spooky_action

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by spooky_action 8mo ago
Sorry for the dumb question, is the second version actually better than the first? Because I prefer the first. But perhaps you chose this as a particularly annoying/unuseful comment
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by spooky_action 8mo ago
Aren't fossil fuel plants much more efficient than ICEs for emissions per unit energy extracted?
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by spooky_action 10mo ago
Well, time to bite the bullet and learn jujutsu over the holidays
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by spooky_action 10mo ago
Naive question, why are Canadians more poorly connected by rail than they were at the beginning of the 20th century?
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by spooky_action 1y ago
I'm curious what the missing features are in Figma from a designers perspective. You've mentioned the paywalled variables, what else? (I haven't been a product engineer in years, and have barely touched Figma in the last ~5 y
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by spooky_action 1y ago
What's the relationship to replit?
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by spooky_action 1y ago
It's not perfect, but runtime_checkable is a thing https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.runtime... It doesn't actually preserve typing on the protocol's methods though
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by spooky_action 1y ago
How do you propose we do this?
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by spooky_action 2y ago
What evidence is there that tarrif policy was LLM generated?
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by spooky_action 2y ago
How rich are they if their time is worth $100/hour?
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by spooky_action 2y ago
> Isn't Congestion Pricing a handout of public streets to the wealthy? Wouldn't increased bus ridership and lower car traffic point to the opposite?
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by spooky_action 2y ago
What were the jupyter notebooks for? Did you run your backend in notebooks?
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by spooky_action 3y ago
Right there with you. A very influential crackpot who's read a bit too much sci-fi.
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by spooky_action 4y ago
How did you determine that Montessori wasn't right for your oldest?
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by spooky_action 4y ago
By IB do you mean international baccalaureate? Do you recommend that over standard curricula?
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by spooky_action 9y ago
Some stories: A friend at school brought a giant stack of $500 Zimbabwean bills to use at our school tuckshop. This stack of bills was probably about 2 feet high. This was in 2007, and at that point a meat pie or coke must must have cost te
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by spooky_action 9y ago
It was anything but equal. My mother was well connected to a manager of a major supermarket, so instead of waiting in line for hours for a loaf of bread, she could go in the back door of the store. My family were also property owners, so th
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by spooky_action 9y ago
I lived in Zimbabwe through the hyperinflation era. While true that going through hyperinflation means that your debts are essentially forgiven, there are so many negative knock-on effects in the economy and society as a whole, that you&#x2
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by spooky_action 9y ago
I lived through the entirety of Zimbabwe's hyperinflation era. I don't quite recall how the updates of prices were done, whether you would pick the item up, and it would just be updated by computer while you were waiting in line,
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by spooky_action 10y ago
Do you have anything similar that you would recommend?
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by spooky_action 10y ago
Yes, the tendency to label Africa as if it were a country (rather than 54 of them) is highly annoying. Clearly this won't be available for me (Zimbabwe/South Africa)