kontorlaore

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by kontorlaore 7y ago
I think it's more than just estimating the count of objects. We also "approximate" for example a spatial distribution - think about how when running through rough terrain, you instantly know which path to choose to encounter
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by kontorlaore 7y ago
> And Tokyo, by the way, does a pretty good job with housing Only in the sense of getting more bang for the buck. It's the 10th most expensive city to rent in the world: https://infogram.com/1prdmkx1zvdve1sg79z2vp5
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by kontorlaore 7y ago
Fundamentally this problem is not fixable. Everybody wants to live in NYC/SF/LA/London/Paris/Tokyo/... The moment rents drop for whatever reason (more building), a new batch of people will finally afford to mov
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by kontorlaore 7y ago
> More empty home taxes and secondary home taxes. Then "professional renters" will appear, one person renting and living in a 20 room apartment, and the actual rent money will come in a convoluted way from the billionaire.
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by kontorlaore 7y ago
But that's not what the article proposes. They want removal of regulation regarding parking spots (free market), but building of rent-controlled social housing on the freed space (non-free market).
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by kontorlaore 7y ago
So many mistakes, not doing a clean checkout before a build, setting up a new build server by literally copying everything from the old one, including checked out directories!!!
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by kontorlaore 7y ago
As an optimization git doesn't check files with an "old" date. Running git status in an 1 GB checkout directory will return instantly. Do you really believe it has hashed all those files?
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by kontorlaore 7y ago
Which was killed by streaming, not by people storing songs locally.
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by kontorlaore 7y ago
> No, but they would download their content once and store it locally instead of repeatedly re-streaming it every time. That's like saying "people don't need to listen to the radio for the same pop songs, they can just pla
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by kontorlaore 7y ago
> website will run fine on most 10-20 year old computers 20 years ago computers had 32 MB of RAM. So no, they won't run a modern website.
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by kontorlaore 7y ago
So, did they tried weaving a 1-cm diameter rope, and testing it against a similar diameter steel rope?
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by kontorlaore 7y ago
It's probably extremely expensive, so you need to use it in very high value products.
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by kontorlaore 7y ago
I had the same problem as you. I also highly recommend "Modern JavaScript Explained for Dinosaurs" for a high level overview of why the JS tooling is like it is. This is also a good overview of the whole ecosystem, together with s
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by kontorlaore 7y ago
It started on celebrity Instagram. In three days it expanded until it forced the global media to report on it. It didn't before, because fires like this happen every year, so it was considered just ordinary fact. I saw some Instagram p
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by kontorlaore 7y ago
Let's not forget this classic: > Chinese nationals inside Google have at times clashed with its techno-libertarian culture. One infamous example, detailed in a book by the former head of Google’s “people operations,” comes from 200
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by kontorlaore 7y ago
The purpose of this article is different - someone will say "the safety situation in Seattle is terrible because of ultra-liberal drug policies". Then you are supposed to reply with this article as a counter. And New York Times be