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by mumblemumble 2y ago
True. That said in any non-trivial project, writing in the first place and rewriting aren't too different from each other in practice. Assuming someone doesn't have the ability to maintain a consistent and always-accurate mental m
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by mumblemumble 2y ago
So, that code gets me thinking about premature optimization. In the "verschlimmbessern born of optimizing the wrong thing because you didn't use measurement to guide your efforts" sense. The rule of thumb I hear is that, in a
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by mumblemumble 2y ago
You spin up a fresh server from a cookie cutter image that lets you create a practically unlimited number of identical servers. That's not even remotely like how rewriting code works. Rewriting code is more comparable to what spinning
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
"Lower prices" doesn't necessarily mean they just suddenly and immediately drop. That's no surprise; dropping prices purely out of the goodness of your heart isn't terribly good business practice. Also, for a lot of
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
Apparent earlier draft of the paper: https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/100393/1/MPRA_paper_100393.p... I haven't paid to read the linked article, but the abstracts do differ significantly. Perhaps the work in t
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
My understanding is that excise taxation is generally agreed upon as the preferred method for governments to manipulate the market, both because it incurs fewer deadweight losses and because it tends to actually work better. So, what if we
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
And even then, I no longer believe that "removes as much friction as possible compared to local functions" is a desirable goal in the first place. Over the course of my short 20-year career, I've encountered far too many appl
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
The last mile might not be too bad, but Google Maps says the total trip is 2 hours one way.
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
I haven't. Brookfield isn't really accessible if you live in the city and don't have a car.
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
If we renamed regulatory terms of art every time members of the public misinterpreted them, we would be changing terminology so often that we'd end up with everyone being confused, not just some people.
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
It was for manufacturing. It's not as great as one would hope for actually playing. The city has an ordnance that says that you need a special "public place of amusement" license if you have more than 3 machines and are open
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
The organizer of a pinball tournament league I used to participate in expressed regret about buying his own machine. The up-front price of buying one isn't terrible, no. What he disliked was that he felt committed to that one single ma
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
OK, so this is definitely something to follow up on. But also, that other recall for the warning lights being too small that the article mentions really caught my eye. Seems like Tesla failed the brown M&M test[1] on that one. 1: https
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
Read about different note-taking methods, try them, and decide which one you like best.
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
The best tool for that kind of thing is developing good note-taking skills. When I'm doing language study, for example, the backbone of my memory reinforcement strategy is a plain old pen-and-paper notebook. Anki is only used for speci
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
I rent individual movies for $3-4 apiece, and that turns out to be a big win over Netflix because I typically only watch 1-2 movies per month, and the rental service has a bigger library. But I think that I'm a very unusual consumer in
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
Take a look at a video of a pin setting machine in action - https://youtu.be/Iod6uwUGM2E?si=BKNipS2E-geJEJEk , for example. Basically, it's not just the force to move a single 1.5 kg pin. It's the force needed to m
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
Zip disks were Iomega.
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
That's presumably what the last 4 or 5 words of the post were alluding to.
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
I think, though, that your argument depends very directly on hardware implementation concerns, which is exactly the kind of thing that big O notation is meant to abstract away.
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
IEEE 1789 lays a lot of that out. In a nutshell, LEDs are harsher.
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
Even flicker that isn't perceptible to humans is still associated with increases in all sorts of things including eyestrain, headaches, anxiety, migraines, and seizures. 150Hz is well below the human perceptual threshold but still with
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
That's kind of exactly what I'm getting at. Officially licensed Unix is all but dead. It was outcompeted by freer (choose your own capitalization, either works) POSIX operating systems.
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
> Remember when UNIX was given away free? > How many of you are using UNIX now? It is licensed. Fast forward 30 years... or 20. Ten, for that matter.
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
I guess it's a little hard to find from their home page because the top search widget thingy is for longer-term reservations, but if you scroll down and choose the "coworking" tab, there's a tile for coworking day passes
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
Seems unlikely they'd go for that under any circumstances. I know they claim billions in assets, but I'm guessing it's all stuff whose resale value has tanked since 2020 and WeWork's actual liquidation value is $0 give o
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
Regus has been selling that for ages and ages. They have more locations in more cities in more countries, too. If they're not as well-known, I'm guessing it's because they're just a boring old real estate company and not
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
I have learned to expect buses to be delayed by up to 45 minutes during commuting times. Trains slow down at peak hours, too, because more people getting on and off means more time stopped in stations, but in my experience it typically only
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
Buses are only a good compromise as long as car usage remains low. For example, in Chicago car ownership has increased as wealthy people move back into the city, and quality of bus service has declined because buses are also stuck in all th
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
That isn't a whole lot more than the cost per kilometer to construct urban roads with a comparable passenger throughput, though. And construction cost alone isn't exactly a fair price comparison because users of urban roads tend t

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