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dixie_land··on Cloudflare Pages: Best server tech since CGI-bin?
Having worked with some J2EE early in my career, I also had trouble mentally mapping "middleware" to an "interceptor" function when first encountering these "hip" frameworks
dixie_land··on More than 60k rent-stabilized apartments are now vacant
Maybe you should move to North Korea where the government does exactly that
dixie_land··on Netflix: Love is sharing a password (2017)
for that matter we should stop calling 1080p HD :(

on a mordern display 1080p content are visibly pixilated

dixie_land··on A global house-price slump is coming?
I am assuming they are not being greedy. Around summer last year I'd say a lot have an opportunity to cash out and buy a decent house and be debt free.

But sadly many were thinking "one more year and I can afford a multimillion mansion with an infinity pool"

dixie_land··on A global house-price slump is coming?
And in last (calendar) year, the rocketing stock market makes the audience of this forum able to just buy houses out right with cash
dixie_land··on Possibly a new way of drawing boxes in the terminal
Took me a while to understand how he was able to "push" the lines to top/bottom/left/right of a character until I re-read the article, biggest take away for me:

> Unicode contains one eighth vertical and horizontal blocks which are fantastic for displaying terminal progress bars with apparently higher "resolution" that a single character.

dixie_land··on Ask HN: Why does the media say inflation is up every month?
Everyone is suffering does not mean no one is suffering. You probably think North Korea is the best country since everyone (except Kim) is equally starving to death
dixie_land··on JetBrains invites developers to join the Fleet Public Preview Program
> they take what they can get from the OS :

It's the opposite, they run in JVM so there's an upper bound at around -Xmx ("around" because you still have stack allocated and JNI allocated, but heap is usually the biggest pool of memory by a large margin)

on the flip side it also has a lower bound at -Xms

Personally I have mine running with 16/32G heap. It's my work computer not like I need the 64G ram for gaming :)

dixie_land··on Ray Tracing in Notepad.exe at 30 FPS (2020)
Exactly. The idea is neat but it's no different than the mini ray tracer you write in graphics 101, with the twist that the output "frame" buffer is the text buffer of notepad
dixie_land··on The shortest pull request ever
git commit --allow-empty -m "trigger CI job"
dixie_land··on The shortest pull request ever
I think file mode changes (eg 0644 -> 0755 to fix a script not running) could be smaller
dixie_land··on Girls in Yoga Pants Explain the Higher Education Apocalypse
what article?
dixie_land··on Ask HN: What is lacking from modern computer science undergrad curriculum?
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dixie_land··on Immigration accounts for over 94% of Canada’s population growth in Q2 of 2022
It's just a fact. Vancouver is the favorite place for corrupt party officials to park their money in real estate.
dixie_land··on Immigration accounts for over 94% of Canada’s population growth in Q2 of 2022
Chinese buyers would simply buy them all with cash and rent the, back to you
dixie_land··on ‘I’d rather eat an actual burger’: plant-based meat’s sizzle fizzled in the US
I think the point being made is about the "density" of protein per serving. Sure you can get 75 from PB but that would also give you diabetes, and excessive fat too.

Same goes for plans, yes in powder form it's a few scoops but you probably would be way too stuffed if you eat the actual veggies.

dixie_land··on ‘I’d rather eat an actual burger’: plant-based meat’s sizzle fizzled in the US
1 gram per lb of body weight
dixie_land··on ‘I’d rather eat an actual burger’: plant-based meat’s sizzle fizzled in the US
what's wrong with Brazil
dixie_land··on Amazon built a new unit to fix its engineering culture
very true. your manager and skip might be able to see your impact and performance, but for people who control the purse strings, the only value you can prove is a better offer.
dixie_land··on Amazon built a new unit to fix its engineering culture
brazil and (legacy, non-EC2) Apollo beat any build and CI system out there
dixie_land··on Welcome to Your Airbnb, the Cleaning Fees Are $143 and You’ll Still Have
Isn't it pretty much the same as your example of Washington?

you know, to differentiate it from Ontario, CA, where all your UPS packages go missing or get stuck in "processing"

dixie_land··on Google, Microsoft can get your passwords via web browser's spellcheck
All of the companies I've personally worked at ban Grammarly for that reason. Some enforce it better (managed policies) than others (a wiki page no one bothers to check)
dixie_land··on Facebook janitors laid off as Silicon Valley service-worker cuts continue
> That's roughly $8M a year.

So instead of finding anywhere between one E6 or a dozen or so E5s that are simply coasting, they decided to cut 200 who does actual work.

dixie_land··on Mortgage Rates Jump Above 6%, Putting Pressure on Housing Market
Yup. In Seattle you'll be sent to prison if someone squats in your home while you fail to make them comfortable
dixie_land··on 'It’s everyone. It’s all of us' – Americans are living paycheck to paycheck
I don't see anything wrong with that definition.

Can you support all your debt load (mortgage, auto, credit card) for a reasonable period of time ( say a few months ) if you suddenly lose your income this very second?

If not, you are by definition living paycheck to paycheck

dixie_land··on Richard Li owns a personal top level domain
wait til you learn about his own forcefield

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%27s_field

dixie_land··on EV adoption in US is happening faster than predicted
speaking of doomsday, I can stock up on fuel with reasonable effort (storage tank, fuel stabilizer). But you can't easily build your own battery farm
dixie_land··on Jetbrains Space
Jetbrains pivots towards integrated solutions unfortunately reminds me of the demise of Delphi when Borland moved to "ALM". Hopefully IntelliJ fares better
dixie_land··on Amazon's Global Quest to Crush Unions
> HOAs are a way to exercise power as a group against individuals in the group.

s/HOA/Union/ and this statement is still true

dixie_land··on Evaluation of TikTok vs. Instagram Reels
I have friends in China. At Douyin (China) there's a general resentment towards Tiktok (overseas, esp US), at the same level the folks at home are paid much less.

Also, the big TC numbers (for most ICs, not sure about high level execs) are mostly inflated illiquid RSUs.

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