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by matttproud 5y ago
If you're curious about the constraints of BART and the history involved in its development that led to why it is the way it is, I can certainly recommend Michael Healy's book BART: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Trans
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I had been using Windows since 3.0: Windows 2000 was that stable, professional sweet spot for me, even at times NT 4. Zero fluff, relatively consistent experience, and little visible intergenerational technology accretion. The 2000 schedu
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I hate to stereotype, but the Röstigraben does seem to mean something in terms of dog heeling conduct from the owner. (Though in this last year, I have seen more misbehaved dogs in the Deutschschweiz than I have seen in all my years here.)
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What do the Swiss do with their dogs that predominantly leaves them well-behaved and quiescent?
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The same could be said about the police’s treatment of ordinary people. Cowardice and impunity.
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Chartists 3.0
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Early in Prometheus' life (2011-12), I had really pined for an indexed sparse columnar data store similar to the semantics of what Bigtable provided Google internally for time series storage for many years. Pre-public-Git repository at
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by matttproud 5y ago
The United States uses jus sanguinis and jus soli. So this would be relevant for strictly cases of naturalization, which are neither, I believe. The paperwork you file as an American abroad for obtaining citizenship (jus sanguinis) through
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by matttproud 5y ago
It would do the project’s web site a big service to actually link prominently to this repository, if this site is in fact canonical. A zipped source code archive inside a Git repository is very surprising (violation of principle of least as
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I ran multiple search queries. I wouldn't be so dumb to post a comment like this here without having done my homework. The best I found after trying numerous keyword permutations was https://salsa.debian.org/benchmark
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If what's in the Benchmarks Game is normal Go code to you, then I feel pretty bad for you in terms of what your colleagues are exposing you to on a day-to-day basis quality-wise.
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I've never understood why folks treat the Benchmarks Game results as indicative nor representative of anything useful. The code specimens they use are often unpolished nor idiomatic, without even commenting on whether they could be mad
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I was in a similar boat a decade ago. I read the FTB documentation (FTB 1031 Sect. E-L) carefully and just accepted it would be subjective criteria test in court if it ever came down to it. I started keeping immaculate records (motivated
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There was zero — functionally zero — accountability for anyone: 1. Bush Administration (and subsequent cowards) 2. Project for the New American Century and related organizations 3. cheerleaders and thoughtleaders in the media 4. executors o
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by matttproud 5y ago
If I recall correctly, you can do some leisure travel around the Bodensee (Lake Constance) on one that is moored out of the historical harbor in Friedrichshafen. A friend who’s a pilot even logged training hours on one of them — just to ch
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If you want an introduction into the policy side, read: Duany, et al.’s Suburban Nation. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780865477506 Kunstler‘s Geography of Nowhere. https://www.simonandschuster.com/bo
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Two book recommendations for their retrospective analyses over the last 37 years: Nick Bryant’s When America Stopped Being Great (BBC reporter who spent formative years in USA, beyond being on assignment there). George Packer’s Last Best Ho
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1992, Bush utters “Ozone Man” into the lexicon as a pejorative against Al Gore. There is a difference between campaign rhetoric and policy, to be sure, but the country lost clarity of focus rapidly as a nation after the Gulf War and began t
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The performative stuff has to stop. On the one vacation I am doing since this pandemic began, I saw a place in Northern Italy give out paper straws enclosed in plastic wrapping. You have to be kidding me. It’s missing the point and greenw
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Makes me look back at the last 20-30 years of discourse in the United States and let out a deep sigh. Had CFC propellants emerged today, I highly doubt the U.S. would have been a signatory to the Montreal Protocol — just to own the libs or
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Don’t forget the poor responses at home to disasters natural and unnatural. Katrina was only 15 years ago, and that was before mainstream myths of omnipotence were broken. Such a travesty. Such a failed social contract — esp. for common
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In case anyone is interested, the taxation on Americans abroad isn’t new but has its roots in the 1860s with the U.S. Civil War: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2015-04-24/end-th... . FATCA is annoy
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Growing up in North America by the time I became an adult, I had written off apples in entirety for being dull balls of coagulated sand consistency material. It was lost on me why anyone would ever voluntarily eat one. It didn’t matter wh
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It’s the planning codes, zoning, and orthodoxy. (And relative deprivation for why it never improves.)
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You should give Howard Kunstler‘s The Geography of Nowhere and Duany, et al.‘s Suburban Nation a read. (There are other good ones, too). These will contextual like what an overhaul of the planning and codes process should look like.
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Yeah, maybe I am enjoying less sunlight; but I am certainly enjoying all of the negative freedom — the freedom from abject destitution, dysfunctional society, having to own a car for rudimentary things, significant pollution and environment
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Adaptation says nothing about the quality of life and a life worth living.
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> think European cities are just "lucky" that they've mostly been built when cars weren't a thing yet, and also organically grew over much longer timespans. You should give Howard Kunstler‘s The Geography of Nowhere a
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Hand-authored a SVG file, using the REPL to compute math, for what would become a tattoo. (In retrospect, I’d have designed the image with greater tolerances for ink dispersion in skin over time.)
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Hallmarks of a failed state. Feels like the country is only a few years away from having balaclava-covered paramilitaries roam the streets in Toyota Hiluxes à la Afghanistan.

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