BorgHunter

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by BorgHunter 6mo ago
Normally? Zero. LGA has a curfew from midnight to six AM, April 5-December 31. In practice? It depends. Delays have a tendency to cascade in the air travel system and the Port Authority can curtail or cancel the curfew at their discretion.
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by BorgHunter 1y ago
It depends, obviously, but when installed by governments, "cost reduction" almost always takes into account labor to replace faulty lamps, which is especially relevant when there are thousands of the things out there. So governmen
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by BorgHunter 1y ago
It depends strongly on implementation. LEDs can produce white light at any color temperature and CRIs ranging from terrible to great. Quality LEDs are quite nice indeed (when they're not turning purple). Most LED streetlights replaced
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by BorgHunter 1y ago
No, I'm objecting to what I view as a quite extreme reductionism. If the way you interpret events like the protests in LA is first to classify all people as "Democrat", "Republican", and "Other", you great
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by BorgHunter 1y ago
Democrats? Democrats ??? Like Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom are out there burning cars. Come on, man. These things are done by impulsive opportunists, not as some kind of political strategy. They happen during sports celebrations , regularl
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by BorgHunter 1y ago
The alternative minimum tax is certainly not the default for most people; you have to make quite a lot for that to be relevant. Do you mean the standard deduction?
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by BorgHunter 2y ago
I think things like Halstead complexity or cyclomatic complexity are more heuristic than law. To read code, the most important thing to me is the abstractions that are built, and how effectively they bury irrelevant complexities and convey
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by BorgHunter 2y ago
Fluoride has two major differences that would complicate such a study: First, fluoride is a natural component of lots of drinking water (often at levels far higher than artificial fluoridation creates), while lead contamination in drinking
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by BorgHunter 2y ago
> I would agree that the hierarchy thing is broadly correct, and many use this definition, but I find it unsatisfactory, as it does not move me in any way. "Yeah hierarchy is so cool man" said no one ever. And yet, the two quot
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by BorgHunter 2y ago
Broadly, left-wing politics favors making money and power more diffuse and is suspicious of hierarchy, right-wing politics favors making money and power more concentrated and embraces hierarchy. Politics is, of course, messy and not everyth
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by BorgHunter 2y ago
It seems to me that your main mistake here is assuming that parties like the US Democratic Party, the UK Labour Party, the Canadian Liberal Party, etc. are left-wing. They aren't. They've been practicing "Third Way" poli
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The hacking of culture and the creation of socio-technical debt(schneier.com)
163 points by BorgHunter 2y ago|30 comments
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by BorgHunter 2y ago
Isn't that the whole point? SimCity and all its sequels and imitators present a very simplified set of tools and mechanics. Those tools and mechanics are more than the sum of their parts: They entertain, they teach, they advance a poli
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by BorgHunter 3y ago
Modern heat pumps can work in very cold weather, but they're much less efficient, which is reflected in their COP numbers. In my house in Chicago, we have a hybrid system--the heat pump works down to 20F or so, and we have a natural
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by BorgHunter 3y ago
Heat pumps are much more common in warm areas than cold ones, because the difference between an A/C and a heat pump is really just the ability to reverse the refrigerant flow, and they're very efficient at heating in mildly cold w
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by BorgHunter 3y ago
Here is the SAFO issued by the FAA: https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/SAFO737900ER.pdf Reuters says there are 411 737-900ER planes that have plugs instead of exits: https://www.reuters.com&#x
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by BorgHunter 3y ago
> The benefits of the current system are enormous, incomprehensibly enormous. Sure. What are the drawbacks? Where are the opportunities for improvement? Also, you provided a list of things we enjoy today that you're presumably attri
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by BorgHunter 3y ago
Whether it was perfect or not, there are only a few words/phrases that allow an aircraft to cross the hold short bars at an airport with an active control tower. "Cross", "line up and wait", and "cleared for ta
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by BorgHunter 3y ago
Conversely, I've worked on backend, data processing-type applications for most of my career, much of it in Java but some (especially recently) in Python, and the GIL is a huge limiting factor for writing efficient, readable Python code
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by BorgHunter 3y ago
> With a handful of exceptions, single-engine prop planes are only certified to run on 100-octane leaded gasoline. This was true up until last year, when G100UL was approved as a drop-in replacement for 100LL. It does require a STC and t
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by BorgHunter 3y ago
The problem is, reading the methodology can only give you a negative signal or a null signal. If the methodology looks good, that still doesn't speak to the correctness of the study's conclusion, for exactly this reason: > Fran
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by BorgHunter 3y ago
Is zoning regulation as a concept really the root cause, though? Houston famously has no zoning code and is fairly lax with land use generally (although it isn't completely the Wild West), and it isn't very dense. It seems lik
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by BorgHunter 3y ago
But I said to keep population equal. Take two million people, and put a million in a city as dense as Manhattan (74,780.7/sq mi), and the other million in a city as dense as Jacksonville, Florida (1,270.73/sq mi). So New Manhattan
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by BorgHunter 3y ago
What gets more expensive with increasing density? Seems like most things are cheaper with more density, because (compared to less density but equal population) there's less area that needs to be covered by roads, water mains, fire stat
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by BorgHunter 3y ago
There are tons of social media websites out there that would exclude and demonize me. But I don't visit them, and I don't waste my energy complaining about them. Why would I? It isn't healthy to obsess over people who would
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by BorgHunter 3y ago
But what is "The Left"? People arguing about politics on Mastodon? "Instrument(s) of control in the service of the few," seriously? What control do such people even have, outside of a Mastodon instance that people can ju
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by BorgHunter 4y ago
"Intentionally campy and satirical" and "chillingly predictive" are not mutually exclusive. The movie Idiocracy has probably become the canonical example in that space. In any case, speculative fiction is usually more ab
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by BorgHunter 5y ago
> The invention of cryptocurrencies (specifically Bitcoin at least) is not to replace banks, but to replace the way transactions happens. This is a wonderful hypothetical in much the same way as spherical cows, but in the real world toda
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by BorgHunter 5y ago
> I wouldn't be that surprised to hear that Chicago was unable to clear snow from a 100-year snow event because the funds were mismanaged or something similar. That sounds entirely within character. Former Mayor Michael Bilandic fam
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by BorgHunter 5y ago
This is a trick more than one automaker does in the interests of creating a "green" (or "eco") trim, and usually they do it by speccing tires that are all-in on prioritizing fuel efficiency, sometimes with a higher recom

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