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Having tried to build a much simpler jankier version of the same thing, I agree that Rust is great for a) performance and b) making compilers for query languages. In particular, al…

I would think that the reason few women are "Juniors" is because the assumption is that they will likely marry and lose the family name anyway. I'm not actually sure what happens t…

It captures the spatial externalities, as opposed to the US system of minimum parking requirements and on-street parking, which sets aside valuable urban space that could be used f…

There are also situations where a sticky note can be a vital piece of safety equipment because an instrument is malfunctioning. And even though the pilot knows the instrument is sh…

The microsecond level competition comes from the fact that the HFTs can't compete on price below one cent, because the minimum quote increment is one cent. So they have to compete …

Is pixel perfect UI really what you even want these days? With high-DPI screens and screen scaling being a thing, not everyone's pixels are the same. And that's not even talking ab…

Aren't there also linker issues with cross-building for some targets like i686-pc-windows-msvc? At least, I don't think I ever got it to work properly but I don't recall what the e…

Expanding on this a little, the developers who can survive in the current restricted environment are not going to be happy about getting more competition, and are likely to favor a…

In California with Prop 13, the current tax payers' property tax rates are well below those of newcomers regardless. So they have no incentive to change things, since their taxes s…

Each new major generation of NVIDIA GPU was accompanied by an upgrade to the power transformer to the building that the software teams sat in, because it turned out during bringup …

> pressure on hospitals to find ways to reduce prices This might be the case if hospitals had to actually show their prices rather than sending bills after the fact for a price you…

It's pretty tasty but it's also mostly palm oil so may not be the most healthy thing to eat in large quantities.

Not only does Japan have a homeownership rate similar to the US, but a pretty significant fraction of those owners own single family detached homes, which make up the bulk of Japan…

> Also, if you have a bunch of `mod.rs` files open in your editor, you have no idea what module they corresponds to, as they all say `mod.rs`. Now they'll say the file name instead…

And the market in SF and other Bay Area cities is _really small_. I recently read that Cupertino has only a dozen houses on the market total, and SF may have as many as hundreds or…

Good to see that building Servo on ARM will return "i686" as the cpu architecture. Because there are plenty of sites that will just match /arm/ in the user agent string and redirec…

Unfortunately, it doesn't always work out that way, because congestion tends to be the limiting factor for demand for car trips thanks to a very low perceived marginal cost. So as …

The problem is that the number of such places is small and generally not growing particularly fast because transit isn't being expanded all that much (and often expansion comes in …

Like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_status_referendum...

That's easy enough: Google is sufficiently big and well known that even if they have an alarmingly high false negative rate, they will never run out applicants, and "weeding out" e…

As a point of comparison, Massachusetts does not have a mortgage interest deduction for individual homeowners, but for landlords income is computed using the federal Schedule E wit…

You've got a profitable site that you developed, so you're already a developer. Yes, you can do this, and the money coming into your bank account is solid evidence of that.

Typically hardware will have the base layer, a cursor layer, and possibly a video overlay. But in many cases, the video "overlay" is actually emulated by the driver using a shader …

I mean, it sort of does and sort of doesn't, but the hardware manufacturers just aren't used to thinking about things in the proper way. Just like the hardware is a black box with …

The point is that the rail is already there, and the rail line is already pretty much the best in the US, and already has electrification, that the commuter rail trains don't use f…