wyago

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by wyago 1y ago
Public housing construction typically has to follow the law as well, so how does it help in cities where increasing housing units is heavily restricted, and outright banned in 90%+ of the city? YIMBY upzoning is strictly necessary no matter
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by wyago 1y ago
This feels analogous to saying that static memory management might be superior, because if dynamic memory is available developers can trivially produce an OOM. It's possible we'll start borrowing more patterns from Erlang/OTP
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by wyago 2y ago
Effect typing can achieve capability security statically, but I've also frequently seen capabilities used to describe dynamic capability systems via various methods involving passing capabilities down as reified objects of some sort. T
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by wyago 2y ago
The main appeal of FTL is I think the ability to return to where you came from. If 1000 years pass before your return, it would only be superficially the same place. That being said I would think that the defining feature of a warp drive wo
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by wyago 2y ago
Well yeah, as I mentioned if it were convenient to use solar for engines people would have done so. My whole point is that we had the technology and didn't do it because it's fundamentally not viable, not because of semiconductor
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by wyago 2y ago
Many engines, especially early on, can accept any external heat source as power. The most currently popular version of this is a Stirling engine, where you can find many toy engines of this type, like the wide bodies ones you can put on top
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by wyago 3y ago
Funnily enough, "a sufficiently fast horse can fly" sounds sort of like a decent way to convey the idea of planes to a pre-car world.
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by wyago 3y ago
The original comment calls the people fabricating data "rats" and "cheaters", I'm not sure how you would construe that to be excusing them. The comment is describing that if a system is made to be so difficult you h
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by wyago 4y ago
What makes you assume that urban infrastructure is net costlier per capita than suburban?
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by wyago 4y ago
This is probably accurate for films and fabrics, but I wouldn't be surprised if thick solids would be at least as slow to rot as wood. I don't know what proportion of plastic mass is in each form though.
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by wyago 4y ago
It takes 1 or 2 hours to make a decent pratt parser for even somewhat unusual syntax.
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by wyago 4y ago
I've never heard someone in woodworking call finished wood "treated". That would be really odd, given that treated wood is a specific term of art. Plainly oiled wood is pretty normal, and isn't going to do anything to pr
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by wyago 4y ago
Treated wood isn't really used for indoor furniture. It's for wood that would be exposed to a lot of moisture, e.g. wooden decks.
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by wyago 4y ago
In theory if you get just the right number of air exchangers such that the same amount of air moves through as it would with a 'loose' house, you get the same airflow with almost none of the convective heat loss/gain. This is
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by wyago 5y ago
It's a bit strange to give Japan's lower cars per capita as a rationale for this, when surely the reason there are fewer cars per capita is because people have access to their daily necessities without a car because of more perm
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by wyago 5y ago
Likewise, why would you suppose that market forces are running their course?
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by wyago 7y ago
This perspective has always confused me. Would you say that structured programming was a garbage marketing term, since even though the programming language didn't have goto the compiled machine code has jumps and branches? I would hope
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by wyago 9y ago
Is there a more in depth description of the algorithm itself somewhere? I'm looking at the code, but it is sparsely commented with a lot of abbreviated variable names. Fascinating idea!
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by wyago 10y ago
I think it's a fair analogy: most people don't have iPhones, but a huge portion of people have a smartphone. Tesla doesn't need to be the only source of electric cars, there are plenty more mainstream options.
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by wyago 10y ago
Ah, yeah. I think that's actually where I saw it. Thanks.
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by wyago 10y ago
I know you're probably not implying regression to the mean is causational, but that was my initial reading so I want to clarify for those who may not be familiar with the concept. Regression to the mean is simply that any given datapoi
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by wyago 11y ago
Native language is an almost perfectly heritable trait, but that does not imply it is genetic. (However, it is true that saying that genes contribute to intelligence isn't eugenics. Eugenics is a methodology where you attempt to select
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by wyago 11y ago
You must have an excellent alternative to this if it's cheaper than 7.5%. I'm curious, what is it?
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by wyago 11y ago
I'm not totally familiar with this diagram, but I think that by "Temperature Anomaly" they mean the difference between the temperature and what we expected the temperature to be (or something like that), not the absolute temp
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by wyago 11y ago
Given that the suit was about wage collusion, not about suppressing raises, calculating based on raises seems like an incorrect method. The reason prices were lower was not due to a lack of raises, but rather because those companies were ar
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by wyago 11y ago
That's not really relevant to joeyspn's statement at all. He's not talking about an economic system, he's talking about a political system. While political systems influence economic systems, they don't have a one t
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by wyago 11y ago
This actually doesn't have to do with that. They "propose a redesign of ML in which modules are truly first-class values, and core and module layer are unified into one language." They're not trying to, say, unify SML an
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Mantra-lang – Tiny and Visible(github.com)
2 points by wyago 12y ago|0 comments
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OpenGL functions by object(gist.github.com)
4 points by wyago 12y ago|0 comments