DrBazza

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by DrBazza 2y ago
As someone that grew up in the UK in the 1970s and 80s with 3 TV channels that reached the majority of the UK, Greenpeace were a fixture on mainstream news. The past was somewhat different to today.
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by DrBazza 2y ago
"Directly", perhaps. But hydro is still responsible for far fewer deaths than gas, oil, or coal: https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
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by DrBazza 2y ago
> The "you can't be 100% sure" argument is impossible to defeat, and I don't think this design will move the needle. You can thank Greenpeace and CND and their misinformed campaigns for that. Meanwhile fossil fuels ha
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by DrBazza 2y ago
> I guess mostly because the only thing new smartphones offer is faster cpu The next killer-feature in the race to the bottom is probably software, not hardware, and is near realtime translation. Samsung is airing an advert for that rig
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by DrBazza 2y ago
The name and the replies to parent remind me of why you should definitely check any name ending '-lon' that you think is a good idea to use: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2222783.stm
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Visited SF in the mid 90s, then again about 10 years ago, and the decline was real back then. Tents on the same streets we'd walked as tourists 20 years earlier. I can say the same with Paris as well. New York, not so much, actually
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Also EOS: https://eos.org/articles/metallic-nodules-create-oxygen-in-t... . I can wait for the next Great De-Oxidation Event, when mining companies are allowed to scoop up all these metals without any research.
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by DrBazza 2y ago
"Today" newspaper launched in 1986 - it was the first newspaper that was printed in colour in the UK. Many press photographers used B&W film since there was little point using (and paying more) for colour. Also, they likely b
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Oh, double no: https://www.google.com/search?q=best+font+ever
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Oh no. https://www.google.com/search?q=comic+sans
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Agreed. Cabinet (and other) meeting details are generally private, and an FoI request rarely gets anything that's not redacted. There is a vast amount of information in the public domain regarding HS2, and 'vast' is the pro
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by DrBazza 2y ago
The opposition always have 100% access to all Government spending. It is publicly published. It’s pathetic Westminster politics and Parliamentary privilege that allows both sides to make lies like ‘it’s worse than we thought’.
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by DrBazza 2y ago
The old HS1 boss, said the main problem with HS2 goes was the government publicly announced the budget for each contract and the bidders bid... you guessed it right at the maximum of each contract. HS1 never announced any budget for any co
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Give me my own office and flexible hours. That’s what I have at home.
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by DrBazza 2y ago
I can't remember - did the aboriginal man one get debunked? Stride length, and on mud, was longer than Bolt - implying faster than the 100m WR on an awful surface? https://www.scotsman.com/news/world/prehistor
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by DrBazza 2y ago
> As a rule of thumb there should be at least ten alternatives I think you mean 14. https://xkcd.com/927/ > When the entire society and economy are being digitized AND that digitisation is controlled and passes
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by DrBazza 2y ago
I totally agree. WFH also best suits senior devs (by age), that have larger homes rather than apartments or sharing apartments.
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by DrBazza 2y ago
> adds up to around 4-5 hours total. > a few years ago when some companies were hiring anyone willing to do a short interview. Many younger engineers entered the workforce when that was normal and now any amount of interviewing feels
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Haha! Yes. And my own kitchen that no one leaves in a complete mess or steals my snacks.
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by DrBazza 2y ago
I'm far more productive in my own quiet and distraction free office than I ever was in a corporate office, even when I had my own there. Open-door policies suck, as do open-plan cubicles. I spent 30 years with a lengthy city commute l
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by DrBazza 2y ago
It depends. Many global open source development projects are very, very, successful. There's no office there. If anything, a fully remote set of developers should encourage a significant uplift in information transfer via design and d
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Why can't anywhere that has significant elevation should just pumped storage of water during the day and use hydro on the way back down?
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by DrBazza 2y ago
The language server isn't part of Zed though is it? You should report the issues on their github page.
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Persuading 'digital nomads' with established businesses isn't the same as encouraging and promoting home grown Portuguese businesses. Also non-English speaking countries that set up an internet-based business are at an immedi
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Unfortunately. std::string `contains` arrived in C++23
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Also, heroism isn't routine.
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Worked with a bunch of plasma physics postdocs in the early 90s, and fusion was 30 years away... checks calendar... 34 years ago. And that was the joke then. However, with advances like REBCO tape and so on, it's far more realistic no
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by DrBazza 2y ago
From 30+ years of dev work: > - There is no substitute for doing. Less tutorials, more coding. I'd rephrase that as "just write something!" Many times I find myself being the classic example of 'perfect is the enemy o
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by DrBazza 2y ago
I ditched at Windows 10, and installed Fedora and KDE. Never had a single problem, and that was onto really old hardware, and then onto a brand new AMD mobo. Admittedly, I didn't go the nvidia route for graphics cards. Booted into Wi
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by DrBazza 2y ago
> In my experience, people just don't know how to build multi-threaded software and programming languages haven't done all that much to support the paradigm. Go? Rust? Any functional language?

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