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by usrusr 2y ago
How does all the "executed once on the first request" and video keeps running work in htmx? Is it an SPA, from the browser's perspective, just an SPA that follows the MPA model, in its interactions with the server, basically
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by usrusr 2y ago
Did dicerolls in character creation exist in any game outside of Traveller? I vaguely remember a possibility of dying before the first game session. And character ability generally growing with age, so you'd either play a seasoned vete
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by usrusr 2y ago
The as also does not burden the reader with guessing about the absence of unexpected stuff happening in the functions. Don't pepper the code with mostly unused hidey-holes just to perhaps save some busywork later. If you do add valua
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by usrusr 2y ago
Very interesting to see these things observed in numbers. Impressive 80ies peak among us gen X! My music taste brain was initially formatted by that 1990ies idea of MTV mainstream vs independent (which paradoxically, also defined itself thr
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by usrusr 2y ago
Thanks, the part about that area being an industry hotspot after the civil war was completely new to me. From my German perspective, Spanish history with all its disconnect from the three "big stories" of the twentieth century alm
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by usrusr 2y ago
It's an amazing success story (even if surely not without any bad spots), it makes me happy just knowing that it exists. But I do wonder how much of its workability hinges on Basque nationalism rechanneled into something more useful th
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by usrusr 2y ago
Amazon seems to be the closest thing, with its studio channel subscription modules. If only it wasn't world-eating Amazon! (and if only the implementation did not suck: there are shows on "BBC player", of all things, that I c
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by usrusr 2y ago
The difference is that financial markets, despite all the harm they do, also provide utility. That entire invisible hand resource allocation thing. Opinions might differ about the amount of value relative to the harm, but very few would con
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by usrusr 2y ago
The basic logic is convincing: the canal killed the train line's business long before containers became a thing. Ship-to-train and train-to-ship should be far more feasible today than it used to be back then. And the train-to-ship part
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by usrusr 2y ago
Why optimize for latency when throughout is your single dominatant metric? And with braking distances being the limiting factor of all train signaling schemes, you might even find yourself able to increase throughput by going slower. (not n
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by usrusr 2y ago
Thanks for pointing that out, it never occurred to me that it might be the same organisation! The open ocean approach had always been far out in terms of good intentions but unrealistic expectations in my eyes, but with this pivot it's
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by usrusr 2y ago
Yeah, cars do not have particularly high requirements in terms of energy density. In a pinch people have been able to substitute petrol with fuel as low density as wood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas_generator
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by usrusr 2y ago
Armchair evolutionist suggestion: because there must be something in the code that makes them better than other species at being picky mating? Or particularly susceptible for breaking compatibility in terms of successful mating?
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by usrusr 2y ago
I read it as an erosion of the implicit assumption that ads bring in the money, and projects like Android and Chrome spend it, indirectly empowering the ads division. "Why can't we just focus on eating the cake? Those guys in the
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by usrusr 2y ago
I should have checked instead of replying from memory: It's actually footgunB that is refused by the compiler. footgunA is accepted and will even call happily into an overridden implementation from a field initializer in the superclass
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by usrusr 2y ago
The intention for "nothing before super" is clear, but that rule never delivered on its promises. Because all those footguns are still in place, in field initializers as well as in function calls inside the super() argument list:
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by usrusr 2y ago
Scala may have started out as a "nicer Java" back when Java was in its fossilized stage, but the niche it has grown into is more like a Haskell for the JVM. A pretty cool niche, but niche. "Nicer" just isn't part of
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by usrusr 2y ago
Push am (ever so slightly) larger fraction of the sun's energy output into our atmosphere, what could possibly go wrong! I know, the amount of net electricity per added total energy might end up no worse than in a fusion power best cas
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by usrusr 2y ago
So they could build a battery big enough to serve 15 minutes of the nighttime trough and declare mission accomplished with only enough solar to fill the battery on a rainy winter solstice day? Some goalposts just beg for getting moved. (I a
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by usrusr 2y ago
Without the "your enemy is not capitalism, it's the Jew!" ploy that entire "working class brownshirts beat up communists on behalf of industrialists" thing would not have happened at all. Antisemitism was the keysto
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by usrusr 2y ago
It was so much more than just a cash/property grab. It was also an accidental ideology hack to plaster over the unsolvable conflict between working class and capitalism. Short reminder that by name, it was a socialist workers' par
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by usrusr 2y ago
> Why not use an elongated blimp shape? Why the v? For the upper stage: it would only be an airship at the start, then transition into an inflatable hypersonic lifting body before eventually reaching orbital velocity. Very similar to how
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by usrusr 2y ago
I really like that idea and I don't want to suggest that it can't ever work, but the sudden purchase frenzy that did not happen is far from the only failure mode. Leave it running a decade or two and things might look very differe
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by usrusr 2y ago
Stuff like checking the rear view mirror when slamming the brakes upon some surprise uncertainty, true. Humans will always be bad at this, but for a computer it's trivial to include the tail situation in the brake decision.
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by usrusr 2y ago
That's an age-old fantasy technology. Today you'd do it with electric buses(/trucks) that run on dedicated highways, or at least on dedicated lanes that are not only electrified (bus operates from a pair of pantigraphs except
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by usrusr 2y ago
What buffer for solving delays would you consider acceptable for that mode switch? Train schedules are inherently fragile because there's so much interdependence. Every tiny bit of the trip is locked into a signaling segment block time
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by usrusr 2y ago
Hydrogen electric is little more than greenwashing before we have anything resembling a hydrogen surplus on the horizon. Energy density is always an issue in flying applications and it's well possible that a boring old turboprop burnin
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by usrusr 2y ago
The environmental issue with air travel is not high fuel consumption per passenger mile, but the number of miles per passenger. A coast to coast trip by car might burn just as much fuel as coast to coast by plane, but people simply wouldn&#
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by usrusr 2y ago
As in the cold end of the heat pump is inside the heated area of the house? That feels very weird. On the other hand with heat pumps, stacking multiple stages strategy isn't necessarily a bad thing! All inefficiencies are not really lo
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by usrusr 2y ago
“I want it to give me 1-2 events that I am most likely to enjoy.“ That's the core property of voice interfaces and I see surprisingly little awareness for that: it does not matter if it's a phone menu beep code tree or a GPT or a

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