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by Silfen 5mo ago
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/bedrock...
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by Silfen 6y ago
I'd recommend "Lambda, the ultimate GOTO" https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5753
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by Silfen 7y ago
Vegetarian lifter here. Getting quality protein is a bit more difficult, but if you're ovo-lacto vegetarian then egg whites and whey are great sources. You don't need to overdo it, just make sure you're getting enough. Once y
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by Silfen 7y ago
To add another data point: I've lived in capitol hill for 22 years. I know zero people who have been attacked by homeless people. That's not to say that Seattle's homelessness problem isn't grave, but I suspect that ther
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by Silfen 8y ago
LD50 is entirely irrelevant to this discussion. No one goes to the store and orders 1mg/kg of a substance. When considering acute harm, the relevant metric is the ratio between a typical recreational dose and an overdose. For example,
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by Silfen 8y ago
Yeah, I never meant to suggest that it was wrong (except in the most literal sense!). Comparative subway costs do not make MTA look good!
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by Silfen 8y ago
I assume you're speaking figuratively. Here's an extremely literal elaboration for the railfans in the thread. The route length of the NYC subway system is 245 miles. Subway construction costs vary across developed countries, but
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by Silfen 8y ago
Shameless plug: There's also remote GUI support through Windows Admin Center. You can manage your headless server through the browser on your workstation. It's also a good way to learn CLI-based management (the implementation is a
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by Silfen 8y ago
Yeah, and I would be surprised to find a person here who praises that policy. This is textbook, premium grade whataboutism.
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by Silfen 8y ago
No, Manhattan's vacancy rate is quite low[0][1]. [0] https://www.nakedapartments.com/blog/nyc-vacancy-rate/ [1] https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/rentguidelinesboard/pdf/18HSR.pd...
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by Silfen 8y ago
This is essentially the argument laid out in stratechery: https://stratechery.com/2018/the-european-union-versus-the-i... The link tax seems like wishful thinking on the part of the publishers - an attempt to legislate
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by Silfen 8y ago
HN has in-feed ads for Y Combinator businesses. A great example of benevolent, win-win advertising, in my opinion.
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by Silfen 8y ago
I like having both notations at my disposal. For example, F#'s forward pipe operator[0], or pipes from a unix shell. [0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/language-refe...
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by Silfen 8y ago
Increasing the supply of housing should lower prices, yes. In nearly every neighborhood, single family, detached homes are the most expensive form of housing. There is an effect where improving the consumption benefits of the city may draw
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by Silfen 8y ago
Yeah, and I agree. My comment was more of a tangent that struck a nerve :)
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by Silfen 8y ago
At the risk of opening the world's largest pressurized can of worms... sort of. There is an argument to be made that The South cared about state's rights only in the instrumental sense that it allowed them to protect slavery. They
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by Silfen 8y ago
You should extend more generosity to the point GP makes. You can believe in adjusting the system so that representation is more equal without doing away with the protections for small states. For example, you can greatly increase the size o
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by Silfen 8y ago
> why should s/he wait to cross the street if s/he knows that the car that is nearing has an anti-collision/auto-break system? In the least dystopian-surveillance-state future scenarios, there will be a giant array of came
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by Silfen 8y ago
In a stunning coincidence, this is from today's Washington Post: 'This is what happens to a shy octopus on ecstasy' https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/09/20/this-is-wh...
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by Silfen 8y ago
It's not just homogeneity. Cab and car services basically didn't exist in many US cities prior to ride sharing. I'm a carless transit fanatic, but 10 years ago I'd probably have to buy a car to live comfortably in my cur
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by Silfen 8y ago
That's a good point and a better metric, but it's not meaningless. Very long summer days are worth something! They're just not helpful with SAD.
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by Silfen 8y ago
I'm a Seattle native and love it here. Unfortunately it is not a good place to get sunlight. We are very far north (for an American city) and overcast for most of the year. Seattle averages about 5.5 hours of sun per day. San Francisco
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by Silfen 8y ago
This is something that is well-known in planning circles. In Seattle there have been a huge number of road diet (widening the sidewalk and redesigning the road for slower traffic speeds) + protected bike lanes coming online. Pedestrians ben
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by Silfen 8y ago
I don't disagree with you, but the systems-level view is important not insofar as it shows us who to blame, but because it shows us the kinds of solutions that might actually work. The combination of incentives over the entire system m
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by Silfen 8y ago
NIMBYs are a huge problem in Seattle. Depending on how you count, roughly 80% of the city is zoned single family[0]. Construction isn't happening fast enough. In 2016 Seattle only gained 0.4 housing units for every job[1]. [0] https:&#
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by Silfen 8y ago
I wouldn't use the word "defrauding," but there is a serious principal-agent problem. The localities that attract an Amazon or an Apple are likely to have winner's curse. That is, the highest bid (in terms of tax breaks
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by Silfen 8y ago
It depends on the particulars of a problem, but structural recursion is often substantially clearer. One reason is that it enables more abstract reasoning about the behavior of an algorithm. You can reason like you would for an induction pr
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by Silfen 8y ago
NUMTOTS everywhere! (Is this peak transit?) In all seriousness, it's definitely more fun than vanilla facebook, although I'd have a hard time calling it a shelter from politics or praising its level of overall discourse.
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by Silfen 9y ago
My concern is less about writing a bunch of separate functions, but rather the way this hampers the abstractions that are available to you everywhere in the language. You don't have map or fold! And that's only the very tip of the
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by Silfen 9y ago
Very fundamental ideas around computability, or total vs partial functions. There are some correctness properties that we can prove without running the underlying program, such that we can always accept or reject a given program. None of th

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