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by pkulak 3y ago
Wow. So much negativity. As far as I’m concerned, even if the city burns every dollar it collects, if this gets some cars off the island, it’s a win. It’s time to stop tolerating personal vehicles in our most dense urban centers.
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by pkulak 3y ago
Keeping a history is far more work (and cost!) than maintaining a deleted flag. I'm inclined to believe they don't keep a history.
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by pkulak 3y ago
A 40-minute drive to work sounds absolutely miserable. Is there a high anti-office sentiment in areas with decent density where most people can get to "the office" with a quick ride on a train? Sometimes I think "anti-office&
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by pkulak 3y ago
At least Vancouver is expanding the Sky Train. You can get pretty far away from downtown at this point and still be one train away. But I haven't looked into housing costs, so maybe that just makes everything anywhere near a stop just
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by pkulak 3y ago
Yeah, I'm not gonna run out and buy a new Macbook just to wipe it. But these M1 machines are going to be things you just have lying around sometime soon. If my wife upgrades, for example, I know exactly what I'm doing with her M1
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by pkulak 3y ago
I'm surprised that Vulkan wasn't the target, which could then have something like Zink layered on top for OpenGL.
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by pkulak 3y ago
> AirTag can be shared with up to five other people Finally! Every time either me or my wife goes out of town we have to remove the luggage airtags from one account and add them back in to the other one. When my kid leaves his jacket som
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by pkulak 3y ago
I think your job as a journalist should be to interview experts, not be one.
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by pkulak 3y ago
I've been very happy with Ivory: https://tapbots.com/ivory/ Every few months I kick a couple bucks to my homeserver (which is currently running a pretty large surplus or I'd do more) and that's the end o
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by pkulak 3y ago
Everything is overbuilt and over designed now. No one even uses native drop down menus anymore. I remember, years ago, selecting Oregon was _always_ tab, “o”, down, down, down. Now I have to figure out the bespoke widget that’s being drawn
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by pkulak 3y ago
I usually tackle the absolute hardest part first, hoping that I'll either fail fast on that, or it'll work and it will be downhill from there.
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by pkulak 3y ago
Did we both just watch the latest Crust of Rust, or did you just know that? If the latter, I’m impressed!
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by pkulak 3y ago
Which is why they use b-trees and not binary search.
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by pkulak 3y ago
Yes, that's correct. If you do an explain for a tiny table, as long as your stats are up to date, the index will be ignored. In that case, it's there for insurance if the table grows in the future.
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by pkulak 3y ago
> Justify the dev time to save micro-pennies worth of electricity to me instead. KEY (user_id) I mean, it's a dozen characters. Do you need to know how fast I type before you run the calculation?
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by pkulak 3y ago
Just because the table scan is under some threshold doesn't automatically make it better. If a table scan takes 250ms vs 0.01 for a indexed lookup, you're still gonna have to justify to me why making silicon work that damn hard is
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by pkulak 3y ago
"Rewrite it in Rust" is another class of "I use Arch, BTW"; one of those phrases no one has ever actually heard unironically, and that is only used to attack the strawman who supposedly said it.
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by pkulak 3y ago
You are very much the exception that proves the rule. What other non-profit needs anything close to that kind of capacity?
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by pkulak 3y ago
I love it. This is the kind of thing we lose by moving to electronic-only music. Not ragging on electronic, but sometimes you just need a bunch of human beings getting together and doing what sounds awesome to them, even if it becomes nearl
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by pkulak 3y ago
> You’d have to look at the annual per capita numbers. Yeah, I adjusted them. The population has tripled.
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by pkulak 3y ago
Modern, state-of-the-art, generational GC? Not being snarky, that’s literally the comparison.
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by pkulak 3y ago
Ref-counting GC is pretty slow. It’s great for avoiding stop-the-world pauses, which can be really important for UI stuff like what Swift is used for, but you won’t win any throughput awards.
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by pkulak 3y ago
And now cars put far worse things than horse shit right into the air.
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by pkulak 3y ago
This isn’t a hard question. Over 40,000 Americans died on roads last year. I’ll bet my house that 13,000 people were not run over by horses in 1920. But also, this is pure straw man. The modern alternatives to cars are trains, bikes and bus
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by pkulak 3y ago
Well now, this is an interesting take that you don't see applied to any other resource. "If this harmful, expensive thing isn't free, a few people will steal it." "Better make it free forever then, and force all of
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by pkulak 3y ago
When you're born into car-dependency, it's the water you swim in. You need someone else to say, "But what if not?". So it starts slow. Very slow. But once it builds, you get an inflection point. I hope we're there n
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by pkulak 3y ago
I've got the 13-mini, which, I guess, is the last one. So, I feel like I've got a good 3-5 years before I need to worry about anything.
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by pkulak 3y ago
Coreboot, please!
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by pkulak 3y ago
I always put a space after a comma in an inline array, personally.
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by pkulak 3y ago
The idea that a comma is nearly always followed by space or new line, and can therefor be useful is pretty genius though. A few years ago someone mentioned they map "jj" to escape in vim and I've been doing it ever since. Hav

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