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vhost- commented on The American West is figuring out how to keep cool   bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/pseudolus
turnsout · 2 years ago
Works really well as long as you can find trees that don't consume water.

The challenge in these western cities is that they don't even have enough water to run the taps. The reality is that the western US should not be this populated, period.

vhost- · 2 years ago
I live in Portland, a place covered in trees and there’s definitely plenty of water for them. When I travel through parts of East Portland, it’s very noticeably hotter and there’s a noticeable lack of trees. The problem seems to be part political, part budget and part passing the buck (BUT WHOS GONNA TAKE CARE OF THEM??). It’s very frustrating.
vhost- commented on Microsoft Reportedly Readies $16B Bid to Acquire Valve / Steam   guru3d.com/story/microsof... · Posted by u/CommieBobDole
sp332 · 2 years ago
It's not "reportedly".
vhost- · 2 years ago
It’s rumoredly.
vhost- commented on CircleCI Outage    · Posted by u/scrose
vhost- · 2 years ago
Terraform's registry is showing the same thing: https://registry.terraform.io/
vhost- commented on Diablo II: Resurrected   diablo2.blizzard.com/... · Posted by u/eswat
andrewprock · 5 years ago
Every time my kids die in a game, I ask them what happens. The answer is never: "I lost everything!"

I still haven't found anything quite like the feeling you get when you die in Diablo II hardcore.

vhost- · 5 years ago
Try dying in Rust on one of the main servers
vhost- commented on Dyson air purifier outperformed by cheap DIY box fan filter in Marketplace test   cbc.ca/1.5900782... · Posted by u/walterbell
sdfhbdf · 5 years ago
Interesting since the cordless vacuum (dyson v11) I use at home seem to work really well. The previous big corded model we had (Dyson DC33) was also built like a tank and served for almost 10 years before being passed on and still works so maybe I bought into marketing or maybe just different people have different experiences with Dyson products?
vhost- · 5 years ago
If Dyson had to choose one product to keep making, but discontinue all others, it should be the V11 vacuum. Runs forever and cleans very well. All their other shit can kick rocks.
vhost- commented on Website allows you to experience what it is like to live with dyslexia (2016)   geon.github.io/programmin... · Posted by u/colinprince
thrav · 5 years ago
I’d be interested to know what someone with severe dyslexia thinks of this interpretation. I have a mild case (constantly flipping digits in numbers, but rarely struggling with words) and my experience is much more swearing I just read 1917 and then looking back and realizing it says 1971 and then having to read it again because I was so sure it was 1917.

It’s true that the digits did jump around on me, but it’s not experienced as active motion, as portrayed here. It’s more that I see a false representation of what’s in the page.

I think words aren’t an issue because my brain is good enough at picking the word from what’s there and context.

It would be more like rendering the page with a few different Random letters swapped each time, rather than continuous movement of letters on the page.

vhost- · 5 years ago
I’m dyslexic and for me, it’s hard to explain what happens exactly, but basically a lot of words are improperly understood to be what they are by my brain. This leads me to think they are different words and then the context of the thing I’m reading is not right. So I re-read paragraphs a number of times, very slowly. Because of this, I read at 50ish wpm with around 40% comprehension. I usually use a text to speech or screen reader to get long reading done, but people never take dyslexics into account when they design things so that can be a pretty miserable experience
vhost- commented on Coyotes are being seen on the empty streets of San Francisco   sfgate.com/living-in-sf/a... · Posted by u/spking
taxidump · 6 years ago
And fireworks
vhost- · 6 years ago
And they gotta let everyone know they REALLY don’t like it when you put dog poop bags in their trash cans.
vhost- commented on If You Can't Buy the Keyboard You Want, Build It Instead   imgur.com/gallery/fGa13nZ... · Posted by u/fogus
StavrosK · 6 years ago
Dual esc/ctrl is the way to go. I still get phantom esc presses when I decide half-way that I don't need to ctrl+anything, but it's worth it.
vhost- · 6 years ago
I do this and it’s my favorite thing to show people to induce a mindfuck. I hold for control and tap for escape. Then I hold out for a day or two and make them go crazy before pasting them a link to the qmk docs page for the feature.

Edit: I won't hold out that long here. Here's the link to the feature to make this possible for anyone interested: https://docs.qmk.fm/#/feature_advanced_keycodes?id=mod-tap

vhost- commented on Thundering Herds and Promises   instagram-engineering.com... · Posted by u/YoavShapira
davinic · 7 years ago
Why block the caller? Subsequent calls will have the same promise returned and notification will happen for all once the promise is resolved.
vhost- · 7 years ago
Because then your caller will need to implement something that understands what a promise is instead of just getting a data object it already has to understand. Not only this, but the caller will need to also implement a polling mechanism to keep trying. Put into code:

  func get_value(key):
    value = backend.get(key)
    return value
Is way better than something along these lines:

  func get_value(key):
    while true:
      response = backend.get(key)
      if response.type == "promise":
        sleep duration
        continue
      return response.value
 
If your service looks like the former, then suddenly your unit tests can use a postgres database, a sqlite database, a rest client... that all implement the same backend.get(key) interface.

u/vhost-

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