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by na85 4y ago
>Yes, but now the roads carry more people. You can't fix congestion, but you can make it so the roads can sustain the local population, even if they're traveling at 20mph during rush hour. Yeah and then the city grows and you a
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by na85 4y ago
>if traffic is a problem then streets should be expanded Quite the opposite. Traffic will expand like a gas to meet the available capacity. You can only make the roads so wide, but never will it be wide enough to abate traffic congestion
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by na85 4y ago
Not when you're on a scooter, I would think. Having been to both (but not having driven a scooter in Atlanta) I'd suggest scooting around Paris is very different than scooting around Atlanta.
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by na85 4y ago
>Shockingly, most food delivery people don’t use cars… Depending on geographic location, no doubt. Can you imagine risking your life on a scooter weaving through idiots in their lifted pickups in any American metro?
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by na85 4y ago
I don't know what that means.
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by na85 4y ago
Seems to me the solution to that problem is to fix the problems with American schools that produce such illiterate citizens, rather than continue dumbing everything down.
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by na85 4y ago
>Outlook(web) does atrocious top-quoting rendering it useless for mailing lists. The weirdly aggressive way people talk about top vs bottom quoting is probably one of the things turning new users away from mailing lists.
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by na85 4y ago
>Is your goal to (try to) teach people new words, or to communicate your points? Fancy words exist for a reason, and it's that their semantics are different from other words. Sometimes using a fancy word is the correct choice, and s
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by na85 4y ago
>I wonder how it measures up to Julia In what way? Julia is of course an entire language ecosystem whereas lisp-stat is a collection of packages mostly maintained by a single dude.
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by na85 4y ago
I believe it was the engineering school of the University of Waterloo that had (still has?) a giant pipe wrench called the Rigid Tool as their mascot.
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by na85 4y ago
>We also don't want to foster a "chemicals are bad" attitude more than it already exists. I dunno, I kinda think we do want to foster that.
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by na85 4y ago
I use gluten free cast iron orbital sander for maximum smug.
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by na85 4y ago
I just used an orbital sander on mine. It does scrambled eggs no probt.
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by na85 4y ago
>Who are these beginner devs? Hi, I was one at one point. I'm an aerospace engineer, not a software guy. I merely dabble in coding and as such I don't know how to implement a quadtree or what Dijkstra's Algorithm is for.
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by na85 4y ago
>Absolutely not. If you've actually done the research that leads the knowledge gatekeeper to ask these, these questions are easy for you to answer. Depending on the specifics of the question being asked, sure, I agree. But speaking
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by na85 4y ago
Right, as if my "How do I do X?" wasn't merely illustrative. Standard HN pedantry pls go.
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by na85 4y ago
>Chat room helpers often will try and lead you to discover the right answer yourself. It may feel frustrating, but play their game and you will learn. This is the discussion level of the pyramid. I fucking hate this so much. You spend ho
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by na85 4y ago
This has been my experience as well. When I worked in military SAR, interruptions in service provision (i.e. aircraft breaking down, or lack of crews, etc.) very quickly attracted attention of some very senior brass. The people who couldn&#
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by na85 4y ago
US Treasury rates
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by na85 4y ago
I really like emacs and use it whenever I can. I wish the community of emacs users and contributors was larger, but emacs is so clunky out of the box it's really hard to onboard new people.
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by na85 4y ago
Good grief. It's blatantly obvious that what's being discussed is "always online 3rd syncthing peer as a service".
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by na85 4y ago
The United States is not, strictly speaking, a democracy. The people don't make decisions. They elect people who make decisions, thus it is a republic.
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by na85 4y ago
Not sure how old you are but the internet of today is not the same as it was when I was growing up.
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by na85 4y ago
National Security Letters or their equivalent in other jurisdictions render the "no business incentive" argument to be moot.
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by na85 4y ago
Tomatoes crossed the Atlantic during the Spanish conquest, so the Italians had several hundred years to adapt to tomatoes.
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by na85 4y ago
I've tried a lot of different solutions and none really work for me. In the end, I went back to pencil and paper. Not pen, but pencil. I buy good quality notebooks like the Midori MD Paper A5, and good quality pencils like the Mars Lu
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by na85 4y ago
I just go cold turkey every few months when my caffeine tolerance gets out of hand.
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by na85 4y ago
I have always been partial to .uha, the files produced by Uwe Herklotz' UHARC archive utility. I mostly ran into them on pirated game rips downloaded from DALnet IRC in the 90s and early aughts. It's extremely slow, however. If I
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by na85 4y ago
I'm sure if you google around you'll find some articles but, from my perspective as an aerospace engineer who used to work on C-130s: It's an absolute workhorse. If you've ever been up close to a museum fighter plane, t
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by na85 4y ago
Having worked briefly in military procurement, I can tell you the system is set up in a very bureaucratic way. Certainly there are companies that the military wants to buy from. For all the shit about the F-35, Lockheed Martin probably empl

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