kungtotte

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by kungtotte 7y ago
Same thing in Sweden. Lower costs for the customers and higher reliability when you ship by truck means rail is not really a consideration even though it would be better for everyone if it actually worked.
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by kungtotte 7y ago
Come to Sweden sometime. I've driven down highways where you don't have to steer because the ruts are so deep.
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by kungtotte 7y ago
They're torn up from the road and rubbed off from the tyres themselves. The majority is obviously coming from the road. There's been studies done here in Sweden since we've banned studded winter tyres in some areas of Stockho
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by kungtotte 7y ago
It has some interesting posts, but most/all of them are older ones. These two come to mind: https://fs.blog/2015/11/map-and-territory https://fs.blog/2019/03/active-mindset/ It
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by kungtotte 7y ago
I actually live 90 minutes outside Stockholm, going by public transport. According to https://sl.se it would take me 2 hours to IKEA Kungens Kurva. It's trivial to both get and use cash here.
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by kungtotte 7y ago
Kind of, yes, but from my understanding of the original system as devised/practised by Luhmann was that the real value of it laid in the connections between the individual notes and the work of actually filing things away in that web o
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by kungtotte 7y ago
Go to any number of places that still accept cash? Our major grocery store chains all still accept cash (ICA, Coop, Willys, Hemköp etc.) and at least ICA and Coop sells pretty much -everything- at their larger stores. They don't sell m
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by kungtotte 7y ago
Eh, anecdotally, I almost drowned when I was a kid before I learned to swim by literally jumping in too deep water. This was in the ocean and not a pool, but I walked out on the bridge to the first division and jumped in because I knew that
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by kungtotte 7y ago
Well, Nim compiles to JS and cross-compilation to iOS and Android are both possible (I don't know how tricky those last two are). So you could write your entire stack in Nim too the same way you do with TS. :)
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by kungtotte 7y ago
Perfectly well? Really? Scrolling around the map or zooming causes you no kind of rendering delays or artefacts? It feels consistently snappy no matter what you do?
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by kungtotte 7y ago
Who knows? My hunch is there's two main factors influencing this. The first is that constraints breed creativity. If you know you only have 133MHz on a single CPU you squeeze as as possible much out of every cycle, on modern CPUs what&
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by kungtotte 7y ago
The point I'm making is that my desktop PC sitting in my office now does have more of everything compared to my 133MHz PC from 1995. Not everything has scaled up at the same pace, sure, but literally every piece of hardware is better
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by kungtotte 7y ago
My current display does include a lot more data. It's also driven by a graphics card with more RAM than I had HDD space back in the day with a dedicated CPU that's also a whole lot faster than 133MHz. Every piece of hardware is be
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by kungtotte 7y ago
Main memory speeds haven't increased like CPU speeds have but it's nowhere close to where it was in 1995. You can get CPUs today with larger cache than I had RAM back then, as well. I know that CPU speed isn't everything and
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by kungtotte 7y ago
Google Maps runs like crap on my current desktop. That's precisely the problem!
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by kungtotte 7y ago
Thus far in this thread nobody has offered any counterpoint to the speed argument. The first PC we bought at home was a 133MHz Pentium. My current box is a Ryzen 3700 at 16*3.6GHz. It doesn't feel like I have that much more power at my
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by kungtotte 7y ago
Programming is literally the art of pedantically telling a computer what to do, arguments about it are naturally going to tend towards pedantry. So that's my first point. The second is that there's a significant difference between
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by kungtotte 7y ago
Not exactly the same. Since anything inside ASCII quotes is typically considered a valid string in most programming languages, if you delete everything after the final quotation mark you have a syntactically valid program. It won't do
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by kungtotte 7y ago
I totally buy your argument that an informed public is a good thing and a requirement for a functioning democracy. I vehemently disagree that the current news media is the way to reach that goal. As things stand as of this moment I think we
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by kungtotte 7y ago
I've adapted a kind of middle road with regards to this. I don't use mainstream social media but I do use Mastodon; a certain amount of general news reach me that way by people sharing it. For regular news I don't read it dur
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by kungtotte 7y ago
You do. Not everyone. You know one thing I expect my browser to do that it has a hard time doing these days? Efficiently and correctly displaying text documents. It has a hard time doing this because so many web pages think they need to be
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by kungtotte 7y ago
Using syncthing you can trivially have it everywhere as well, with only a one-time setup and no continuous need to manually commit changes and manually sync them (unless you're using hooks for your VCS to automate that I guess).
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by kungtotte 7y ago
To be clear, fig also provides the Kickstarter model alongside its investor model. So you don't have to choose one platform over the other in terms of how you want to risk your money.
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by kungtotte 7y ago
It can't be overstated how big of a game changer Proton is. You can use it outside of Steam but if it weren't for Valve we wouldn't have it. Prior to Proton, gaming on Linux was hit or miss. Many games never worked, some work
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by kungtotte 7y ago
Yes, it's a big difference in price. I backed Pillars of Eternity 2 via fig and IIRC the backer tiers started at $10 whereas investors started at $1000/share. If memory serves the shares were also just shares (with a copy of the g
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by kungtotte 7y ago
None of them are in Europe though...
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by kungtotte 7y ago
I just checked out and built the Nim compiler + stdlib itself. real: 161.26s (including the GCC bootstrap stage). cloc reports 253500 lines of Nim in the project. This was on a Ryzen 7 3700x @ 3.6GHz. Re-running it immediately after (does n
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by kungtotte 7y ago
You could also just pick something like Nim ( https://nim-lang.org ) if you wanted to hit the intersection of low effort, script-style programming with the addition of types and performance.
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by kungtotte 7y ago
You can still use a nice frontend to the data. Vimwiki, tiddlywiki, zim wiki, etc. all store their data in plain text but let's you create these connections trivially that Zettelkasten is all about.
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by kungtotte 7y ago
Steve Klabnik makes this point in his write-up, but I'm restating it here for clarity. You don't get to cherrypick who is part of your community or not when these situations arise. Those "bad apples" are part of the Rust

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