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by __alexs 4y ago
We already have the technology to do that. We just don't have the political will to do it.
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by __alexs 4y ago
This is what bought us the rate of progress we've become accustomed too. Why should we want it to be faster?
633.
by __alexs 4y ago
Some plastics are worth something like 10x more than glass in the recycling market. I think PET is the big one.
634.
by __alexs 4y ago
I did a study on this (N>100m) at a previous employer who had quite a lot of e-commerce traffic. It's sort of true but also a massive over simplification. The relationship between conversion and speed is not linear. Some people are
635.
by __alexs 4y ago
Presumably it's based on the ONS estimates.
636.
by __alexs 4y ago
It's a polite way of saying that it was nonsense.
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by __alexs 4y ago
The entire luxury segment (e.g. LVMHs 300bn market cap) is pretty much entirely predicated on putting logos on things.
638.
by __alexs 4y ago
If you're developing for the web you probably care a lot about mobile users. If you care about mobile users your alternative options are even more of a walled garden than the web is.
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by __alexs 4y ago
Yeah there's a lot of weird design choices in JS code. I'm not sure all of them really make sense given the modern state of the language but old habits die hard.
640.
by __alexs 4y ago
Browsers do not share cache hits to CDNs anymore. The cache is sharded (not shared) across origins.
641.
by __alexs 4y ago
JavaScript the language isn't even that awful anymore and TypeScript makes it actually pretty good.
642.
by __alexs 4y ago
This "paper" is just a glorified advert for CodeScene.
643.
by __alexs 4y ago
No, HEC is dead.
644.
by __alexs 4y ago
It's almost like it being illegal (and yet also in massive demand) creates a culture of exploitation that damages people more than the actual work does.
645.
by __alexs 4y ago
I agree but somehow doubt that "we wont arrest you" will translate into "we will listen to you when you get robbed at gun point."
646.
by __alexs 4y ago
Do you need to take illegally acquired controlled substances when you have sex?
647.
by __alexs 4y ago
Sex workers themselves are often victims of violent crime so perhaps more sex workers on the streets means more violent crimes committed against them? Really we need solutions that allow sex workers to get off the streets more. Currently it
648.
by __alexs 4y ago
If a bedroom inside a statue of a potato is innovation I don't want to be innovative.
649.
by __alexs 4y ago
Having used it quite a lot I'm not sure it does save me $10 of time per month. At least as often that it generates usefully correct code it generates correct appearing but actually totally wrong code that I have to carefully check and&
650.
by __alexs 4y ago
I noticed when reading the Amazon reviews of probiotics recently that a lot of people claim they improved their mood a lot too.
651.
by __alexs 4y ago
This article is discussing draft legislation that hasn't been voted on yet. These changes haven't come into effect and IMO probably won't.
652.
by __alexs 4y ago
Yet another example of Additive Bias: https://brainlenses.substack.com/p/additive-bias
653.
by __alexs 4y ago
No he's wrong. Python the language and Python the standard library are not separate things.
654.
by __alexs 4y ago
You what? https://docs.python.org/3/library/functools.html?highlight=r...
655.
by __alexs 4y ago
As someone who has put too many hours into EVE online to count. I do mundane things in video games because of two different reasons. 1) The reward for doing the mundane thing is usually very direct and actually pretty decent if you commit t
656.
by __alexs 4y ago
Copper is definitely not cheap but I doubt there's more than 0.5g in most passive RFID tags.
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by __alexs 4y ago
These devices are something like one tenth the price of a regular passive RFID tag.
658.
by __alexs 4y ago
Britain or Britannia has been used as the name of the place since at least the 1st century.
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by __alexs 4y ago
To know that we'd escaped our "programming" first we'd need to be able to understand it. We're a long way from being able to do that.
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by __alexs 4y ago
I'm not terribly short sighted but also can't see clearly further than about 20cm. I have to use them for everything. I think far sighted people tend to have a more usable range of functioning vision left.

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