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by perrygeo 5y ago
Check out Will Chrichton's talk "Type-Driven API Design in Rust" where he live-codes a tqdm-like progress bar for Rust iterators. Solid presentation and eye-opening how straightforward it was to extend the core language throu
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by perrygeo 5y ago
No. It's really not. Every company that has previously obtained your work for free will be offended by having to pay for it. Worst case, you'll be attacked for rent-seeking. Best case, you'll be ignored but your work will use
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by perrygeo 5y ago
Very similar. I can conjure a brief glimpse of an image but never hold onto it for longer than a few hundred ms. I'm left with a notion just as much tactile and 3D/spatial but without any visual imagery attached. At best, it'
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by perrygeo 5y ago
I have a reMarkable 2 and I really enjoy it. Before the weekend, I can load it up with pdfs of all the articles and books I hope to catch up on. Then I can spend all weekend reading them with natural light, marking them up, drawing notes, e
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by perrygeo 5y ago
In the mid-1990s I dropped out of college and took a temp job doing data entry, a job that was supposed to last 6 months. I had very minimal programming skills but even so, it was clear from the first day that I could automate the entire jo
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by perrygeo 5y ago
Agreed. I deleted my accounts on (almost) every social media provider who I did not feel respected my basic human rights and didn't look back. Did I loose touch with anyone? Maybe, but if my connection to them was mediated only by soci
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by perrygeo 5y ago
I grew up in the US but when I visited India (Bengaluru) the first thing that struck me was the chaotic nature of the streets. Everyone seemed to be following their own personal set of traffic laws and it just worked out. The nice side-effe
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by perrygeo 5y ago
Tying our economy to digging up fossil carbon is not working out much better.
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by perrygeo 5y ago
30 billion+ and growing at roughly 5% annually. That means 1.5 billion tons CO2/yr, or 1,500 new facilities coming online this year and every year after... just to maintain our current (devastatingly high) CO2 levels. All this talk abo
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by perrygeo 5y ago
The RCP8.5 scenario would require that humanity burned almost every last drop of oil and did nothing to mitigate carbon. That's not likely because the remaining fossil fuel deposits are significantly more costly and energy-intensive to
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by perrygeo 5y ago
This! In a world where oil discovery, extraction and distribution was ever increasing, betting on a bigger energy pie in the future made sense. All of our macro-economic theories were developed under the naive assumption of an increasing f
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by perrygeo 5y ago
"Warp" is also the name of a popular Rust web framework. ( https://github.com/seanmonstar/warp )
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by perrygeo 5y ago
Most implementations of hydroelectric power involve cutting off and severely degrading the habitat of aquatic life, both upstream and downstream. Societies depend on these resources so it's hard to justify calling hydro power sustainab
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by perrygeo 5y ago
Excellent point! When a technology becomes more efficient it goes from being something useful to something game-altering (literally). There's a good analogy to professional road cycling. Before Lance Armstrong, of course cyclists did d
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by perrygeo 5y ago
Yeah "Dirty little secret" - at this point, is it really a secret? Scuffed balls, spitballs, various sticky substances, etc has been used to alter baseball pitches for decades. A pitcher from my high school got caught (and banned
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by perrygeo 5y ago
So when making medical decisions you should... not consider empirical evidence? n=1 is good enough when n is the only subject in question. My n=1 experience with "tylenol" is that, even carefully prescribed, the use of acetaminoph
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by perrygeo 5y ago
Anecdotal, but my subjective experience and that of my family, is that acetaminophen is worthless for pain management. Given that is poses an active risk to liver function, I can't justify its use at all. It's far too dangerous to
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by perrygeo 5y ago
If you do things properly as an engineer, you've already negotiated and committed to service-level agreements with specific downtime objectives, right? Right? If you've got say 5 minutes of downtime budget per month, do you really
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by perrygeo 6y ago
Sequence diagrams? https://plantuml.com/sequence-diagram
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by perrygeo 6y ago
But what if your project was at least guaranteed a fighting chance to succeed? Say 1 month before facing the verdict? Anyone betting (either for or against) the project would have more evidence on which to make their decisions. Anyone work
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by perrygeo 6y ago
Why not to make a Python package in 2021. Even as a long time Python user, the packaging ecosystem feels fragmented and error-prone at best. Honestly, it sours the experience of writing Python code knowing you might eventually need to make
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by perrygeo 6y ago
> "planning where you live" Not too many people can make that decision on the sole basis of their preferred mode of transport. The rational decision for most people is "live where you live because you have things keeping y
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by perrygeo 6y ago
> What exactly was done because of pressure? In the past 2 decades: * Big business on the whole went from ignoring or denying climate change to embracing solutions. * Innovation in alternative energy tech and its production has driven pr
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by perrygeo 6y ago
The emission scenarios were developed decades ago and are proving to be over-estimates. The author interprets that as outdated science which is a rather pessimistic view. I interpret it differently: Scientists make a spread of climate predi
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by perrygeo 6y ago
Not going to speak for Europe but you're very wrong about New York. NY's crime rate is almost 4x lower than the worst metro areas in the US according to the FBI. NY isn't even listed among the top 50 worst cities.
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by perrygeo 6y ago
Yes, f-strings are now the obvious way to format strings _if_ the template is fixed (not variable at runtime) _and_ variables are defined in the current scope. There are many many cases where this does not apply: hence str.format is still r
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by perrygeo 6y ago
This is a question of time wasted vs time invested. Are there times when asking immediately is more efficient? Absolutely. Are there times where asking my roommate to do my homework would have been more efficient? Absolutely. Now what about
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by perrygeo 6y ago
The early days of the internet were amazing. Dialing into my Dad's university account via 56k modem in the early 90s, I had access to an astounding amount of quality text-based documents. I did research, read works of fiction, wrote po
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by perrygeo 6y ago
This. The OP is effectively a re-wording of the Gervais principal - same idea with slightly less words in blog form. It's a bit ingenious to claim a whole new theory.
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by perrygeo 6y ago
The problem is that "their cut" of the profits was defined as precisely 0%, as per their original license terms.

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