pitaj

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by pitaj 1y ago
> the slow and unproven trickle-down effect of market-rate housing Slow and unproven? Supply and demand is the most reliable law of economics. Cities like Austin that are building market rate housing are actively seeing affordability imp
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by pitaj 1y ago
I think the best solution for this is to just not use webfonts, and in fact use the system font instead.
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by pitaj 1y ago
They literally mention Amazon in their comment
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by pitaj 1y ago
I don't know if you would even need to mandate it. Stop mandating it, and start taxing all benefits as income, and you remove the biggest incentive for employers for pay for them.
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by pitaj 1y ago
Yep the biggest problem with the ACA was that it doubled down on health insurance as a benefit of employment, when it should have taken steps to transition everyone off of employer provided plans.
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by pitaj 1y ago
It's a common operation on sets, so would make `HashSet::union` [1] and friends less obvious, for no real benefit. [1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/collections/struct.Hash...
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by pitaj 1y ago
Agreed. Anybody buying this would be better off spending that money on a used card like a 2070 or 3060, and might even save a buck.
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by pitaj 1y ago
JIT is totally independent from 6-sig.
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by pitaj 1y ago
AC will only make the problem worse in the long term. Picadilly got AC because it has above-ground sections.
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by pitaj 1y ago
The title can be interpreted as "there's a new laser that is now America's most powerful"
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by pitaj 1y ago
There can be many incentives for people to use official sources: early access, easy updates, live events, etc
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by pitaj 1y ago
NRC is holding back new designs, not existing ones.
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by pitaj 1y ago
> If you think copyright shouldn't exist, you're free to ignore any rights afforded you for your work, "the state" is not going to enforce anything unless you bring a case to a court. That doesn't give other peop
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by pitaj 1y ago
Would you apply the same logic to immigration and marijuana possession?
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by pitaj 1y ago
To be clear, I think copyright should not exist, as I don't think it follows from the basic principles on which our governance is founded. Regardless of my view on the matter, the state will still enforce copyright. Under the written
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by pitaj 1y ago
It typically just means gutting DEI programs, not firing people hired because of them.
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by pitaj 1y ago
I, for one, don't accept copyright as correct law. Under that principle, there is no difference.
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by pitaj 1y ago
> Problem is that the dust from it is terrifyingly toxic, but in it's finished form it's "safe to handle". Doesn't that mean it would be problematic for electronics recycling?
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by pitaj 1y ago
I think you can have two people who, both acting in good faith, can completely lose it over textual communication. Even a phone call can make the same discussion ten times easier.
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Rust is easy? Go is hard?(medium.com)
10 points by pitaj 1y ago|2 comments
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by pitaj 1y ago
> If I've "learned" Harry Potter to the level where I can reproduce it verbatim, the reproduction would be a copyright violation. Yes. > If I can paraphrase it, ditto. Not necessarily. Summarizing, for instance, is typi
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by pitaj 1y ago
If you pirate a text book, learn from it, and then apply that knowledge to write your own textbook: your textbook would not be a copyright violation of the original, even though you "stole" the original.
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by pitaj 1y ago
This actually is niche optimization. The outer enum is using the niches available in the tag of the inner enum for its own discriminant. The author seems to have a limited understanding of niche optimization.
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by pitaj 2y ago
That seems to be a much weaker claim than "allows at the very least the government to tie each web page visit, each resource load, back to a real person"
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by pitaj 2y ago
What about Monero/XMR? Isn't is fully anonymous by design?
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by pitaj 2y ago
Now do a project with multiple files.
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by pitaj 2y ago
You can disable all system animations at Settings > Accessibility > Visual effects > Animation effects There's no built-in way to set hotkeys to switch to a specific desktop. And my primary annoyance is that there's no wa
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by pitaj 2y ago
> Just today I upgraded the CPU fan to a new one that required to completely take apart the whole casing (because the fan has a plastic mount that needs to be on the other side of the motherboard); doing this, and putting it all together
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by pitaj 2y ago
Patents and copyright are very different beasts.
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by pitaj 2y ago
And using more efficient algorithms or data structures that are painful and/or difficult to use in C.

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