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by nayuki 3y ago
And individual people driving themselves is not a waste of human potential?
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by nayuki 3y ago
You're right. Congestion pricing affects the psychology of the driver, regardless of where the money goes - even if it's set on fire (thus causing a minuscule amount of deflation). To assign the congestion money to a specific proj
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by nayuki 3y ago
There is a physical reason why I/O speed doesn't scale with density. When the density of data on disks gets denser, it does so on both axes - x and y, or radial and tangential. But read/write heads only access one track at a
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by nayuki 3y ago
I documented my Dvorak experience in an FAQ. https://www.nayuki.io/page/i-type-in-dvorak
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by nayuki 3y ago
The title makes me think of "MySQLgame - a game that just is a database" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5964816 , https://hackaday.com/2008/08/23/mysqlgame-playing-with-datab..
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by nayuki 3y ago
It would be even better if Wikipedia themselves fixed the problem. Here's how I would like to see it: There is only one URL per article, not a desktop URL versus m-dot URL. When you land on the page, if you have no cookie, then Wikiped
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by nayuki 3y ago
> I wish I could scan a qrcode and let this website explain it to me Here you go: https://qrlogo.kaarposoft.dk/qrdecode.html
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by nayuki 3y ago
> I think the pattern has a fixed location that is defined by the version. Correct, the alignment patterns only depend on the version, not the error correction level or text encoding. Source: I read the spec and wrote my own QR encoder l
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by nayuki 3y ago
Someone made a decoding video tutorial a decade ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA8hDldvfv0
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by nayuki 3y ago
Every review I've read/watched universally warns that ceramic non-stick doesn't last long. We're talking on the order of 1 year before it's useless. e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G21f_ny_lxs
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by nayuki 3y ago
I recently switched to stainless steel. Had to get the hang of pre-heating the pan to ~150 °C before adding oil and eggs.
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by nayuki 3y ago
Beat the entire thing in an hour. This game was creative, challenging, and frustrating. Have my angry upvote.
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by nayuki 3y ago
So, the downvotes and replies warrants a follow-up comment. I support deterministic compilers due to deterministic builds. For a given input source code, compiler executable, and command-line flags, it should always produce the same binary,
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by nayuki 3y ago
> And because compilers are largely deterministic closed-system problems -- for each input, there is one and only output Not even close! Optimization and code generation is a fantastically hard problem full of heuristics and tradeoffs. T
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by nayuki 3y ago
Yes, the Canon EOS 400D body accepts all EF and EF-S lenses.
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by nayuki 3y ago
Books can't have interactive sliders.
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by nayuki 3y ago
> Between walking to the stop, waiting for train/bus, time on train/bus, then walking from the stop - car is almost always faster. Until 100 people want to do the same thing as you, each in their own car. Traffic congestion and
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by nayuki 3y ago
Are children not imprisoned in the suburbs because they can't drive?
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by nayuki 3y ago
From the article: > Some of those things include enforcing speed limits, limiting traffic within neighbourhoods, and regulating modified exhausts, the orientation of bedrooms, pavement type, tires, and so on.
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by nayuki 3y ago
I live in Toronto and modified exhausts on motorcycles and cars are quite common and annoying. I don't see any enforcement action whatsoever.
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by nayuki 3y ago
I've seen screenless "tap to pay" thingies before, so it is possible. https://www.rogers.com/business/blog/en/tapping-into-the-dem...
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by nayuki 3y ago
> We don’t have any parking for cars. Cars kill innocent pedestrians and emit toxic gas. Cars ruin cities. I see they resonate with Reddit/FuckCars.
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by nayuki 3y ago
Forget retraining. Should we teach kids on a new keyboard layout? Should manufacturers put out more hardware options? Should software developers make alternative layouts more visible and easier to choose? There's a cycle here: Existing
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by nayuki 3y ago
> Also Control/Command C, X, and V are impossible to do with one hand while holding your mouse unless you remap keys or create macros. Disagree, I do this easily without macros. One important thing is that in Dvorak, I find myself u
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by nayuki 3y ago
2 million parking spaces? Hah, try 8M. https://www.fastcompany.com/90645900/america-has-eight-parki...
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by nayuki 3y ago
> bus rapid transit might even become profitable to run privately Growing up in Toronto, I always assumed that public transit just provides transportation and nothing more. Their income comes from tickets and from government subsidies. I
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by nayuki 3y ago
It is what it says. Buses, trains, and planes are mass transportation - you have to travel with other people and make stops with them. Cars, bikes, and walking are individual transportation - you travel alone and navigate yourself. geff82&#
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by nayuki 3y ago
EVs will not reduce tire particulate pollution. In fact they will make it worse. Having paved roads means salting them in the winter. This has detrimental effects on rivers and wildlife.
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by nayuki 3y ago
Ironically MMM recently splurged on a Tesla after driving a cheap car for a decade. https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2023/04/27/why-buy-model-y/ In the past he railed against car usage: https:/&#x2F
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by nayuki 3y ago
Malls are an imperfect substitute for urbanism. Malls have closing hours, streets don't. Malls are usually surrounded by moats of parking so that drivers get priority and pedestrians / transit riders have walk a long and dangerous

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