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by niftich 8y ago
I disagree. The decline of mechanized agricultural America makes for an enlightening comparison to the fate of the mechanized manufacturing Rust Belt and its eventual decline. After all, the common thread does seem to be that mechanization
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There's a lot that can be unpacked here -- several accurate observations, but in my opinion the author stretches the metaphor too wide to accommodate a narrative, then offers an underwhelming conclusion in turn. They simply mean recipe
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I'm not sure Cupertino is a good example, because until the 1960s it was all orchards and fields, and the entire town was built in blocks of subdivisions like your usual checkerboard suburb like Henderson or Chandler. Sunnyvale was the
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by niftich 8y ago
The same as it's been since the 1890s [1]. You move further and further out, because that's all you can afford. When you're rich enough to upgrade a bigger place, you move again, and everyone else does the same. Then some sub
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by niftich 8y ago
Well yeah, both the US and the EU conveniently ignore antitrust concerns when it's their golden geese on the line. Simply put, to each respective party, having the domestic aircraft company have a leg up over the other is paramount, wh
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Someone who speaks a language written in a latin script can approximately pronounce Hungarian words by sight, even if they mispronounce digraphs and ignore diacritics. Familiarity with the script alone will aid one-way verbal communication
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by niftich 8y ago
Hearts and minds. The immense monetary cost and hassle of doing so is weighed up against developing a closer connection to Turkey and Azerbaijan, ostensibly [1]; but the cultural subtext of easing consumption and learning of other latin-scr
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by niftich 8y ago
It's not sensible for pushes to be implemented in a caching layer, because pushes are effectively the manual overrides to the User-Agent's own caching; conversely, the User-Agent's cache is perfectly appropriate as a cache, a
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by niftich 8y ago
In 2016, the Chromium team at Google produced a document [1] that examines usecases for HTTP/2 Push, talks about deployment models, and analyzes whether it's worth it. In this particular case, you'd push static content becaus
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by niftich 8y ago
They absolutely did, and that's the entire point: the growth-begets-growth tautology of land (and job) development in the US; a subtly-hyped gold rush for milquetoast everymen wherein people tired of high costs of living are trying to
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by niftich 8y ago
Manhattan is a byword for the unhappy worst-of-both-worlds situation where you have premium luxury housing no one can afford or run-down walk-ups where you're paying thousands a month for a hole-in-the-wall; pedestrians overrun the sid
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by niftich 8y ago
In my opinion, the most notable innovation of Bitcoin is the incentive and PoW-reward for the continued upkeep and health of the network, and I often wonder why so much of the literature around blockchains misses or glosses over this fact.
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by niftich 8y ago
It's both. City planners are constrained to their own jurisdiction, so they're trying to come out ahead by ensuring that the next wave of growth doesn't leave them behind. They're trying to solve a local optimization pro
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by niftich 8y ago
The article's point is that the churn of spillover-boomtowns will continue: once the current crop of towns starts getting built out and accumulating problems like unaffordable housing, nightmarish traffic, lack of easy greenfield land
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by niftich 9y ago
Lots of hardware acceleration: - Intel QSV-accelerated MJPEG encoding - NVIDIA NVDEC-accelerated H.264, HEVC, MJPEG, MPEG-1/2/4, VC1, VP8/9 hwaccel decoding - Intel QSV-accelerated overlay filter - OpenCL overlay filter - VAA
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by niftich 9y ago
Discontinuing Amtrak's long-distance services -- which are clearly not competitive in terms of ticket price or travel time with alternatives -- comes up time and time again, by members of Congress and commentators alike. However, succe
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by niftich 9y ago
This is mostly true, but in fact the route currently used by the California Zephyr through the Rockies (Salt Lake City - Soldier Summit - Moffat Tunnel - Denver) was built by the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad or its predecessors [1
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by niftich 9y ago
If you're driving alone -- a reasonable assumption if you'd be in the market for a train -- a 31-hour "Google Maps" roadtrip takes 3 days, assuming ~10 hours of "map-time" driving, followed by 6+ hours of civil
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by niftich 9y ago
Some additional references: 'Demo: ShadowMaps, the urban phone tracking system', 2014 [1] 'ShadowMaps Takes Top Prizes in UCSB’s New Venture Competition', 2014 [2] 'How Uber moves the ‘blue dot’ to improve GPS accur
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by niftich 9y ago
In my opinion, the strategy behind this particular change is actually a lot more clear than some of their past ones [1]. Allo didn't gain significant ground and failed to displace WhatsApp, so they can't fight Facebook on that f
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by niftich 9y ago
This happened to me, and caused me to rethink my approach file management. Unfortunately, mainstream tooling is largely fire-and-forget and never includes verification (e.g. copying succeeds even if the written data is getting garbled), so
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by niftich 9y ago
In 2001, Car and Driver magazine wrote an article [1] on this that supplies additional narration, context, and detail. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140913050248/http://www.carand...
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by niftich 9y ago
FWIW I'm recounting his own perspective [1], sourced [2][3]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12685595#12689331 [2] https://f50collective.com/2016/09/19/brutalist-architecture&#x2
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Just the other day I voiced [1] a concern on a ZFS thread about not enough modern filesystems [2] shipping as defaults (or being recommended as such), despite some of these filesystems having been around for many years. This is a promising
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Then again, the label 'brutalist' is fraught with conflated interpretations that to some followed logically, yet in other contexts they appear to be in conflict. From the very beginning, the term sprung out of linguistic confusion
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As for "exposed structures", I'd include the prominence of the box model underlying the rendered HTML, emphasized by visible borders and/or distinct backgrounds. As others are mentioning, the border-heavy http:/&#x
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A few years ago, you could usually find paper towels in public bathrooms. These were useful for many reasons, not the least bit for actually drying your hands in <10 seconds. After a long drive, you could freshen up by washing your face,
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by niftich 9y ago
The last few years of research have driven the point home [1] that 'air-gapping' is to be interpreted in a quantum sense -- within the domain of information theory and physical observability -- instead of merely not punching any f
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by niftich 9y ago
nixing ~31% of expected weight loss actual + 0.45 * actual = expected 1.45 actual = expected 1 actual = 0.69 expected
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Exercising mice lessen aimless movement, nixing some of expected weight loss

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