Ma8ee

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by Ma8ee 6mo ago
I guess you never tried to speak French in France.
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by Ma8ee 7mo ago
My meaning clearly got lost when I droppen an r. Will you still be happy when they sell youR software, that is, the software you wrote, and make a lot of money while you get nothing.
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by Ma8ee 7mo ago
Here is how the cost of insurance has changed in recent years: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/05/climate-... And remember, climate change is not something that happens and then it is do
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by Ma8ee 7mo ago
I would be in the second to last group if we actually did something when there still was time, and more was done to actually do something now. Yes, there's a lot of energy efficiency measures that could be done, and much more clean ene
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by Ma8ee 7mo ago
> can we actually do anything about it that is not just letting go of a comfortable life Yes, no doubt! And actually doing something about it will impact our lives much less than trying to continue as usual. If we would have started 30 y
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by Ma8ee 7mo ago
Which of course is obviously false. There’s no center right in the Republican Party, only extreme right. The Democrats try to preserve democracy, the Republicans are working very hard to dismantle it.
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by Ma8ee 7mo ago
The POTUS is well known for screwing over contractors and lenders. It clearly didn't damage his reputation enough.
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by Ma8ee 7mo ago
They are also building more solar panels and wind turbines than the rest of the world combined, and are the biggest investor in renewables. Their emission of CO2 just recently peaked. But they need a lot of power, and most of the new coal p
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by Ma8ee 7mo ago
Are you still glad when AWS starts selling you software as a service and make hundreds of millions and you get nothing?
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by Ma8ee 8mo ago
It’s really hard to come up with better examples of the exceptions that prove the rule than Marie Curie and Ramanujan. How many more names can you come up with? I’d even argue that still today women and minorities are strongly disadvantaged
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by Ma8ee 8mo ago
A few centuries of science of white males. While I agree that the system with ”objective metrics” has a lot of problems, but just removing it would bring us back to the old days when almost all science was done by a few privileged white men
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by Ma8ee 8mo ago
What do you mean? If it is the research required, it is such a tiny fraction of the cost of the cost of possible damage to society and the environment that it is completely insignificant.
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by Ma8ee 8mo ago
I think that certainly can provide a valid point in a discussion, without being any attempt to shut it down. And for some of us, with some specific personality traits, using it as a mantra is how we get anything at all done some days.
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by Ma8ee 8mo ago
Why do you think the app they call a clone of Reddit do all of those things, or most, or any?
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by Ma8ee 8mo ago
In this particular case, it is likely that it started as a genuine campaign. But the reason it actually was successful I suspect that some corporate strategiests realised the many things this could do for them: 1. Give them some goodwill fo
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by Ma8ee 8mo ago
I've long suspected that the ban of plastic drinking straws was a manufactured distraction to turn people against environmentalists. The environmental and economical effects are so small, while it so distinctly affects so many American
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by Ma8ee 8mo ago
The Montreal protocol contains exceptions for essential use, and many thousands of those were granted for many years, so I'm not sure what exactly you are whining about. Did some poor company make less money than they would have if the
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by Ma8ee 8mo ago
It is fair and reasonable to demand that releasing a substance with new and unknown effects into the environment justify its existence with hard, scientifically verifiable data that it is safe, or else get chopped. I think people's hea
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by Ma8ee 8mo ago
He'll be gone. The trust in the US won't come back. If your constitution and political system allow such a moron to wreak so much havoc in such a little time, why would we ever trust you again?
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by Ma8ee 9mo ago
> but vendors are just as fallible as the rest of us Isn’t the point that they shouldn’t be. They should have specialists dedicated to running these kind of things, test upgrades before rolling out, et c., while for the rest of us it’s j
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by Ma8ee 9mo ago
The energy demand doesn’t decrease.
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by Ma8ee 9mo ago
They do quite soon after they have become managers or product owners or “architects”.
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by Ma8ee 9mo ago
Yes, hardware has become cheaper, but services all enshittify the moment the investors start to ask for some return.
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by Ma8ee 9mo ago
If you use that much time for donkey work, you are using the wrong tools. If it is so simple so that can delegate it to a LLM, you need to use a language with more expressive power.
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by Ma8ee 11mo ago
We struggle to predict the weather, not the climate.
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by Ma8ee 11mo ago
No, it will not be correctly priced. It will reach some kind of local optimum not taking any externalities into account.
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by Ma8ee 11mo ago
Your link actually supports the comment you replied to.
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by Ma8ee 1y ago
https://www.ikea.com/se/en/p/uppdatera-storage-box-light-bam...
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by Ma8ee 1y ago
The only reason they wouldn't sell a drawer with a box joint today is because they wouldn't be able make the box flat enough. They certainly use even more complex joints even today.
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by Ma8ee 1y ago
The two last companies I worked for have switched from Slack to Teams. I just assumed that they had some package deal for Microsoft Office that included Teams anyway. These have been quite big developer heavy companies. If companies like th

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