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by travisb 2y ago
The fix in your edit isn't an obviously workable fix though. When talking about the rich, it's best to talk about private corporations -- because that's really how the operate. Firstly, do you want to prevent corporations fro
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by travisb 2y ago
I think part of the confusion is because 'patch' and 'commit' (really snapshot) are duals of each other, but in practice have important technical differences. When speaking abstractly about 'changes' it often d
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by travisb 2y ago
In my experience with stacked diffs the smaller diffs doesn't exacerbate the problem because they are pipelined. When getting merge approval takes at least one or two business days (say because of time zones or your colleagues are doin
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by travisb 2y ago
Stacked PRs are like being able to review a commit at a time, but add an additional layer of sequencing. It's most simply thought of as a patch series, where the evolution of each 'patch' is retained. That additional layer
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by travisb 2y ago
No. I'm saying once you smooth over five or ten year periods, that it is empirically false that the Overton window in North America is moving rightwards. It may very well feel that way to people who live in strong bubbles, but it just
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by travisb 2y ago
Uh yeah. More tolerance is pretty much the definition of the social-left.
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by travisb 2y ago
If the left-most edge of the Overton Window had been pushed right of the centrist position of, say, the 90s that would be correct. But it's obvious that isn't at all true -- many moderate left positions today would have been consi
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by travisb 2y ago
This really proves my point. I suggest that maybe the key to success is limiting ourselves to simpler TTL logic and make up for it by adding 10% additional material. Immediately somebody responds that TTL logic is the old way and can't
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by travisb 2y ago
From the article in no particular order: - We don't spend enough money - We have a low tolerance for risk - We choose high-tech, finessed designs over simpler, heavier designs - The project is designed and built by international commit
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by travisb 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrasteer GM did it in the early 2000's. It's not generally worth the trade-offs in a pickup truck (cost, durability, maintenance, weight capacity, wheel-well size, etc.).
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by travisb 2y ago
I concur. I don't know why people are so happy to throw out the history. I find it's not uncommon that bugs are introduced during rebasing, and merging in from master. Sometimes this is due to incorrectly resolved conflicts, somet
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by travisb 2y ago
While patches and snapshots are duals of each other, patches are generally less easy to reason about and work with, in no small part because compilers and humans work on the snapshot, not the patch. Having worked extensively with patches as
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by travisb 2y ago
The reason companies pay in shares and not dividends anymore is _because_ doing paying out profits using a share (buyback) is more tax efficient. Especially for recipients who want to let it ride in the stock market. It doesn't seem li
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by travisb 2y ago
That's very open to malicious actors though. Suppose you set a fair market value on your house or car. If I'm evil it may be worth a small loss on my part to 'out-bid' you simply to take that asset away from you by force
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by travisb 2y ago
Not at all surprising. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. PHEVs are optimal for many use cases: full-electric for most trips, but the ICE is there when it is the best fit (cold weather, long distance, towing, power outages
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by travisb 2y ago
Firstly, sprawl is the result only if it is around a central core(s) to which many people need to travel on a frequent basis. If few people need to travel to those cores regularly then you don't get sprawl, but rather more in-fill node
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by travisb 2y ago
There isn't a clear cut answer to this. Lower population density does not necessarily equate to higher carbon footprint, especially when commuting downtown for work has been eliminated. Above a certain point density has diseconomies of
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by travisb 2y ago
Productivity is a mixed bag. Some people do better, some worse. Some companies are missing small but important systems to enable productivity with remote work. My anecdote is that my in-office colleagues are less productive than they used t
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by travisb 2y ago
Making exceptions isn't necessarily a sustainable position either. Others have already commented on colleague resentment. There's also the problem of being the only remote team member, or having to deal with company infrastructure
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by travisb 2y ago
You can read "politically correct" as "politically fashionable". When money is cheap it's easy to spend a bit of money on political signalling. However when money is no longer cheap that pure cost centre is the firs
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by travisb 2y ago
DSCP already exists, but there's never been an Internet-wide incentive to use it correctly. It is theoretically plausible that end-users could mark their packets 'latency/jitter sensitive' or 'high throughput'.
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by travisb 2y ago
To understand how this works it's important to know that temperature loss is linearly proportional to the temperature difference. Insulation reduces the ratio independently of temperature. As an approximate example, suppose if takes on
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by travisb 2y ago
That vicious cycle is a problem ever more expensive electrical grids will need to contend with over the next couple of decades. The variable per Kwh costs are historically generally pretty low relative to the fixed capex and opex (eg. maint
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by travisb 2y ago
The 'somewhere else' is a big issue though. In order to deal with Northern Europe winter power demands you probably want those solar panels to be on the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere. That's along ways away.
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by travisb 2y ago
It's part of the polarization of politics over the past few decades where the ends justify the means and the sooner the better. People have given up on understanding underlying principles, let alone believing they are necessary for goo
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by travisb 2y ago
The lack of funding angle isn't really convincing. Modern designs depend on material science and computing abilities which could never have been made in the 70's no matter how much money was thrown at it.
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by travisb 2y ago
It's strange how the article jumps from "China is publishing more/better predominantly from industry" to "The US needs more federal science funding for academics". My anecdotal belief is that China is doing wel
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by travisb 2y ago
It's important to understand that this study indicates that hybrid is better than full-time office. It isn't comparing hybrid to full-time remote. So it's pretty obvious that remote work doesn't need to hurt productivity
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by travisb 2y ago
In most cases the firing decision has already been made because all the sustainable levels of informal support have already been exhausted. After the team lead has endlessly explained, reassigned, and simplified a person's tasks, and j
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by travisb 2y ago
If you are going to do that, other play grounds should also be counted: the forests and fields which used to be nearby, the per-child space in nearby parks, etc. All these are places children used to go unsupervised, but now mostly don&#x27

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