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by pg314 4y ago
I did that with Git itself. As a bonus you’ll learn more about a tool you’re probably using everyday. If I remember correctly, even the early commits were pretty high quality.
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by pg314 4y ago
The 2018 ISO standard [1] is 520 pages. Not what I would consider small. Nor is it simple. The integer promotion rules and undefined behaviours will trip up even experienced C programmers. Something like R5RS for Scheme (50 pages or so) is
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by pg314 4y ago
Thankfully your attitude wasn't prevalent in previous generations or polio and smallpox would still be rampant.
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by pg314 4y ago
You’re right. I misinterpreted ‘record usage’. I found a 2013 blog post [1] claiming a 143 thousand tweets per second peak. [1] https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2013/new-tweets...
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by pg314 4y ago
Musk claimed a record of 20,000 of tweets per second recently [1]. How does that square with what you’re saying? 300 times 450 is closer to 150,000. Am I missing something? [1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/15
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by pg314 4y ago
>From the guy who managed to launch Starlink and currently runs the most successful/effective space launch provider, He is not running SpaceX, Gwynne Shotwell is. He’s just the part-time CEO, very adept at self-promoting.
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by pg314 4y ago
According to Wikipedia [1], Gordon Pirie ran 347,600 km in the 40 years to 1981. He lived another 10 years after that, so he might have come close. The distance to the moon is 384,400 km. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by pg314 4y ago
In 1999, to obtain the participation of the greens in the government, the other parties agreed to the closing of nuclear reactors after 40 years of operation [1]. 2022 seemed like a long time away at the time, especially in politics. In 201
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by pg314 4y ago
Even if you have nothing to hide, others do. You don’t want somebody to be able to blackmail a politician or a judge who e.g. had an affair.
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by pg314 4y ago
Family of four here, all groceries done with a cargo bike, year round. And I’m definitely not the only one where I live. You can wear warmer clothes if it’s cold, the bike has lights (and there are street lights) for when it’s dark, and a r
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by pg314 4y ago
The initial number of 1 square kilometer of PV panels produced per year doesn't pass the sniff test. An average home installation is already 10 square meters, and a lot more than 100,000 installations are added in a year. The global pr
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by pg314 4y ago
> but has imposed huge and everyday annoyances on everyone Not on everyone. I can't remember the last time I used a straw, I manage to drink from a glass or a cup just fine. Is it really a huge annoyance for you? I understand that
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by pg314 4y ago
> Exactly, and you need rolling resistance for traction. No, you don’t. Look at e.g. gears: almost no friction, perfect traction. > Which is why you don't ship hay on trains No. You don’t ship it on trains because that is unecono
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by pg314 4y ago
> The train itself has to be heavier than the load just to stay on the tracks. Why would that be? A typical 110 ton capacity freight train car weighs 33 tons unloaded. It has no problems staying on the tracks. Besides both buses and plan
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by pg314 4y ago
According to the Brussels Institute of Statistics and Analysis [1], in 2017, 34% of all commuters in Brussels commuted by train versus 36.2% by car. It might not make sense to you, but it does to other people. [1] page 30 of https:/&#
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by pg314 4y ago
You can find a ticket from Madrid to Paris taking 10.5 hours for 226 EUR.
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by pg314 5y ago
It reminds me of the drawings by John E. Weaver from the thirties [1]. They were made by painstakingly digging a deep trench to study and sketch the roots. They did it multiple times for each crop to get a sense of how they develop in time.
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by pg314 5y ago
Covid-19 doesn't kill rapidly, so there is no pressure for it to mutate to become milder.
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by pg314 5y ago
AAPL is 40%+ of BRK's investment portfolio . There is a substantial number of wholly owned subsidiaries. AAPL constitutes only about 25% of BRK's market cap.
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by pg314 5y ago
True. I missed that. The calculator at [1] gives totally different returns with dividends reinvested, though: 7.6%. [1] https://dqydj.com/dow-jones-return-calculator/
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by pg314 5y ago
That ignores dividends. That will add a couple of percentage points to the return. If I rerun the calculation from the cherry-picked peak of about 360 in 1928, I get around 4.5% after inflation, without dividends.
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by pg314 6y ago
What are the laws of physics that would be broken in this case?
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by pg314 6y ago
Months-old Chrome tabs are not resident in RAM.
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by pg314 8y ago
That is incorrect. An Emacs obarray is a kind of hash table [1]. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Cr...
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by pg314 8y ago
The Economist.
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by pg314 8y ago
> This feature is the sort of thing that a clever person will use as a shortcut to actually writing robust ETL code. With mysql_fdw you can write the ETL code itself in PostgreSQL: you expose (a subset of) the MySQL tables through the FD
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by pg314 8y ago
> It could get absurd, but the moment you let the government control even something small, it just keeps growing until we are quite literally Nazi germany where only “ideal” people are allowed to breed or receive permission to open busin
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by pg314 8y ago
> A CO2 tax can't work unless it was implemented globally INCLUDING developing countries. (Which is a non-starter of course.) Because otherwise people will just ship industry and manufacturing elsewhere. Manufacturing only accounts
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by pg314 8y ago
Have you looked into using something like SQLite instead of the filesystem? [1] [1] https://www.sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html
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by pg314 8y ago
> Regular distance running is punishing on your joints, even if you're a forefoot runner with perfect form. The studies I'm aware of (e.g. [1]) point in the opposite direction: runners have a lower risk of osteoarthritis, poten

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