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by yason 3y ago
Plato had it easy... When we were young, there was no memory. You had to work everything out yourself, each time. And it was a hard life having none of that fancy thing of memorizing but, frankly, life was better for it.
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by yason 3y ago
In reality it doesn't make any difference at all (especially in comparison to bigger issues) but the numbers do and it's the numbers that will guide the development of low-carbon policies.
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by yason 3y ago
Writing a browser engine is a lot of unprofitable work just to get to harass your customers with popups, ads, and scams. Especially when you already wrote one and couldn't keep even that in pace with standards and the evolving web tech
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by yason 4y ago
The bottleneck of UI is not the rendering. A measly 60 fps is plenty fast for UI that feels immediate. We had this in the 90's with software rendering, you don't need a GPU for that today. What causes user interfaces to hick up
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by yason 4y ago
Microsoft isn't known to be stupid so that mostly leaves malice in their case.
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by yason 4y ago
Python is a good language and I use it a lot. But I can only say Python2 was fun but Python3 is serious. I could live with the quirks and shortcomings of Python2 and still enjoy programming. But even after a decade of history I still find m
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by yason 4y ago
Rule of thumb: divide the official range by half when driving in winter conditions because of a) takes a long time for the battery to heat up b) higher friction in colder temps c) cabin and window heating eat up 20-25% of the capacity.
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by yason 4y ago
However, I have learned over the years as a developer investigating update issues that the constraints placed upon the update process to ensure compatibility and resiliency are complex. I have learned over the years that constraints and c
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by yason 4y ago
Abstraction has a slight cost but doesn't inherently mean it's very expensive. The cost of abstraction is generally worth buying because it allows you to write code in more independent blobs which reduces complexity and thus bugs
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by yason 4y ago
Cleverness, like fire, is a good servant but a bad master.
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by yason 4y ago
What's the solution here to get more in taxes? The same as usually: increase the taxable base, not the tax percentage. Tax a larger base moderately than trying to out-tax the last dribbles of a dwindling, current economy. To do this,
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by yason 4y ago
Or to generalise, where supply and demand meet is called value.
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by yason 4y ago
I have most of my friends using some messenger app and based on that I run―because I basically have to run―Whatsapp and Signal myself. But those are all people I know. What would you use but SMS when contacting people you don't? Typica
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by yason 4y ago
It's the school drop-off paradox: https://blogsmedia.lse.ac.uk/blogs.dir/120/files/2022/01/Pic...
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by yason 4y ago
I approach appliances with the Unix philosophy. One thing to do one thing well -- or at least only one thing to be replaced when one of them breaks. And if I find a genuinely good item I can keep using it even if other machines break.
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by yason 4y ago
The timeline of this development exceeds the timeline of my own experiences since the 90's. I've always driven cars with rack and pinion steering while wheels went from something like a typical 185-65x15 to 245-40x18. So, wheels a
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by yason 4y ago
In school, you for some reason take the lessons first and then the test. In real world, on so many levels, you start with a test and then proceed to lessons as needed, if at all. If you pass an earlier test while missing some fundamental co
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by yason 4y ago
What they probably meant is that at 5°F the pump can supply 100% of the heat required to keep a house (of certain size) warm, with no other form of heating required. At -5 and -10, it can still extract enough heat from the outside to supply
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by yason 4y ago
To boil a kettle of water before and after: Before: turn the knob to max and wait a moment. Today: long-press the on/off button to turn the stove top on, press another button to select plate, adjust power by hitting the plus button ten
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by yason 4y ago
In my experience the quoted search does work. Google will report it can't find what I asked if there are no such pages with the exact quote: No results found for "...". Results for ... (without quotes): It&#
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by yason 4y ago
Or at least allow the user to flag such links to be added in his own, individual corpus of unwanted spam. They do the exact same thing with email already, so why not extend it to web pages. And, yes, allow the user to permanently filter out
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by yason 4y ago
One factor is the time of day. When I meet people I'm usually busy with work, my thoughts or trying to achieve something else than a good discussion. When I'm online I'm alone, often in the evening, I have plenty of time and
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by yason 4y ago
This is a generic problem that applies to a number of scenarios, including traffic congestion. If there are fewer resources than there are users, a queue forms. People in the queue can be prioritised by sorting the queue by some agreed prop
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by yason 4y ago
Measuring standby power matters where the alternate option would be to unplug the device or use an extension cord with a power switch instead of relying on an active but low-power state.
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by yason 5y ago
Huh, have critics ever been in sync with audiences? For my whole life, I've learned and then observed that critics evaluate primarily the cinematic quality of a film, i.e. does the film as a piece of art work as a whole when considerin
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by yason 5y ago
Meetings on Monday only. A lot of wasted time on Mondays anyway (how can be it be that your mind adapts to the weekend's free time in a minute but takes hours to drudge itself back to "work mode" after the weekend?) and that
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by yason 5y ago
The user should operate the phone, not the other way around. I have all notifications turned off except incoming voice calls and SMS messages. Anything that comes in via Whatsapp / Signal / email I will see when I happen to open t
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by yason 5y ago
If only we had some descriptive language to mark up the actual, readable content of a web page in the simplest form and then have all the auxiliary content, table-of-contents, dynamic functionality, and styling described separately so that
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by yason 5y ago
I still like computing but not necessarily computers anymore, and I especially hate when every single thing that is not a computer becomes a computer. The ratio of extracting utility and fun from computer vs fighting against the system has
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by yason 5y ago
Russia generally acts rationally. It's just that the assumptions and axioms on top of which rationality is applied is different from the West and ― apparently ― not uncommonly delusional. This made it very hard for the West to believe

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