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by klooney 4y ago
Alon Levy and the transit costs project are a great source of actual hard analysis on this- https://pedestrianobservations.com/2023/02/25/the-issue-of-c... has a great concise breakdown, pasted here because n
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by klooney 4y ago
Spain is the outlier for fast/cheap/good, but I hear that even Italy has gotten its act together, and the recent Rome subway was done quickly and cheaply. The Nordic countries also have a good reputation. England is pretty bad&#x2
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by klooney 4y ago
16k pages is going to make everything hard, I'm not holding my breath.
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> It also grows the intellectual souls, exposing people to far more depth of thought. It also builds professional networks. If a person is smart enough to receive it, more education is almost always good. That's the "finishing
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by klooney 4y ago
The problem here is everyone relying on Docker to foot an expensive bill for free forever. If it was always for a few, incentives would be more aligned and this blowup wouldn't happen. But as it is, it's a bit inevitable.
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by klooney 4y ago
I like this comment, its thesis deserves a fuller defense.
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by klooney 4y ago
Go's GC uses the same trick, and also shows a giant virtual size. But you're right more broadly, it's nice to not have bad performance be a bunch of finger pointing between dev and ops with Go. With Java there's always a
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by klooney 4y ago
This feels like a critique from 2013 when high IBU counts briefly became a fad. IPA land has mellowed down and "juicy" and "dank" flavors are more the recent, popular thing.
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by klooney 4y ago
But there's this endless array of explainers saying they don't- https://www.google.com/search?q=banks%20don%27t%20lend%20dep...
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by klooney 4y ago
Plus, this isn't 2% of the random people who have created an account since 2013, it's the images that everyone freeloads off of.
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> aren't low-yield bonds seeing real losses already due to inflation? But bank deposits aren't in inflation adjusted dollars.
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by klooney 4y ago
This is Pypy and Rpython!
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by klooney 4y ago
It's meant to be more inclusive than "programmer" so you can wrap in everyone else who works for tech companies. This is primarily useful from a labor perspective point of view, which had a big moment in prestige media a coup
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Aren't they competitors?
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The Greeks are very upset, which is why the country recently renamed itself.
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by klooney 4y ago
The whole conversation about rural meat packing plants always drives me crazy. They moved them to rural locations, where by definition very few people live, and then suddenly a hundreds of dudes from rural Mexico showed up to work there. So
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by klooney 4y ago
> how evolutions in data-led policing strategies helped New York City reduce annual murder numbers from 2,245 in 1990 to just 292 in 2017 This is a highly contested claim, because this happened everywhere in the US across the same time p
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Flathub in 2023(discourse.flathub.org)
4 points by klooney 4y ago|0 comments
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I think it clearly is, people just care less.
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by klooney 4y ago
Ooh, I am a sucker for scooped keys.
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A Sad New Category of Abusive Intellectual Property Litigation(papers.ssrn.com)
1 points by klooney 4y ago|0 comments
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by klooney 4y ago
I'm really on the fence about Kagi. Results are good, but I'm just so accustomed to search being free.
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by klooney 4y ago
I mean, it's good for your products to work well, and with Linux you can do that directly instead of petitioning Microsoft
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by klooney 4y ago
It's a reference to https://genius.com/Warren-g-regulate-lyrics
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by klooney 4y ago
He was a grinder, all the old pulp SF people were- they got paid for publishing, and not much. He probably had to do it to pay the bills ( I don't know his specific financial circumstances in those years )
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by klooney 4y ago
Surprising to see tiny Star Labs in there
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by klooney 4y ago
> Tenured faculty do research and run the university as well as teach At community colleges?
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by klooney 4y ago
TV rots your brain and helped break apart the social fabric, but it makes you happy. Cheers, Friends, The Office- lots of shows basically performed the function of companionship.
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by klooney 4y ago
Remember the State Department asking Twitter to delay maintenance to not interrupt the Green Revolution? Boy would Congress be pissed about that if the shoe was on the other foot.
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by klooney 4y ago
> TV was despised by whole generations of educated Americans — an “idiot box” that would shorten your attention span and rot your brain. The whole first or second chapter of Bowling Alone is about network effects causing downward spirals

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