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Engineers should not design streets(andrewalexanderprice.com)
7 points by oftenwrong 5y ago|12 comments
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Combative Anatomy: How to fight a dog(exigentcircumstance.wordpress.com)
3 points by oftenwrong 5y ago|0 comments
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by oftenwrong 5y ago
On this topic, what happened with https://www.jefftk.com/nextbus/ ? Seems to be a 404 now. Was there a breaking change or disruption in the nextbus API? I loved its bare-bones UI. It was definitely one of the most usab
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America’s Car Crash Epidemic(vox.com)
4 points by oftenwrong 5y ago|1 comments
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by oftenwrong 5y ago
Property tax increases when you improve the property, and land value tax does not. Therefore, property tax creates a disincentive to improve property, and land value tax creates an incentive to improve property.
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by oftenwrong 5y ago
The first three sentences of the abstract contradict your comment; the scientists started with a question, not an assumption. >When dogs interact with humans, they often show appropriate reactions to human intentional action. But it is u
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by oftenwrong 5y ago
I'm interested to hear more about your experience with it if you're willing to share.
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by oftenwrong 5y ago
There is a bunch of information on how Google does documentation in the book Software Engineering at Google : https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/WXTTDwAAQBAJ One notable practice mentioned in the book is
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by oftenwrong 5y ago
The short lifetime of smartphone security updates makes me want to switch to a linux phone. It's just sad that I have to buy a new device due to software when I am perfectly happy with my current device hardware. I have computers that
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by oftenwrong 5y ago
Strength is only one aspect of healthy. Another is longevity, and yet another is avoiding illness. I.e. do powerlifters live longer? Are they less likely to develop cancers? Furthermore, being healthy in your 20s is like not having engine p
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by oftenwrong 5y ago
One aspect of environmental impact that may be overlooked here is the use of refrigeration. Some milk requires refrigeration depending on its processing and packaging. There are also cultural norms in play; Americans often believe that milk
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by oftenwrong 5y ago
It's actually even worse: you can include both checked and unchecked exceptions in the `throws` clause. The compiler will only enforce handling of the checked exceptions included. Unchecked exceptions listed in the `throws` clause serv
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by oftenwrong 5y ago
I agree that both exceptions and error values (aka result types) have their place. I would say that error values are good for when a caller should explicitly handle that case, and that exceptions are good for errors that a caller should not
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Fastest SaaS Landing Pages(superthread.fyi)
2 points by oftenwrong 5y ago|0 comments
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by oftenwrong 5y ago
There's a significant difference when "master" being used in contrast to "slave", such as with PATA drives. The term "master" as used in git is thought to be derived from master-slave terminology by way of
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by oftenwrong 5y ago
I use a similar launcher: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/fr.neamar.kiss/ I have a lot of the features tweaked or disabled. The way it is configured, it basically acts as a static list of a few apps I use mos
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A Post-Mortem on LAPD’s E. 27th Street Fireworks Blast(la.streetsblog.org)
4 points by oftenwrong 5y ago|0 comments
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A Subway Named Mobius (1952)(fadedpage.com)
40 points by oftenwrong 5y ago|10 comments
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Sprawl Costs the Public More Than Twice as Much as Compact Development (2015)(usa.streetsblog.org)
2 points by oftenwrong 5y ago|0 comments
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Frank's Photography Site(viewoftheblue.com)
2 points by oftenwrong 5y ago|0 comments
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Modal is a prefab accessory dwelling unit to rent out or dwell in your yard(youtube.com)
2 points by oftenwrong 5y ago|2 comments
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RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601(ijmacd.github.io)
4 points by oftenwrong 5y ago|0 comments
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by oftenwrong 5y ago
Docker has a lot of quirks and rough edges that may be attributed to its history. It was open-sourced rather hastily from dotCloud, and caught on largely due to its appeal as an easy-to-use, open, and complete package for containerisation,
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Pedestrian Deaths and Large Vehicles(sciencedirect.com)
45 points by oftenwrong 5y ago|96 comments
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by oftenwrong 5y ago
The Wirecutter has been accused of changing their recommendations based on their ability to monetise product links as an affiliate: https://www.xdesk.com/wirecutter-standing-desk-review-pay-to...
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by oftenwrong 5y ago
Glad to see there are other fans of Granola Shotgun on HN. Most of the titles Johnny uses are probably too vague to capture interest here, but a few submissions have made the front page: "Letting Go of Nostalgia Urbanism" https:&
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We’d rather have the iceberg than the ship(granolashotgun.com)
346 points by oftenwrong 5y ago|327 comments
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by oftenwrong 5y ago
There are ways to resolve merge conflicts automatically in some cases given some assumptions, but there is no way to resolve any given merge conflict without a system that can create a correct program. I won't bore you with the formal
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by oftenwrong 5y ago
For user changes, a solution based on OT/CRDT may be appropriate. For code, you need merge conflicts. Let me put it like this: Do concurrent edits in google docs always produce a valid and correct paragraph, with no grammatical errors,
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Reactive SQL with JOOQ 3.15 and R2DBC(blog.jooq.org)
2 points by oftenwrong 5y ago|0 comments

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