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by magicbuzz 8y ago
To clarify, there is actually a significant drought occurring at present. http://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2018-07-29/the-big-dry-see-...
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by magicbuzz 8y ago
There’s not actually that much of a safety net. And the figures quoted below are largely unchanged 4 yrs later. https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/miserly-newstart-keeps-unempl... I think the real issue with sustained high
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by magicbuzz 8y ago
It should be a pandicorn.
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by magicbuzz 8y ago
You need to have a look at Darktable.
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by magicbuzz 8y ago
If you read the original article, it gives you the impression that it's tiles only. But as you point out it's a lot of different parts of the Maps service going up by usually an order of magnitude at least. I run a geocoding servi
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by magicbuzz 8y ago
Really!?
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by magicbuzz 8y ago
Just about to chime in about Vernor Vinge myself - awesome conceptuals and well written
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by magicbuzz 8y ago
See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Dome_(film) for China’s inability to regulate their out of control pollution.
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by magicbuzz 8y ago
For speed, Lua code should be run in Luajit.
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by magicbuzz 8y ago
A 2008 survey indicated that nine out of ten British children were able to identify a Dalek correctly.
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by magicbuzz 8y ago
I think an SMTP setup would be overly complex. I setup a Lua-based mail sender in nginx for a startup a few years back that just sent to gmail iirc. But that now seems a bit too much effort. SendGrid seems interesting as you can setup templ
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by magicbuzz 8y ago
Everyone quotes “the standard” as what they do. CSS is probably the one area where there is no consistency in how it is handled in React.
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by magicbuzz 8y ago
Actually, no. I started working in React about two years ago and if anything, I think the ecosystem in the OP map has stabilised somewhat. I think that SASS use is starting to fade and grid layout is now a thing but not like the whole gulp
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by magicbuzz 8y ago
You won’t get low latency in Australia without having a server somewhere in the country, usually Sydney. If you’re using https, TLS has a number of round trips to complete handshaking and users will see a lot of benefit from lower latency.
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by magicbuzz 8y ago
I’ve met people on long distance hikes who could do 30km a day. 3km per day seems very little.
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by magicbuzz 8y ago
Very interesting. At a glance, the binding libs seem to transform from lat/lon to a hex index. For storage then, conceivably you would just index by hex and transform lat / loc queries to hex on the fly. Also, it seems there is no
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by magicbuzz 8y ago
I’m not too surprised by the relatively strong showing of 128GB memory. I’ve worked with scientific datasets where the primary constraint was always memory. So we would always be chasing motherboards with the most memory support, and with s
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by magicbuzz 8y ago
It’s also an app issue. I run a 4K monitor on Ubuntu and the majority of apps take the entire screen when they start or open a window. And in many apps I have to tweak things so it becomes readable.
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by magicbuzz 8y ago
It seems to me then that with a carefully thought out inverted index and using the trigrams mentioned above, you could go a long way towards having the capability of the Lucene-based implementations like Elasticsearch and Solr.
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by magicbuzz 8y ago
Interesting that there is inverted index support (ie GIN). Elasticsearch seems to make a big thing of using inverted indices.
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by magicbuzz 8y ago
Could this conceivably be used to speed binaries like nginx? I tend to compile nginx on my systems as over time there are always custom modules I want to add/modify anyway.
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by magicbuzz 8y ago
That mindset has made flying in the US the experience it is today.
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by magicbuzz 8y ago
Meanwhile, PC laptops are now available with 128GB of RAM.
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by magicbuzz 8y ago
In my bookshelf. I think that the most fundamental statement in Stick & Rudder is that you are flying a Wing. And a Wing is something that is inherently non-intuitive to most human beings.
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by magicbuzz 8y ago
Factor in wear and tear on the seats/interior as well, that driving aro7nd by yourself wouldn’t normally occur (unless you have kids)
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by magicbuzz 8y ago
Agreed. And the story was well-written. It takes time for people to appreciate that their mother and father is them as well.
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by magicbuzz 8y ago
They can hold up really well. However you’ll find that generally the economy of a newer car is staggeringly better.
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by magicbuzz 8y ago
I thought that was Bloke 101. Actually, the hardest part is getting the lugnuts off. When your tyres were fitted, they likely used air tools to put the nuts back on. I’ve found you always need to ensure you can remove them with the spare ha
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by magicbuzz 8y ago
Compare this to free public transit in some European cities
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by magicbuzz 8y ago
What exactly would ‘amazing encounters’ encompass? :-)

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