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by aussiesnack 4y ago
The complexity and medium-specificity of all this just shows that computer-based annotations (considered as semi-permanent artifacts) aren't worth the trouble. Our systems aren't ready for them, and will only become so when we hav
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
I just don't have the security expertise to make the judgement, and, let's face it, that's true of most of us. Which is of course why you're asking, but you're not guaranteed to get answers from people you know to b
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
That would have been a reasonable judgement in the previous decades. Perhaps not so much now. There is a change of mood, and attitudes towards the fossil fuel industry, reflected by this years' change of government. The recent interven
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
> I think you're both right. Introducing H2 as a fuel only helps matters if the energy used to produce the H2 is not from fossil fuels, and probably hurts otherwise. That's "green hydrogen" by definition - ie. what th
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
Green hydrogen production creates zero operational carbon emissions. The brown/black coal comparison is silly.
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
"Australia", understood as a nationwide polity attending to its aggregate interests, barely exists. The part of it that decides what happens to resources (ie. the resource owners and client governments) doesn't give a crap ab
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
No. Clean coal doesn't really exist, whereas green hydrogen does. Agree however that the messaging around it has great greenwash potential. That was deffo Australia's previous fed government's intent with it.
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
This is something those "defending" the harder-to-use/learn thing always bring up. As if affordances must always be relative to prior knowledge. But they're not (always) - some things just are harder to use than others
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
I use Linux (Fedora in my case) as my primary (actually sole non-mobile right now) OS, with software dev as my focus. Its the best for my purpose, though I've used both MacOS and Windows extensively so I have a reasonable awareness of
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
Apologies if that seemed directed at you personally, which wasn't my intent. Attribute it to HN trigger-finger. It is a general and widespread phenomenon though that anyone who has been less than positive towards Linux on HN or anywher
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
The apparently innocent "sharing" of positive experiences - so sweet! so nice! - is from Linux self-identifiers all too often a very crude backhanded "you're wrong about the problems you claim to have with Linux, and if
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
True and annoying. Writing as a f/t Linux user (Fedora Workstation on a laptop), and I appreciate where it shines enough to choose its particular set of tradeoffs for myself. But there's no doubt Linux users can be annoyingly obdu
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
Can't argue with that.
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
I'm a drinker in principle, as in not being a teetotaller, but am just not attracted to drink very often. I probably have less than a bottle of wine and half a dozen beers a year. Same with drugs. I've tried most of the common one
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
It's the messianic fake novelty and loathsome invented marketing terminology that I'm objecting to. You can unfussily make notes, using your own emergent organisation exactly like people have done for centuries at least. Tech can
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
The freeform canvas was what made Microsoft Onenote seem so compelling to start with, at least potentially. They stuffed it up of course. But I was always surprised other apps didn't pick up that particular baton.
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
The value of whatever style of note-taking suits your work and personal style has been well understood for centuries. All the productivity piffle has added nothing to it, though it has earned a few bucks from book sales, youtube ads, and me
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
It's decent note-taking software with useful features and a storage medium that's currently in favour. If you have a use for such a thing, it's one of the best options available right now. But that's all. You can forget
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
Sure - it's a long time since I used it so I'll take your word for that. But it demonstrates the principle.
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
When I used IntelliJ, for the languages it understood best (then Java and Kotlin), it felt very little like editing text. The sense was much more like interacting directly with an AST. I rarely had to use standard 'text' editing f
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
I haven't tried any of the community plugins - if any of them come close to what you want, why not file issues outlining what needs improving? I've only used Obsidian tangentially, but from 10000ft it does look like the app tends
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
Peer review doesn't include tests of nationalism, nor biographical investigations. Bias is neither ignored by following the evidence (which is precisely what can indicate it!), nor exposed by wild claims about the nationalism of non-de
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
My comment was satire, which is all the topic deserves because it's ludicrous. The 'suspicion' you speak of has nothing to do with assessing scientific claims. They stand alone on the evidence presented, and as later tested a
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
Our biggest animal dangers here are humans, horses, and cows. In that order.
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
So I take it you'd be equally suspicious of all the prior work from the Northern Hemisphere that claimed mammalian origins to be there? I guess that's reasonable. Western Europeans and North Americans are the default humans/s
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
I don't have many subscriptions (most of my software is FOSS, and I don't do media streaming), but the few I have I'm quite happy about. None of them are corporate behemoths, they create quality products that I like to use, a
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
Perhaps not your intent, but you have hit on the entire social media mindset, distilled. TV debate long ago decided that every complex human concern can be profitably reduced to a crass binary which can be argued about in front of a camera
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
Yes and no. Sure, tech solutions are superficial and can only ever be partially successful. But we know how to build tech . We do not know how to manage 8 billion people stuffed into a couple of hundred unruly 'sovereign' nations
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
What's odd about that? Capitalism, of which VC is the pointy end, is unapologetically nihilistic.
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
You can . There are an increasing (if not bewildering) number of Rust-based web frameworks. Some even now come with fine-grained reactivity (a la Svelte, Solid et al) and server-side rendering of components. Chris Biscardi covers a range o

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