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by simplotek 3y ago
> Every time I went into a shop looking for Lego, I no longer see many generic Lego sets That sounds like an issue with the stores you go to. Even in big department stores I see generic Lego sets (City, Technic, Duplo, etc) next to licen
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by simplotek 3y ago
> (...) slightly more than half of those homeowners haven't paid off their mortgage. A mortgage is far cheaper than rent. Even though that hypothetical cohort still has debts to pay, their cost of living is far more affordable than
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Because if the IRS maximized its "let's automatically do your taxes for you" ability, it would eliminate all the inadvertent violators, reducing the enforcement requirements. What power does the IRS have to automatically
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Yeah, the syntax/ergonomics is tortured. This is my problem with modern C++ in general. I disagree. I mean, the ergonomics in this case are indeed awful, but this has nothing to do with C++, modern or not. This is an API design pr
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by simplotek 3y ago
> because it makes you pay less for the same benefit. Requiring a lambda capturing stuff and be passed around is not what I would call "pay less", when the alternative is just adding a block and instantiate a std::lock_guard
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Neat idea. I don't agree. It sounds like a higher level path to deadlocks. > Maybe instead combine the two ideas. MutexProtected<T> but can be locked with MutexProtected<T>::lock() which returns a MutexLocked<T&g
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by simplotek 3y ago
> You do not need a very good reason not to. Actually you do. One is a component specified by international standards, which is ideal, while the other is yet another third party component. Unless you only work on hobby projects, adding d
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by simplotek 3y ago
> If you have a good maturity model (e.g. for DevOps one based on DORA metrics) then the capabilities needed to arrive at a higher level can be determined per-org. How do metrics like deployment frequency and lead time for changes can ha
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Wait, people still include <iostream>? In 2023? Yes, extensively. You need a very good reason not to. Do you have one?
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by simplotek 3y ago
Amazon also pledged to be the world's best employer to then fire thousands by email.
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by simplotek 3y ago
From the article, this corruption scheme goes way beyond cosigning papers. The main selling point of this corruption scheme was gaming institutional metrics. From the article, the Spanish researcher gamed publication metrics by co-signing h
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Even if this is unrelated to the actual story, I find it a tiny bit disturbing. Is this the new standard practice? Let some robot spew out paragraphs of text to convey the scientist research? I wouldn't be surprised if that statem
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by simplotek 3y ago
> So, they're illegal to ride on the pavement because they're motorised, and they're illegal to ride on the road because they're uninsured and unlicensed. It sounds like these issues are artificial legal constructs ca
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Here in Romania, THE CARS litter the urban spaces. Cars are indeed a cancer on all urban spaces, and one which has been granted too much privileges for decades. The Netherlands' Jokinen Plan[1] is widely used as the epitome of idi
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Most scooter-haters Please don't. There is no such thing as "scooter haters". Companies like Lime are criticised for their abusive and antisocial business practices of dumping crap on the public space without any concern
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by simplotek 3y ago
> e-bikes/bikes that can be left freely That's the whole point: they can't. You cannot dump your crap on the street and expect that to be ok. If you can't just park your car on any random sidewalk or dump your bike in
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by simplotek 3y ago
> 'E-scooters have safety risks, let's encourage people back into 2-ton fossil-fuel-burning cars instead!' You somehow believe that the only options on the table for personal transport is either "2-ton fossil-fuel-bur
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by simplotek 3y ago
> The whole argument about "they clog the streets" and annoy me is absolutely contrary to the actual incentives to cheaper and more ecological transport. Bullshit. These e-scooter sharing services operate on cities already cove
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by simplotek 3y ago
The issue is that the Lime-like business model of scattering around e-scooters is fundamentally broken. They don't operate between pickup/dropoff spots nor can that be enforced. They intentionally expect these scooters to be dropp
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Funnily enough we have the exact opposite in the UK. Private scooters banned, rental scooters laying all over the pavement. What's the rationale behind this nonsense?
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by simplotek 3y ago
> This is quite important. I'd go a step beyond and claim that e-bike sharing services like Lime are extremely detrimental to an urban space while adding nothing to mobility and sustainability. They are mainly gimmicks used to litte
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by simplotek 3y ago
Still, I'm not sure OP's train of thought holds. Mass matters because you need to spend energy to accelerate it and move it uphill. Regenerative breaking does not have 100% efficiency. Therefore, energy losses are proportional to
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Those sorts of generalized nationwide numbers wasn’t my point anyway, rather proper data analysis and putting data into the wider context of the various communities/finer demographics/etc leads to far more useful conclusions
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Unless there’s some evidence throwing money at public schools in lower class neighborhoods is the solution to the problem. Every time I’ve looked into that subject in the US the biggest complaint by the teachers on the ground, in those
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by simplotek 3y ago
> It seems like you’re projecting racist views onto the parent comment. What? OP's argument was purely race-based. OP made absolutely no point other than underlining race-based correlations. If you remove all race-based remarks from
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Meanwhile, the A-10 is and was an amazing design and yet they want to ditch it. I believe the argument that the A-10 is obsolete is the fact that nowadays the US armed forces have at their disposal far more efficient and safe ways to d
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by simplotek 3y ago
> the dom is in fact so successful (...) I'm not sure this means what you think it means. The DOM was standardized, and became ubiquitous. From thereon, people built upon that not because it was great but because it was all there wa
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by simplotek 3y ago
> It's absolutely mind-boggling that the administrators try to establish "equity" by pushing all students down, instead of them up. Do you actually mean "pushing them up", or is this code for "filter out und
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by simplotek 3y ago
> You have to compare those drawbacks directly to the alternatives, though. It's ok to claim that Qt's MOC optimizes for developer experience,and all other tradeoffs are acceptable. > I don't have numbers to cite, but I
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by simplotek 3y ago
I'm not sure you read your own source. It seems you just cherry-picked a couple of passages that support racist views and decided to ignore everything else. Your own source mentions not only the correlation between income and SAT score

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