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by Lutger 2y ago
Aside from following the default 'start here' documentation, there are various timelines made for fun and profit that visualize the full history, for example: https://time.graphics/line/291016 This is quite o
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by Lutger 2y ago
I must have missed your point, isn't the answer obviously that HTML is very, very limited and intended as a way to markup text? Semantic data is a way to go further and make machine-readable what actually is inside that text: recipes,
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by Lutger 2y ago
At least half of the interactions that are presented as terrible, I feel are actually quite normal and potentially even pleasant. If you don't actually enjoy talking about your product with 'beginners' or even just normal peo
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by Lutger 2y ago
Everyone is optimizing for their own local use-case. Even open-source. Standards get adopted sometimes, but only if they solve a specific problem. There is an additional cost to making or using ontologies, making them available and publishi
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by Lutger 2y ago
Renewables don't do reliable baseload _yet_, that is true. But not being able to completely replace gas does not equate not competing at all. That is a fallacy. For example, we are a laggard on renewables (Netherlands), but are catchin
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by Lutger 2y ago
First patents on solar energy were granted in 1860s. First solar panels were created in 1883. It wasn't so long ago - I still remember - that everybody thought solar energy would stay way too expensive and would never compete with coal
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by Lutger 2y ago
Everybody does the work. For an enterprise, its administration or HR who actually pay the wages. The business certainly doesn't, they think up the model and the features, the business problems. I find this whole thing very confusing, t
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by Lutger 2y ago
I had the same thought. This is why: - 'I created a similar website', so it compares to https://pricewatcher.gr/en/ . - a big part of the discussion is in the context of inflation and price gouging - pricewatc
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by Lutger 2y ago
That is true. But you'll: a) slowly lose to competitors as you can't keep up with increased demands in the space. b) take on more and more existential risks For a lot of companies, that is exactly what they want to do. Its called
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by Lutger 2y ago
Not able to comment on the technical side, but for sure a lot people who got sacked were on moderation. Some countries like mine eventually lost all moderators specifically working for that country. And it does show in the amount of spam an
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by Lutger 2y ago
We had this coming. Over the years, the various chromecasts in our house are slowly getting worse. I had the sense they are cutting costs on the software and servers powering these devices. Spend way too much on the chromecasts and home dev
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by Lutger 2y ago
I understand, but your points aren't really relevant for a number of reasons: First, it is a dream, you have to do something to make it work. You are describing the status quo, I want us to move to something else. After decades of neol
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by Lutger 2y ago
By the age we currently stop being 'useful' as members of clan human, i.e. retirement, our forefathers in an evolutionary sense could already have been (great) great grandfathers. Our life as a pensionado or geriatric patient is a
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by Lutger 2y ago
Grenoble also banned all ads in 2014 and put in a lot of trees. It is truly an audacious move, yet completely rational. My dream is to also ban parking of cars in neighborhoods and most car traffic, cars can be parked along the edges in sol
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by Lutger 2y ago
The for most people somewhat counter-intuitive answer is that NoSql is very rigid. It is counter intuitive, because having no required schema up front appears to be more flexible, not less. However, having your database not handle schema me
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by Lutger 2y ago
Indeed. There are multiple timezone changes each year, causing gaps in time. Also, not every timezone is a neat 1 hour increment, some are 15 minutes or worse. There are even people living in the same geographical location but in different
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by Lutger 2y ago
One approach is to store everything in UTC, and display in the timezone of the user. Dealing with timezones - including DST - properly is a must-have, no way around it. I live in a country that uses DST, a lot of Europe does that. If my cal
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by Lutger 2y ago
I don't think meaningless is the right word. It would be deeply meaningful for a woman to know if a company is inclusive to her needs, for someone of color to know if a company isn't racist, etc. The information is sensitive and d
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by Lutger 2y ago
Sure, a lot of tasks won't exist anymore. I've seen many rote administrative tasks coded out of existence by very simple glue code as well, and some people may lose a job if they can't adapt. But the same could be said for ma
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by Lutger 2y ago
> the productivity boost seems to be eaten up by unrealistic project plans and expanding scope This is what happens with every improvement in software, doesn't matter if its better hardware, improved tooling, increased libraries or
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by Lutger 2y ago
yes
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by Lutger 2y ago
There is more or at least as much scientific consensus about anthropogenic climate change than the ill effects of smoking. At this point, I'm assuming any doubt about this is in bad faith (and it almost always is), sometimes I just won
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by Lutger 2y ago
There's a vast array of such conspiracy theories, loosely interconnected. They are immune to evidence or reason, asking if it makes sense is like making remarks about plot incoherence of a porno movie. Yesterday I saw 'Wind turbin
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by Lutger 2y ago
Where, what? This doesn't make sense. Please point me to one single instance where is this ignored / underappreciated. Making claims such as these without any proof amount to nothing more than a conspiracy theory, at best. Plantin
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by Lutger 2y ago
I'm not sure how it is ever ok to put your _root_ credentials into version control? I am not even comfortably doing that with my personal private repositories that I share with nobody.
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Right, a great number of companies would absolutely fly on the userbase of most of the apps on killedbygoogle. Some of these had hundreds of millions of users when google turned off the lights.
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by Lutger 2y ago
There are just not the same characters. A filesystem should not have an opinion on what strings of characters _mean_ the same. It is the wrong level of abstraction. filenames might even not be words at all, and surely not limited to English
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by Lutger 2y ago
I read it as both, especially given the "I'm a hunter and hunting is great" bit. It is moral psychology. There is an implicit notion of what it means to be a human, and what is ethically sound is tied up with it, because it i
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by Lutger 2y ago
I see the case for it, but what wouldn't be natural once you allow this? Gene editing? Why not? A consequence is that 'natural' will lose all meaning. If everything is natural, then nothing is, really.
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by Lutger 2y ago
Nah, probably just watch a youtube video recommended on his youtube timeline by...AI. Maybe fact check with some tweets on X or instagram posts if he's feeling very serious. I may sound sarcastic, but I assure you the vast majority of

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