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by nayuki 3y ago
Even in suburbs, parking can be used as a talking point to block densification projects. Oh no, we're going to build a 10-storey apartment, where are the residents going to park??//
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by nayuki 3y ago
You can't exactly replicate the density of congested cars as people on buses... Although here is an attempt from a Saturn commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_oWmY_mkCA
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by nayuki 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downs%E2%80%93Thomson_paradox , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQY6WGOoYis "Do Your Buses Get Stuck in Traffic? Traffic solutions & the Downs-Thomson Paradox&quo
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by nayuki 3y ago
Residential streets in Tokyo are narrow and sometimes barely fit one car. As for parking, well, it's market price. It's expensive because parking has been subsidized as the default in vast majority of the world.
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by nayuki 3y ago
> make the remaining 10% [of street parking] incredibly expensive and time limited to short durations which makes it so that spots are always available for someone that actually needs it for something like moving I see you studied the wo
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by nayuki 3y ago
> How to quit cars Step 0: Start watching Not Just Bikes - https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustBikes/videos Step 0.5: Browse through r/FuckCars - https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/
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by nayuki 3y ago
Everything you said is true. I kept my original comment short to emphasize the shortage as the main cause of price increases. A shortage occurs when supply is less than demand. It can happen even as both increase, as long as supply increase
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by nayuki 3y ago
Housing prices rose not because of two-income households but because of housing shortages. Because homes for sale are in short supply, the homeowner can pick and choose the highest bidder.
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by nayuki 3y ago
> I wonder where we’d be if the idea of CPU-independent bytecode had ever really taken off [...] convert it to the actual machine code, about which the OS might know nothing, and could vary incompatibly from CPU to CPU, even among differ
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by nayuki 3y ago
> Variable length instructions are not as trivial to decode wide, so you need more cleverness here. However, fixed length instructions decrease code density This is true in theory but I question how much it applies to current CPUs. A pro
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by nayuki 3y ago
Immigration? I'm pretty sure there are enough problems with locally born men who are criminals. Immigration is but a drop in the bucket when it comes to problems.
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by nayuki 3y ago
The good ol' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room argument ... with audio files!
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by nayuki 3y ago
I don't think this reformed calendar goes far enough. Many of our services are billed monthly - Internet, phone, electricity, property tax, etc. I don't know if the pax week would be considered its own super-short month or fused i
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by nayuki 3y ago
Discouraging car use through high prices could be a great thing. But cities have been designed to favor car convenience so much, at the expense of everything else (walking, cycling, mass transit), that people are essentially forced to buy a
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by nayuki 3y ago
> Why is HN so eager to cheer vaccines wherever it can? There was no guarantee that the world could develop and test an effective, safe vaccine in less than a year.
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by nayuki 3y ago
The claim that bonds store energy is a frequent misconception. Bonds are the result of lost energy compared to free, unbound atoms. If bonds don't store energy, how does breaking hydrocarbon bonds release energy? It doesn't - it&#
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by nayuki 3y ago
True. It's not the same electron... but electrons are also perfectly fungible. Quantum physics guarantees that.
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by nayuki 3y ago
The amount of audio stored on a tape depends on the transport speed chosen. Slower speed means less bandwidth, which means high-frequency signals are lost. The amount of audio stored on a vinyl record depends on the amplitude of the signal.
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by nayuki 3y ago
Exactly, I was going to point out the same thing. The flash cells might be charged or discharged of electrons, but the whole flash drive can't have a net charge or else you will certainly feel it. And because no solid/liquid/
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by nayuki 3y ago
Playing in different musical keys would be a lot easier if the piano keyboard was like these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isomorphic_keyboard , https://www.lumatone.io/ , https://en.wikipe
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by nayuki 4y ago
My minimal, open-source implementations in a couple of languages: https://www.nayuki.io/page/time-based-one-time-password-tool... The shortest one I have is a 6-line Python function using only the standard library. I n
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by nayuki 4y ago
Only related by name, IOSYS is one of my favorites due to their catchy Touhou Project derivative music and funny Flash videos.
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by nayuki 4y ago
My only time ever seeing and using client-side certificates was when I used StartSSL's service to get a free server certificate. It was an interesting experience and radically different from the usual experience of registering on a web
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by nayuki 4y ago
> Do MIME types in HTTP headers affect how browsers render content? They absolutely do matter. To make an extreme point, if that page was served as text/plain, then the browser would show the literal XHTML source code on screen. Aut
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by nayuki 4y ago
This page is delivered with the media type of text/html, not application/xhtml+xml. So it's not even using XHTML.
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by nayuki 4y ago
Thank you! I am very fond of the non-grouped taskbar with title text and small icons, which is the classic functional design in Windows 95/98/2000/Me. I turned off grouping ever since XP. Starting in 7, I turned off the defau
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by nayuki 4y ago
> You'd think it would be "solved" by now... Or is that just in Java world? I'm not sure what you mean but I'll try to relate. Automatic garbage collection is a problem not just in the Java world. It's also
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by nayuki 4y ago
It seems ZGC's autotuning is following in the footsteps of Azul's proprietary C4 (Continuously Concurrent Compacting Collector) which came a decade or two earlier. Both GCs are low-latency and their main tuning option is just the
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by nayuki 4y ago
Chinese doesn't have to use A-to-Z with Pinyin. There are input methods like Cangjie, Wubi, Bopomofo, 1-to-9 stroking on number pads, and handwriting. But yes, pinyin A-to-Z is the most pragmatic for many reasons.
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by nayuki 4y ago
When I was a schoolkid, I received various lesson materials that labelled homophones as homonyms. It took me years to discover that was wrong and unlearn that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homonym#Related_terms

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