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by xsmasher 7y ago
Keep in mind that this shows CONGESTION, not traffic. Zero congestion does not mean that no one is on the road; It just means that there is excess capacity compared to usage.
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by xsmasher 7y ago
Not really - a shortest path algorithm outputs a single path between a start and an end point. This gives you a value (distance to player) for every square on the board; you can do a lot of things with that data, like choose between multipl
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by xsmasher 7y ago
It makes it really easy to add type safety to parts of a legacy project as you go along; for new projects you can enforce type safety with a linter or stricter compiler settings.
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by xsmasher 7y ago
> Supply is also dropping as tons of homeowners are refinancing, which balances out any drop in demand. Can you explain this? How does refinancing affect housing supply?
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by xsmasher 7y ago
Anyone know how the funding works in Oregon? If the state closes the school, does that mean they don't need to pay for those days of instruction?
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by xsmasher 7y ago
Probably something they heard from another vet, who heard from another vet - sounds very close to the classic "Mexican Pet" urban legend. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-mexican-pet/
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by xsmasher 7y ago
The 3D package "Blender" bit the bullet and revamped their entire UI over the course of many years/releases to (1) bring it in line with other applications (ctrl-c, ctrl-v should work everywhere) and (2) make more options vis
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by xsmasher 7y ago
Yes and no. For work that doesn't require a lot of communication and collaboration, it'll be easy to outsource to other countries, just like now. For work that is intensely collaborative, having the team speaking one language in o
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by xsmasher 7y ago
As soon as I saw "public class PriceSpecification" I got a creepy feeling. Why shouldn't the specifications be more purely data, like {field:"price", operator:">", level: 150 } Then you DON'T need
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by xsmasher 7y ago
Time will tell, but from that article: >Scientists in and outside China agree that reinfection is a highly unlikely explanation for the patients who retest positive. They say testing errors are more likely to blame — either false negativ
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by xsmasher 7y ago
Citation? I saw the one story about people "testing positive again" but that seemed to be a testing abnormality, not people getting sick a second time.
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by xsmasher 7y ago
The disease is not bad for most people. HOWEVER, the the real threat is too many people getting it at once, 10% need critical care, and that overloads our medical services. That is what has happened in Italy. https://www.flattent
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by xsmasher 7y ago
"You know it's time to sell when shoeshine boys give you stock tips. This bull market is over." ~ Joe Kennedy
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by xsmasher 7y ago
This is the real fix. National Holiday still doesn't help retail/restaurant workers. "Efficient" polling places that "only" take 30 minutes still require travel and specific timing. Mail-in voting fixes both.
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by xsmasher 7y ago
BART (Bay Area (San Francisco) Rapid Transit) removed trash cans in all underground BART stations for "security reasons" after 9/11.
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by xsmasher 7y ago
It seems like an entirely harmless belief system, so I'm not sure why you'd want to try and talk them out of it, unless it's leading to dangerous behavior on their part. It reminds me of Sherlock Holmes, on being told that th
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by xsmasher 7y ago
It always seemed like a mutation of whatever lobe or gland makes us interested in the arcana of computer systems, or makes kids get obsessive about dinosaurs. They have some kind of construct that generates happiness when they have some sec
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by xsmasher 7y ago
Professional game teams use visual tools. Visual tools allow non-programmers to do work / prep files / iterate on ideas / create animations without an engineer being involved. An individual indie dev doesn't care about t
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by xsmasher 7y ago
I remember (Yahoo? I think) making some really questionable acquisitions before everything fell apart; almost like it was being used a dumpster to pack a bunch of failed startups into. Based on nothing but gut, this sounds like a deal to pa
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by xsmasher 7y ago
I immediately thought of Pirsig's "two universities." “The real University, he said, has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries and receives no material dues. The real University is a state of mind. It is
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by xsmasher 7y ago
AAPL has been paying dividends four times a year since 2012.
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by xsmasher 7y ago
“The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.”
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by xsmasher 7y ago
I just learned about the Niles Film Museum a few weeks ago; I think it was on the bay area podcast? http://nilesfilmmuseum.org Edit: "Bay Curious" podcast https://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090&#x2
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by xsmasher 7y ago
I don't think "less car traffic means less shoppers" is true at all. If you look at any store on market street the majority of patrons did NOT drive there; and pedestrians are more likely to stop at multiple stores instead of
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by xsmasher 7y ago
> What new efficient way is being added? Cutting out private cars is only the start. https://sf.funcheap.com/city-guide/sfs-market-street-carfree...
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by xsmasher 7y ago
This is an old one. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/polished-off/
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by xsmasher 7y ago
When people are locked out of one ladder, they may latch onto another ladder where they can have more success; you can opt into the vegan ladder, zero waste ladder, hippie queen ladder, gangster ladder, slacker ladder, redneck ladder, ad in
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by xsmasher 7y ago
Pythonesque humor is a staple of nerd/hacker culture.
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by xsmasher 7y ago
I would not call that "overqualified," just "overeducated." It turns out the main requirements of the job are not education.
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by xsmasher 7y ago
It's not the most complex or hardest kind of software, but it does have special concerns. Dates are huge; you have to have a good E3 demo, and you (often) have to ship in time for Christmas. These dates can not slip. There's also

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