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by Scarblac 3y ago
The IPCC models require both, so use a lot less energy to get to get to net zero by 2050 and then a period of some decades where we emit net negative CO2 through tech, to keep the planet somewhat liveable. Tech alone takes too long to devel
542.
by Scarblac 3y ago
It's necessary but way overused. The docs have a whole page explaining how things some devs do with useEffect should be done differently: https://react.dev/learn/you-might-not-need-an-effect . I think class based c
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by Scarblac 3y ago
It's just "hanging around" or so. This kind of article is strange, they take some extremely mundane word and make it seem like it's some mystical foreign concept.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Yeah yeah, I know. They could have chosen to call it Startup News but didn't.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
This is Hacker News, not just Lets Bring Yet Another Product To Market news. He is doing this for fun and to be creative, is incredibly inspiring for a lot of people, and actually gets things done on top. The epitome of a hacker, I want
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Its half life is about 9 years says Google, so "gone" takes a lot longer than that.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Salt, probably.
548.
by Scarblac 3y ago
Or, you know, banks with fast digital payment methods.
549.
by Scarblac 3y ago
Still, considering the tiny amount of Bitcoin transactions per day, and the large number of speculators, hardly anybody can be using it for real things, anywhere.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Because what we get in return is so incredibly tiny with Bitcoin. Less than 450k transactions per day, world wide. With most of them just people speculating.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
> And (as a european) i'm reminded of the confusing american light switches which show a light when they are off. I have those in Europe. The point is that you can find the light switch in the dark. Why would it need a light when it
552.
by Scarblac 3y ago
Depends on who your target audience is. Many applications can still safely assume they are for office workers using a desktop or laptop computer with a keyboard and a mouse.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
My Meindl Caracas Mid hiking boots. I wear them all the time, not just for hiking, and so far they stay good much longer than previous hiking boots, apart from replacing the soles once.
554.
by Scarblac 3y ago
If it's a deterministic RNG then it just means the state space is very large.
555.
by Scarblac 3y ago
What if the plane is in the middle, over the Atlantic?
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Yes, but the vast majority of the resource consumption happens for people in rich countries in the West, and those are not the countries with the large population growth.
557.
by Scarblac 3y ago
So 29000012 years old now!
558.
by Scarblac 3y ago
And people cook the food, people do the dishes, people clean the restaurant, do maintenance on the chairs... All costs that should simply be part of the quoted price.
559.
by Scarblac 3y ago
In the Netherlands it's not literally a UUID, but everybody does have a number.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Scratch is fun, and people make games in it. My kids also loved just fooling around in it, moving sprites and stuff. You can start exploring it together and then he'll take over.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Well the laundry is indirectly part of C. We can probably get away with paying remote workers less because they get other benefits from working remotely.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
> For example: you coded and launched a new feature, and that feature brought in 20% more users over the following year. Even if I did, it was probably someone else's idea, someone else decided it would be worth adding to the produ
563.
by Scarblac 3y ago
3 of our 15 devs write Fortran, but we don't find them through dev job sites. They have PhDs related to hydrodynamic simulations and many of the people in the field know each other through conferences.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
That example looks exactly like it would in binary computing?
565.
by Scarblac 3y ago
Simple, only allow them after top management takes a heavy decrease in compensation.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
My favourite is to build only up to 4 houses, and never build a hotel. Then if someone else is in money trouble and is forced to sell their hotels, but the stock of houses is empty so that they can't -- they lose.
567.
by Scarblac 3y ago
Almost, the password is ********.
568.
by Scarblac 3y ago
And people post short comments that take strong positions in such a way that it's really hard to decide whether it's a complete beginner bluffing or an expert talking from a wealth of experience.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
At least, if it can be modelled by some type of finite database stored on disk or in memory, then you can store the entire contents of that database as one binary blob. Now you just need one tuple ("our_system", "the_db&quo
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by Scarblac 3y ago
The point of Python is quickly integrating a very wide range of fast libraries written in other languages though, you can't ignore that performance just because it's not written in Python.

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