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by Robin_Message 4y ago
I get the impression that some American unions operate exactly as a cartel that also sets standards. I'm not against unions at all but the conflation of roles in the US is probably bad for workers long term. E.g. plumbers unions oppose
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
I live in Europe. Currently, instead of the small risk of a nuclear plant going near me going bad (which even in the worst case scenarios has led to very limited loss of life), we're instead funding a country that is actively threateni
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
Those rates are skewed by electric and hybrid cars though. Diesel and petrol cars are still majority manual in the UK.
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
N.B. that shoreline is a cinema local to silicon valley, not a different movie.
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
.git/info/exclude is a local .gitignore file which is never committed which you can also use for this kind of purpose.
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
I didn't see "wage-price spiral" on that list. It's something that's definitely being trotted out at the moment to justify not giving raises despite rampant inflation, but it's far from a proven concept.
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
Fair enough, thanks for sharing. It's not really serious proposal but interesting to learn it wouldn't work. I guess the ongoing cost of rails and rolling stock are killer.
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
And ARM had clockless processor prototypes in 2006; I remember learning about them at university. https://www.eetimes.com/arm-clockless-core-cuts-power-to-abo...
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
I make a similar argument for train travel: since the death rate is ~10% that of other forms of transport, if trains could be made cheaper by compromising safety to say 50% of other modes, that would be a net positive as cheaper trains woul
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
This article is focussed on performance of large data sets. Unless you have gigabytes of user IDs to hash on a regular basis, it doesn't matter what hash you use aside from achieving the randomness you desire, which I imagine almost an
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
I have no skin in the game, but I don't think the paragraph above meets the specification claimed by the GP: "we apologized[1] pretty frankly to Casey and everyone else involved in this discussion."
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
If it's running locally (or in a cloud the user choses to trust), it doesn't need to be a CRDT any more to get the same security properties, which would ironically mean it is now easier to develop. (Granted CRDTs might enable othe
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
Thanks! Indeed, the variability of size and usage of each instance was the big issue, and then doing features that crossed instances meant they'd be crossing shards whatever they did, so it made sense to fix the variability issue. (I&#
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
I am confused by the query that had the problem. Specifically, I am confused by why the sharding is done by user id. Even the largest Slack instance probably has under 100,000 users and less than 1000 peak messages per second. That feels to
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
Metro Bank has a great feature for transfer amounts. When you type an amount, commas are added automatically. However, if you paste a number with commas in it, it will display correctly, but on the next screen you will discover it is transf
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by Robin_Message 4y ago
Aside: in case that's an eggcorn and not a typo, the day would be "fateful", as in, something momentous happened, rather than "faithful", showing loyalty.
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by Robin_Message 5y ago
That's apples to oranges: we don't store anything like a year's worth of gas. And anyone in Europe can tell you that natural gas transfer and storage is far from a solved problem.
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by Robin_Message 5y ago
I think it's a bit of a catch-22: given one of Putin's stated aims is to demilitarise Ukraine and remove Western weapons, NATO arming Ukraine earlier would have caused Russia to invade earlier.
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by Robin_Message 5y ago
C.f. the US military removing the degradation of the civilian GPS during the first gulf war due to a lack of military receivers.
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by Robin_Message 5y ago
CFR was something like 1% early on, and higher in Wuhan where there was a partial collapse of health systems. World population is >7 billion, so 1% gets you 70 millions deaths. If hospitals collapsed and treatments hadn't been found
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by Robin_Message 5y ago
It seems to me that carries are where this trips up. Which is weirdly human. I wonder if there are enough examples to learn each digit pair addition or subtraction, but not enough to learn every contextual action.
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by Robin_Message 5y ago
What does it mean to give "equality of opportunity" to a black child in America, who's ancestors were enslaved, who's great grandparent was lynched, who's grandparents couldn't vote, who's parents couldn&#
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by Robin_Message 5y ago
Poor management practices, e.g. cancelling or changing shifts last minute, have real business value in terms of labour flexibility (for the employer), so in an employers' market, you can expect some businesses to take advantage of thos
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by Robin_Message 5y ago
Dates can be very meaningfully and sensibly converted to/from a numeric representation, yet the addition of two dates doesn't make sense, so I don't think not bring able to add versions holds. And not everything can be mapped
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by Robin_Message 5y ago
Sounds like your complaint is with Red Hat and not the developer?
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by Robin_Message 5y ago
As someone below suggests, ULID is a good alternative which has a temporal aspect in the high bits so it is still a proxy for relative creation time.
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by Robin_Message 5y ago
The licence surely implies any discrimination being forbidden. Proof by contradiction: if someone uses this software to discriminate against an apparently non-marginalised community, then that community would be being marginalised in at lea
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by Robin_Message 5y ago
> The rest of your reply disagrees with your first sentence. It seems that only the people who share ml5.js values are allowed to use the software. Any can use the software only for purposes in line with ml5.js values . So everyone is
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by Robin_Message 5y ago
Carnot's law is what you want. Max efficiency is temperature differential divided by hot absolute temperature. So, with super heated steam of say 600 degrees C, I'd make that a maximum of about 66% theoretical, so 50% actual sound
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by Robin_Message 5y ago
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