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by mperham 3y ago
Is this an attempt to bring memory safety to C and similar unsafe languages? They really need an executive summary and overview.
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by mperham 3y ago
No one’s stopping you from doing business. They are stopping you from using an anonymous LLC to hide assets. That’s not personal privacy.
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by mperham 3y ago
I don’t get the point? They point out two issues: picking an installer and adding insulation to the home. How are these hard or disruptive? We switched to a heat pump last year and couldn’t be happier. It was quite expensive but Federal sub
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by mperham 3y ago
How likely are cars with V2G to be the grid batteries of the future?
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by mperham 3y ago
They keep the temperature more even because they can run at a variable rate, versus a furnace which is either running 100% or not at all.
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by mperham 3y ago
points to the boardrooms of Shell, Exxon and BP "That way, Officer!"
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by mperham 3y ago
This fact should be in the first sentence. I had no idea where they were talking about.
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by mperham 3y ago
Ok, now invalidate Euclidean zoning.
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by mperham 3y ago
Quite often, the bosses don’t. Their social circle is the company and that’s partly why they so desperately want back in the office.
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by mperham 3y ago
A license controls what OTHERS can do with your source. You, the copyright holder, can do anything you want.
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by mperham 3y ago
Nothing enrages me more than an iOS app whose password requirements don’t work with iOS’s default password generator. Apple should fail their app testing.
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by mperham 3y ago
There’s an effective tactic for dealing with Wall St control: unionize.
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by mperham 3y ago
JRuby. TruffleRuby.
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by mperham 3y ago
https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by mperham 3y ago
I think most will agree that the CCS connector is godawful compared to Tesla's NACS. But why? Does anyone know why CCS was designed so poorly?
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We Should Stop Using JavaScript, According to Douglas Crockford(youtube.com)
14 points by mperham 3y ago|7 comments
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A Matter of Triangulation(eugene.kaspersky.com)
1 points by mperham 3y ago|0 comments
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by mperham 3y ago
Congrats Ronald, welcome to the very exclusive club of commercial job system authors.
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by mperham 3y ago
I seem to recall articles 15-20 years ago about solid state 3D storage using lasers. Spinning HDDs are limited to 2D. Tape is 3D but requires cumbersome tape movement. Whatever happened to that area of research? Did SSDs and flash drives ki
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by mperham 3y ago
From the article: Moreover, the country did not simply get lucky with particularly mild winter temperatures, as often alleged. The average winter temperature in the 2022/23 winter of 2.9°C was actually slightly colder than the av
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by mperham 3y ago
Redis has MULTI transactions and many applications depend on that functionality. You can't add multiple reader threads without a hugely complex locking system to prevent things like uncommitted reads. This is the tradeoff Redis made wh
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by mperham 3y ago
Except driving is the only transportation option which regularly results in the death of people walking/biking outside of that car. Walking/biking/rail/bus kill virtually no one, cars kill tens of thousands annually. Dis
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by mperham 3y ago
Building giant parking garages ("commuting park and ride") is a failed concept and does not work. No one wants to live around a giant parking area and no one will walk through it to get to the train because there's no housing
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by mperham 3y ago
People who are on the street or living in their car today. We have a desperate need for affordable housing all over this country. SROs and hostel-style residences are perfectly reasonable as a step to keep people stable and off the streets.
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by mperham 3y ago
A common expression is "parking is the third rail of local politics". More parking is the number one demand for every aged driver in City Council meetings and absurd parking costs the chief reason why development projects are canc
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by mperham 3y ago
As the author of Sidekiq, I'd very strongly disagree. The key thing you are missing in those systems is long-term error handling. What happens if the remote side goes down for a few hours? This is the purpose of *persistent* background
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by mperham 3y ago
It's NPR, gotta give both sides equal time.
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by mperham 3y ago
AWS’ new MemoryDB also seems to be a strongly consistent Redis cluster service. Anyone know how they compare? https://aws.amazon.com/memorydb/features/
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by mperham 3y ago
What are the odds Apple moves the AirPods Pro into this space?
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by mperham 3y ago
Portland city political positions are nonpartisan. Portland "democrats" can range from center right (rene gonzalez) to progressive left (no one). I'm hopeful RCV will help. Eric Adams may have a D next to his name but he&#x27

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