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by xmprt 4y ago
It's only better if the intersection has high, consistent pedestrian traffic. Unfortunately, many cities aren't built to be pedestrian friendly so those criteria are rarely met outside of busy cities, downtowns, and college towns.
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by xmprt 4y ago
Starcraft was released in 1998. The game development industry was still pretty new and nowhere near the size it is today. Also, modern project management strategies weren't really used much back then and even if they were, they probabl
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by xmprt 4y ago
I think the restrictions make the game more interesting. However the pause is a bit annoying. If you make a move before the animation finished then it should either speed up the animation or skip it.
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by xmprt 4y ago
Yes but a judge can overrule it. A judge cannot however overrule a not-guilty verdict and find the defendant guilty.
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by xmprt 4y ago
> a driver license with a built in private key IDs should never be used as secrets. That's like mixing up your username and password.
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by xmprt 4y ago
The blog post was a blast to read and even better, it served as a great trailer for the game. Bought it immediately after reading. I wish more game devs wrote blog posts like this.
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by xmprt 4y ago
From my understanding, there's literally no way to get out of the $1B penalty even if he proves everything that he claims about Twitter bots. What he's trying to get out of right now, is buying Twitter at the price he originally s
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by xmprt 4y ago
I don't think anyone's arguing that the new ways are better. However, it's not clear that we're going in the right direction and instead we're stuck in a local maximum. Maybe if we took a step back and had mapping p
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by xmprt 4y ago
How can you distinguish between infrastructure products and hype products? If you said that a dating website turned video sharing platform would become on of the bedrocks of the online content creator economy you'd probably be laughed
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by xmprt 4y ago
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. If a movie is released today, it obviously wouldn't have the towers. And a movie released in the past right after 9/11 would edit them out because it was still fresh in peopl
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by xmprt 4y ago
How is localism supposed to enable things like mobile phones, internet, video games, movies, travel, etc., function? You're suggestion is essentially to go back to the stone age. Additionally, wouldn't localism require more people
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by xmprt 4y ago
When you raise funding at a startup, you're usually creating new shares which dilute old shares. If a seed round VC is able to get out with a 20% loss then they might be happy, but what will actually happen is that the seed round VC&#x
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by xmprt 4y ago
Is this an issue of code stability or do these libraries have leaky abstractions that cause issues with models trained on previous version, because the library implementation changed and since ML has low explainability, it's hard to te
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by xmprt 4y ago
At most companies I've worked for, mentoring and training junior engineers is a requirement for promotion. Also, you might not get promoted for maintenance but 1. keeping it running with a healthy userbase and demonstrating high impact
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by xmprt 4y ago
> Gone are the days of just trying to assume people mean the best I think people have been bitten in the back enough time by assuming the best that people have switched to thinking this way. When you try to be nice and keep getting taken
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by xmprt 4y ago
Or cool to give employees an understanding that employers aren't their friends and can and will go to extreme lengths to screw them over if it benefits the corporation. Also just general advice to avoid doing things on your company lap
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by xmprt 4y ago
Just curious but how would you use 10GB up/down for personal purposes?
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by xmprt 4y ago
That's the "future" that we already have except things like OAuth and single sign on make that transparent to the user.
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by xmprt 4y ago
I don't think you can generalize Web3 companies to all software companies. Web3 companies have shown time and time again that they don't care much about security or good software development practices. I'm not sure if it&#x27
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by xmprt 4y ago
You are legally required to be reachable by mail by the US government. Unless you're planning on being an undocumented citizen living on US land off the grid, you will need a mail box.
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by xmprt 4y ago
> I'd take 10x the amount of spam in my mailbox if I could get rid of all of the rest of the garbage I'm bombarded with I for one would not. Digital spam is easy to deal with. There are automated filters, easy ways to block the
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by xmprt 4y ago
> The counter-argument is that orange just means decaf to the customer That might be a case of a trademark being genericized. Or the trademark should not have even been granted in the first place if orange meant decaf before Sanka starte
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by xmprt 4y ago
It's even more restricted for the brand. If you trademark "sky blue" then you'd have to prove that consumers have a strong association between the color and your brand. And even then, other brands can still use "sky
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by xmprt 4y ago
If I was worried about security then I think I'd probably move to using the web client (or a web wrapper) instead of switching to a third party native application.
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by xmprt 4y ago
I should have clarified that I meant Clickhouse can't really be used as an RDBMS. I wasn't aware that RocksDB uses LSMTs.
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by xmprt 4y ago
What if that's the push that brings people out into the physical world where they don't have to deal with all this crap online.
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by xmprt 4y ago
I know Clickhouse uses MergeTrees which are different from B+trees. However it can't really be used as an RDBMS. It's especially bad at point reads. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log-structured_merge-tree
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by xmprt 4y ago
I think the tradeoff is similar to using a weakly typed vs strongly typed language. Strong typing is more up front effort but it will save you down the line because it's more predictable. Similarly, an RDBMS will require more up front
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by xmprt 4y ago
This is the worst type of clickbait. The types of people who would be attracted by the title will hate the article because it doesn't have a straightforward title. And the types of people who would enjoy the story probably won't b
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by xmprt 4y ago
The thing that's missing in all those headlines is context. Google has context and I like to imagine Hacker News readers would understand the context too (or at least find a top comment talking about the context). So Google refusing to

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