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by mcdonje 3y ago
>[go is] often described as C for the 21rst [sic] century I've never heard that and it's a silly thing to say. There's overlap of use cases, but it's a proper venn diagram and not a circle. It's not a drop in rep
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by mcdonje 3y ago
>But it is what we need at the moment to feed the world's population. Not true. The American food system is incredibly wasteful, and people are getting sick from diseases associated with western diets and overeating, like diabetes a
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by mcdonje 3y ago
Very cool, thanks for sharing. I love classification schemes.
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by mcdonje 3y ago
Which industry? There are several products that use xen under the hood, like AWS, Citrix, Qubes, Linode, etc. Why would you install an entire fully fledged OS like Linux to manage a company owned Windows machine that a data analyst uses whe
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by mcdonje 3y ago
Don't kink shame.
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by mcdonje 3y ago
OTOH, the translation is new, and a good translation is a work that deserves compensation.
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by mcdonje 3y ago
This is my daily driver. It's great! Thanks for your work on it.
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That's certainly true about some markets. Not sure how much that can be generalized.
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by mcdonje 3y ago
>Car companies (perhaps rightly) assumed that the best way to sell America’s truck-loving population on plug-in power is to electrify a bunch of pickups. This smacks of revisionist history. American car companies mostly stopped selling c
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by mcdonje 3y ago
No. Different ideal use cases, though they can overlap. TOML is great for simple config files that don't need anything beyond key/value or arrays. YAML is great for config files with more complicated data structure requirements. J
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by mcdonje 3y ago
>Only one counterexample of plausible harm is needed. Ok, where's your example of plausible harm for a working sanitation system? >It's even phrased as an opinion. That sentence is, sure. Weird how you left out the supportin
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by mcdonje 3y ago
Most of what I said was not opinion, and your point here refutes none of mine. Appeal to authority fallacy, with maybe a bit of appeal to tradition mixed in.
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by mcdonje 3y ago
Because poor sanitation is a disease vector that can kill people and ruin communities. A working toilet is an unmitigated good. Cars on the other hand have a much more questionable value proposition. They turn cities into parking lots shrou
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by mcdonje 3y ago
Dandelion root coffee is good enough that I buy it on a regular basis. I'm very much into real coffee and I make espresso at home, but I like dandelion root coffee in the evening when I don't want more caffeine. It doesn't ta
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by mcdonje 3y ago
Paint is not good enough. Bike lanes separated from the road by just paint and no significant barrier like bollards or something will not be used much because bikers won't feel safe, and cars will use it as a parking lane.
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by mcdonje 3y ago
Cars are not and cannot go silent. Most of their noise comes from tires. Stand near a highway and pay attention to specifically where the noise comes from. It's primarily not the engines. Trains already exist. They are proven technolog
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by mcdonje 3y ago
Go ahead and post one of those millions of other things.
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by mcdonje 3y ago
Wow, HN is amazing. Thank you for the correction, the additional context, and your contributions to the field!
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Xenia is what the Xen hypervisor is named after.
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>Clearly, aesthetics are important but aren't the ultimate goal of design. And often poor readability doesn't get noticed during the design process, as we are not like our users. We don't read the texts as a visitor does.
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The central idea there is to tweak the darks to align with the color palette, not to just make them gray.
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That's amazing. A town that small seems like a whole other world. The pressures and calculations at that scale are so different from medium and large sized population areas.
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Yep. I grew up there. Chrissie Hynde's song "My City Was Gone" is right on the money.
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by mcdonje 3y ago
Not at all. A small town has a town center, a residential area clustered around it, and nature or farmland surrounding that. Suburbs sometimes have a town center but often it's much more amorphous with different strip malls and such. E
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by mcdonje 3y ago
Once they start renovating office buildings into housing everyone will flock to the cities. Most people don't want to live in suburbs. Even many of the people who think they do would be happier in a small town surrounded by farmland or
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by mcdonje 3y ago
I see them as something to be negotiated, like most things in society. I don't like them, but I also don't want to pay for something with actual money out of my bank account unless I really believe in it. Since most people are lik
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by mcdonje 3y ago
If I were a Hollywood writer, I'd gamble on that working out in my favor at this point.
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by mcdonje 3y ago
I like your thinking, but there could be confusion if used imprecisely. Namely, people might think it's a website that isn't broken (this could be seen as a benefit for the playfully opinionated), or a website made primarily with
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by mcdonje 3y ago
If you had to pay the actual cost of it instead of the subsidized cost, you'd probably eat a lot less of it.
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by mcdonje 4y ago
We can reforest vast swaths of land right now. For instance, most of the US east of the Mississippi. That can happen with tax code changes and land trusts. We don't need to wait for new tech to scale up. We need to prioritize the plane

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