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by wott 6y ago
> flutterfolio.com I can't experience this problem, for my browser only displays for this site a beautiful, immaculate, plain white page :)
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by wott 6y ago
> I'm not sure if you're aware, but this is a very US thing. In Europe it's not even uncommon with laws against discriminating on these grounds as well. As (almost) always when "Europe" comes up in the comments o
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by wott 6y ago
> You build cities around transit, walking and biking instead of giant chasms between buildings. This is not a problem that exists in Europe. Ahem, European reality begs to differ.
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by wott 6y ago
> The so-called "Ada comb" structure that is used for packages, subprograms, and even declare blocks makes it easy to find what you are looking for because it makes the source code more regular. "Declare" blocks are a
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by wott 6y ago
Why do you think I am not aware of those points? Those complaints have been made a million times. Yes, C is not a memory safe language and you may run into trouble if you don't use stdlib string functions properly or hand-manage charac
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by wott 6y ago
> It always looked like a weird community to me (but that has indirectly to do with how Adacore conduct their business). I don't know the community (or communities), but yeah, Adacore looks like a special beast. I saw a few discuss
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by wott 6y ago
Ada has made a pretty mess with strings. In the same family of languages, Pascal reached a similar mess. Early decisions which seemed nice and clever, but quickly turned out to be way too limitative, so they piled a series of other strings
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by wott 6y ago
> I have moved from using reddit to frequenting a traditional forum where the content is ordered chronologically Chronologically by last update , otherwise you could always read /r/yoursub/new, but that's only chrono
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by wott 6y ago
Both can be true at the same time.
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by wott 6y ago
> I always had the sense - without seriously looking into it though - that D was about avoiding some of the mistakes/mis-features of C++, [...] and then it plays somewhat clunky catch-up. My opinion is that D lost its goal on the wa
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by wott 6y ago
> For example if they have kids and one of the parent stops working to raise the kids, divorce will make sure that person is not left without anything. It isn't the divorce which creates those rights, it is the marriage. The divorce
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by wott 6y ago
It happens relatively often here in the French Pyrenees (it may double down as a Foehn effect going from South to North after passing the ridge line (which is horizontal on a map). If you pay attention, you may notice the result in one Jame
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by wott 6y ago
What's this obsession of anti-anti-vax with measles? When I was on my national Reddit sub, it would come up 40 times a year. When I was a kid, everyone was catching it. That was just one of those diseases you catch once and then you ar
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by wott 6y ago
> I was surprised because I thought that anti maskers were all right leaning. It depends on places. In the area I live, it is also the neo-hippie/neo-rural/green/alternative-left who are anti-mask. But that's very loc
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by wott 6y ago
> $1.5mil, assuming a 10 year life, You don't perform a reconstruction after 10 years. You need a reconstruction when you have done zero maintenance for 30 years. Or else if there are 1000 loaded lorries roaming on your street every
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by wott 6y ago
But most suburban streets are very low traffic, and low-weight traffic roads. They are not arterials / collectors. And you rarely need a full reconstruct. So even trusting the given quotes, you generally are good with the "resurfa
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by wott 6y ago
As usual in this type of threads, I don't quite understand what Americans mean by 'walkability'. When I was in high-school, I spent 2 weeks in the USA, on Long Island. I could walk for an hour and not walk across a pedestrian
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by wott 6y ago
> There's a perception, somewhat warranted, that if they can't persuade other people to adopt their preferences, it's going to be harder Sometimes it is true. Imagine you wish something like the Spanish town model: a very
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by wott 6y ago
[I replied to the wrong comment, so I copy my earlier answer here, at its right place, sorry.] I assumed they were just continuing a trend. But I looked at the US 1980 census and was surprised to find that the number of persons per househol
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by wott 6y ago
I assumed they were just continuing a trend. But I looked at the US 1980 census and was surprised to find that the number of persons per household almost didn't change. 2.67 then vs 2.62 now. Meanwhile in France, it dropped from 2.75 t
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by wott 6y ago
He's answering to someone who speaks of "European style city centers", don't blame him. (NB: I didn't downvote you because you are right that too often this fairy-tale European style appears here. But still...)
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by wott 6y ago
> And don't forget the idyllic car-free existence that almost everyone has in Europe. I don't think it came up this time but indeed it is common each time there is this kind of thread here. Same thing for the fuzzy 'walkab
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by wott 6y ago
> outside the US, almost no one grew up in a big house. Neither suburbs nor detached houses nor private houses are specific to the US. In France, primary housing is 57% individual house, 43% collective (apartments). But that's not a
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by wott 6y ago
> The thing is that farmers nowadays are required to have huge surface to survive. Yes and no. From a country to the neighbouring countries, the average farm surface vary greatly; from an area to the next area in the same country, variat
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by wott 6y ago
> I confess I'd expected quiet but farm equipment, tractors, etc. make quite a lot of noise. Well, they are less noisy than they used to be (think of the change of noise emissions for cars, though added dampening body), but the usag
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by wott 6y ago
I add another examples about changes. I grew up in the early 80s in a very small village, in a very rural area: the parents of all pupils were farmers, except mine. Cereals production was dominant, with a part of cattle and poultry. Nowaday
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by wott 6y ago
Even in rural France, outside a few picturesque places and views, the reality has become pretty ugly in the last 30 or 40 years (and it keeps accelerating). In many villages (even small ones with less than a couple hundred inhabitants, even
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by wott 6y ago
Thing is there are assholes on both sides. And both sides may use laws to their convenience to keep being assholes. I have a neighbour in my village (and I mean, really 'in') who has several cocks, and he also has peacocks! The fi
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by wott 6y ago
> I don't mind manure I usually don't, but I once had a neighbour who found it clever to spray liquid manure through the water cannons which are normally used for watering maize... I just let you imagine for a minute the atmosp
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by wott 6y ago
I present a combo case: airport + racing track :-) At the moment, in France, the racing track of Albi, the track of which runs around the airport track, is being sued and fined for the noise. The track exists since 1960, there were only a f

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