masklinn

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by masklinn 8mo ago
Of course, how could a writer writing have writing chops and use writing techniques? It boggles the mind that anyone thinks that would ever happens. Must have been aliens.
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by masklinn 8mo ago
> No I just meant that drag was a second thought when the regulation was conceived on either side of the ocean. Again, not relevant. > The regulation was not created "because of drag". That is not a claim I made. Please do n
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by masklinn 8mo ago
> Kuda on the UK allowing higher loads, and therefore benefiting from extra wedge devices on the top of the cab. Cab-top deflectors are extremely common on every truck where the cab is not tall enough to cover a standard trailer (which i
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by masklinn 8mo ago
US speed limits are highly variables, they’re generally 55 in the north-east but on the western half they’re 65 to 70, and 75 in TX. And that assumes the speed limits are respected at all, but the EU has required a hard 90kph limiter sinc
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by masklinn 8mo ago
AFAIK nothing precludes having air bags on conventionals, it’s just optional / uncommon whereas it’s completely expected on euro trucks.
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by masklinn 8mo ago
That does not change the result: drag is much less of a concern for trucks in Europe than it is in the US.
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by masklinn 8mo ago
It’s not hard. There are European cabovers in the US (see the Bruce Wilson YouTube channel).
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by masklinn 8mo ago
An other important regulation is truck speed limits, because drag grows to the square of speed.
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by masklinn 8mo ago
Europe has length limits on the entire thing, so US trucks would require shorter trailers, which nobody really wants. Euro trucks also have significantly smaller turning radii, which makes navigating european cities and country roads… feasi
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by masklinn 8mo ago
Sounds like you update the source after rebasing? Because if you rebase then push on the target git sees no more relation between the two than if you squash.
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by masklinn 8mo ago
> Synthetic fuels (including hydrogen) do still make a lot of sense for heavy stuff like trucks, buses or trains Synthetic fuels don't "make a lot of sense" for "heavy stuff", rail electrification has been the no
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by masklinn 8mo ago
> However I concede that it might be advantageous for certain plants Plants are highly dependent on their climactic settings, upending a climate equilibrium is awful to the average plant. And looking at past climactic change events, &quo
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by masklinn 8mo ago
Not just squash merges, rebase-merges also don't work. > What tools are the best to do the equivalent but for squash-merged branches detections? Hooking on remote branch deletion is what most people do, under the assumption that you
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by masklinn 8mo ago
Same using a git alias rather than shell, and without the network bits, it just cleans up branches which have an upstream that has been deleted: '!f() { git branch --format '%(refname:short) %(upstream:track,nobracket)'
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by masklinn 8mo ago
Just straight up huffing paint are we.
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by masklinn 8mo ago
It seems less pedantic and more unnecessarily dangerous due to its non uniformity: in the general case the resource won’t exist on error, and breaking the pattern for malloc adds inconsistency without any actual value gain.
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by masklinn 8mo ago
> Things like sanitizers largely rely on test coverage. And not in a trivial “this line is traversed” way, you need to actually trigger the error condition at runtime for a sanitizer to see anything. Which is why I always shake my head a
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by masklinn 8mo ago
It’s a bit odd that the accordion uses details but the dropdowns require a custom element.
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by masklinn 8mo ago
> However, I don't think it's doable in languages with structural type systems like Typescript or Go's interface without a massive ergonomic hit for minimal gain. Go only has structural interfaces, concrete types are nomin
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by masklinn 8mo ago
It is relevant to all languages with static type checkers from idris to python. But of course since it is about expressing properties via the type system the more expressive that is the easier and more applicable. Java has sum types, incide
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by masklinn 8mo ago
Only if you ignore the billion cases where it doesn't work, such that half the standard library explodes if you try to use it with zero values because they make no sense[0], special mention to reflect.Value's > Panic: call of r
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by masklinn 8mo ago
> it feels like sometime after Java got popular [...] a large chunk of the collective programming community forgot why strong static type checking was invented and are now having to rediscover this. I think you have a very rose-tinted vi
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by masklinn 9mo ago
> whatever than means It’s a QoS level: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/dispatch/dispatchq...
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by masklinn 9mo ago
The baseline is static: low QoS tasks are dispatched to the E cores, while high QoS tasks are dispatched to P cores. IIRC high QoS cores can migrate to the E cores if all P cores are loaded, but my understanding is that the lowest QoS tasks
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by masklinn 9mo ago
> The sci-fi keywords are all specifically space-related. Worse, half are confined to the solar system.
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by masklinn 9mo ago
> science fiction titles have become more abstract and less literal over time. Not even abstract, just not completely on the nose. Just as a lot if fantasy is not: only two discord novels would match the author’s search terms even though
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by masklinn 9mo ago
Not one of the culture books either, even though several have spaceships as main characters. And only a handful of Hamilton books. And I reckon a single Polity book.
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by masklinn 9mo ago
It is true but meaningless. Derivative works are not illegal, and you don’t need authorisation to create one. So if you draw sonic in your living room you are indeed creating an unauthorised derivative work. And someone can call it an unaut
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by masklinn 9mo ago
I don’t believe there’s any country where derivative work is intrinsically illegal. The Berne convention considers them protected same as originals.
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by masklinn 9mo ago
So people are pitting two foes against one another and that’s supposed to… be bad?

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