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by khuey 1y ago
In this case it seems like it's the reverse. The article claims the "bulk water" customers are responsible for 15% of the system's revenue but consume less than 1% of the water delivered.
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by khuey 1y ago
> Didn't we already cross this particular Rubicon during the auto bailout a decade ago? This Darth Vader style "I am altering the deal, pray I do not alter it any further" gambit is new to the best of my knowledge. If the
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by khuey 1y ago
> Those of us to have very much enjoyed ostensibly imperfect Rust of 2018 find this particular, current flavour unappealing. I believe everything in this post (except `cargo -Zscript`) was in the Rust of 2018.
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by khuey 1y ago
Yes. It's coming from the Rust code (where the relevant property is named 'kind') because the author didn't actually run their JS snippet. They've (silently) fixed a number of issues people have pointed out (includi
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by khuey 1y ago
Ironically the "simple" JS program has a bug in it. The documentation for fs.watch is very explicit that the filename in the callback can be null and that you need to check for that. In Rust that fact would be encoded in the type
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by khuey 1y ago
> We should compare it against the actual alternative of stores bottlenecked by clerks that can only serve one customer at a time (or at least stores small enough that a clerk can watch everybody doing their self-service). The modern ver
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by khuey 1y ago
> remote working is an obvious stepping stone to offshoring This I largely agree with. If your tech job can be done from Bozeman instead of the Bay Area there's a decent chance it can be done from Bangalore. > which itself is an
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by khuey 1y ago
> PG&E wants to charge solar power users $80+/month just for the privilege of connecting to the grid even if they are fully self-powers through solar If you're "fully self-powered through solar" just disconnect fr
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by khuey 1y ago
Congress would have to change the law.
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by khuey 1y ago
The upcharge for decent specs, especially on RAM, is insane. I just checked Dell and upgrading from the base 16GB of RAM to 64GB of RAM on their generic tower costs $450. You can buy 2x32GB DIMMs of the same speed for less than half of that
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by khuey 1y ago
Maybe important in the infantry, but there are plenty of other jobs in the military these days.
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by khuey 1y ago
I believe the reason to use 1 year comes from the customer's side: prepayments of services that extend past 1 year have to be capitalized for tax purposes, whereas prepayments of services for 1 year or less can be expensed immediately.
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by khuey 1y ago
Well who are you? Maybe there is no reason for you to care. TSMC alone is 12% of Taiwanese exports. The entire semiconductor industry is 25% of Taiwan's GDP. It's obvious why the Taiwanese government and society, to say nothing of
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by khuey 1y ago
Fiber optic cable actually got better over time because multiplexing continued to improve. You could take dark fiber laid in the late 90s and put new transceivers at the ends and get much more bandwidth than anyone expected when the cable w
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by khuey 1y ago
Yes, because "葡" only has one pronunciation. But there are other characters like "行" that have multiple pronunciations that vary depending on the word they appear in.
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by khuey 1y ago
> Or is it that learning to read Chinese actually is a big problem in China? Historically it was. Reforming the writing system (potentially even ditching it entirely in favor of a Latin/etc derived script) to improve literacy rates
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by khuey 1y ago
> In Chinese each word is a unique character. This is not true in contemporary Chinese. There are plenty of Chinese words that consist of multiple characters. There are also Chinese characters that have no meaning outside of a multichara
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by khuey 1y ago
> Hell, a few of the agencies being attacked were created with bipartisan support. It's worse than that. PEPFAR was a signature initiative of the previous Republican president.
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by khuey 1y ago
> Nothing as close to the metal as Rust has that baked in today Rust's futures/streams are basically what you're asking for. You need a crate rather than just the bare language but I don't think that's a particul
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by khuey 1y ago
If you thought Trump believed in anything beyond whatever is good for Trump right now you fell for the con.
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by khuey 1y ago
So literally every human characteristic other than their sexual reproductive capability is not real?
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by khuey 1y ago
This is interesting, but one axis it's missing is that in some places the "vacation homes" aren't actually habitable year round. Quite a few cabins in Maine are neither insulated nor heated for the winters, are only acce
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by khuey 1y ago
Portland is kind of weird because it has big yards for two Class Is in town. But they're both right on the waterfront (which is bad for urban transit, since it means half the walkshed is wasted). The BNSF line doesn't go anywher
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by khuey 1y ago
More? Not really. But before Zuckerberg and the DOJ blew up the illegal wage fixing the big valley companies engaged in the gap was smaller.
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by khuey 1y ago
Private Mail Box (i.e. a PO Box like product at your local UPS store/etc).
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by khuey 1y ago
I've never seen a no-annual-fee card that covers loss of use though. No-annual-fee card damage waivers are also typically secondary to your personal insurance (meaning you have to make a claim and your rates could go up), while the CSP
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by khuey 1y ago
Obligatory link for the lucky ten thousand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T2GmGSNvaM
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by khuey 1y ago
You come out ahead very quickly getting a credit card that will cover the rental car (e.g. a Chase Sapphire Preferred) and paying the annual fee instead of buying insurance through the rental car company.
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by khuey 1y ago
Grandma lives in Phoenix because Los Angeles made it impossible to build enough homes to keep housing costs reasonable near the temperate coast.
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by khuey 1y ago
Strontium-89 injections were indeed used as a palliative treatment for bone cancer, though I think they've been discontinued.

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