BaseballPhysics

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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
If you think that's a good idea, you don't understand why tools like awk/perl/sed/etc exist and are popular. They are, by design, optimized toward specific kinds of use cases. In fact, their dynamically typed natur
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Weird, I feel the same way about Perl.
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Just gonna say: my god I hate productivity hacking culture. No, I am not going to optimize in additional professional learning in my off hours. I have a life. And I'm allowed to have idle time where I spend it just being instead of do
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Totally agreed. This was my policy with my staff. I straight up told them they can and should take a couple hours a week (tried to start small to make it achievable) on personal development, whether that's reading books, taking cours
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Apparently Elon was more serious with that kitchen sink gag than we realized...
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Breaks? How? Jekyll doesn't enforce or validate links between posts. I know this because I build my site with --limit_posts all the time (it's literally part of my build pipeline due to the way I handle webmentions). Is there som
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
> And if it's just a web site, why do you need to "install" it? A link is surely sufficient? Really? You don't understand the value in having the PWA appear as a native app icon alongside everything else on the devic
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
On Android you have to pop open a menu and find the install option. That's not inherently discoverable as you need to know it's even possible, and most people don't. It would be trivial to present the user with a more proact
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Good ol' Daily Mail, always living down to my expectations: > 'Exposure can be significantly reduced if a mask is opened and left to sit for at least 30 min,' the researchers wrote. > This suggests that the packaging o
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
I used to think that, and then I started using Phanpy and Voyager. PWAs can be surprisingly good if they're done well. The problem is the mobile platforms have done nothing to optimize the experience or encourage their development an
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
> Truthfully, I'd prefer to get rid of the app and just have users go to the website and install the PWA, but the average user still doesn't know how to do this. Let's be clear: that's not because users don't kno
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
You mean links to other posts? So what? Check those in one final full build pass before publishing if it's a concern.
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
I think you're underestimating the effort involved in writing something to poll an IMAP folder, checking for new emails, pull the right mime attachments, etc, etc, and then turning around and post them to the right place. Yeah I could
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
> The only thing that you will need to do is "bundle install" once your Ruby version is updated, which can be prevented by not updating Ruby. I just locked the ruby version in my package manager as I only use Ruby for Jekyll. I
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Yeah, but... surely, when you were iterating on a post, you were running Jekyll with --limit_posts or doing an incremental build? I agree, it's a nuisance that a full build can take a while (my own site, which has almost 600 posts plus
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Wikipedia has a pretty extensive article on the topic, as usual: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injectio... Short version: Probably aircraft, but anything that can get aloft and dump aerosols (e.g
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
A few things. My favourite is a flow to pull HTML-formatted newsletters out of my email and push them to Wallabag. I then use Wallabag's RSS feature with Calibre to turn them into an ebook I can read on my Kindle. My other major use c
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Anyone know how this compares to Huginn? I've built out some self hosted automation on Huginn and it works great once it's set up, but it's just a bit janky and difficult to use. And getting initial flows set up can be frus
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
I wish I could talk you out of it but I love mine. Now whenever I bust out an old notepad I get frustrated I can't pick up and move around the text to reorganize my notes as I'm writing them...
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
I'd say they're comparable to newsprint. It's clearly not as good as ink on paper but it's still pretty darn good.
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
> An anomaly of this size warrants alarm. Yes, it does. > If not proof of imminent ecosystem collapse, it seems foolish to 'wait and see'. Jesus Christ. I never said that. Read what I wrote, not what you think I wrote. &g
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
How is that point relevant? The goal is to eliminate CO2 emissions, not eliminate the use of oil generally. For plastics production, that goal could be achieved by migrating extraction, refining, manufacturing, and transport to carbon neutr
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
To be clear, there absolutely is evidence climate engineering can be done quickly: we may have ready done it by moving to and then from sulphur bearing marine fuels over the course of a couple decades: https://www.carbonbrief.org
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Did you really cite turning oil into plastic as evidence that we can't move away from fossil fuels for large scale energy production?
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
> Everywhere its easy to see evidence of the tipping point accelerating. Cool, let's start here, then: what tipping points are you referring to, specifically, and what is the evidence that they're accelerating? To be clear: oce
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
And that doesn't change my point, does it? This one year, or the year previous, is not evidence that the ecosystem of the planet is going to collapse in 10 years. It's one year in a long and alarming trendline, but to extrapolate
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
That phrase is used when someone is delivering someone else's message. That comment, both it's content and it's implications, are yours. If you're gonna run away from it now, you shouldn't have written it in the fi
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
This kind of rhetoric is alarmist and counterproductive. It effectively gives one a free pass to do nothing. After all, if you already believe the earth is doomed, what's the point in trying? Bluntly, your little prognostication, her
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Unfortunately the practical answer is probably both. We've collectively f*cked up by failing to curtail emissions more quickly. The only path forward now is to continue to move to carbon neutral fuel sources as quickly as possible wh
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Edit: I don't know who's downvoting this comment, but the parent is a climate change denier and I was responding to their (now flagged) claim that HN doesn't allow for "critical" comments about CC. I agreed: HN user

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