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by wk_end 3y ago
You just named “for example” the first and fourth biggest companies in the world. Look up what the third is. I don’t know how “influential” big oil is, but I know they’re collectively quite rich. Collectively substantially richer than whoev
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by wk_end 3y ago
Before we discuss the funding situation with climate research, let's discuss the funding situation against climate research. If indeed climate scientists were pay-for-play, don't you think some of the richest companies in the wo
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by wk_end 3y ago
The vast, vast majority of people who are better equipped than myself - and likely you - disagree. But let's put that aside. Let's put aside the fact that the mechanisms involved are demonstrable and simple enough for children to
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by wk_end 3y ago
That's the case in certain places (in Canada, for instance, calling yourself an "engineer" of any sort is strictly regulated); but in the US - which, for better or worse, dominates tech - "software engineer" has com
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by wk_end 3y ago
The question this leaves unanswered is: why not VS Code? I don't know if MS built VS Code deliberately to compete with Atom, and I don't know if they bought GH to kill Atom. But once they had Atom in their hands, it only made sens
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by wk_end 3y ago
It works fine on objects. const set = new Set(); const x = { id: 'some object' }; foo.add(x); foo.has(x); > true I'm guessing you're taking issue with the fact that it uses reference equality instead of
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by wk_end 3y ago
Your own link tells you! The introduction of dramatically faster semiconductor memory chips pushed bubble into the slow end of the scale, and equally dramatic improvements in hard-drive capacity made it uncompetitive in price terms.
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by wk_end 3y ago
Everything up through 10.6 makes me feel indescribably warm and fuzzy. I don't like Steve Jobs very much as a person, and I don't quite buy the myth that he was as much of a unique genius as some people believe, but...is it a coin
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by wk_end 3y ago
You're kind of handwaving away the fact that most of the country lives in major centres. Connecting just the majoriest of cities, the Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Toronto/Hamilton, Ottawa, Montreal,
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by wk_end 3y ago
Read up on how it worked for the Japanese, the Germans, the French, ... Actually, I'm curious - I don't know a lot about China (although I know that they're maybe not the ideal comparison for Canada for any number of reasons)
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by wk_end 3y ago
High-speed rail (300+ km/h across the prairies!), buses, even air travel are mass transit options that would work as well or better than personal cars for addressing the vast majority of travel across Canada.
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by wk_end 3y ago
Lots of Canadians - not to mention Scandanavians and New Englanders and mid-westerners, all of whom have comparably cold and bitter winters to what most of Canada has - walk and bike, even in winter. But, beyond that, they can take buses an
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by wk_end 3y ago
I don't know if CBC changed the headline or if OP did, but it's "Feds will stop investing in 'large' road projects, environment minister says" (emphasis mine) > Guilbeault later clarified his remarks, tell
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I applied for a software role at FedEx and was asked to take a personality test(old.reddit.com)
392 points by wk_end 3y ago|433 comments
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by wk_end 3y ago
Thank you! Not sure how I was that sloppy. Fixed now.
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Notes on 1ML(shonfeder.github.io)
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by wk_end 3y ago
For any would-be readers - please ignore the clickbait-y headline! I went into this expecting to hate-read someone complaining how Rust is too hard and they don't need it anyway because they never make memory management errors in C++ o
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by wk_end 3y ago
Why would they want to encourage people to buy x86 machines from vendors other than them?
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by wk_end 3y ago
Yes, it says as much. > Our sample set > All of the data-based statements in this piece are made using private and public PRs and repos that have been synced with Graphite.
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by wk_end 3y ago
> The ideal PR size is 50 lines because that’s the median size on Github. ??? No, that's not why it's arguing that it's the ideal size. Where did you get that idea? (TBH I doubt it's the case - apparently the average
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by wk_end 3y ago
The article also claims it's the ideal size because it minimizes reverts and ends up with PRs getting more thoroughly reviewed (based on # of comments). I think that makes for a more compelling case.
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by wk_end 3y ago
In re: to > Reviewing and merging 10x60 line PRs is, in my experience, more time intensive than reviewing one 600 line PR. The article disagrees, and the article has data: > Some folks might wonder if writing small PRs leads to less c
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by wk_end 3y ago
Describing it as "an experiment" to see how people would respond to it is one tip-off.
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by wk_end 3y ago
It’s maybe worth mentioning that there have been many phases of Pitchfork over the years. That review would never be published today - the Pitchfork that wrote that review is already quite different from the scrappy 1997 Pitchfork (which pr
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by wk_end 3y ago
Downvoting someone on HN for arguing in bad faith isn't keeping "a political party" from having "a win", much less determining whether or not the PNW is going to burn down.
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by wk_end 3y ago
You or I may want to have a conversation about taking practical steps to avoid a disaster, but personally speaking I don't want to have it with a hypothetical interlocutor who is not having that conversation in good faith, but rather w
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by wk_end 3y ago
The problem is not made public...except in the New Yorker? Except by the president of the United States? Shifting blame towards land management practices - not necessarily by you, but for example by that particular POTUS - is often an attem
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by wk_end 3y ago
I know you’re just trolling, but - really? For all HN’s problems - and I get why someone might hate HN! - you think it’s more “repulsive” than Stormfront? Kiwifarms? The depths of 8chan? Revenge porn groups? The Telegram groups that share c
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by wk_end 3y ago
There's a bunch of reasons. To throw one onto the pile: because carbon emissions are an externality that the Invisible Hand seems to be having a real hard time suppressing, it sure seems like - and this is how it's gone so far, an
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by wk_end 3y ago
Given the choice - and I'm sincerely asking this, because I don't know enough about the subject - what'd be worse here, the disease or the cure? Could we live with acid rain if it staved off cataclysmic global warming?

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