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by kjaleshire 2y ago
4.98 birds/GWh in the fossil fuel estimate comes from unrealized climate change expectations. They also only looked at two coal power plants for the remainder of the study. The nuclear source bird death estimates are extrapolated from
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by kjaleshire 4y ago
This reads suspiciously similar to the Rust Platform proposal in 2016 [0] and was concensus-rejected by the community [1]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12177002 [1] https://internals.rust-lang.org&#x2
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by kjaleshire 4y ago
Three, actually. There’s two just in Anchorage.
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by kjaleshire 5y ago
Swift actors seem to differentiate from other actor implementations (see Erlang) which have a decoupled message queue. Calling into a Swift actor may be non-blocking, but the result must still be await'd and from the actor's persp
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by kjaleshire 5y ago
Firefox (and every other 3rd party browser) internally uses the same web rendering engine as Safari. Rolling your own renderer + JS engine is not allowed.
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by kjaleshire 5y ago
You can only have 3 apps + 3 extensions installed on one device simultaneously, however.
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by kjaleshire 5y ago
The next update to Swift Playgrounds is supposed to allow full iOS app development and submission to the App Store with no Mac involved. Look also at Pythonista and a-shell for useful, if limited, programming environments. Both work by tran
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by kjaleshire 5y ago
Castro annihilated the land-owning middle class in the first years of his premiership [1], using the same playbook as Lenin wrt the Kulaks after the October revolution [2]: do away with the financially and thus politically independent asap.
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Junicode: A MUFI-compliant medieval character font(github.com)
1 points by kjaleshire 5y ago|0 comments
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The Inner Ring (1944)(lewissociety.org)
1 points by kjaleshire 6y ago|0 comments
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by kjaleshire 7y ago
> Under normal circumstances though, health and safety oriented regulatory bodies such as the FDA play an absolutely essential role in protecting us from bad actors. Does it though? There's a perception that government agencies are
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by kjaleshire 7y ago
Joyeux Noël tout le monde!
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by kjaleshire 7y ago
I have a Dell XPS 9570 as well and I love it, it's been one of my favorite dev machines ever.
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The 'Dark Ages' Weren't as Dark as We Thought(lithub.com)
283 points by kjaleshire 7y ago|241 comments
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The Great Stork Derby(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by kjaleshire 8y ago|0 comments
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by kjaleshire 8y ago
Slavery and genocide didn't suddenly appear at the same time as capitalism as you and I would recognize. Capitalism means free markets. Free markets means freedom to buy, sell and invest. Freedoms must be protected, and the freest mark
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The Paradox of Tolerance(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by kjaleshire 8y ago|0 comments
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Lake Nyos disaster(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by kjaleshire 8y ago|0 comments
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Politics and the English Language(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by kjaleshire 9y ago|0 comments
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The Worst Law Nobody Has Ever Heard of (2014)(isaacbrocksociety.ca)
1 points by kjaleshire 9y ago|0 comments
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by kjaleshire 9y ago
Dodd-Frank & other banking regulation are self-serving for large banks because it shuts out smaller competitors and new entrants [1]. Administration & compliance becomes more expensive for everyone, but bigger companies are able to
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by kjaleshire 9y ago
> One of the big problems of value types in C++ is that you have to be a language lawyer to not accidentally make wasteful copies of everything... Not always. The C++ standard has allowed copy elision for some time [1]. Guaranteed copy e
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by kjaleshire 9y ago
Exactly. A few years ago the ReactOS developers had to stop all development for several months to perform a source code audit. This was meant to deflect accusations that they had derived code from disassembled Windows binaries. If anything,
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Overkilling the 8-queens problem (2014)(davidad.github.io)
2 points by kjaleshire 9y ago|0 comments
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by kjaleshire 10y ago
The `?` operand appended to function calls makes them behave like `try!()`. It's only in nightly currently, on its way to being stabilized.
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by kjaleshire 10y ago
Very cool. Herb Sutter gave a talk [1] a couple years ago in which he advocated being mindful of the CPU prefetcher when dealing with large vectors, esp. vectors of pointers. Essentially as long as memory is being accessed in a predictable
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64-bit Linux Stack Smashing, part 1 (2015)(blog.techorganic.com)
2 points by kjaleshire 10y ago|0 comments
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Building Rumprun Unikernels(github.com)
4 points by kjaleshire 11y ago|0 comments
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by kjaleshire 12y ago
True, durability wouldn't help here, however, individual Rabbit queues can fail over to alternate nodes if the master node for that queue stops responding.