mjmahone17

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by mjmahone17 2mo ago
A good GraphQL server and client should be relatively straightforward to make in OCaml. Especially if you start from the premise that fragment spreads compose, rather than inherit. Relay’s (second) compiler was prototyped in OCaml, but we e
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by mjmahone17 2mo ago
Terminals are scary because it feels insurmountable. What are you supposed to do? If you just type “start python program” it gives you this absurd error that doesn’t make sense. What do you mean start is not in path? The moment you interact
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by mjmahone17 10mo ago
It’s kind of the same argument as that for Node: having a singular language for everything you do lets you have “thick” tightly coupled packages that do everything, which you can compose or decompose in a safe(r) refactor as business needs
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by mjmahone17 11mo ago
This was kind of true for Spain: they imported so much silver that they had inflation causing massive economic destabilization.
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by mjmahone17 1y ago
In your mind is 700 files a lot or a little? It feels very small to me, and Xcode really ought to be able to handle that tiny scale on modern machines with ease. I struggle to imagine a team of more than 10 people writing an iOS app with le
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by mjmahone17 1y ago
It’s probably the lawns and yards, primarily. Including things like pools: in Arizona there’s about one pool for every 13 people. The US averages much larger lot sizes, and those yards consume water. I’m not saying the US isn’t profligate i
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by mjmahone17 1y ago
Most code I’ve seen is written in an environment where people can’t afford to “intuit”: thinking through the repercussions of specific language or algorithm choices comes second to solving a problem “well enough”. Building an intuition take
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by mjmahone17 2y ago
It’s reasonable for people to take either approach: are microplastics more like asbestos or are they more like cellulose in terms of harm? The answer being unclear means it makes sense to treat them, from a regulatory standpoint, closer to
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by mjmahone17 2y ago
Couldn’t the school just build taller too?
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by mjmahone17 2y ago
No. In most American suburbs you can get more density by taking 2 single family homes and replacing them with one 6-plex. You’ll also have more open space, because a 6-plex takes up around one single family lot. Especially if the 6-plex can
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by mjmahone17 2y ago
“Half one” is archaic English, and common German, for 12:30. Similarly “my 27th year” just sounds archaic to me: I wonder if you went through a bunch of 19th century writing if you’d see ages more often be “Xth year” vs “X-1 years old”. The
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by mjmahone17 2y ago
So long as only 10% or less of your incremental successes are mirages, and so long as the downside of shipping a mirage is only a small incremental harm, then shipping 9 success and 1 harm should still get you an overall ~78% win vs just sh
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by mjmahone17 2y ago
In your scheme, how do I transfer money from my bank after my phone is stolen and I need to get a new phone without access to the original sim? Or access my email? If that’s just impossible, how do I fix the issue? A “fallback 2FA” what is
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by mjmahone17 3y ago
On the parks/“natural land”: would you rather land exist as an empty razed dirt field for speculators to wait to sell, or given back to the city? Taxing the land value means there’s no incentive to own land that won’t be productive. Th
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by mjmahone17 3y ago
There is absolutely not an oversupply of apartments in my city, nor in Seattle proper. it should be non-controversial to let the market supply as many apartments in the locations people want to be as people are willing to rent. Especially a
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by mjmahone17 3y ago
More accessible. People with walkers can access the apartment, as can people in smaller wheelchairs, if there is a small elevator. In NYC plenty of older people live in pre-war buildings with tiny elevators. Few live in third floor walk up
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by mjmahone17 3y ago
Which ties into a second problem: the US especially requires elevators to be too large, which limits how many are built because they take up so much square footage, which drives up the cost to install. In Spain and France you’ll find single
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by mjmahone17 3y ago
Double loaded corridors fundamentally change the composition of buildings. If you look at example floorplans, single staircase buildings typically feature 2-3 bedroom apartments, because giving every bedroom a window is easier, while double
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by mjmahone17 3y ago
A key advantage of trains is they can be fully electric and don’t need to carry their entire fuel load on board. An electrified train running on nuclear or wind supplied power basically can’t be beat for low-environmental-impact long distan
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by mjmahone17 3y ago
Right, we have 50+ years where motor vehicle involved deaths are like 15-20% of all deaths for people under 50, not to mention how many more people are permanently injured due to motorists. The status quo is really bad and we are doing a te
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by mjmahone17 3y ago
I feel like the biggest thing the US could do is remove means-testing from our disability aid programs. Means testing usually does not feel like an effective way to distribute services. I want millionaires to be using government aid to help
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by mjmahone17 3y ago
I recently needed to book a hotel in a medium-sized town. There is a shuttle I need to get to leaving on one side of the road, and three different hotels on the other side, immediately across from the shuttle stop. I can’t book any of those
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by mjmahone17 3y ago
Allowing infill development of existing parking lots to create mixed use neighborhoods is in reality very cheap for cities to do. All it costs is rezoning: if they then increase taxes on the now very-desirable-to-build land, it’ll be a huge
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by mjmahone17 3y ago
The subway doesn’t keep to a strict schedule (it has one in theory but no one would depend on it), and has anywhere between 3 and 20 minute headways (time between trains). You can sort of kind of get close to 1-2 minutes of slack if you hav
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by mjmahone17 3y ago
As someone who likes OCaml, but hasn’t touched OCaml in ~5 years, that’s a very hard example to read. I can tell it’s making a network request, but I have no clue: - what the type of res is (is it a string? A buffer? Async string? Something
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by mjmahone17 4y ago
Do different banks pay different amounts into FDIC insurance based on how risky the FDIC considers them? If so then it’s really the FDIC adjusting their risk model to treat most mid-size banks as likely to cause systemic failures if they fa
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by mjmahone17 4y ago
A big problem in the US is we don’t allow tiny elevators, except in pre-WWII buildings that already have them. In Spain I’ve seen new 4 story flats with 1-2 units per floor with a small 2-person sized elevator. In the US that elevator would
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by mjmahone17 4y ago
On the other hand, we’ve made it so new condos are so hard to get built that a 2 bedroom condo in a walkable neighborhood (which you likely need when you retire) is the same or more expensive than a 4 bedroom suburban home. In order to be a
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by mjmahone17 4y ago
Yes but 1 is a huge, massive, often insurmountable political battle because there are enough single-issue voters who will turn on any politician who threatens to enable “undesirable” types to share their neighborhood. And 2 is blocked by pe
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by mjmahone17 4y ago
Well-connected property developers is probably the right term. Random out of town or new to the game property developers looking to start building are effectively priced out, while those with political connections learn about public propert

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