AlotOfReading

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[–] AlotOfReading 1 points 1 month ago

Leaving aside the likely-correct sibling comment that they don't own the land, double and triple parking is difficult for robots to do quickly / safely. It probably isn't a high priority and they might be more bottlenecked by getting vehicles in or out of the lot.

[–] AlotOfReading 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Have you ever taken the coast starlight or the Cascade trains? Last time I took the former it arrived 14 hours late.

[–] AlotOfReading 3 points 2 months ago

For future reference, jamming radio equipment is illegal essentially everywhere on earth because it's banned by the ITU rules, which every country on earth has adopted with the sole exception of Palau. Palau isn't an exception here though, because they've also also adopted those rules in a roundabout "not-actually-joining the ITU" way.

[–] AlotOfReading 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dogs and wolves are the same species (Canis Lupus), not just members of the same genus. Genus Allium is much bigger than genus Canis (over 800 species) and its members are much less closely related to each other. The common food species are at least evolutionary cousins though, unlike other parts of the category. The onions and chives all share subgenus Cepa, while garlic and leeks are off in subgenus Allium.

[–] AlotOfReading 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

So when Steve ballmer was hired in 1980, before they had even released MS-DOS? Seems like a pretty early start on deciding to ruin windows.

[–] AlotOfReading 4 points 2 months ago

Have you tried plugging it in first? Machine kneading is usually faster than hand kneading.

[–] AlotOfReading 3 points 2 months ago

You can find plenty of people complaining online about the startup time of the windows and gnome (snap) calculators. The problem in those cases isn't solved by compiled languages, but it illustrates that it's important to consider performance even for things like calculator apps.

[–] AlotOfReading 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

You can sometimes deal with performance issues by caching, if you want to trade one hard problem for another (cache invalidation). There's plenty of cases where that's not a solution though. I recently had a 1ns time budget on a change. That kind of optimization is fun/impossible to do in Python and straightforward to accomplish Rust or C/C++ once you've set up your measurements.

[–] AlotOfReading 2 points 2 months ago

It was styled on what Americans imagined European breakfasts to be like in the 50s, and cost optimized over subsequent decades.

[–] AlotOfReading 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Let's have a more constructive discussion. Between a wallet, phone, charger and a 2-3 sets of clothes, what part is overpacking for a 1 week trip? That much stuff should fit in any adult-sized backpack, with room to bring some destination-specific outerwear if needed.

[–] AlotOfReading 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Traveling light and buying everything at your destination are two completely different things. It's not an imposition to carry a backpack around.

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