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by sfpotter 3y ago
Very insightful commentary on the article! Thanks!
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by sfpotter 3y ago
I don’t know the answer to either of your questions. Is track more expensive than new high-speed trains?
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by sfpotter 3y ago
Amtrak Cascade has trains that can do 125 mph but are throttled to 78 mph because of low quality tracks, as I understand it. Amtrak also recently just started running many more trains per day between Seattle and Portland. High speed rail is
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by sfpotter 3y ago
I’m aware that there has been significant progress. “Not a single mile of track being laid” makes it sound like there has been no progress.
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by sfpotter 3y ago
https://www.railjournal.com/in_depth/swiss-operators-optimis... I don’t know if anyone is arguing for completely eliminating trucks from the supply chain, but there are definitely counterexamples to the idea freight tr
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by sfpotter 3y ago
Are you saying no construction has occurred and that it is impossible to levy taxes for its completion?
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by sfpotter 3y ago
Have you heard of Europe?
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by sfpotter 3y ago
OK, nationalize the railroads.
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by sfpotter 3y ago
You know what you don’t see doing illegal maneuvers all the time? Trains.
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by sfpotter 3y ago
Not everything needs to be profitable or to “pay for itself” for it to be worth building. The idea that it does is a fallacy.
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by sfpotter 3y ago
It’s being built. Eventually it will be completed and it will have obvious utility. Then people will expand it because of how obviously useful it is. Same thing happened with the Shinkansen.
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by sfpotter 3y ago
OK, build more rail and facilities. That's also easier than driverless cars.
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by sfpotter 3y ago
Just use freight trains. Way more efficient.
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by sfpotter 3y ago
Squandering wealth through sheer incompetence and lack of qualifications isn’t the kind of story people want to believe about themselves. Better to spin it as a positive step on the road to self-realization, ideally with a pit stop in parad
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by sfpotter 3y ago
Thanks for the downvote...? Not sure what the point of that was. I haven't used C++ much since modules were introduced. From doing some quick reading, it seems unclear whether they significantly improve compilations times in practice.
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by sfpotter 3y ago
OK, I understand what you’re doing now. Thanks for clarifying. The big downside here is that you’re leaking the size of the details into your ABI which wouldn’t happen with a fully opaque type… I could see some uses for it but haven’t felt
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by sfpotter 3y ago
Maybe I'm missing the idea, but I'm not sure how this idea is supposed to work without using something like alloca. If you have: struct foo; in foo.h and: struct foo { int a; double x; ...
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by sfpotter 3y ago
One of the advantages C has over C++ here is that the addition of templates in C++ makes this kind of encapsulation more difficult. See the proliferation of header-only libraries where nearly everything is templatized, as well as the pimpl
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by sfpotter 3y ago
The problem here is your attitude: it sucks. I’d elaborate on this, but it’s enough to read your post. Instead of baselessly concluding that everything you dislike and feel inconvenienced by will suck forever, have you considered feeling ho
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by sfpotter 3y ago
Sweet. We’re dealing with rolling global catastrophes which are going to get worse and you’re worried about taxes. Your lifestyle will change. Please consider preparing for it.
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by sfpotter 3y ago
It should be. See my other comment.
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by sfpotter 3y ago
Unions in the US are on the ropes. Union membership is down, and companies have loads of resources and help to stymie unionization efforts. Frankly, unionizing at all is a successful unionization effort at the moment, since it shows other
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by sfpotter 3y ago
I'm a little surprised Anchor didn't do better. I personally got worn out by all the craziness and experimentation in the craft brewing scene. Really unique IPAs or sour beers were fun for a while, but after a while, I realized I
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by sfpotter 3y ago
Didn't the pandemic accelerate drinking, if anything?
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by sfpotter 3y ago
> Or is that the point, to weed out poor vanlifers and allow only rich vacationers to swap hosting with each other? I'm gonna go with "yes" purely based on the website's design.
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The Second Age of Smoke(worldhistory.medium.com)
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by sfpotter 3y ago
There are as many different "research workflows" as there are researchers. I'm a researcher and don't use notebooks for all the reasons you outlined and more. I have my own approach to dealing with reproducibility which
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by sfpotter 3y ago
"unholy" "cleaner" "stateful" "bizarre" "bad taste" "hygiene" I'm not sure whether you're unaware or just feigning ignorance, but notebooks are frequently used to share p
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by sfpotter 3y ago
The faculty do service at the moment, yes, but obviously there’s a gigantic, bloated administrative apparatus. The people who work there do things that the faculty don’t. I’m proposing that those positions are eliminated and all of that wor
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I think an interesting model would be a college which is “worker owned and operated” in the sense that the faculty must take in all of the administrative tasks themselves, or at least a significant portion of it. No one wants this kind of t

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