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by aforwardslash 7y ago
Most western countries have proper regulation regarding waste disposal. Plastic pollution is a big is a big issue, but wont be solved while big economies decide to export their waste to places with less strict regulations. This is - in my o
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That won't remove the co2 already in the air. And we also produce gases that alleviate warming, not only greenhouse effect ones. Stopping all emissions today would probably result in a temperature increase, not a drop. The facts are,
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AFAIK tree sequestration is marginal compared to the amount of co2 to be captured. Also, trees rot, and the decomposition process reverts a chunk of the process (releases co2)
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by aforwardslash 7y ago
If you were a hammer manufacturer, wouldn't you nitpick if someone said "I feel hammers have gotten worse since the 80's, and handles aren't what they used to be"? To many people, computers are a tool;to many IT peo
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by aforwardslash 7y ago
Vaguely related, someone measured keyboard latency and it does seem slower https://www.extremetech.com/computing/261148-modern-computer...
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Well, it really depends on what the project does. Most general purpose programming has looser requirements (both on specification and implementation) than critical projects. I have the sense you're comparing apples and oranges. Have a
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They didn't seem to want to help the ants. They were just completing their study (confirming that the ants weren't able to find an exit on their own instead of eg. chemical residues in the ventilation shaft), and confirming the co
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Yes and no, it seems its an external module. And this is part of the problem - why would I need an external dsl extension to translate a pure relational concept into SQL? Debugging the query will require sql knowledge, regardless of ORM.In
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My experience is actually the opposite - every project I worked on that relied on an ORM actually benefited from replacing it with a clear architecture pattern and a query builder. Having the concrete notion of what is being passed to the D
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That is well covered within GDPR scope. Retaining data to fulfill legal obligations is allowed. One common related example is invoice data.
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Congrats on the funding! I've been looking into Dgraph (and also played a bit with Badger), as well as other graph databases as a way to store chronographic event data, while enabling rich relationships between the observed artifacts
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To be fair, while I do understand the point of the article, it does focus on stuff that isn't really accurate (eg. shampoo, soap, etc). It seems a regurgitation of some documentaries about how society advanced with muslims, while in fa