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by pbourke 5y ago
You wrote: > 14 people died at an Amazon facility This is false. From the article that you linked: > Even as floods that have killed at least 14 swept through the city, warehouses remained open.
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by pbourke 5y ago
Kelowna?
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> Conservatives aren't against rules, they are against changing rules. That doesn’t ring true to me. Both liberals and conservatives want to change and preserve rules according to their viewpoints.
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> Do we see a greater percentage of entrepreneurs from Canada or Europe than from the US? Yes, if one uses self-employment as a proxy for entrepreneurship. The US trails Canada and Western European countries in self employment as a perce
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by pbourke 5y ago
Reddit is kinda-sorta a forum site. You can treat a single sub as a forum by ordering posts chronologically. phpbb style forums still exist and are the best place to discuss some topics. In the RV/truck space there are still many forum
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by pbourke 5y ago
> While I consider myself a really solid full stack developer and believe that Pony's infrastructure is secure, I do not have the requisite experience with cryptography to honestly represent to people that this is a private platform
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With a bit of telemetry, you’d know in advance what your load is going to look like, allowing you to scale up or down resources (if you design the system that way)
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by pbourke 5y ago
No, I meant the trans-Canada. That’s remote enough for me :)
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by pbourke 5y ago
> west of Timmins Yep. Sudbury to Kenora is some lonely road with a few “no services next 150km” stretches
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by pbourke 5y ago
I’m sure you’re aware, but just in case: bring tire chains if you’re crossing Washington mountain passes as they can sometimes be required.
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by pbourke 5y ago
> Banking, for example, is such a clear-cut case of competition not being detrimental for Canadians How much does the average Canadian pay per month for their chequing account?
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> It doesn't even really seem like any of the high paying jobs are enough to keep up with this insane market. Compared to two years ago, it’s much more likely that you can get paid a coastal tech salary yet live in an affordable cit
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by pbourke 5y ago
At a certain size, big tech develops efficient systems to transmute forward-thinking younger talent into slightly jaded mid career pros excited for 1% improvements and 30s off the build. The world needs both types of people and companies ne
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by pbourke 5y ago
> ‘Specifically, the judge saves texts from his friends by taking screenshots and emailing them to himself. He showed one such screenshot to the courtroom today, noting that “some of them are pretty long” and “show up in my email like th
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by pbourke 5y ago
The argument, which I do not buy as sufficient but add here for completeness, is that it’s better for your large purchases (ie rent) to clear before your $10 lunch, etc.
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> mechanics don't like the people who want to do the bare minimum amount of work all the time Does anyone? > oil change on a '15 4Runner owned by some yuppie Yuppies don’t drive 7 year old cars
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by pbourke 5y ago
> If people are going to switch to EVs for lower TCO, the EVs will need to get a lot cheaper. Or gas will need to get a lot more expensive, which is what governments are planning to do.
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by pbourke 5y ago
1. There are other countries 2. What if Tesla gets $1-2k ARR along with each sale for charging or other services?
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by pbourke 5y ago
> People aren't going to suddenly start paying more for cars than housing. People aren't going to suddenly own 30 cars a piece. Tesla is never going to grow enough to be worth it's current market cap. There are around 290M
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by pbourke 5y ago
Very cool to have a piece of your own computing history that you can reinterpret/carry forward.
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by pbourke 5y ago
Did you use Godot for this game? Are you working on a next game? Congratulations on getting it finished and out there!
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by pbourke 5y ago
> In a large corporation, their boss would swing by and tell them customers need that tool, and it can't be removed willy-nilly. Vastly more arbitrary and intrusive changes routinely occur in large corporations, where community comp
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by pbourke 5y ago
> my more ordinary programming work as a Python backend developer Did you use Python for your game as well? This looks really cool - congratulations on making the leap to full time.
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by pbourke 5y ago
Car rentals? Tool rentals? Camera equipment rentals? Leeches, all of them?
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by pbourke 5y ago
> Anyone whose main income is from other peoples rent has an incredible amount of explaining to do if they want to claim that they are anything but a useless leech What would you envision as the alternative to tenanted apartment complexe
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by pbourke 5y ago
> No one who was against the Iraq War from the onset is doing particularly well. Would that include President Obama?
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by pbourke 5y ago
I wonder if it would help to decorate compute_mandelbrot with @numba.jit(parallel=True) and change your call to range to a numba.prange. Ironically I’m going through this process at work this week to improve the performance of scipy.stats.k
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by pbourke 5y ago
> The real fear was that there would be a run on masks by the public, making them unavailable for hospital use. Ironically the run on masks had begun months earlier. I snagged a box of N95 construction masks in late Jan 2020, and they we
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by pbourke 5y ago
Awesome! That brings it down to 0.57s on my machine - a 56x improvement from the original. Thanks for bringing it further.
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The Python-only version can be sped up using vectorized numpy operations: import time from PIL import Image import numpy as np def PyMandelbrot(size): t1 = time.time() xPts = np.arange(-1.5, 0.5, 2.0 / size).re

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