Scarblac

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by Scarblac 3y ago
In Europe, typically, a collective bargaining agreement is agreed between the company and the unions - and then it applies to all workers, union member or not. But unions don't have any say in who gets a job. There is no such thing a
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by Scarblac 3y ago
They don't, of course. But solidarity goes a long way.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Ah, I misunderstood you completely, I thought you were saying that Germany had more renewables than it needs. Hopefully we build better ways for storing large amounts of energy.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Like in most versioning schemes, the dot isn't meant to be read as decimal point.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Did you include the electricity needed for when all heating, transport, industry etc is electrified?
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Developers don't really compete on skill much. Most importantly because companies have no good way of judging skill of developers. And also because, in most companies writing business software, good enough is good enough.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
During Covid a new volcano erupted quite near Grindavik, that was very tourist friendly: close to Reykjavik, not too large or dangerous, nothing it could damage nearby, a few km hiking from a road. Many web cams were setup and lots of beaut
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Yesterday it was way worse. Then the cracks in the middle of town opened and it seems that's sensational enough to use instead.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Looking for Grindavik news on X etc right now, there is already an annoying amount of video and images of erupting volcanoes, from previous years, or from somewhere else completely. Even though there is no eruption at all yet. Annoying.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
> Cheap enough? > Some of the biggest success stories have been implementations in $-poor environments. So why is it not the dominant method of agriculture yet? > broadacre cereal crops are definitely NOT on the menu. And yet, they
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by Scarblac 3y ago
The translators pick a fitting dialect of the target language, I think.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
There is anti-cartel legislation that should prevent that, I think. And why would it be in the interest of shareholders of the parts to only do business with the other old Google parts?
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Permaculture is a piece of the puzzle but I'm not convinced it is cheap enough to be affordable for the poor globally, nor have I seen it work at scale for staple cereals.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
That sounds reasonable, as long as it's a choice. It's harsh and ineffecyive to ask people that aren't as attached to burgers to have their population controlled for them. So people should have a choice, either go vegan, or t
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by Scarblac 3y ago
I think Monbiit's book argues successfully that it's so hard to grow plants in a way that keeps the soil healthy (as little tilling, added nitrogen, pesticides and herbicides as possible) that there just wouldn't be space for
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by Scarblac 3y ago
I'd expect change to come either from stronger regulation of agriculture that makes it much harder to produce meat, or if that's not introduced, from huge food shortages after desertification and other climate change effects becom
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by Scarblac 3y ago
_Regenesis_, by George Monbiot. About how we can realistically feed everyone on the planet long term, in a way that doesn't destroy nature, keeps soil healthy and more able to deal with climate change, and is also affordable. Very good
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Protect children's privacy!
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by Scarblac 3y ago
> If even just 1 out of 10 homeopathy topics/issues/articles/etc. turn out to be mostly true, then labelling it all as 'pseudoscientific' would seem pretty silly in hindsight That "if" is doing a lot of
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Yes, but we were talking about a scenario where someone was just given the moves of a single perfect game. Not an oracle that gives you the -1/0/+1 of any position.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
It's a decline in overall energy, presumably not in electricity.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
That'll be very little help if the perfect game you have starts with 1.e4, but Magnus plays 1.d4. Yes, you're not losing, congratulations. You're still on your own against Carlsen now.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Not the perfect game, a perfect game. There will be a huge number of them, many of them very boring and unremarkable
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Perhaps, on mobile. But why should it take so much space on a huge monitor?
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by Scarblac 3y ago
That new versions with new features come out doesn't mean they're improvements on the previous one. At some point it's just bloat that slows down the core functionality.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
> As an aside - how is 'Omagh' difficult? Same way as every other English word - the spelling seems unrelated to the pronunciation. I've never heard this word. Is the 'gh' part pronounced as in though or as in to
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by Scarblac 3y ago
I can understand wanting to split things off so that one team handles one service, roughly. There was a recent thread here where someone mentioned he personally was responsible for about four of their microservices...
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Yes, but the "widespread meme" as I see it is about microservices, not services in general.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
_Services_ are obviously a good idea (nobody is arguing something like PostgreSQL or Redis or DNS or what have you should all run in the same process as the web server). _Microservices_ attract the criticism. It seems to assume something ab
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by Scarblac 3y ago
You know the answer: never. It works, doesn't it? And they're right more often than I like. Edit: I'm definitely not saying they're always right, or even often. I'm usually with the line of thinking of the people co

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