kinofcain

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by kinofcain 9y ago
In early 2000s a mall in Hamburg did a similar thing, calling it a Männergarten, though theirs had arts and crafts: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Männergarten
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by kinofcain 10y ago
A masters will be a faster, more expensive path. Without a CS degree of some sort you're going to need to prove you can code. Dabbling helps but you'll need to show work experience. Getting work experience without a CS degree like
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by kinofcain 10y ago
"P.S.: I'm unsure why anyone would think that this has anything to do with the Objective-C runtime. I guess it may if you pass any kind of ARC objects." Because the comment on the commit that adds this to the swift source sta
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by kinofcain 10y ago
My guess is the former since there aren't any 32 bit Apple platforms anymore.
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by kinofcain 10y ago
Exposing a c function from an objective-c file, and then calling into our swift code from there is what we've been doing since before this feature was enabled. That of course also requires the Objective C runtime, but we haven't c
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by kinofcain 10y ago
With regards to being able to call a Swift function from C, stevetrewick pointed me to @_cdecl early last year[0][1][2]: @_cdecl("foobar") public func foobar() {} I haven't yet used it in anger, but that will compile
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by kinofcain 10y ago
it's certainly great news that studios can make money producing high quality content. But this isn't Netflix producing high quality content while the studios lose out. It's Netflix paying the studios for quality content.
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by kinofcain 10y ago
Old media is still producing the content. Netflix doesn't own lots, or cameras, or catering trucks. This is predominantly a change to financing and a change to what type of shows get produced. It's not a change to who produces the
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by kinofcain 10y ago
What's interesting to me is that while Netflix is often the primary financier, the traditional studios are still the ones producing the content. If Netflix has found a worldwide market for content, that's good news for the studios
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by kinofcain 10y ago
It was happening well before the tech boom. Venice was the last stretch of cheap sand in 200 miles, it was going to gentrify with or without Google or snap or any particular industry. The retail explosion of Abbot Kinney, for example, preda
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by kinofcain 10y ago
Back in the '90s some government agency released a redacted report where someone had gone in and drawn black boxes in the PDF file, but the full text was of course still in the underlying data and people were able to get at it relative
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by kinofcain 10y ago
There are slaughterhouses on multiple islands, and I can't find anything that states building a new one would be illegal. At least on Kauai you can often find local beef, pork, and chicken, though it's still more expensive than me
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by kinofcain 10y ago
Likely because buying the rights to broadcast sports is expensive, free-associating talking heads are cheap, and subscriber revenue is down. It's a vicious cycle. I'm sure they are well aware that they're behind on the transi
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by kinofcain 10y ago
Yeah, figured as much. Look forward to that.
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by kinofcain 10y ago
Very impressive. This has some features we've been missing in bitbucket/gitlab/github and it looks like the UI is well thought out and still simple. The IDE-like source parsing is interesting, and I disagree with some of the
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by kinofcain 10y ago
It's how it grows, and whether growth is the priority. Taking the HN comment community out of the context of the site makes it no different than any other drive-by commenting platform. This thought process: "HN Comments are grea
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by kinofcain 10y ago
Can we not do this, please? One of the reasons that HN comment threads are still mostly worthwhile when other sites and comment services are swamp fires is the community that has been built here. That people have to come here to read and re
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by kinofcain 10y ago
Sure but it's always "medium term": Taxes weren't fixed once, they are fixed at time of house purchase (and some other events). It would only be revenue neutral if they had raised the absolute rates to make up for the fa
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by kinofcain 10y ago
One of the reasons that cities build office space while ignoring residential is Prop 13 which fixes residential property taxes. Taxes on equivalent office space and the business it generates are a better source of revenue over time for citi
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by kinofcain 10y ago
Can't argue with anything in that list. I think it would also be useful to survey people who looked into using Rust but decided against using it, as responses from people who suffered through the warts is analogous to looking at the da
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by kinofcain 10y ago
Instead of the air resistance of a train-sized object (about a quarter mile long) you'd have air resistance equivalent to a train 300 miles long (think of the tunnel as an inside out train). It's inefficient by several orders of m
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by kinofcain 10y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_Pneumatic_Transit Among other things it's more efficient to send electricity than to send air.
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by kinofcain 10y ago
Barrels.
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by kinofcain 10y ago
I'd add that Rails was also hugely influential in its focus on developer productivity. A lot of it was magic and incredibly difficult to debug or modify when it went wrong, but it raised the bar for how you market a framework to develo
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by kinofcain 10y ago
Interestingly the need for base load is going away as we increase the mix of renewables: plants that can't load follow are becoming less useful and more expensive to operate. Diablo Canyon nuclear plant in California is being shut down
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by kinofcain 10y ago
"This experience of “blacking out” probably speaks to the lack of frontal-cortex activity during the moment — hitters aren’t using the part of the brain that’s best for mapping out complicated, deliberate decisions, so maybe it’s not s
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by kinofcain 10y ago
The article mentions that the previous four are grid connected but it doesn't explicitly say the same for the fifth: "The four previously announced wind and solar farms deliver energy to the electrical grids supplying both current
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by kinofcain 10y ago
> I doubt it, generators and motors operate at 99% efficiency. Do you have any reference? A locked up torque converter or an engaged clutch is basically a solid steel bar. You're the one that is going to need to provide sources that
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by kinofcain 10y ago
Great car, and yeah, it's even more fun when you explain that the Haldex systems often pull off either the left or right half shaft...
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by kinofcain 10y ago
The diesel-electric/hydraulic systems are used in situations where the gearing ratio would have to be absurdly high, they're not used because they're efficient or because they have good torque vectoring capabilities. The elec

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