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by akamaka 3y ago
There isn’t plenty of cheap fossil fuel available, it’s becoming more expensive to extract what’s left with each decade that goes by. The high price of oil is a huge drag on economy, with every spike causing inflation and reducing economic
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by akamaka 3y ago
> The rising BRICS dominate hydrocarbons and they aren't giving them up, selling or using. Surely you’re looking at the wrong statistics. Brazil is a leader in renewable energy, with fossil fuel use already on the decline for the l
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by akamaka 3y ago
The trend line to look at is that renewable energy is growing exponentially, while world fossil fuel usage has peaked (and is declining in developed countries).
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by akamaka 3y ago
If you embrace hopelessness and do nothing to make the transition away from fossil fuels, it’s your own life that will be grim as carbon is more heavily taxed and life becomes increasingly unaffordable. I’m personally quite optimistic, beca
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by akamaka 3y ago
Germany had a much higher peak in emissions in the 1970s and 1980s, unlike the UK which phased out coal early, or France which went all in on nuclear. German emissions have been rapidly declining since 1990 (even with nuclear reactors closi
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by akamaka 3y ago
Covering every roof in America with solar panels would fulfill 50% of electricity demand, using off-the-shelf solar panel technology.
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by akamaka 3y ago
Thank you! Didn’t know these existed, so I should actually start with Doom. :)
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by akamaka 3y ago
If I wanted to read the source code of just one version of Quake, to learn from it, which do you think would be the most interesting?
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by akamaka 3y ago
The unemployment rate is at a multi-decade low, so there’s never been a better time find a random job in an non-software area. If it were me, I’d go work as a barista in San Francisco for 3 months and master my latte arts skills, while also
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by akamaka 3y ago
There’s not much correlation between density and quality of public transit. If you look at a top 10 list of best transit systems, you’ll see medium density cities like Oslo and Helsinki right beside Tokyo and Hong Kong. Or within the USA, c
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by akamaka 3y ago
Creating heat to turn into electricity is an outdated 19th century idea at this point. Now that we’ve mastered the technology to turn ambient energy directly into electricity, traditional nuclear reactors are an overly complex technological
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by akamaka 4y ago
Ironically, it was their own success that made the XUL stack die off. Mozilla’s work on making browsers better enabled developers to write ever more complex webapps, and we’ve never looked back.
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by akamaka 4y ago
Will the server-side code for this be available as open source, so that it can be used by someone who wants to run their own CDN but doesn’t want to be part of the network?
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by akamaka 4y ago
I didn’t say that Washington setting the rules was a good thing — but who else will step in where there has been a complete vacuum of any leadership in Silicon Valley in the last few days?
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by akamaka 4y ago
The last 72 hours validate the view that Silicon Valley isn’t capable of taking leadership in fixing the problems it creates, and that we’ll have to rely on Washington to set the rules.
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by akamaka 4y ago
Elm was fun and I learned a lot from it, but a purely functional language doesn’t fit cleanly on top of a real-world web browser environment, which is rife with states and side effects. It was possible to build some elegant projects with El
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by akamaka 4y ago
That is a great idea. I‘ve also always been slightly annoyed and picking up ice cubes and having them stick to my fingers, but it didn’t occur to me to get a scoop that’s just right for this purpose.
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by akamaka 4y ago
That’s aside from the point. They could accomplish that by simply killing off the Mac Pro line. The question is how they will pay for a high-end chip when they no longer can rely on Intel to spread out the development cost among many custo
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by akamaka 4y ago
How will Apple recoup the cost of designing a powerful chip for a product like the Mac Pro, which is presumably their lowest-selling product? Most of the M-series chips are shared across multiple products, but the Mac Pro seems to be a clea
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Thinking Outside the Pot: The Bond Between Taiwan and the Steam Rice Cooker(taiwangazette.org)
4 points by akamaka 4y ago|1 comments
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by akamaka 4y ago
I should have been more clear, 25% is their average annual revenue growth over the last decade. Obviously there have been good years and bad, but in 2021 they hit 37%, so the capacity for big growth is clearly not in the past. Elon bought
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by akamaka 4y ago
What you’re missing is that Twitter and other Silicon Valley companies are high growth companies, which have always invested aggressively to become ever more dominant. Over the last decade, Twitter has averaged a 25% revenue growth rate per
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by akamaka 4y ago
Casual ice hockey might be a good start. It’s certainly possible to get hurt, but with shin pads and gloves, a good sliding fall on the smooth ice will be totally painless.
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by akamaka 4y ago
I think you’re right about the pressure transfer lettering. Letraset was introduced in 1961, and it looks like their “Brush Script” font. This would have been cutting edge graphic design when Roddenberry wrote it!
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by akamaka 4y ago
Not a Star Trek related question, but I noticed that the title is printed in a special cursive font, while the rest of the document is typewritten. What kind of machine would have been used in 1964 to print a custom font for a one-off doc
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by akamaka 4y ago
That’s great to hear, thanks for your response. I think I’ll buy it and try to hack together something similar for my news sources.
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by akamaka 4y ago
Is it easy to use for reading daily news, or would that require some hacking to get my news content to transfer to it automatically?
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by akamaka 4y ago
Do we fully understand why prehistoric human wanted to live on these watery sites? I find it so hard to understand, since living on dry land and avoiding marshes is a strongly ingrained idea now. But there are so many archeologic sites lik
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by akamaka 4y ago
https://www.amazon.com/Apple-Jim-Carlton/dp/0887309658
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by akamaka 4y ago
Thanks, this is a great data point. TI has some higher end calculators which are not solar powered, so that gives a good estimate of what was possible (at least when they last redesigned them).

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