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by occz 2y ago
>At the end of the day, Spotify's north-star metric is average dollars of cost per minute of audio consumed Where did you get this from? All available answers when searching seem to point out "Time Spent Listening" being t
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by occz 2y ago
This is a hilariously bad take, honestly. It essentially ignores every single argument/observation made regarding induced demand and just calls it a day. What kind of a joke organization even made it? 'Urban Reform Institute'
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by occz 2y ago
The target audience for this kind of article - Android engineers - do not need any more convincing on why Kotlin is superior to Java. This is a debate that has been settled in the Android community since a long time ago. I'd be willing
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by occz 2y ago
One person using a swimming pool means that another person cannot use that particular fraction of the same swimming pool at the same time. Again, this does not apply to intellectual property, which is infinitely reproducible.
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by occz 2y ago
There's a crucial difference between intellectual property and physical property - in the case of physical property, someone else having it necessitates that you cannot have it. Intellectual property is infinitely reproducible and some
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by occz 2y ago
I'd consider it equal or better in all regards. - Top-level functions/main is supported - data classes are approximately as good as records - A scripting mode comes built in, and can use annotations to import and use dependencies
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by occz 2y ago
Probably zero maintenance on old code, only adding new things. Not exactly a recipe for a long-term healthy code base, and helps explain the revolving door phenomenon previously mentioned.
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by occz 2y ago
This is not a politician whose opinion anyone needs to take seriously. She's a constant source of extremely bad takes, the latest of which being dismissing expert criticism of her governments extremely poor plan to subsidize new nuclea
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by occz 2y ago
Storage technology is catching up quickly in terms of economics. It's long been uneconomical to run, but similarly to wind and sola, the prices are plummeting and quickly making the alternatives obsolete. Remember how solar and wind we
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by occz 2y ago
The article mentions the existence of such a tax.
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by occz 2y ago
Looking at the source code for llama.cpp, it's not strictly speaking set up for success as far as build times are concerned, is it? Having 20k+ lines is a bad idea for many reasons, and this is certainly one of them. I'm sure the
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by occz 2y ago
This is true, and it's kind of a bummer to be honest. There's some serious time being wasted on recompilation that could be avoided with a really sharp build system. Bazel comes with its own bag of sharp edges though so it's
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by occz 2y ago
I missed that part. That is a pretty significant downside in that case.
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by occz 2y ago
If you're on something reasonably smart like Bazel it will be able to determine whether the module itself has been changed and requires recompilation instead of running from cache.
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by occz 2y ago
While the pursuit of faster build times is definitely a worthy cause, I feel like there's something I'm not quite seeing here. Does the JSON-code change frequently enough to incur build cache misses and the full minute penalty? Is
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by occz 2y ago
Cool project! Some regional feedback coming from Sweden - your source data set is not 100% in line with what most workers in Sweden will get. For example, 24 December, 31 December and Midsummer's Eve are not reflected as days off in th
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by occz 2y ago
My company basically has EMs shifted one step up from engineers, making their pay bands L+1 from ICs with the same numbered title.
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by occz 2y ago
Feel free to operate your car at a non-lethal speed if your driving skills do not permit you to damage other road users. In the neighborhood of 20 km/h should probably allow you to never commit fatal mistakes.
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by occz 2y ago
A good first step would be to impose liability for engineers designing roads which predictably leads to the deaths of its users. I imagine a road-building engineer would think twice before approving a road with an unsafe design speed if it
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by occz 2y ago
Believe it or not, it's not allowed to drive in a manner which kills other road users breaking the rules of the road. If not, I would be well within my rights to push speeding drivers (the vast majority in my experience) off the road w
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by occz 2y ago
This is a problem you solve not by sacrificing the lives of others, but instead by designing built environments not dependent on driving cars.
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by occz 2y ago
We could compromise by turning up the liability for hitting someone with a car to eleven, making it unfeasible for anyone to even consider driving in a manner which threatens the life of another. Of course, we'd have to implement unlim
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by occz 2y ago
This is baffling to the point where it almost feels like satire. What are you going to tell me next, that the bicyclist committed a faux pas by not tipping the ambulance driver?
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by occz 2y ago
The financialization of housing has been an unmitigated disaster and must be rolled back at all costs. The responsible individuals are unfortunately long dead and we will never be able to hold them to account - the next best thing we can do
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by occz 2y ago
Induction ranges stop heating when you remove the cookware from them however, making this somewhat less of a concern. Still bad design on many levels, but not quite what I would call a safety hazard for this reason alone.
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by occz 2y ago
Cars are quite simply not a good basis for a societal transportation system, and this is yet another condemning data point.
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by occz 2y ago
Upgrading when multiple versions behind is significantly more risky than doing it when the update is relatively fresh. Additionally, actions done frequently are less risky than actions done rarely, since you develop skills in performing tha
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by occz 2y ago
This reads like satire, but I'm not sure that it is and it's frightening me a bit.
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by occz 2y ago
This took me a long time to figure out: it's ok to not like running. There are other forms of physical activity that may appeal more to you, which you can do in place of running. I'm personally into biking, which gets me more than
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by occz 2y ago
I suppose that depends on how you implement `times` for the `Percent`-class. One way would be to say that 10% * 2 = 20%, making this expression evaluate to 12, in accordance with Kotlin operator precedence [1]. It's possible to avoid m

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