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by silvestrov 1y ago
Another problem is that they very seldom make walking pathways between cul de sacs. These 2 houses are 100 meters from each other but you have to walk 1700 meters and most of the distance is without any sidewalk, only "Odell Cir"
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Car oriented people seriously underestimate how many people that can be transported in a subway train and how much highway space it would take to transport the same number of people in cars. One subway line can transport more people than ev
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I think many Americans don't understand that the war in Ukraine is not a hobby for Europe like the Vietnam/Korea/Afghanistan/Iraq war were for the US. European security depends on winning the Ukraine war. Anders Puck N
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Vendors might say that they don't have the resources (man hours) and don't want to hand over documentation to external developers.
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In the old days we had the saying: "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" Todays version is: "You will get fired unless you use React". So every site now uses React no matter if the end result is a dog slow Github. Bad d
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Adobe app icons are really the poster child for icons that are difficult to identify: https://as1.ftcdn.net/jpg/03/75/14/18/1000_F_375141824_Urr3G... Icons were not meant to be text to read.
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> degradation in motor skills If writing was so important for motor skills then it is very weird that kids only needs this single exercise. Why don't we have many different things to do with hands then? Like gym lessions which tea
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Isn't the traditional solution to offer a really big rebate to the first customer? Like 75% off for the first run of chips?
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I think the first HP movie was more magical than the latter ones as they felt too "Marvel CGI" for me. Marvel movies have become tiresome for me, too much CGI that does not tell any interesting story. Old animated Disney movies a
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I think autotune is the poster child for this. Popsongs today sound so nice but also so forgetable. I think this is why 80s and 90s pop is still so popular.
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80h work. 56h bad sleep. 0h usable free time due to being drained mentally by work.
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Giving stocks instead of salary can be a solution for the company when it is strapped for money and it cannot raise good money on the stock market. Most VC backed companies are not strapped for money, they are often drowning in money. Famil
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> when someone dangles $10M in front of me I'm cynical enough to think that such $10M will be fake money. It will be diluted or in some other way made into nothing.
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I think SQLite's amalgamation is one of the reasons SQLite is so popular for embedding.
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it is if you want the place to be financially viable.
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This is like having software (and sometimes hardware) that is so old that most of the mechanics who know how to maintain the software has retired.
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Newspapers could have made their own "Craigslist". They just didn't want to learn anything about internet technology or how it could shape the media landscape. They did not want any computer science people in the company boa
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Why do the tables have left-aligned numbers and set in a proportional font? Numbers should be right-aligned and use a font where the digits are monospaced.
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I often read “ decreased X by N% ” as a slight lie: they don't tell how precise N% was measured and how they can know that all of N% came from their work and not other circumstances. So my impression is that they work sloppily and ori
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How people in Helsinki get to work: Car: 23% ; PublicTransport: 47% ; Walk: 12% ; Bike: 15% How pupils in Helsinki get to school: Car: 7% ; PublicTransport: 32% ; Walk: 45% ; Bike: 14% source: https://www.hel.fi/static&#x2
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What you are saying is that AI is like a stuffed toy animal. Next week it is exactly like it is this week.
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One more optimization idea: instead of the trie mapping to the suffix string directly, then instead make an array of unique suffixes and let the trie map to the index into the array, e.g. const suffixes = [",,,", "a,u,u
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It is a real failure of Adobe management that Adobe didn't make Figma but kept doing the native old klunky apps. The failure started with the Adobe Acrobat being such a dog slow app and never being fixed. Adobe looked too much at mark
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Not if your job is part of the bureaucracy, then you want to keep the bureaucracy running for as long as possible to keep your job for as long as possible. It also gives you a sense of importance: nothing can get built without my full permi
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A lot of the old systems don't use bytes/ints the same way as the C programming language. Many systems stored numbers only in BCD or text formats.
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> the bulk [...] trying on clothes and returning the ones they don't like If this was really the case then Amazon would not have a "frequently returned" concept as this would penalize sellers doing nothing wrong. "f
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> thought-process that lead to this decision highly likely to be monolingual people as they cannot understand you would like movies to be in any other language than your mother tongue.
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I think the real message is: to be okay with repeatedly looking dumb in public It is the same with going to the gym for the first time.
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> charging a fee [...] rather hostile way for an Open Source project that aims to be as open and available as possible The most hostile is Apple where you cannot expect any kind of feedback on bug reports. You are really lucky if you
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Steel factories cannot shutdown temporarily due to high electricity prices. They need a steady source of electricity. This needs to be taken into account. I don't know if factories can be made with better insulation so they can &quot

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