m-j-fox

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by m-j-fox 10y ago
Why not hydrogen? Stuffing a Mirai's guts into a turboprop is a project we could do today. Solves the waiting/hoping for battery technology problem and saves Toyota's $billions invested in r&d from the toilet.
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by m-j-fox 10y ago
Interesting that Emacs Lisp is way below the line and VimL is way, way, way below the line. Is it really that people don't have questions, or maybe they have better forums for accessing help -- from emacs.stackexchange.com to emacsWiki
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by m-j-fox 10y ago
I'll bet we can have a civil discussion about this.
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by m-j-fox 10y ago
Dumb question: what is a CMS?
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by m-j-fox 10y ago
There's plenty of cheap land and labor 100 miles east of San Francisco. Why don't we build homelessville there?
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by m-j-fox 10y ago
Agreed. Except format strings and stream formatting and printing options get confusing quickly.
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by m-j-fox 10y ago
Cool. I'm not sure that using quicklisp that way is kosher. Quicklisp doesn't allow you to pin a particular version of a dependency. The upshot is that your code that works today may not work tomorrow. I've been looking for a
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by m-j-fox 10y ago
> $16M/yr for both the airport and the port Oakland should just sell them both to condo developers. They could probably get a few billion dollars for the nice waterfront property.
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by m-j-fox 10y ago
Fair. But the drive is about 15 minutes directly there. With Bart, drive + train + walk, it would be 45 minutes. It's really about total time.
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by m-j-fox 10y ago
There's this frustrating principle of public transit where I've never lived in a place that I could take it and get there faster than I could by some other means. There's a bus stop right in front of my house, and light rail
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by m-j-fox 10y ago
Thanks. Did you subscribe to find that out? Because it didn't seem like there was any other way to read the article. The web has become a very aggressive pan handler.
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by m-j-fox 10y ago
I often go to work at a lab that is as close to the Warm Springs BART station as any business could be, but I will still drive because walkability is so bad it will still be a 15 minute walk. Maybe someday they will build something near the
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by m-j-fox 10y ago
That looks great. I love that it supports thirds.
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by m-j-fox 10y ago
The video looks pretty sweet. Expensive though.
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by m-j-fox 10y ago
RIP vimperator :(
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by m-j-fox 10y ago
Exactly. I used to be one of these hardcore guys typing fast and never taking my hands off the keyboard; then I got RSI and learned to appreciate value slow methodical approaches.
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by m-j-fox 10y ago
Thought this was going to be about Chinese subcons a la Foxconn and friends. A different kind of tech worker but maybe not such a difference in lifestyles.
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by m-j-fox 10y ago
I would prefer my employer to offer more liberty than they do. What's the point living in a liberal democracy if my most local of governments, the corporation, is a bunch of Nazi dick bags?
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by m-j-fox 10y ago
That, and the pilot is rarely around to take any blame.
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by m-j-fox 10y ago
Oops. Tried to delete but already got a comment. Please ignore!
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by m-j-fox 10y ago
Okay but it's too easy to fill a todo list with more than you can accomplish in one lifetime. I need a guide that tells me how to rationally prioritize work, health and family above my never-ending .emacs.d side project.
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by m-j-fox 10y ago
Plus it's slow and riddled with bugs and good luck getting a PR accepted. I love it.
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by m-j-fox 10y ago
You need spacemacs to help you sop up the spare capacity.
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by m-j-fox 10y ago
Too bad orgzly hasn't solved synchronizing. Notepad for Google Drive is a text editor with no features except it gets sync right and has become my favorite way. Print out your todo list and carry a pen also works well.
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by m-j-fox 10y ago
You need to get good at time management. Look into GTD and orgmode. You can level up your emacs skills in the process.
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by m-j-fox 10y ago
I agree advanced automation would be needed to maximize capacity. A basic system only needs cruise control, lights and cameras installed at the merge points and a transponder like fasttrak that monitors your speed and automatically fines yo
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by m-j-fox 10y ago
The account in the book says traffic improved in the neighborhood where they removed the roads. It was a small-scale experiment. Subsequently NYC built a bunch more roads and traffic got worse. True believers point to a cause-and-effect rel
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by m-j-fox 10y ago
Here's my idea: Rather than high-occupancy lets make the left lane a guaranteed-speed lane. The rule is that all cars in the lane move at 80 mph. If you can't merge in or out of the lane is such a way that no one else has to brake
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by m-j-fox 10y ago
NYC supposedly fixed some of their problems in the 50s if you believe Jane Jacobs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_Am... She teaches that the key to getting rid of traffic is getting rid of ro
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by m-j-fox 10y ago
You might like Sao Paulo. Its like LA but smelly-er and full of buses. In Sao Paulo there's no need to hurry to hop on your bus before it leaves the stop because another one will arrive immediately. Same deal with the metro. Trains arr

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