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by amarant 3y ago
Spotify, King, DICE and Mojang are some commercial software successes. All from Sweden. If you don't think the entertainment industry counts for much, I might remind you Linux was originally made in Finland. (Linus Torvalds is half Swe
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by amarant 3y ago
Huh, I've been using element for a while now, and the only problem I've encountered is that quite few of my friends use it. I've joined a few communities based around common interests, and never really had any technical issue
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by amarant 3y ago
Oh yeah, that was after the "tank era" of Nokia phones. I think the last real Nokia tank was the 3310, or maybe it was just such a success that all tanks after it have been forgotten (by me at least) I'm struggling to remembe
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by amarant 3y ago
Her Nokia was breaking down? What warzone had she been to? I remember dropping my old Nokia down a stairwell once. When I fetched it there was a crack - in the tile floor! Of course this was one of the older models, I think the marketing ma
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by amarant 3y ago
Interesting! I guess that leaves 2 possibilities. Either the pilots ignored/missed the warnings(seems unlikely), or the warning system was somehow faulty(seems more likely, given Boeings recent track record)
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by amarant 3y ago
Seems Boeing just can't catch a break lately. I'm somewhat surprised that there isn't a warning in the cockpit for a poorly closed door on an airplane. My car warns me of that! (Granted, my car door isn't necessarily air
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by amarant 3y ago
Huh, I don't think it's confusing at all, the rendered car clearly shows the current state of the trunk, and when you push the open button, there's even an animation showing the trunk opening. To each their own I guess
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by amarant 3y ago
I kinda liked the freedom to choose persistence myself, it was one of the things that enabled us to choose it at Mojang, since at the time it wasn't clear if we were going to migrate to a different cloud or not, being able to replace t
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by amarant 3y ago
I've used vert.x in a big project once. I don't ever want to do that again. Performance is pretty good, but the developer experience is beyond clunky. My current favourite Java server framework is Micronaut. Great performance and
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by amarant 3y ago
Except natural gas is a fossil fuel. The name is somewhat misleading. I'm not aware of any way to create synthetic propane using renewable energy sources, but that might be my ignorance speaking. A quick googling indicates it's no
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by amarant 3y ago
Planes can in fact use hydrogen, though I suppose there might be tradeoffs in not aware of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen-powered_aircraft
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by amarant 3y ago
Which specific liquid fuels do you mean? I guess the most important factor is how much energy is lost in synthesizing/burning it. Do you have those numbers available? I know methane can be synthesised, but it requires you to first make
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by amarant 3y ago
I think hydrogen has a place as a energy source, but cars are not it. There are some projects aiming to use it for steel production for example, and in a few areas where batteries aren't feasible, such as long distance flights. But hyd
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by amarant 3y ago
I know basically nothing about physics, so sorry if this is a dumb question. The existence of infrared LEDs seems to indicate to me that infrared light can exist without heat. The existence of infrared thermometers seems to imply that hot s
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by amarant 3y ago
I've just posted a comment criticising one of your other posts about this, but I feel now I need to clarify I don't think your entire post is irrational, just that it contains a few erroneous assumptions, and in at least one place
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by amarant 3y ago
I dunno. I see your point, but at the same time there's the opportunity cost to consider. We simply cannot currently generate enough renewable energy to cover all our energy needs, so if you are wasting power that could've been us
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by amarant 3y ago
This is the relevant comparison! In another comment I asserted that I would be surprised if Blockchain doesn't use at least 2 orders of magnitude more energy per transaction than traditional banking. Seems I was off by about 5 orders o
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by amarant 3y ago
Given that renewable energy produced is not infinite, any waste of energy can be assumed to use coal since not wasting that energy would reduce the amount of coal power needed at any given moment. Now, the above argument is only relevant if
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by amarant 3y ago
Not to contradict you, but he did also say a few quite annoyingly incorrect things, like claiming it was the fault of Poland that they were invaded by Hitler. Also the point where Tucker reached the conclusion that "only an idiot would
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by amarant 3y ago
No. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. This is the argument from authority fallacy but in reverse. Just because a idiotic war criminal praises someone does not mean that person is bad. Neither is it an indication that person is good.
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by amarant 3y ago
How is that municipality name supposed to be pronounced? My first attempt sounded too much like "u-can-eat-shit" to be correct...I hope...
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by amarant 3y ago
I once worked at a company that decided to do Samson's chair during standup. It was brutally effective, especially those who went last sounded like a new Eminem single. Standupps went from >30 to <1 minute immediately
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by amarant 3y ago
Here in Sweden we have a solution called BankID that is pretty much that. To get the key the first time you need to go physically to a location to identify yourself, after that you can use your BankID to get a new one when your first is abo
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by amarant 3y ago
This is pretty much my view of smart watches too. The way I see it, the coupling with the phone removes the purpose of the watch. I'll elaborate a bit: current smart watches seem to work a bit like a remote control for my phone: There&
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by amarant 3y ago
The comment that spurred this conversation did claim that the problem was overly complicated legislation to a simple problem. "Don't dump chemicals" is about as good a solution as "don't do bad things". You can
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by amarant 3y ago
Do you know what the word "chemical" means? We do need to be a bit more specific than that, or we're not gonna get anywhere. Also, once we've specified which chemicals shouldn't be dumped, I'd like to include t
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by amarant 3y ago
Are you sure? I can't imagine why someone would want to, but I guess if you really want to buy a paedophile, Facebook would probably be the place to do it! "Watching paedophiles get raped" doesn't strike me as a very com
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by amarant 3y ago
If this is the case, the name of the system needs proper capitalization in the title.
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Google Pixel storage unreadable after Android update(9to5google.com)
2 points by amarant 3y ago|0 comments
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Thailand discovers nearly 15M tonnes of lithium(malaymail.com)
477 points by amarant 3y ago|291 comments

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