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by xvedejas 6y ago
What about "fraction"? That's what I tend to use in my own code, although it could be greater than 1 potentially.
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by xvedejas 6y ago
I've always seen gentrification as more a symptom of a problem, rather than a problem itself. After all, it's not the appearance of a higher economic class that's bad; it's the forceful displacement of the lower economic
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by xvedejas 6y ago
Trying to implement anything in Rust will set you up for a crash-course. Even the simplest non-trivial programs will introduce you to the Rust borrow checker, a major feature absent in C# / Python.
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by xvedejas 6y ago
Great to have such upperclassmen as role models as a student. Doesn't surprise me that it would have a big effect on what majors students choose. But sometimes we wonder if too many people take cs at caltech these days just because it
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by xvedejas 6y ago
My comment no longer seems to have any relevance to the parent, which was edited. I do like to point out this (in)famous case though: Nate Lewis was denied the prize in Chemistry by being the most junior in a group of four (the prize can be
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by xvedejas 6y ago
The quantity in question here is "price", not "value". Prices only exist when buyer and seller agree. You're right that values will be different, but I think you've missed the subject of the previous post.
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by xvedejas 6y ago
Higher orbits are much more expensive to launch a satellite into. I think partially because of this, commercial imaging satellites will be in the range of 600-800km altitude unless there's a really good reason otherwise. So I don'
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by xvedejas 6y ago
On FB messenger, I'm immediately met with a message of "Your message couldn't be shared, because this link goes against our Community Standards"
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by xvedejas 6y ago
Regardless of whether the density is being replaced, when 100% of new construction is SFH, to a renter it's like existing townhomes are disappearing; as their proportions diminish, prices rise and thus finding this kind of place near y
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by xvedejas 6y ago
Is it not consistent with your personal observations that the relative concentrations of diversity have maybe moved? I'm not sure how that possibility would contradict you, given your honestly limited geographical experience.
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by xvedejas 6y ago
Learning colemak took me maybe a month for proficiency. I'd recommend it as more ergonomic and easier to learn compared to Dvorak; minimizing changes from qwerty was an explicit part of its design process.
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by xvedejas 6y ago
I didn't get much of a typing education despite being slightly pre-iphone. And my father, who learned to code with punch cards, and wrote code for decades, typed with only two fingers... It was only after relearning to type, but with a
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by xvedejas 6y ago
The article isn't at all about three geographical bay areas, it's about three socioeconomic bay areas. I see elements of all three (but mostly the third) in my neighborhood in SF.
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by xvedejas 6y ago
I don't know enough about individual publications to say whether I agree that their ratings are off, but I do like how allsides allows you to vote on whether you agree with their ratings[1] -- and I encourage you to. At least out of th
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by xvedejas 6y ago
Crime rates have been falling across the developed world for the last 30 years. I assume that's a decent proxy for teenage risk-taking behavior too. I wonder how much of this success is coincidental to broader social trends, rather tha
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by xvedejas 6y ago
AP and Reuters seem to be alright in my experience, as do some foreign sources (BBC). AllSides.com provides media bias ratings which pass my sanity filter, although I won't claim to know how trustworthy a source they are. https:/
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by xvedejas 6y ago
I agree that the term "Karen" has its genesis as an insult, and one designed to effectively aggravate the people it describes. It's not surprising to me that it's a word people reach for when they want the impact that wo
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by xvedejas 6y ago
I don't disagree that this hazard is real, but I also see the term used in non-racist, non-sexist ways too, sometimes with disclaimers that "obviously this isn't just white women and not all white women are like this". I
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by xvedejas 6y ago
Ashley Pond in Los Alamos, NM is a pond named after a man named Ashley Pond. It might be more correctly called Ashley Pond pond?
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by xvedejas 6y ago
There are reasons to be inflexible on pay. I imagine it works enough of the time, and a candidate will accept the lower pay. I hypothesize also that inflexible pay policies make it more difficult to be accused of discriminatory pay practice
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by xvedejas 6y ago
It's possible to have different gauges at the same station, requiring just a change of train rather than an additional bus transfer. And some systems are variable gauge, allowing for the same train to operate on different systems. htt
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by xvedejas 6y ago
I try to keep proper posture, but I don't think the correct chair for me exists. I need a headrest (doctor recommended) and some amount of recline. However, I cannot find an office chair that will actually recline properly. Yes, it is
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by xvedejas 6y ago
Let me double-down on a bolder argument. Removing minimums doesn't inconvenience vehicle users. It doesn't remove any parking spots that already exist. It doesn't bring in more vehicles than previously existed. If a new busin
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by xvedejas 6y ago
Allowing developers to decide to have a few fewer spots in new developments isn't going to change anything over night. Framing public transport and car diets as a chicken-and-egg problem helps nobody, they need to happen simultaneously
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by xvedejas 6y ago
I did consider this. There are many things (especially consumer goods, like cars) that cost more-or-less the same regardless of where you live. And that's to say nothing of intangible advantages of many of the more desirable / mor
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by xvedejas 6y ago
So long as companies pay proportionally less when you work from a lower cost-of-living place, as most seem to do, it's not going to become especially popular to work from a cheaper location. And why should they -- being able to work re
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by xvedejas 6y ago
The only reason public figures don't reasonably have that expectation is because so many people are willing to break the law to leak their personal data. That this happens so often is not a valid justification for it happening.
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by xvedejas 6y ago
Mercator can be a very useful map. Angles are not distorted. It's also very good at low distortion at small scales. As you zoom in on a point, the area distortion diminishes. Once your area of interest is around 300km wide, the area di
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by xvedejas 6y ago
You can't just compose two functions because they're both written in a functional programming language. The programmer has to have the foresight to make their types compatible. I think the novelty of the Unix pipe for interoperabi
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by xvedejas 6y ago
It certainly is in comparison to someone raised illiterate, or in any number of unfortunate situations. But in comparison to the privilege of a university education? I'm a bit surprised by the suggestion. If self-taught knowledge is re

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