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by aussiesnack 4y ago
True. I think it's a reasonable assumption. But it doesn't matter as I don't see there being much competition between it and solar/wind. The latter will be needed to get us to the stage of being able to do fusion at scal
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
I made no comment on the feasibility of decarbonising energy production (let alone that of any other sector), and won't because it's not really relevant to this thread. I'm just arguing that fusion power won't come about
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
Yes. At least we know how to build the infrastructure. It can be done very quickly if we so choose & fund. And again, yes, fusion could conceivably help us reverse some of the damage caused in the meantime. Re fusion power, the causalit
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
The very first sentence misplaces putative fusion generation's use: > It’s not about to solve climate change .. Well quite. Obviously no single measure 'solves' climate change, but even its logically possible contribution
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
There's a lot of abstract victim-blaming here re articles etc, and for sure the SV set for the most part is pretty clueless about the real world (though it looks like it's coming for them!). But people here seem a bit less threate
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
Well in the proper sense the EU isn't a nation in any case. I was being loose about the governmental level at which regulation of foreign entities take place, which I think is fine for a HN comment! > And England kinda speaks for al
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
The list of nations that don't regulate how foreign companies operate within their own borders would be .. what?
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
Nonsense. See Ch11 of the last IPCC report. The evidence that increases in global adverse weather events are (as was predicted decades ago) and will continue to be driven by increases in global temperature is entirely clear and hardly dispu
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
A couple of caveats about the IRA. Firstly, an Act does nothing in itself. Everything depends on execution, and whether or not forecasts of the Acts effects were good. I know I'm stating the obvious there, but it gets papered over freq
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
What the Quaker silence practice (amongst others) may counter is the always common human snare of responding not to the world, but to our overlearned internal chatter about it: an always-on autopilot. Twitter has externalised this, so what
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
Quick reply with no links to hand, but I keep up to date with climate science (at a layperson's level). In short - I haven't read the compressed article, but I did read Wells' book and followed up most of the refs in detail.
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The Great Delusion Behind Twitter(nytimes.com)
10 points by aussiesnack 4y ago|5 comments
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
What a very appealing tale. Perhaps because it doesn't involve tech, much of which is so sterile by comparison. Or perhaps to me because I had related interests in my youth - I did a lot of wildlife & macro photography, spent count
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
I have seen a bit of that, but no more than in other language 'communities' (I mention Elixir and Clojure a few times here, because these are the most recent languages I've been a beginner in). But that's not what I mean
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
That's funny. My first programming 'community' was entirely comprised of computer magazines and a gruff alcoholic ex-academic who would occasionally throw a manual at me and bark corrections.
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
Well it's common on the Rust user forums in my experience. I had intended to have a good stab at Rust in 2022 as I typically learn a new language per year (to varying degrees). Having failed to really get on very well with it I'm
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
Politeness and receptiveness are entirely orthogonal qualities. The Rust community is indeed mostly polite. That's a good thing I think, but it can paper over a good deal of dismissiveness (expressed as politely as a Victorian men&#x27
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
I haven't personally had any trouble with Rust's ownership model. It's pretty straightforward. I have found other aspects of the language and associated libraries difficult enough that I've made little progress with real
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
That's true in the limit - if you go in guns blazing then any community is going to get defensive. But I have found the Rust community to be uniquely thin-skinned. This is only one person's experience, I can't provide any rea
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
I do a sort of language-per-year thing for my sins. My previous two were clojure then elixir, Then this year it's been Rust. I've found the Rust community by far the least pleasant to deal with. For the most part, it is fairly hel
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
Quite. Much does come down to your patterns of use. I'm plugged in about 80% of the time, so while I'd love more battery time it's not a primary concern. I barely use the trackpad. I don't game. Linux is still top notch
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
> if you give Linux the same kind of hardware commitment you'd give macOS, and just buy hardware that is made or sold with it in mind This is true and good advice for those of us who are primarily committed to using Linux. It is how
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
Currently f/t linux user, been using it on and off on multiple laptops for 2 decades. Not once, regardless of tlp and other tweaks and many hours of twiddling and forum-reading and keeping stats for weeks on end, has Linux ever approac
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
Well I didn't see another way to gloss your question: > would it really be too expensive to invest some time to learn it? I'm entirely happy to take your word that I've misinterpreted the question. Back-and-forth in commen
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
I honestly don't. My first degree was in philosophy, but it wasn't an area I focused on. I'd be surprised if no-one has done something on the topic more rigorous than fly-by internet comments by the likes of me - some of the
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
Your response seemed to fall into a category common amongst Rust enthusiasts, which is to assume anyone resistant to the lure is ipso facto lazy or misguided. Your own question was a hint at laziness. I have no idea how much effort the writ
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
> I don't care about the economy. It's impossible to care about 'the economy' because it doesn't exist. It's grist to economics' lit-crit, and as such there are as many imagined 'economies' as
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
I was eating at a picnic table in the Border Ranges National Park (NSW, Aus) when a kookaburra swooped down to snatch, on the wing, a slice of meat out of my wife's sandwich.
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
> The Rust community is however, an excellent community to be part of. I honestly haven't found this to be the case. There is a constant denial that some people might find Rust difficult (with a very strong implication that if they
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
It's not an 'idea'. Many people find it hard (I do). You might not understand why this is the case, but that they (we) do is an empirical fact.

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