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I'm not aware of the issues with the SF LA high speed rail, but I had in mind https://www.abc.net.au/news/2006-03-30/many-factors-behind-t... (where an apartment block started coll…

But if new evidence comes in which changes the basis for approval (e.g. lets say you need to do some earthworks and as part of performing them it becomes apparent these earthworks …

I think it's the zoning rules (based on https://www.wsj.com/us-news/how-amazon-built-a-data-center-i... ), which seem to provide an expedited process (which for large scale project…

Why not give everyone access for free?

Copyright law varies across jurisdictions, and it's not obvious how training for AIs would align with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing (and it appears a recent push to re…

I think it's not clear from the article why they left (e.g. could be anything from retirement to going to work at another firm/contracting to being fired to switching careers), and…

The answer is fairly obvious, Typst (like ConTeXt) is not LaTeX. Typst is a perfectly fine solution if you're giving the typeset output (i.e. a PDF) to someone, it not a solution i…

I would say the complexity of IEEE-754 is warranted (given the history of the standard), but the issue is those writing languages are typically not aware of numerical computing (it…

Specifically, 0/0 (or inf/inf), not any division by 0.

Of what, IEEE-754? Given how poorly most languages implement it (and how many shortcuts are taken in the same of speed), I'm not sure IEEE-754 is the problem.

You don't need NaN (or Inf) to have unexpected behaviour with floats and naive loops in lua, using 1e52 is enough. Conflating floating point and integers (independent of encoding) …

There's too much available power then (curtailment/negative prices are fairly common now on sunny days), and not enough during the evenings, so it's an incentive for those who don'…

ssh -X works fine depending on the toolkit you use (i.e. not Gtk, because of its rendering pipeline) and the distance/latency you travel. For distance/latency, at some point (i.e. …

In my experience, anywhere using an app/QR code is better served by me walking up to the counter and ordering.

Personally, I think AC vs. no AC isn't the issue, it's the lack of fans and air circulation that is the problem. I suspect there are building where installing AC is going to be req…

I hate writing, but I don't send LLM output, because I'm not the asshole who sends junk.

It's "we support 4 JS backends, we don't have the capacity to support 5 currently". They're not dropping bun entirely, instead bumping the minimum bun version and not supporting "b…

But unless you're doing that for every service you use (and not just the ones that annoy you), that's still the same logic. Deciding to count something is just as "political" (as y…

I would argue the current defaults for uv are the correct ones. Unless you have actually verified that said library follows semvar, and you know the library will break your code in…

And yet the rest of the movie runs on movie logic, enough so that every physicist I know rolls their eyes at it. It gives me the vibe of the "IFLS" crowd, not anyone who actually u…

I also live in Sydney, and the first question to ask is always "do you have a car?" (and then "how long you here for?")? A car makes it much easier to visit various spots (e.g. the…

Which differential equations are you talking about? Linear ones have standard solutions and are definitely parallelisable (though you can basically just write the solution down by …

Uh, there is a list, named "linux-distros", which is for this purpose (and I think it's for more than just Linux, e.g. I believe it was used for the xz vuln). Given this was announ…