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by slavik81 6y ago
Sure. I don't necessarily disagree with your conclusion that trucks undercontribute to road maintenance costs. I just don't think those numbers are sufficient to prove it.
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by slavik81 6y ago
Assuming we're resurfacing our roads once every 5 years, if we banned trucks it would take 100x longer to accumulate the same amount of damage, so we'd be able to resurface only once every 500 years? I would expect there to be a s
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by slavik81 6y ago
There might be traces of Pikachu in that, but it's definitely Renamon. https://digimon.fandom.com/wiki/Renamon
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by slavik81 6y ago
It's also unavoidable. It's not like you can pass UTF-8 Go strings to UTF-16 COM interfaces. Somebody wrote code to convert a Go string to a BSTR and vice versa. You can do the exact same thing for std::string if you want.
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by slavik81 7y ago
> Did Steve Jobs really dislike games? Dislike may be a bit strong, but John Carmack described him as indifferent: > Over the years I've been through a number of initiatives where Apple wants to get serious about games, and we&#x
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by slavik81 7y ago
The poor woman played a secondary character in the 8th of 23 Pokemon movies. She deserves better than this. Okae hosted a morning show on a major network for 18 years and it gets a passing mention.
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by slavik81 7y ago
That gets you Windows and OSX, but it's really easy to break the Windows partition when you install Linux. To triple-boot, you start with OSX, then install Windows via Boot Camp, then resize the Windows partition to make some empty spa
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by slavik81 7y ago
That method is exactly equivalent to using revolutions as the unit with a fixed-point numeric representation. Maybe your skeptical colleagues would find that perspective more palatable?
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by slavik81 7y ago
That's a somewhat misleading comparison even for the time. All his C++ files could be compiled in parallel and recompiled incrementally, and his need for -flto to get good performance is really just due to how he structured his program
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by slavik81 7y ago
Can we expand the capacity of the healthcare system for those treatments? Oxygen is not without danger, but it can be safely handled by non-professionals, and it's relatively easy to manufacture. I've never actually heard anybody
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by slavik81 7y ago
The minimal fix for the sluggish calculator on Ubuntu 18.04 to 19.10: sudo snap remove gnome-calculator sudo apt install gnome-calculator The more complete solution is entirely removing snap. I did that long ago, but my process was
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by slavik81 7y ago
Why? You can turn on showdead in your profile and see for yourself that it's a duplicate post. Here's an index of them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22961683
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by slavik81 7y ago
It's not hard to argue in favour of temporary emergency price controls using Econ 101. The field already makes a big distinction between the short-term and long-term, defining the later by the time required for new investments in produ
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by slavik81 7y ago
One final update, I think part of the colour problem was actually because the Ubuntu terminal is slightly transparent by default, and different alpha blending resulted in slightly different colours.
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by slavik81 7y ago
Following up on this, I was inspired to try again. I decided to give APNG tools a shot, as it seems that APNG support is pretty good these days[1]. It was straightforward to build apngasm[2] and ttygif[3] from their GitHub sources on Ubuntu
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by slavik81 7y ago
That's what I'm currently using, but I think a gif/video would work better for my program. My recording is supposed to run at ~10fps and the asciinema web player can't keep up. I get less than 1fps on the first play-thro
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by slavik81 7y ago
Do you have any recommendations on how to do that? I tried to make a gif for my project a month or two ago by capturing my terminal output in ttyrec, then using ttygif to turn it into an animated image. However, ttygif ultimately passes thi
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by slavik81 7y ago
realloc(foo, 0) was changed to no longer free in C99. A rant on the subject: https://github.com/Tarsnap/libcperciva/commit/cabe5fca76f6c3...
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by slavik81 7y ago
Richard Guy, the discoverer of the glider in Conway's Game of Life, also passed away last month. In 2017, Richard gave a talk for the 50th Anniversary of the University of Calgary (and his 100th birthday). Much of it was recounting sto
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by slavik81 7y ago
"You need better pickup lines. An introduction like that begs a slap in the face." "Stay away from that switch! Running the factory lights at night begs a German bomb right on top of us." "I beg your pardon?" &
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by slavik81 7y ago
The stats for qtbase are pretty similar. I suppose I might as well link the full page for folks: https://macieira.org/~thiago/qt-stats/current/
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by slavik81 7y ago
The Qt Company (QTCOM). They're publicly traded, so they have to publish yearly financial statements. Their employee count has also doubled, which is why they're not making any profits despite the revenue growth. Edit: Ah, you&#x2
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by slavik81 7y ago
What makes you say that? They're still not making much of a profit, but their revenue has doubled since 2015. https://mb.cision.com/Public/14183/3035372/be360a13ae94ae9d....
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by slavik81 7y ago
Commits by employer, for reference: https://macieira.org/~thiago/qt-stats/current/qt5.employer.r...
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by slavik81 7y ago
> I might be wrong but for C++ for example every C++ fan seems to happy about every new release (at least happy with new features, not lack of desired new features). Coroutines were quite co_ntentious. Maybe the difference is that very f
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by slavik81 7y ago
I've heard good things about "Delayed Gratification." It's a quarterly magazine that "revisits the events of the last three months to offer in-depth, independent journalism in an increasingly frantic world."
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by slavik81 7y ago
I don't think that's an actual article from The Economist. They describe Open Future[1] as a festival in which you, "Hear discussions and debates mediated by journalists from The Economist and talks by prominent figures from
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by slavik81 7y ago
A tale as old as time. From the H.M.S. Pinafore by Gilbert and Sullivan (1878): I grew so rich that I was sent by pocketborough into parliament. I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at
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by slavik81 7y ago
I found that making the window smaller greatly reduced CPU usage. It seems to be doing the video decoding on the CPU.
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by slavik81 7y ago
Interesting. I don't think I've heard it used in a positive way before. If I knew anything at all about Mercury in Roman mythology, perhaps the other possible interpretations would have been more obvious.

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