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by yason 8y ago
My first questions exactly. Renting out but giving a more discounted rate the poorer the tenant is probably the only sustainable approach to keep them having a home as living costs just keep rising. Of course, the discount should gradually
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by yason 8y ago
I could see a potential with completely autonomous vessels that could sail for weeks/months on solar/wind power without any human presence. Crew would only board the ship when approaching a harbour, and steer her to the dock. Sola
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by yason 8y ago
I welcome Mastercard's move at the issue. If you do give your c/c number for free trials then this is probably most useful. Aside from that, I don't think I've ever given my c/c number for any "trial period&quo
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by yason 8y ago
Any business that can afford to splice, destructure, and recompose their pricing into undecipherable mess is a strong sign they're doing too well, and have an unhealthy stronghold on their customers. If the markets are free enough I&#x
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by yason 8y ago
Not necessarily smarter than... other scientists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I
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by yason 8y ago
Killing apps is a good thing . There have been battery saver programs since the very beginning of early Android versions to kill of connectivity and clean up running apps. When Android now supports some of that natively and vendors too, ev
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by yason 8y ago
Anything you do for work eventually wears out and becomes "just work". That's why it's called "work". Hobby coders can escape into the unrestricted world of building stuff without limits to satisfy their imagin
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by yason 8y ago
It's a short life indeed and narrowing it down to a few specific, namely goals is a good way to make yours miserable. If in doubt, don't. Find one thing that you do want to do: something that is silently but persistently pulling
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by yason 8y ago
1) No, I think the assumption has to be that the user should know what s/he's doing. However, how would using handles even help there? If you close the file you will need to access it by a path even on Windows, and the very path h
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by yason 8y ago
I know how opening a file affects the exclusivity of access but commonly applications don't seem to keep the file continuously open except during reading or writing. Maybe some Microsoft applications use that pattern extensively but it
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by yason 8y ago
1. In general updating the same files at the same time is not a that much of a common problem in any practical sense. The user generally won't be editing the document in two different editors at the same time. Programs use flock(2) or
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by yason 8y ago
Read my comment again. There is an inherent race condition if one program is using a file and another program is deleting it without caring about whether the file is being accessed by other programs. At that point, all bets are off there re
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by yason 8y ago
I'm not surprised. Descent was cool, technically superior, and it was a game I really would've loved to love. But people loved Doom and so did I. Search for "descent speedrun" on YouTube and then do the same for Doom. Th
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by yason 8y ago
You stat() all the files, they look empty, so you delete them... but in between, another process writes to some file (or maybe the user forgets the file is being deleted and saves to something there), and suddenly you've deleted data
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by yason 8y ago
Everything that is running keeps using the old libraries. The directory entries for the shared libraries or executables are removed but as long as a task holds a live file descriptor the actual shared library or executable is not deleted fr
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by yason 8y ago
That's perfectly fine too and encouraging your kids to be not overly ambitious probably leads to a better life for them. However, at that point the parents should also stop demanding better grades from the kid and especially stop askin
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by yason 8y ago
Pushing responsibility upward and allowing escalation should end at some point. The administrators should just repeat what the teachers said, and tell the parents that the only way to get better scores is to invite the child work harder for
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by yason 8y ago
Driving miles anywhere costs the same. Compared to the annual cost of owning a car making an extra 15 mile trip is absolute peanuts. The problem occurs when 1000 people decide to make that very extra trip just because capacity makes it poss
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by yason 8y ago
That's very true if the goal is to get rid of automotive congestion completely. The practical solution is to find a trade-off where we allow enough congestion to allow the necessary and important things to move but not too much that al
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by yason 8y ago
People are given an opportunity to do something and then they do it. If you don't put a price on it then people won't prioritise, and the demand becomes endless. And you can never have supply to meet an endless demand.
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by yason 8y ago
For any practical purposes road traffic can be considered a gaseous element that quickly fills as much space as is allocated for road space, with heavy emphasis on segments that lead to several destinations. Conversely, when roads are put o
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by yason 8y ago
Elastic demand requires free-flowing masses. I'm quite sure New Yorkers or Londoners would be able to fill as many new subway trains during the rush hour as you could humanly add to the rail network, at least on the sections that are m
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by yason 8y ago
Yes, the US could be "strong" but the US isn't just defending its own soil. It would seem natural to think your own soil is the only thing you can ever rightfully defend. USA seems to be doing the defending anywhere but on
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by yason 8y ago
It’s not writing intended for a textbook or academic paper. It’s a story. You’re supposed to read it and get introduced to things and discover the themes of the story gradually. I didn't discover crap. Lost my attention way before I
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by yason 8y ago
Because it tastes good. I mostly only ever drink good coffee which means I generally only drink coffee at home which is where I can make good coffee. Usually I drink one pot (which is 10 cups on the coffee maker's scale but which comes
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by yason 8y ago
Surely people can hack themselves a routine to wake up early. But like you said, when having the luxury of choice you would likely start drifting back later again. I think that's the innate part people refer to when talking about larks
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by yason 8y ago
We did this too. But it was ever so sad ripping the kids off their beds and sending them off to school in those inhuman hours while you knew you could fall back to sleep afterwards yourself. I've tried to let them know they would be ri
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by yason 8y ago
But, I question how much of this behavior is environmental versus innate. Is this as such an interesting academic question or would you actually want to be a early-riser instead? If so, why?
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by yason 8y ago
I drink a lot of coffee up till the late evening or night and it doesn't seem to affect my sleeping patterns at all. I can easily fall asleep soon after finishing a cup, or having had several cups during the evening. It's just tha
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by yason 8y ago
One thing high speed rail, or any rail for that matter, requires is dense walkable cities. If the rail link requires driving to the station and renting a car at the destination it's not going to be comparable with one where you can wal

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