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by smadge 2y ago
The joke is that Warhammer sets are expensive.
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by smadge 2y ago
Even if we accept the premise that Greenland is vital to national and international (read as western) security, the west abandoned naked colonialism decades ago because they could maintain military and economic access to a country without r
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by smadge 2y ago
The obvious solution if you want to badge on exits but maintain fire safety is emergency exits trigger the fire alarm when opened.
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by smadge 2y ago
I think subtyping is the general concept in the programming language / type literature and interfaces / traits are an example of subtyping. If A implements interface B, A is a subtype of B.
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by smadge 2y ago
This is because ADU laws don’t go far enough. If you can sell your property to a developer for 3x the times the price you paid for it because all of a sudden it’s legal and financially viable to build a sixplex, many people will take that o
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by smadge 2y ago
Presumably the skater who attempts a trick a dozen times before finally nailing it is having fun.
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by smadge 2y ago
I agree with that, but: - the language still allows you write the unsafe version even with defer. By your logic fallible humans will continue to write these class of bugs because they can. - adding a whole new flow control construct will in
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by smadge 2y ago
Does that apply to salaried/FLSA-exempt workers?
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by smadge 2y ago
Thoughts my own, smooth, uninterrupted video playback is much higher priority than recovering a small amount of ad revenue.
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by smadge 2y ago
“Fifth generation” district heating uses heat pumps to extract heat from a network of lukewarm water.
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by smadge 2y ago
When I was in middle school we actually cooked and baked in home economics, we didn’t memorize recipes showed on an overhead projector. In Physical Education we ran the mile, didn’t want videos on optimal technique. I think this is the main
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by smadge 2y ago
In Trumpverse “hard power good, soft power bad.”
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by smadge 2y ago
And opportunity cost of having unused capacity in one location and unmet demand in another location.
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by smadge 2y ago
The point is to not write bugs in the first place. At the point you’ve noticed a bug and measured it in your bug tracker you’ve missed your goal. You did not write “without bugs.”
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by smadge 2y ago
Why does the time horizon matter? Imagine I own an immortal goose that lays a golden egg every 100 years. I may not live to see an egg but I can sell the goose based on the expected future payout. A bank could invent some financial instrume
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by smadge 3y ago
Maybe > Ads revenue sharing lets you share revenue from verified user's organic impressions of ads displayed in replies to content you post on X. Accounts can post content, and have bots click on ads shown in the replies, and gain a
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by smadge 3y ago
> California’s water board doesn’t have the staff it would need to monitor river levels statewide Isn't water flow rate automatically collected, at least for larger rivers and creeks? Can't low flow be flagged automatically? &g
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by smadge 3y ago
When a company isn't profitable you hire developers to build a product which can make you profitable. When a company is profitable, you fire all the developers and start collecting dividends.
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by smadge 3y ago
Are cumulative flow diagrams useful for serving systems, where arrival rate > departure rate causes immediate user visible issues?
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by smadge 3y ago
A relationship between two sets is a set of pairs.
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by smadge 3y ago
PayPal is not a bank. It does not offer checking accounts. Do not put money in PayPal.
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by smadge 3y ago
Cities are the engines of the modern economy. We can revert to an agrarian society if you please, but not without consequences.
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by smadge 3y ago
True, but by that analogy it's an extinction event, not a death. Any mutations the cancer cells acquired will not be propagated.
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by smadge 3y ago
How do cancers have sophisticated mechanisms for evading immune responses when they don’t have any adaptive pressure? The cancer dies with the victim. It seems like the equivalent of mashing on the keyboard and getting a valid program.
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by smadge 3y ago
Wait so California state granted $24 million to the private Wildlands Conservancy, who spent $35 million for the property. California should have just bought the property and turned it into a state park. This should be public land.
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by smadge 3y ago
The article also says he was the third employee after Jobs and Wozniak.
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by smadge 3y ago
> The government couldn't do it this easily if it wasn't for sale. I don't disagree with your overall point, but the government being allowed to buy this data can create the market for the data in the first place, even if
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by smadge 3y ago
There was a survey (San Fransisco Homeless Count and Survey, 2022) which says 71% of the homeless in San Fransisco were living in San Fransisco at the time they became homeless, 24% were in another California county, and only 4% were out of
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by smadge 4y ago
Age is not what matters here.
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by smadge 4y ago
If you feel the need for a new feature in a language, you should ask why the language does not make it easy to build that feature in the language itself.

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