be a giant b
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
There’s two plots in a mystery novel: what actually happened, and how the detective figures it out. My understanding is that the short story he describes is the former, and defines the puzzle part of the mystery: what clues are available,
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There’s a significant fraction of drivers that interpret a turn signal as a sign that it’s ok to pass unsafely because the signalling driver is safety-conscious and will act to avoid a colission,
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An interesting side effect of making the tradeoffs clear to the listener is that their cost-benefit analysis may still fall on the side of the status quo. Especially in the case of a relatively impersonal relationship like HR-employee, it’
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
That caveat makes it vey hard to find situations where NVC is valid, as it relies on the motivation of both parties. It’s not enough for the speaker to have the listener’s best interest at heart (as is presumably the case with a teacher sp
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With a little bit of practice, you could dial a phone number directly on the receiver hook. This also worked on touch-tone phones because the switches were all made backwards compatible with the old equipment.
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Rust’s mutex guard has similar semantics, but acts as a amart pointer to the data in the mutex: if you let the guard drop, you no longer have access to the shared data.
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> Life of any sort Aside from the narrow one involving the oxidization of carbon, I have a hard time coming up with a definition of life that doesn’t consider storms, planets, or star systems “alive”. In particular, they are all time-li
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Except that $17k is a large enough portion of most people’s income that there may be a significant difference in marginal utility between adding and subtracting it: $43k vs $60k looks very different from $60k vs $77k.
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> The ADA mandates that places of public accommodation, like Domino’s, provide auxiliary aids and services to make visual materials available to individuals who are blind I haven’t read the actual ruling, but Domino’s provides a phone nu
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I haven’t played with 3d printers in a while, but my understanding is that they’ve pretty much standardized on the STL file format to describe prints. CAD packages should be able to export it, and printer software can read it. Other than t
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Show HN: I dove into Rust's FFI and Async systems over the weekend [pdf](github.com)
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https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/untitled
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They both are bringing concepts from relational algebra/databases into memory management for globals, but different parts: An ECS is fundamentally a column store for one really wide table. It’s optimized for performing batch operation
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The main benefit is that the effort to learn Vim is transferrable to other programming languages and environments. Editing a config file over SSH is the same as working with Python is the same as working with Javascript. This gets especial
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This misses the differential impact of the disruption on different people. Freelancers that do audio recording, for example, may need to throw out and redo some of their work when it gets interrupted by a helicopter flyby. You either need
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Like it or not, feelings drive most people’s decisions. Even if you use only the most rigorous logic to come to your own conclusions, it’s naieve to expect that to sway other people. Making a logical argument connect with people on an emo
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It’s not about disregarding uncomfortable truths, it’s recognizing that speaking truth in an uncomfortable way accomplishes very little. To get someone to change their behavior, you need to first show them that you understand their perspec
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In my experience, you can’t let truly long projects consume all your energy or else you’ll burn out on them and stop. The key for these is to put in a few hours consistently and allow yourself to use the rest of the time to relax and do ot
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The car should stop itself for safety, but may not have the awareness to do this successfully. Bicyclists are explicitly listed in the warning about paying attention to the surroundings of your car while it is being summoned.
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> Google has an incentive to have people click on links. This is true only insofar as it incentivizes people to come to Google in the first place. If Google can directly provide the information that the user is looking for, then it gain
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We don’t know how this plays out yet. This first step was quite predictable, but its effects on the overall news media landscape will take months to unwind. Will this increase the ad revenue for news sites because of increased clickthroug
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We had the same problem at Justin.tv with the video servers, with the added wrinkle that every choice had the potential to meaningly affect load for an hour or more. We eventually ended up putting extremely detailed information into a cent
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Some solutions are ready to go on a technical level but are struggling to gain enough social traction to be implemented; We should absolutely be pressuring the political sphere to move those projects forward. There’s no guarantee that th

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