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by usrusr 3y ago
It's a amazing kitchen. This isn't V8 suburbia, where garages are bigger than what an entire working class family or two lived in in interwar Europe.
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by usrusr 3y ago
Those ambitious Weimar era housing estates in Berlin are all awesome, with their careful balance between efficiency and preventing excessive cookie-cutter. It's interesting to contrast them with their less modernist "Gemeindebau&q
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by usrusr 3y ago
Where I live it was a close call between rebuilding in modern layouts (car-friendly and that entire "block in a park landscape" approach that I consider the biggest failure of 20th century architecture, nobody likes these "pa
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by usrusr 3y ago
Templates would of course have to define types, at least where string wouldn't be considered good enough. Also names for repetitions and optional blocks. It would not solve any big problems when you start with a detailed plan and every
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by usrusr 3y ago
Whenever I encounter a template language with expressions reaching into some view model or worse, I come back to an old idea of mine: what if you strictly wrote template first? The templates come up with names, types for the data identified
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by usrusr 3y ago
Highly speculative, and I suspect that I don't do these models justice: The purpose of these boards seems to get people acquainted with their programming model . Not as in using board and model as a turnkey solution (if that happens,
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by usrusr 3y ago
Did Larrabee contain anything that wasn't an x86 core? According to other comments, this seems to consist of massive highly specialized processing units with just a few tiny CPU sprinkled in to keep the former fed. Quite the opposite o
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by usrusr 3y ago
I'd be dead scared of false positives riding in one. That might be harmless at a speed slightly above pedestrian, but my speed range does not end there.
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by usrusr 3y ago
Which is is a perfectly fine design goal for hitting the ground, because riding faster does not increase the speed component orthogonal to the road surface. That's always roughly like dropping while standing still, slightly more when
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by usrusr 3y ago
And chances are he was dead without his head being caved in. That's simply the wrong model when talking about head protection from traffic dangers. Where the helmet protects from small but fast-moving masses (weapons, falling rock or t
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by usrusr 3y ago
When a head "caves in" from an impact, no helmet will save you. More handsome corpse, I give you that.
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by usrusr 3y ago
The only company that made them has gone bankrupt, so there's that. They were successful in Copenhagen, where helmet-wearing is not quite as exotic as in the Netherlands, but apparently one city is not enough.
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by usrusr 3y ago
I think (just from reading the article) that bikes had been allowed there the whole time, but that the geography and the distribution of settlements pushed rides just above the threshold of attractivity. One implication of this interpretati
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by usrusr 3y ago
Question is how will it go when someone does decide to say goodbye to the community rules. Will family be under peer pressure to try keeping them aligned and break off all contact if they fail? Those "community made decisions" can
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by usrusr 3y ago
UK seems to be a big importer of animal feed. Local meat does necessarily exclude strip-farming biome half a planet away. https://oec.world/en/profile/hs/animal-food I'm actually very surprised by these
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by usrusr 3y ago
This is the one that was featured in my memory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32314814 But the most recent one is also interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38527437
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by usrusr 3y ago
Reminds me of the discussions on hn when Intel Optane wasn't quite dead yet. Those always seemed to end with the conclusion that if separation between volatile and persistent memory had not been forced on us by technological reality, i
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by usrusr 3y ago
> A good interface is one you do not notice A good animation is one you do not notice. Subtlety that succeeds in loading off its feedback payload in your brain without exposing the transmission mechanism to the conscious level of percept
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by usrusr 3y ago
It could only ever be good for some interactions, e.g. it would be terrible for when the screen is just three large buttons for super quick access. Mode switching would surely be awkward. I think I remember some map apps experimenting in th
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by usrusr 3y ago
True. Ideally you put some "event received" indication across the whole trigger area, e.g. that little Android ripple animation. Certainly does not hurt to do the same (whole area clickable, and with visual feedback) even when you
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by usrusr 3y ago
Tends do get completely obscured and you're back to mental diffing. I know, I know, nothing a bigger checkbox could not solve, but they look weird when you only make them bigger horizontally.
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by usrusr 3y ago
On a touch sreen, chances are the finger obscures the state change, or much of it. When you are not super focused ("I don't trust this thing!"), it's easy to miss the difference between before and after states. The anima
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by usrusr 3y ago
Putin's war isn't a useful term though, because there are so many of them. Regarding change from "that Russia" to the modern one, I'm afraid there has been change, to the worse. The Soviet incarnation of the empire
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by usrusr 3y ago
A lot of software dev hiring is not on demands, to fill a pressing gap, but more like an opportunistic background process. The perfect candidate will be added to the herd, but if that perfect candidate fails to show up, the opening will rem
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by usrusr 3y ago
Airlines are at the polar opposite end of the spectrum of clearly defined minimum headcount requirement: they know exactly how many keyboards they must have manned, they can't wait it out if there aren't enough candidates who don&
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by usrusr 3y ago
I guess the idea is that if you set up a team for something greenfieldish you want some to lead by example in terms of how the stack will be used. You don't want someone generally experienced to go deep discovering their way to use t
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by usrusr 3y ago
Curiously, there's also the exact inverse happening as well, without contradiction: unless you go for the extreme junior position of straight from university, employers expect a perfect tech stack match. If you haven't worked with
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by usrusr 3y ago
Nothing of that changes their desire to avoid selling to the worst abuser. What circumstances can do is making them sell despite that despite. That's why it's so important to have a clean handover way that does not involve handing
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by usrusr 3y ago
True, but at least it would require the exiting party to not have any illusions about what they are doing. I'd be surprised to hear that most extension takeover bids are open about their plans.
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by usrusr 3y ago
When your stock is traded like the stock of a company with a stranglehold on a huge market it can press seemingly at will, what can you do other than pressing? Publicly traded companies are mercenaries bound to the highest bidder, nothing t

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