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by ef4 8y ago
A road that is plowed and salted enough to safely drive a car is clear enough for me to drive a bike too. As for cold, the kids can stay under a bubble canopy if it's really bad. I have this bike, though we've never bothered with
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by ef4 8y ago
It's precisely because I have kids that I prioritize a walkable place. Because kids can't drive! So in car-dependent places, they have no autonomy until they're nearly adults. I think it's much more healthy for them to s
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by ef4 8y ago
I think as you gain more experience and perspective you will look back and realize that you simply weren't upper middle class yet. It's not about income (which is just a point-in-time metric that can change in an instant), it&#x27
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by ef4 8y ago
What nobody told this unfortunate person is that working for a tech company is not the same as being a tech worker. I'm not defending the two-tier system inside many tech companies, just pointing out that it's real and it's m
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by ef4 8y ago
It's 100% open source, there's a very nice Docker-based install. You can host it yourself on AWS or Digital Ocean for very little money. Make a free Mailgun account and put your credentials into the Discourse installer and deliver
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by ef4 8y ago
Yours is a pretty weird description of the current real estate market here in Somerville. It's a pretty even mix of owners and renters (about 40%/60% last I checked). Because of all the factors in the article, huge amounts of mone
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by ef4 8y ago
Thanks, I have been dreading the upcoming time when my pre-touchbar macbook pro is too old and I will check out these tips when it does. One bit of feedback: > RAM usage: Useless. In modern OS it's always nearly 100%. That's na
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by ef4 9y ago
Sure, but I think many programmers underestimate the investment value of that time. Diving into codebases is a skill that gets stronger with use, such that you can eventually do it radically faster. That makes a much larger set of problems
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by ef4 9y ago
You're basically describing asm.js -- a subset of javascript that is known to be easy for engines to turn directly into native code and execute, that you can use as a compilation target. The difference between asm.js and WASM is mostly
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by ef4 9y ago
The problem with this kind of deep dive optimization is the cost of maintaining it in a long-lived project as the underlying javascript engines keep changing. What was optimal for one version of V8 can actually be detrimental in another ver
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by ef4 9y ago
If you are running your own webserver even a static simple site has required maintenance. You need to keep the server and OS patched. So adding a letsencrypt cron job is not any worse than configuring something like Debian's unattended
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by ef4 9y ago
There is a saving grace here, which is that almost nobody who would ship a new grid-based design today is shipping only one layout . They're shipping a family of layouts for different devices. And once you have a family of layouts, it
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by ef4 9y ago
They save people from serious injury much more frequently than that. Extreme turbulence that can smash you against the ceiling happens not infrequently.
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by ef4 9y ago
> Getting off GMail is one of the best ways to take back your data in the face of dragnet surveillance. This just isn't true. You can host your own mail server and GMail will probably still end up hosting a large fraction of the ema
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by ef4 9y ago
They take HIPAA seriously (because there are fines), but that is definitely not the same thing as taking security seriously.
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by ef4 9y ago
> If the desirable employees, and the capitalists who want to actively oversee their investments weren't already in the more expensive areas Most of those people were out in cheaper areas 40 years ago, when suburbia was still asce
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by ef4 9y ago
> Outside of this strange vocal minority that shows up here, very few people would actually prefer to live in an urban area If that was really true it would create a huge arbitrage opportunity for people to make billions of dollars by bu
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by ef4 9y ago
People always focus on these extreme endpoints, but to get a vibrant walkable neighborhood you don't need anything remotely close to New York or Tokyo densities. My street in Somerville, MA has a WalkScore (91) that's higher than
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by ef4 9y ago
> This may work for chronic conditions According to the CDC, 75% of healthcare spending in the US is spent on chronic conditions or issues comorbid with chronic conditions. So system changes that only help with chronic conditions could s
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by ef4 9y ago
This is a strong contrast with my experience in trying to patch the vulnerability on an Asus desktop motherboard. The process was so byzantine that I very much doubt more than a small fraction of home users would get through it, or even bot
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by ef4 9y ago
I keep seeing this misconception repeated. Both default and named exports can be rebound to new symbols locally. But that has no effect on how statically analyzable the code is. “It can’t be auto refactored” just isn’t true. If it’s true fo
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by ef4 9y ago
The authors are mistaken about the impact of employer-paid open source. It is orders of magnitude bigger than anything else, and it has a decades-long history of success in projects like Linux. Companies aren’t doing it out of charity and d
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by ef4 9y ago
Your bus solution ignores what makes transportation networks slow. It's the intersections, not the roads between them. A dedicated bus lane wouldn't help anything if those buses are getting on and off every exit through regular tr
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by ef4 9y ago
> Six lanes of traffic > Cue whining about how pollution and an over-priced mass-transit utopia and high rise apartments will solve all our problems. You do realize that six-lane highways are every bit as expensive as mass transit lin
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by ef4 9y ago
Color me deeply skeptical of the suggestion to try to lock people out of community participation unless they pay. The real secret to not burning out is to scale up the set of maintainers in proportion to the users. You do that by lowering t
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by ef4 9y ago
When you build them on earth, you aren't using "a factory", you're using a supply chain with thousands of factories and millions of people. A factory that can go from regolith all the way to spacecraft is still very spec
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by ef4 9y ago
The thing is, those people stay rich and powerful precisely because of the sanctity of property titles. And the city's own incentive is to be as harsh as possible toward unpaid property taxes. The quotes in the story from Jose Cisner
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by ef4 9y ago
The observations in that post are helpful to illustrate the problem. But I can't agree with the author's conclusions. There's another way to read every single one of his examples: as evidence of a design failure. For example:
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by ef4 9y ago
Those wars are bad, but badness needs to be measured relative to something. For example, the Afghanistan war from 2001 to the present has killed somewhere between 25,000 and 40,000 people. This makes it very small by the standards of 20th c
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by ef4 9y ago
I'm not objecting to the existence of geographic boundaries. I'm objecting to the idea that those geographic boundaries say anything meaningful about the people born on either side of said boundaries. > Is real estate compris

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