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by ascar 4y ago
> It's the other way around, the actual cost of building nuclear instead of much cheaper and faster renewables causes an opportunity cost That's under the assumption the available money, hardware and labor of ramping up solar a
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by ascar 4y ago
This is a cool feature, but the author doesn't do himself any favors with his style of writing that greatly overestimates the importance of his own feature in the great scheme of things. Remarks like "an extension that should’ve e
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by ascar 4y ago
Biggest problem for any non big-city to big-city transit are the last few miles. In the end my options are often to use a taxi or get a rental car. In both cases the price needs to be added to the cost of public transit making my personal c
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by ascar 4y ago
> IMO driving speeds, and how a community feels about it, are huge indicators on how hostile and how selfish a community can be. My gosh, you must think horribly about us Germans. All your points make sense on the surface, but empiricall
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by ascar 4y ago
Glass bottles have 8 Cent deposit in Germany and plastic bottles/tin cans have 25 Cent. I rarely ever not bring a plastic bottle or can back, but I do let glass bottles stand around near garbage cans for the bottle collectors. I see th
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by ascar 4y ago
That has a) nothing to do with the topic at hand (improving recycling rates) anr b) isn't even effective. A deposit isn't a tax. You need to give the consumer money for actually bringing the product to a recycling spot, so a tax d
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by ascar 4y ago
> You're confusing the total number of people who have degrees with new graduates. Yes you're right. The original data said new graduates. I got sidetracked by the formulation in your comment. I removed the false calculation. &
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by ascar 4y ago
> That means that children of degree holders got 4.7 times as many degrees as children of non-degree holders. That doesn't follow at all? You can't just divide the two percentages and get that conclusion? In 2020 children of de
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by ascar 4y ago
The title doesn't really match what I expected from the article. I was expecting use cases where Perl just excels or is a hard to remove part of a critical work flow that needs active Perl development. I know why I would pick Perl over
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by ascar 4y ago
> We got compilers. Otherwise none of this Did you have the option to take the relevant classes as electives in your postgraduate studies? My postgraduate had a single mandatory course and otherwise just required that I spread my classes
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by ascar 4y ago
> algorithms, memory layout, cache friendliness all of this was an integral part of my formal education. Algorithms and datastructures and complexity analysis was mandatory in the undergraduate studies, the lower-level stuff mostly in el
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by ascar 4y ago
> I found all I've learn is worth nearly nothing in industry It really depends what you work on. Doesn't even have to be high end. When working on performance critical code I was glad about my computer science and math educatio
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by ascar 4y ago
The thing with human exhalation is that this CO2 comes from the food we consume and gets captured again when food is produced thus having netzero influence on the actual CO2 in the atmosphere. Same basically applies to biodiesel. Of course
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by ascar 4y ago
It also excludes the west coast. -7 to +9 goes from West Coast to Japan and Indonesia, placing UTC+1 (CET e.g. Berlin) in the middle.
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by ascar 4y ago
Even Harry Potter matches his description. Harry's vulnerability, courage and personal growth even though the odds are stacked against him is a big part of what made it so good. It's actually a very common pattern. Might even be S
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by ascar 4y ago
It has been a few years since, but I wrote a standalone small Rails app for an internal service for a company that also runs a giant Rails app for their main business. I ended up heavily tuning the ruby GC parameters, which reduced the fina
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by ascar 4y ago
> It's not super efficient, but I am pretty sure you're not going to improve that by introducing an intermediate step. What's the foundation of that argument? An intermediate step that's achieved more efficiently and
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by ascar 4y ago
It's true for first-order phase transitions but not for second-order phase transitions. The article actually talks about it further down: > the Mpemba effect could happen through a related mechanism that Raz has previously described
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by ascar 4y ago
The assumption being they were placed on snow, which I would argue is an unlikely assumption to hold up. We have much more days with freezing temperatures than days with snow lying around and even then with lots of snow there are enough pla
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by ascar 4y ago
that's definitely true and there is some amazing work out there. But I doubt this is one of it.
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by ascar 4y ago
> The world's fastest general purpose sorting algorithm, 60% faster than Quicksort that's a pretty strong claim with essentially nothing to back it up. First off, the project is written in Dart & Java. I would expect an alg
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by ascar 4y ago
The blog also has an awesome series about different battles in Lord of the Rings and their historical accuracy/plausibility in regards to general warfare, logistics, etc. I think I found those via HN too.
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by ascar 4y ago
Could you elaborate what's so bad about 8GB of test data? This is a database project after all and many things need a certain amount of data to show up.
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by ascar 4y ago
What's up with this? The title is editorialized as advertisement against a competing product and the content of the link is essentially advertisement too. It was posted by the VP of Business Development of Tabnine. Is this really organ
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by ascar 4y ago
That's great news and they just got a huge boost in reputation for me. Definitely the go to service if I need a good VPN again. Especially strong decision since this will certainly cost them a lot of revenue and I don't think the
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by ascar 4y ago
As a German I think it's weird the article starts with "A Stolperstein is..." and then directly refers to the art project of Gunter Demning. That's not what "a" Stolperstein is. It's a common phrase in Ger
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by ascar 4y ago
Can someone explain to me how you can fire someone that already declared to leave and do financial damage to the employee with that? I guess it's some clause of a vesting schedule that gets triggered when being fired and he already dec
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by ascar 4y ago
> In other words, A implies B does not mean B implies A as well. I think you wanted to write A implies B does not mean "not A" implies "not B" as well. B implies A would be: the longer something will probably stay aro
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by ascar 4y ago
> But even using SQLite can be significant over-engineering. Running migrations? Writing SQL? That's too much effort for me. Key-value stores are not a replacement for SQL, they solve a simpler problem. If you actually can do with a
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by ascar 4y ago
I agree with everything viraptor said in the sibling comment and just wanna add: > yes, work is still work, it doesn't matter if you're doing work as a fun hobby or as a job No it's not work. You do work to get paid if you

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