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by Retric 1y ago
It’s not about shade alone. A cliff or single tree provides shade, but a forest provides evaporative cooling during the heat across a huge area alongside shade, it ends up a noticeably different climate. There’s some other effects such as p
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by Retric 1y ago
That’s actually roughly the price range to manufacture normal shoes. “The average production cost of a single pair of shoes ranges between $10 and $50. This includes materials, labor, and overhead.” https://hevashoeinc.com/
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by Retric 1y ago
I expect the global peak annual CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and industry to occur sometime in the next 5 years largely dependent on economic activity. I’d give it something like 90% odds. CO2 from land use (deforestation etc) has alrea
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by Retric 1y ago
CO2 levels tell you nothing about future progress, the legacy of soon to be removed infrastructure built 40+ years ago still impacts it. Meanwhile the vast majority of power brought online in the last decade is ultra low carbon. We know h
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by Retric 1y ago
Parents have a sub-zero that’s over 20 years old and in good condition, no idea if the new stuff is as well built. Miele still has a good reputation, and you’ll pay for it. https://www.mieleusa.com/category/1022129&#x2
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by Retric 1y ago
Some classes of bugs need specific tests to find, but I can catch a spelling error without specifically looking for a spelling error. Similarly, bugs often crop up because of interactions which aren’t obvious at the time. Thus the reason a
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by Retric 1y ago
TDD operates at a vastly smaller scale. You don’t write every single test for the entire project before writing a single line of code. Write some tests for a non trivial function before creating the function and the entire cycle might take
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by Retric 1y ago
Not every approach works for every problem, still we’re all writing a lot of straightforward code over our careers. I also find longer term projects eventually favor TDD style coding as over time unknown unknowns get filled in. Your edge c
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by Retric 1y ago
Internal incentives not overall profitability drive such behavior. An executive can point to a profit stream and suggest that’s beneficial to the company while ignoring externalities that cost the company 5x as much. Nobody inside has comp
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by Retric 1y ago
That graph is well below earlier forecasts. Accurate predictions require more than simple extrapolations which 30 years ago suggested exponential growth. Instead CO2 per capita and especially in terms of GDP resulted in a different story.
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by Retric 1y ago
My point was about a declining global population concentrating in a few areas not being a major issue. Globally more babies were born in 1985 than 2025. Population growth at this point is all down to people living longer but that’s a one t
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by Retric 1y ago
IMO it’s about minimizing harm at this point. There’s levels of societal collapse, mass migration can destroy the existing social fabric without necessarily being that terrible. Fertility rates being so low means developed countries will l
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by Retric 1y ago
societal collapse != humanities demise. Climate change could do a lot of damage it’s just not extinction level damage. Even large scale nuclear war based on current stockpiles isn’t going to result in extinction.
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by Retric 1y ago
TDD fits better when you use a bottom up style of coding. For a simple example, FuzzBuzz as a loop that has some if statements inside is not so easy to test. Instead break it in half so you have a function that does the fiddly bits and a l
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by Retric 1y ago
The intended workflow of TDD is to write a set of tests before some code. The only reason that makes sense conceptually is to prevent possible future bugs from going undetected. Put another way if your TDD always pass then there’s no point
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by Retric 1y ago
Large buildings 1000 feet from you are going to have some impact, but your complaint has little to with being a data center specifically. They could have put in a large warehouse and your view gotten blocked just the same, similarly the noi
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by Retric 1y ago
JPEG-XL is optimized for the low to zero levels of compression which isn’t as commonly used on the web, but definitely fills a need. Google citied insufficient improvements which is a rather ambiguous statement. Mozilla seems more concerne
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by Retric 1y ago
Let’s not resort to such exaggeration. There’s a fuck of a lot more humans on earth today than in the 1600, something like 16x globally with some regions growing more than others. Literacy was also generally low in 1600 as in sub 20%. Furth
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by Retric 1y ago
> Yes, constitutional amendments are laws (in one sense) that amend a law (in the other sense) and which states need to ratify, and regular Acts of Congress are laws (in the first sense) that may or may not amend one or more pre-existing
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by Retric 1y ago
> been updated dozens of times 18 times. 27 total amendments with 1-10 all passing on December 15, 1791. > a few decades ago There hasn’t been a meaningful change in over 54 years. > The constitution is indeed one law, not several
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by Retric 1y ago
Are you suggesting that appending the constitution in 1992 with: No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened. Somehow
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by Retric 1y ago
The US constitution is still in force after 236 years, and even older laws are still enforced. US courts will sometimes look at precedent from England before the colonies existed. Meanwhile some laws that are months old are ignored by law
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by Retric 1y ago
As a kid I viewed MtG, baseball cards, etc as gambling and often heard them referred to as such. The loot box issue is in part how easy it is to take this stuff to excess. My 8 year old niece racked up ~1,500$ worth of charges in a game wh
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by Retric 1y ago
Being virtual or not doesn’t matter here, ban it all.
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by Retric 1y ago
> This assumes 'we' (ie societies) are in a position to stop it There’s major advantages to understanding the world as it is independent anything else. People make tradeoffs around harm all the time, pretending it doesn’t exis
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by Retric 1y ago
Treating them differently based on the harm they cause, is still judging them based on the harm they cause rather than treating them as a neutral entity.
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by Retric 1y ago
The problem is the tool. To suggest otherwise is to suggest anyone should be able to buy nuclear weapons which on their own do nothing. Bad actors can only leverage what exists. All the benefits and harms comes from the existence of those
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by Retric 1y ago
Free markets as described by Econ 101 don’t apply in any sector where advertising is useful. Far more complicated theories get much closer to reality, but aren’t nearly as well known outside of economic circles.
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by Retric 1y ago
War is a useful lens because of the number of people in similar roles gives good data to work with and there’s institutions interested in how well people function. People in long term overwhelmingly stressful situations suffered severe issu
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by Retric 1y ago
Constant 250+W would force you to always travel at high speeds. That’s just not how E-Bikes operate. Even 50W is a fairly significant boost for casual riding.

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