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by abraae 7y ago
Indeed, the OP has such a dodgy sound to it. Like a satire of how the regime's puppets would wriggle out of their situation.
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by abraae 7y ago
In yesterday's world, yeah. Today, when you have to take off your shoes to get onto a plane in the US, I don't see that happening.
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by abraae 7y ago
There is a great Italian history in making cool machines, including computers. My colleague is living in Milan and I told him about the Computer Museum in Pisa. He's on a mission to get there now.
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by abraae 7y ago
That is very well put, far from the rabid madness that usually seems to be conjured up when gun control is discussed. I spent some time studying it to spot the weak point. I guess it is the phrase "to disarm them", which is somewh
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by abraae 7y ago
Interesting, I would have thought that one of the few UI conventions that is fairly universal is that buttons are greyed out if they are inactive. I'm certain that many people will never click a greyed out button for this reason.
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by abraae 7y ago
It wasn't meant to be a convincing argument to the contrary - merely a contrasting story. And certainly if I had a rare cancer I would rather be in the Mayo Clinic, as long as my insurance was all lined up. Certainly these are difficul
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by abraae 7y ago
That is totally true when the code is behind a feature flag, rather than commented out. Most people can skip commented code just fine, since it looks like... commented out code, rather than comments intended to be read. But even in the feat
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by abraae 7y ago
Here's a contrasting story. On holiday in Rarotonga, our 2 year old got a chest infection. We made it way up the hill to the hospital. A stray dog watched from the side of the road as we drive into the parking area. No one in sight. Ev
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by abraae 7y ago
I like leaving old code littered around, either commented out or disabled by feature flags. Then, when my energy/concentration levels are too low for real work, it's a strangely satisfying task going back and cleaning up and final
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by abraae 7y ago
We have a classic use case monitoring a network of predator traps (to catch e.g mustelids, rats). Our required data rate is literally 1 bit per hour.
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by abraae 7y ago
Rotting releases their co2. All good when things are in balance - but they're not. To sequester the c02, you need to prevent rot.
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by abraae 7y ago
Timber buildings, furniture are possible targets for medium term sequestration of co2 via timber. More offbeat approaches might include modern giant pyramids built of timber, perhaps in the Australian outback. As long as they could be secur
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by abraae 7y ago
Let's assume they took it in the form of gold, ergs, Apple store credit etc.
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by abraae 7y ago
I find it amazing that if an alien civilization descended on us and taxed all fossil fuel usage by 100%, and took all that money out of planet Earth forever, both we and the aliens would be better off.
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by abraae 7y ago
Sustainable forests of pine (pinus radiata) here reach maturity in 25 years, when the timber can be harvested, and new trees planted. It's truly horrifying to me to imagine a 400 year old tree being felled.
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by abraae 7y ago
Actually there are 791 presidential candidates according to https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_candidates,_2020#Declar... . Yes, most of them are probably not "real candidates", but Google would be in even hotter
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by abraae 7y ago
He's not in the US, but in a town of 160K-odd people, with a very decent river running right through. Water is indeed very cheap, but the main thing is that there's no metering. Metering is seen by some as taking away their rights
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by abraae 7y ago
Can't the brine be dumped back into the sea somewhere, leaving net saltiness the same? I can see that dumping point would become clogged, but presumably that would be only a local environmental issue.
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by abraae 7y ago
Exactly. My father in law lives in a town that has no water metering (and usually, but not always, plenty of water). In the summer he puts his sprinklers in 2 or 3 times a day, even when dire warnings are issued about water consumption. Hum
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by abraae 7y ago
For a complex system, with many tables, rolling back a large change is very difficult.
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by abraae 7y ago
Yep, I've never seen a system that was a) so bad that it requires rewriting and b) had a great schema that rewrite could be done on top of. Usually a quick glance at the schema will shine a bright light on top of all sorts of badness -
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by abraae 7y ago
> IMHO the key part to creating automation is to make sure you operate in environment that you can fully control. This pretty much is the opposite of an employee onboarding environment. Much of the discussion here is about automating thi
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by abraae 7y ago
Yes, that seems the opposite of the kind of deal you'd want to make with a hotly burning startup.
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by abraae 7y ago
Yeah, possibly, or more likely it's incredibly dangerous making rapid changes to the chaotic but balanced system that we live within. The plants might grow bigger - until a voracious pest migrates into the newly available area and dest
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by abraae 7y ago
What comes if we help those who ask (artfully or not) rather than those most in need?
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by abraae 7y ago
This is a nice tale of redemption for MS. Going back, they weren't always the ruthlessly cynical bad asses that saw out the last century. They let the desire to win at all costs cloud their vision. Their time in the penalty box, incurr
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by abraae 7y ago
Never heard of that, but the Cray-1 (not that I ever saw one) came with a magnificent circular seating arrangement around the machine itself https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/supercomputers/10... . I can o
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by abraae 7y ago
It's also interesting to me that these sorts of posts have so much, and so better presented information than was available back in the day to those who had to maintain these machines. For example I found this fascinating animation by k
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by abraae 7y ago
And today, the internet has fuelled the Dunning-Kruger effect so that Joe Bloggs feels free to dump on anyone who isn't in his Facebook group.
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by abraae 7y ago
Is this Jeff Bezos's influence? Things I would never have imagined a big old newspaper having their IT team whip up: > The Zeus platform monitors contextual data such as what article a person is reading or watching, what position th

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