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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Something like this? https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at5+shtml/025521.s... I’ve only had to deal with one hurricane personally (Irma), and the forecast cone was only useful as an indicator to pay attent
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Some unsavory regimes are in control of natural resource mines (like gold or diamond). In an attempt to withhold funds from these regimes, it’s common to not buy gold or diamonds that came from these places, despite them being the same phy
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Humans are really good at adapting to new situations; even if climate change causes a massive reduction in population and standard of living, I’m confident that some humans will survive. I don’t know what the solutions will look like, but
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
A slightly more plausible example is “Who knows John?”. I think about turning to triple stores when I’m still exploring an application domain and don’t know what data access patterns will look like yet. Something like a hexastore that mai
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Unless I’m missing something, the in-memory backend here appears to actually use the set solution: all of the triple fields are concatenated together and used as a dictionary key. Queries iterate through the dictionary entries until a suff
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
It uses the time of arrival to determine where a particular reflection came from, but it can also observe the intensity of that reflection to determine reflectivity.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I’m not sure if taking the longest match is necessarily right. Imagine a (nonsensical) rule like: LeftRec <= LeftRec ‘+’ Term / “ok” / [a-z]*[0-9] According to PEG, “ok3” should consume only “ok” h
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
My parents use the same scheme; they have developed a tradition of buying a corresponding stuffed animal to live next to the computer.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
It doesn’t ensure that there’s a null terminator in the resultant string. This may potentially lead to a later overrun when the copied string is read back. (See also https://linux.die.net/man/3/strncpy )
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Just like Like Go and Poker each have a number of variant rule sets in common use, I mentally group all of these as “chess” based on their common ancestry. I haven’t really studied them enough to know if this is truly justified.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
You’re unlikely to see another game very similar to Chess or Go, because they have each evolved over time to be the pinnacle of their particular niche, and there’s really only room for one king of each of these hills. There are newer games
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Unlike most base building/crafting/exploration games, Subnautica doesn’t rely on procedural generation. It has an actual plot, and all of the environments showcase the sort of creativity and artistic choices that we simply don’t
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> Supreme Court justices are picked by popularly elected Senators. Not exactly; they’re selected by the President and then confirmed by the Senate, which wasn’t popularly elected until 1913.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
More hyperbolic than facetious. It can’t be a good thing to disenfranchise the holders of your strategic resources en masse, and farmland was the easiest to point at. You’re right that it’s extremely unlikely to get so bad that they get fo
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
As I recall, the electoral college was primarily for logistical reasons— a number of people come to Washington, meet together, and the outcome of that meeting determines the next President, with no appeals because the people in the room are
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> Why is cross regional appeal of any value, if these region don't make up even 10% of the combined US population. Because those people control a large fraction of the country’s food supply and it would be a disaster if they decided
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Unfortunately, Aside from identifying general trends, I haven’t looked into the issues enough to hold any strong opinions, nor am I in a position to cite any specifics without significant research. I think you may be right about increased
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
If I come back to something, it’s because I want to resume active development. Keeping a dependency pinned at an old version makes that more difficult in various ways, so I personally value forward compatibility. Not everyone does, and tha
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
It’s really a reputation bootstrapping problem, for which popularity can be a useful proxy. For me to use third-party code, I have to trust that the future behavior of the developers will be reasonable: I want my side projects that don’t g
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Is there a list of these somewhere? Crates.io doesn’t appear to let me sort by author.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
As a relative outsider, it’s not obvious at all that these are the right crates to choose. I appreciate the commitment to long-term stability that the standard library appears to have, but that benefit goes out the window if I accidentally
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
The structure of the Federal government is fundamentally geared towards mediating the relationships between the various states, as that was its original purpose. Actual governance of the populace was the purview of state government. Over t
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Alternatively, have each congressional district elect its own elector instead of a statewide pool. It gets even more interesting if the ballot only shows the potential electors’ names, without any party affiliation.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
That’s a large part, but there’s also an aspect of kaizen to it. Everyone’s thoughts work a little bit differently, so the mechanisms that work best for me maybe don’t work quite as well for you. Regularly asking yourself “how can this be
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Broadly, use external storage (paper or a computer) to keep track of things that you don’t need to know right now so that that mental capacity is available for whatever you’re actually working on.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I’ve read a lot of time management/productivity books, and there seem to be only two things all of the authors agree on: write stuff down, and continuously tweak your system. The latter is usually mentioned offhand in the preface, as t
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
If automation is guaranteed to happen below the retirement rate, then you’re still going to be hiring new, possibly interim, drivers to cover the deficit between retirees and automation. I’d expect the union to be concerned with the career
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
The advice that I was always given is that the term “CV” generally refers to your unabridged work history and the term “resume” indicates a 1-page executive summary of that work history. They are not the same document; pay attention to whi
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> Politicians are the ones who decide for or against a carbon tax. Politicians also decide laws where you can put wind turbines and solar panels, whether to build roads or rails, whether to allow buildings without insulation and with fos
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I’ve been looking into the research on second language acquisition a bit, and the primary mechanism for learning a language appears to be hearing/reading understandable sentences for content, rather than structure. When learning, some

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