singingboyo

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by singingboyo 5y ago
Arguably, the problem is one of audience. SICP is a dense book, but a liberal arts background is NOT the target audience in any way. Computer Science degrees evolved out of math and electrical engineering - those kinds of students are SICP&
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by singingboyo 5y ago
I'm not sure that will last, though. I told myself that, and then I "solved" it. 4 words, with no overlap, covering most of the common letters... it's near impossible to lose. I went through the archive, needed to use th
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by singingboyo 5y ago
Depends what you consider peripheral. The places within a couple hours big enough to notice as you drive through are basically Lions Bay/Squamish going north, Maple Ridge/Mission on the 7, and Abbotsford/Chillwack/Hope o
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by singingboyo 5y ago
To your geography point: If the numbers I've found can be believed, Canada as a whole has 81GW of hydro generation capacity. This would beat out the US, despite Canada having ~12% the population. Now, some people associate hydro with m
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by singingboyo 5y ago
I went into a place known for smoothies/slushes a few months ago. They were out of the frozen yogurt they use in something like half of them. And then tried to sub with almond milk or something. Some places just can't manage stock
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by singingboyo 5y ago
There's a flip side to this that benefits amazon, though still very useful for the customer. If I'm poking through something I maybe want but might get in person, and I find something I've already bought that fits my need aga
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by singingboyo 5y ago
I'm no expert, but I think the missing bit is that the money 'created' is still backed by some asset, whether it's a coffee machine, a building, or a promise of future repayment (as with loans). I think that might be ass
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by singingboyo 5y ago
It's actually a very quick, useful reminder for me that 'hey, there's this other creative medium for designing things', but wow, you weren't kidding about the analogy. There's something there, I think, but it w
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by singingboyo 5y ago
Sorry, but the font and vaguely bolding are very, very off-putting. Especially when all but the last letter are bolded, or you have a link that includes the space after it, things start feeling wrong, somehow. What I did read also had a lot
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by singingboyo 5y ago
I... what? I've never had my ssh key expire, because that's just not a thing. If you don't use it, then I think Github drops it after a year and requires you to add it again, but it's really not hard to put it back in in
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by singingboyo 5y ago
Last I recall, docker desktop on windows explicitly recommended WSL2 over Hyper-V or whatever based setups.
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by singingboyo 5y ago
To jump on with some older governmental stats. Canada overall in 2018 was 61% hydro, 15% Uranium, 9% Nat Gas, 8% Coal, 5% wind, for 81% renewable. [1] BC in 2015 was 86% (!) hydro, 2% wind, and 6% biomass, for 94% renewable. [2] It's n
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by singingboyo 5y ago
We don't call it a hydro bill for nothing. Less than 20% came from fossil fuels in 2018 (latest data I could find easily). As for increased demand, well, as much as we harp on BC Hydro for the project costs etc., site C will cover the
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by singingboyo 5y ago
Arguably, the issue is when the HDD isn't the only computer you use. If you switch to using an SSD on, say, a laptop, boot times are super fast, you get used to that, etc. Then you go use an HDD, and suddenly everything feels slow. The
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by singingboyo 5y ago
That's not strictly an android thing, though it's common across a fair few android phone manufacturers. Google's own phones get several years of guaranteed updates - at least 3, I think? My Pixel 3XL still gets updates, anywa
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by singingboyo 5y ago
Some animals do have multiple options. I guess creativity gets a bit more free reign given the lack of standard terms? Personally, I've never heard 'rave of ravens'. I've always been partial to conspiracy of ravens as th
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by singingboyo 5y ago
The strangest part of this to me is that I've never once had this happen in the Willingdon Park office park near Brentwood in Burnaby. It is absolutely covered with crows overnight, at all times of the year.[1] But the one time I walke
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by singingboyo 5y ago
Similar situation, but the way I figure it, it's best to err somewhat on the side of caution. Aim to save more than you expect to need, so that a bad return is still enough. The thing to remember is that if you are somehow wealthy beyo
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by singingboyo 6y ago
I think "he's dead, Jim" is/was common enough that many people would recognize it as a reference. Some would probably even know it as a Star Trek thing, but I suspect there are a bunch of people who know it references so
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by singingboyo 6y ago
Not who you replied to, but: you're probably thinking Frontend->Backend->DB or similar, right? Frontend runs in browser and is either served by its own container or the backend, backend is in a containerized server, DB in somethi
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by singingboyo 6y ago
Nifty. Looks like a ThinkPad laptop keyboard adapted to USB instead of whatever internals the laptops use. Sadly, I'd never use it (very attached to ergo keyboards these days). But nifty, if only for the nostalgia value.
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by singingboyo 6y ago
In that case, the ISP runs chromium, figures out the domains, and they can stop hijacking those domains. Then the feature gets the wrong result for the rest of the day. (Hell, it's open source, ISP could just integrate the algorithm in
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by singingboyo 6y ago
This looks like an overextended version of something similar to "A competent team, with competent solutions." Which, well, still doesn't sound very convincing to me, but at least it flows better.
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by singingboyo 7y ago
I'm currently reading a Hamilton novel. First in a while... but based on my vague recollection, I suspect that isn't specific enough either.
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by singingboyo 7y ago
Don't most (if not all) auto headlights turn on when the wipers are on, though? So, off if just cloudy, on in snow/rain. I know mine do turn on, even at the lowest intermittent setting. I thought I'd read somewhere that that
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by singingboyo 7y ago
I, on the other hand, am on the 17th floor. Anyone who can holler at a smart device in my apartment has already compromised something important, and could probably get in anyway. Also, just require a passphrase? To go full star trek, "
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by singingboyo 7y ago
Among other things, the first digit is easier to change (percentage-wise) when a number starts with a large first digit. StackExchange math has a decent analogy: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/781/why-doe
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by singingboyo 7y ago
You have to read the previous post (linked by "Yesterday's Post" at the start of the article) and it makes more sense. In a system with as many issues as the one described there, a controller is probably not the best use of t
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by singingboyo 7y ago
I think you've got it backwards. If no one is buying and everyone is selling, the value drops. The central bank couldn't sell back the pounds it had bought, and couldn't feasibly keep buying more forever. And, well, no one el
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by singingboyo 7y ago
Honestly, maybe partially scale, but not really. It's more a factor of what it was meant to do. Going to the moon means extra hardware on top, which means more fuel, which means lower TWR at launch. If you're just going to drop a

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