jwilliamson
Re:Strong typing, a hill I'm willing to die on
on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @10:54AM (#37766060)
He's describing row polymorphism. Only some forms of polymorphism require explicit interfaces.
Re:Factorio 1.0
on Friday August 14, 2020 @10:51PM (#24165477)
You can copy existing sections of your factory with Ctrl-C and paste ghosts with Ctrl-V. There's also a paste buffer that you can scroll through with the mouse wheel.
Re:Factorio 1.0
on Friday August 14, 2020 @10:48PM (#24165463)
Depending on how old your kids are, they might enjoy playing Factorio with you. My daughter is 3, and she is always up for playing "The Train Game". She mostly enjoys telling me what colours my trains should be and where I should drive them, so I need to use a more train-based system than I would otherwise.
Re:The US declared war on TikTok because it can’t handle the truth
on Friday August 07, 2020 @09:32AM (#24081587)
Facebook was banned after they refused to identify rioters who were using Messenger to communicate. Google was banned because they wouldn't comply with content restrictions.
Re:The US declared war on TikTok because it can’t handle the truth
on Friday August 07, 2020 @09:18AM (#24081454)
To further this, American apps like LinkedIn or Github are still allowed in China because they obey the law.
Re:Twitter to be fined $250M for using 2FA numbers for ads
on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @03:18PM (#24064457)
They do. There are also operators whose numbers Twitter won't accept for signing in. I had to borrow someone's phone to sign up for Twitter because they didn't like my number.
Re:Order of magnitude estimate of Beirut explosion at 3 kilotons of TNT
on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @11:43PM (#24057069)
Some WW2 battles were fought at significantly shorter ranges than that. Just in the Malta campaign, at Cape Passero the Italians closed to around 1700m before opening fire. In the attack on the Tarigo convoy, the British closed to 1800m before opening fire and approached as close as 50m to the Italian ships.
Re:Trump says he will ban TikTok through executive action
on Saturday August 01, 2020 @10:08AM (#24020521)
Western social media that complies with Chinese laws (like LinkedIn) are allowed to operate in China.
Re:Cars and hygiene killed the middle-class hat
on Friday July 10, 2020 @01:38AM (#23788490)
Sport coats evolved from riding and shooting jackets. I suspect some mobility has been lost over the years, but neither of those sports requiring raising your arms very high.
Re:Google Acquires North
on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @07:10PM (#23695875)
There was an article in the Globe and Mail a few days ago saying each store was averaging about 10 sales/week, which certainly meshes with the store always being empty.
Re:Covid-19 Cases in China Were Likely 37 Times Higher Than Reported
on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @07:15PM (#23621611)
Using nation-level data seems questionable. By late January, most cases in China were still in Wuhan, so why wouldn't they look at the incidence rate and flight data for just Wuhan or Hubei?
Re:Zoom Acknowledges It Suspended Activists' Accounts at China's Request
on Saturday June 13, 2020 @10:24AM (#23509547)
The US government is currently trying to extradite a Chinese citizen from Canada for defrauding a British bank. The idea that a country's laws only apply to its own citizens or companies did not originate in China.
Re:Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after Tiananmen ...
on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @07:02PM (#23483194)
Remember when the American government got all the payment processors to blockade WikiLeaks because of political speech? Don't pretend that the American government doesn't suppress speech.
Re:Britain has gone two months without burning coal to generate power
on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @07:23PM (#23472090)
The last year Britain had a capacity factor for wind that low was 2010. The capacity factor last year was 33%.
Re:Britain has gone two months without burning coal to generate power
on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @07:14PM (#23472016)
So do coal, nuclear and gas. What forms of power generation don't lobby governments?
Re:Britain has gone two months without burning coal to generate power
on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @07:13PM (#23472003)
A big driver is that wind and solar have only recently become economical. The price of solar power has fallen by 80% since 2010, so large scale plants are all very new. Capacity factors for wind are also improving rapidly, from 25% in 2000 to over 40% today.
Basically we've had 150 years to build out hydro, 70 to build out nuclear, and only a few for wind and solar.
Re:Why Our Intuition About Sea-Level Rise Is Wrong
on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @10:32AM (#23391403)
This is not true. The town of Radisson was built in the 70s during work on the James Bay Project and is still mainly francophone. It's about 2° north of Dunkirk.
Re:SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit
on Saturday May 30, 2020 @07:29PM (#23365776)
The Congreve rockets were inspired by the rockets used by Mysore starting in 1780. So there were military rockets in use at the time of the US war of independence, they just weren't being used by either of the combatants in that war.
Re:The Unicorns Fell into a Ditch
on Monday May 18, 2020 @08:12PM (#23229895)
The bubble popped early in 2000.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Nasdaq_C...
Re:Students think the College Board is running a Reddit sting
on Sunday May 17, 2020 @07:35PM (#23216556)
Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada is trying to make the students do this for exams this year.
Re:Zombie Coal
on Thursday April 30, 2020 @09:06PM (#23038118)
China doesn't produce much natural gas domestically, and the last few years have been a lesson to them in how dangerous relying on other countries for manufacturing inputs is.
Re:Will cable TV be invaded by commercials? (1981)
on Sunday April 26, 2020 @08:33AM (#22986687)
Just FYI, uBO blocks YouTube ads if you are using Firebox on mobile.