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by melling 4y ago
People could at least recognize people who are farming karma and stop upvoting them.
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by melling 4y ago
@6m Could build tunnels up to 10 times faster and at half the cost. A lot of US cities could be retrofitted with subways. Even NYC metro area badly needs a few more tunnels: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_Progr
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by melling 4y ago
I’m more than a decade older than you. that’s what my girlfriend said: “Can’t lose weight after a certain age” She looked at me one day when I was down around 25 pounds and declared “It does work” Next thing I know, she lost 15 pounds.
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by melling 4y ago
I didn’t even count calories and lost 30 pounds last year. Eat less food. Stopped snacking between meals, and ate a salad for dinner a few nights a week. Also, tried to reduce my meal size, in general. Getting that hungry feeling between me
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by melling 4y ago
Nope, not even close. I’ve written/read lots of Perl. APL is a completely different paradigm. Every now and then I get the urge to take a deep dive into APL or J but I really need a use case. Since they are array languages they seem li
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by melling 4y ago
It’s been dying for 15 years. First slowly then “all of a sudden” What’s merlyn doing these days? His response to the early warnings that “Perl is dying “ was “more people use Perl now more than ever” The downfall of Perl should be a “case
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by melling 4y ago
Interesting enough, the person on Twitter seems fit and not very old. 15 years ago Randy Pausch was also fit a year before he died. So, instead of blaming people for poor choices imagine if 16 years ago, when the US National Debt was a mere
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by melling 4y ago
I really wish people would stop saying “F cancer” As a society, we have the option of greatly reducing cancer deaths whenever we so choose. Let’s do that rather than raging against something that feels nothing. It has been over 15 years sin
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by melling 4y ago
if we only have 8500 coal power plants globally and this is the single largest source of emissions, shouldn’t we be trying to eliminate 20% of global emissions? Furthermore, if renewables are cheaper shouldn’t we immediately stop adding to
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by melling 4y ago
If it’s cheaper than coal then why are we still building so many coal power plants? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/26/too-many... Coal is at record levels. https://abcnews.go
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by melling 4y ago
“The French were able to hold their build times below 6 years up to about 1985” You’d think if the future depended on it, build times could be reduced. 8500 global coal power plants produce 20% of emissions. Retiring coal power plants was a
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by melling 4y ago
OCaml has a reputation for being fast. https://sixthhappiness.github.io/articles/python-scheme-and-... Does anyone have any multicore benchmarks that illustrate performance increases in 5.0?
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by melling 4y ago
How’s the MacBook Air for iOS/Swift development? I’ve always purchased MacBook Pros. My Late 2013 model, with 16GB RAM, is still great but can longer get last couple versions of macOS. Probably need to get something next year.
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by melling 4y ago
Ever feel like we still live in the Dark Ages where people jump to all sorts of conclusions without offering any evidence? That innuendo thing you’re doing is all the rage these days.
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Advent of Code by Voice: Day 7(youtube.com)
1 points by melling 4y ago|0 comments
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by melling 4y ago
Why don’t you give that a little more thought. They aren’t losing $10 billion on hardware on a $15 device.
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by melling 4y ago
“Failed” as in failed to be a profitable business model. I’ve got 3 Echo Dots and use them everyday. They do have limited use but people still buy them. For $15 USD, it’s a no brainer purchase. As language models improve the device will bec
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by melling 4y ago
“Mr. Agresto, 76, is a lifelong champion of liberal-arts education—the subject of his new book, “The Death of Learning: How American Education Has Failed Our Students and What to Do About It.” It’s an unpopular cause: According to U.S. Educ
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by melling 4y ago
Yes, we could explore the solar system much more quickly and much more cheaply, if we simply leave out the humans. This has been explained repeatedly for decades. There will be more humans on Mars in 100 years, if we skip sending the human
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by melling 4y ago
Any opinions on the book mentioned: Star Builders by Arthur Turrel https://aeturrell.com/
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by melling 4y ago
That’s great! Because there are [ONLY] 8500 coal power plants producing 20% of the CO2 emissions globally. Removing 20% of emissions will make a huge difference. ETA on this should be around 2030? What I don’t get is since solar is cheaper,
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by melling 4y ago
I heard that all you have to do is skip the facts and offer innuendo on the Internet. What happens when everyone pulls into a gas station “all at once?”
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by melling 4y ago
Ever commute and have to transfer a couple times? Every transfer adds quite a bit of time. Multiply that times 2 for a daily commute, times 220 working days, times a million commuters.
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by melling 4y ago
What ever happened to the 2.4 mile NJ Path extension to Newark airport? https://www.nj.com/essex/2017/12/a_timeline_charting_the_pat... There are so many ways to reduce the bus, taxi, and car usage in the NY
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by melling 4y ago
The chart did indicate that 85 lines of code did take a while to write but the 1100 lines of C++ likely took longer. Many developers claim that Haskell code has fewer bugs. Program correctness counts for something. Anyway, a modern compet
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by melling 4y ago
30 years ago Haskell was the winner. Conciseness was a major feature. Has anyone put this to the test on larger projects? 10,000 lines of Haskell have the same functionality as 100,000 lines of C++?
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1960 New York mid-air collision(admiralcloudberg.medium.com)
2 points by melling 4y ago|0 comments
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by melling 4y ago
That’s what most people do, which is fine. However, since I’m only going around once, I’d like to find a different path.
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by melling 4y ago
11.94% vs 11.82% The difference in ratings is statistically insignificant? I’m not using either one these days but I’m not sure why C++ would be increasing more than Java. Does this mean Rust is not taking anything away from C++?
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by melling 4y ago
yes, do people drive faster and more reckless at high speeds, like on highways. That’s a great question, which has been studied. But that’s not the point I’m arguing. Where do the pedestrians come into all of this? “killing more pedestrians

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