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811.
by Scarblac 3y ago
And it would show the sum of the +1 and -1 votes, and the most applied label, e.g. (+3, Informative). I have to say the most enjoyable comments were often those that got to +5 but with a negative label, like (+5, Flamebait).
812.
by Scarblac 3y ago
A problem of solar panels and other types of green energy is that by themselves they don't reduce CO2 emissions: we use the green energy on top of the energy from fossil fuels. Even with all the green energy installed world wide so f
813.
by Scarblac 3y ago
No, it's just hyperbole. Using a much more extreme example to make the point (that companies don't automatically have a right to a path to compliance) obvious.
814.
by Scarblac 3y ago
But organisms are adapted to summer and winter cycles, they don't suddenly appear, they have been the same for ages. But change the timing a little, and you have eggs hatching weeks before the caterpillars that the chicks eat appear, a
815.
by Scarblac 3y ago
No, of course not. But nature has no mechanism to handle extremely rapid change in climate.
816.
by Scarblac 3y ago
Far all we know we're the only place in the universe where complex life exists, if we die other species may still stay around to experience it.
817.
by Scarblac 3y ago
I had never heard of it before this. Could he just make a backend for it and take his users with him?
818.
by Scarblac 3y ago
We have 1 day where everyone related to the project is present, which is nice. The other day is useful for the junior we hired recently so we can support him better, but otherwise a waste.
819.
by Scarblac 3y ago
The only way this war is going to end is for Russia to be removed from Ukraine by force, and that unfortunately requires dead Russian soldiers.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
There is a bridge to Crimea, they will bring in water like they used to do when it was cut after 2014 (even when there was no bridge yet). They made huge reservoirs in Crimea. The canal is mostly for water used by agriculture, and it will b
821.
by Scarblac 3y ago
That will be meters deep mud with steep banks I guess, completely open to enemy fire. Not crossable.
822.
by Scarblac 3y ago
That's a detail. Crimea did without that canal from 2014 to 2022.
823.
by Scarblac 3y ago
It's firstly a gigantic humanitarian disaster with likely many many dead, pure act of terrorism.
824.
by Scarblac 3y ago
Russia was in control of the dam, had mined it, and had in recent weeks let water levels go up to unprecedented levels. Something like 80 settlements will be completely inundated, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe loses its cooling
825.
by Scarblac 3y ago
There was moderation. There was even a newsgroup that probably has some overlap with here that required you to circumvent it in order to post.
826.
by Scarblac 3y ago
Binaries, imo. At some point Usenet became synonymous to illegal downloads for people, and it became too costly to support.
827.
by Scarblac 3y ago
But what's the terminal velocity of a parachute backpack strapped to a mouse?
828.
by Scarblac 3y ago
There is a well-known joke "nobody has ever done a solid randomized double-blind trial to test whether parachutes actually work." Now someone has -- and it turns out they don't have any effect! It's also possible that th
829.
by Scarblac 3y ago
And with this paper, we now have evidence that they don't work.
830.
by Scarblac 3y ago
For me it's the other way around. "Next Action" never worked for me because some things are only a few actions total, but others are hundreds and need to be done sequentially all before the end of next month. By looking only
831.
by Scarblac 3y ago
A politician in the Netherlands got a crowd chanting "Do you want more or fewer Moroccans?" "Fewer! Fewer! Fewer!" [0]. A court found him guilty for "groepsbelediging", insulting a part of society, which is a c
832.
by Scarblac 3y ago
In the past this happened over timescales that allowed nature to adapt. We're now doing it many times faster, and at a time when nature is already greatly diminished due to human resource extraction. We're just desertificating vas
833.
by Scarblac 3y ago
But we're also a river delta, we will run into problems long term because we'd have to pump entire rivers over the dykes. Also salification and other problems with only pumping out all the time.
834.
by Scarblac 3y ago
That's precisely the problem, that simple workflows need infinite configuration. But there aren't truly great products on this market, that every organization does things differently puts limits on what is achievable.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
And eating less meat, so we can do with less agricultural production.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
It's also good to remember that Jim is often wrong . Last week I found myself procrastinating for hours because something was going to be hard, was vaguely defined, wasn't going to work... and in the end it turned out to be five
837.
by Scarblac 3y ago
Among other things, the home of the first Wiki, where people talked about software design and development since the 90s.
838.
by Scarblac 3y ago
It's amazing. One, I learned a lot about database internals. But more importantly for me, it was an eye opener about all the differences between all those database engines out there. There are lots of tradeoffs involved in trying to ad
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by Scarblac 3y ago
We just got rid of a Gif - let's jump straight to SVG replies!
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Then decisions will be taken there that you don't agree with, but that you missed your chance to influence.

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