pitaj

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1. 571.▲
   by pitaj 6y ago

   Putting more money into the stock market raises the prices of stocks, allowing companies to raise more capital.
2. 572.▲
   by pitaj 6y ago

   Nominally, by providing capital to companies innovating in the market, allowing them to improve their business and provide more value to their customers.
3. 573.▲
   by pitaj 6y ago

   Part of my fear of death is missing out on the future. Well I get to visit other planets? Will I get to see the resolution to quantum mechanics / relativity? Will I get to see extraterrestrial life? Will I get to see humanity spread
4. 574.▲
   by pitaj 6y ago

   Nuclear waste storage isn't a technology issue: we know how to store it safely. It's an issue of political obstructionism.
5. 575.▲
   by pitaj 6y ago

   Okay then by the same logic people do sign up for nuclear by using the electricity for their homes, the internet, etc
6. 576.▲
   by pitaj 6y ago

   The economic problems are tied directly to policy problems, like the broken regulatory structure. For instance, as I understand it, a nuclear plant that began construction 10 years ago and is ready to go online by the standards when it bega
7. 577.▲
   by pitaj 6y ago

   People don't sign up for pollution from fossil fuels either.
8. 578.▲
   by pitaj 6y ago

   I think opening all PDFs in a browser would be good enough™ as browser sandboxes are about as secure as sandboxing gets.
9. 579.▲
   by pitaj 6y ago

   I assume bufferbloat will affect your latency, right? Is there really a tradeoff between latency and throughput?
10. 580.▲
    by pitaj 6y ago

    A lot (most?) people find staying up late easier than getting up early. Also, if your waking hours are say 0800-2300 then you can easily work late and move your leisure time to the morning without changing your sleep schedule.
11. 581.▲
    by pitaj 6y ago

    Lack of support for generics and explicitly typing Events/Props/Slots. There is an RFC but it's still a WIP: https://github.com/sveltejs/rfcs/pull/38
12. 582.▲
    by pitaj 6y ago

    I recently rewrote a small UI from Preact to Svelte and while it was certainly a learning experience, I have to say working with Svelte is fantastic. My only complaint is that the Typescript support isn't quite perfect yet, but it&#x27
13. 583.▲
    by pitaj 6y ago

    Thunderbird already needs HTML and CSS for rendering emails, and needs JS for XUL anyways, right? So Thunderbird already needs HTML, CSS, and JS engines at any given time. Where will the memory bloat come from by moving to using HTML, CSS,
14. 584.▲
    by pitaj 6y ago

    NYC has less than 8000 inmates. Which means less than $4B total. Split that across the NYC population of 8+ million, that's about $500 a year per resident.
15. 585.▲
    by pitaj 6y ago

    You might be interested in scalar [1] developed by Microsoft for handling large repos. [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/scalar
16. 586.▲
    by pitaj 6y ago

    This has never happened to me.
17. 587.▲
    by pitaj 6y ago

    Land can't be copied. Land is rivalrous. Digital art is not, in any meaningful way.
18. 588.▲
    by pitaj 6y ago

    > Like really though, what would software do to control a compressor unit that would be expensive or difficult to do on a PCB? On a refrigerator: Software can choose to run a compressor at a lower, more efficient power setting for longer
19. 589.▲
    by pitaj 6y ago

    Or just stop giving out guaranteed student loans?
20. 590.▲
    by pitaj 6y ago

    We don't need price controls, we need the government to STOP giving out guaranteed student loans. Then limited forgiveness on the existing ones.
21. 591.▲
    by pitaj 6y ago

    AFAIK, you can't do this from JS, you have to have some engine integration, as the busy loop in JS will prevent the event loop from working. For instance, this will essentially halt your runtime: let y; Promise.resolve(123).t
22. 592.▲
    by pitaj 6y ago

    > WinRAR is much easier to use than 7-zip in my experience. In what way?
23. 593.▲
    by pitaj 6y ago

    You can do that with 7zip IIRC
24. 594.▲
    by pitaj 6y ago

    In the UI? In file names? In the file contents?
25. 595.▲
    by pitaj 6y ago

    Software control enables far more efficiency.
26. 596.▲
    by pitaj 6y ago

    rust-analyzer works very well for me, definitely don't use RLS.
27. 597.▲
    by pitaj 6y ago

    Wealth taxes are extremely inefficient and ineffective at actually generating revenue.
28. 598.▲
    by pitaj 6y ago

    I can't tell if "thr" is a typo of "the" or an abbreviation of "their".
29. 599.▲
    by pitaj 6y ago

    There are a lot of reasons health insurance is way too expensive, but one of them is that many individuals are shielded from the true price because it's provided through their employer. This essentially removes downward price pressure
30. 600.▲
    by pitaj 6y ago

    Classifying gig workers as employees was a terrible idea. Not to mention the law that did so had so many exclusions it was ridiculous. Generally, we should be moving away from linking health insurance and other benefits to employment.