saltharp

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by saltharp 3y ago
I’m an Australian who has spent a number of years living in the US, and to be honest I’m not sure roundabouts are that great anymore. Roundabouts might be more efficient for pushing cars through an intersection, but they’re less pedestrian-
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by saltharp 4y ago
My father in law applied for a visa to come to Australia about a decade ago. As part of this he had to do a medical checkup, and this caught some cancer that he didn’t know he had. Luckily this was early on, and after a few rounds of surger
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by saltharp 4y ago
I rarely carry cash (or even a wallet) around anymore and I agree it's convenient. But one thing that bothers me is that we've allowed something like one percent of our entire retail economy to go directly towards supporting a ren
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by saltharp 5y ago
> That is, it's hard to have a strong social life when you commute, at best, 5 hours a week. And that's if you're lucky. "At best"? The average commute in the US is 27.6 minutes, according to the Census Bureau. M
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by saltharp 5y ago
I don't think it's enough that Chromium is open source. Yes it's very different from the MS IE monopoly, but Google has a very different business model compared Microsoft. The value of IE to Microsoft was to lock people into
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by saltharp 5y ago
When was the last time you tried to memorize (or even type out) a ZFS block pointer address though? The ergonomics don't matter for ZFS, and so what's left to consider is address space exhaustion. For IPv6, people memorize/ty