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by beachy 4y ago
Why? Because fossil fuels are killing the planet and increasing their price will lead people to use less or find alternatives. It's simple economics, not rocket science.
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by beachy 4y ago
The most satisfying experience for me at the moment is the suggestions I get on a new tab in chrome on Android. Not because the suggestions are amazingly good - sometimes they're ok - but because when they lead to some crap-infested s
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by beachy 4y ago
Admiring the chutzpah of declaring this will be the "last breaking change". We'll see! And perhaps json schema should borrow from http header conventions of old and allow unknown elements if prefixed in some way e.g: X-my-fun
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by beachy 4y ago
> Gas pumps don't get slower the closer to full you are Actually (and pedantically) some here do. Just as you approach full they will drop back to a slower pumping speed for the last few drops.
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by beachy 4y ago
I've always felt the same, but there are some static scenarios where your shortcut device will always be there and mobility is not required. Case in point a home golf simulator. Absolutely not portable and also have noob users who need
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by beachy 4y ago
I love the way she saved her killer point for the end. She will go far.
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by beachy 4y ago
> From what I saw at Google Cloud, they could do a lot better identifying and nurturing talent, moving talent to the best fit roles, and overall optimizing the people already in the company. Instead, the pattern seems to be wait till som
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by beachy 4y ago
The original Blue Screen of Death (from Windows NT) did. Windows 10/11 fall well into the infantilization window.
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by beachy 4y ago
We sometimes have pods of orcas hunting stingrays around here. In their urgency to get away, the rays will sometimes hurl themselves up out of the water and onto the rocks. Apparently (though I've never seen it) the orcas will sometime
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by beachy 4y ago
I found this comment to be the "Aha" moment for me. What's the point of arguments as to whether this is sentient or not? After all, if it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck...
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by beachy 4y ago
Going vegan is one end of a spectrum. You might also change your meat choice. Chicken is far better than pork, which is far better than beef. No need to instantly go cold turkey on meat if it doesn't suit you.
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by beachy 4y ago
Sounds absurd all right. But what's to prevent this from being the future of the internet?
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by beachy 4y ago
> If I had a bowl of tickets with these links, and was offered to select one (lottery style), only then would I trust in anonymity. Actually a really great idea perhaps. In the HR space there is definitely a place for pseudonomous feedb
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by beachy 4y ago
There's some kind of herd blindness in humans where they'll go on doing something as long as the rest of the herd is doing it - even if they know better. There are new houses being built on the coast in my country less than a mete
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by beachy 4y ago
> What really frustrates me is that almost none of the OOP instruction I've encountered ever showed these kinds of real, practical examples. They always over-emphasize harmful inheritance-based approaches and never really explain co
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by beachy 4y ago
We built our own elaborate auth system. Soon afterwards keycloak came on the scene and negated a lot what we had done.
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by beachy 4y ago
Once seen it cannot be unseen. Like things that peak your interest (should be "pique" your interest).
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by beachy 4y ago
Ruthless != Evil
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by beachy 4y ago
Bill gates was a ruthless competitor in business who pushed things to the limits, the original alpha geek. Not unlike thousands of other business leaders over the centuries. Holding a candle of bitterness against him so long after he moved
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by beachy 4y ago
APL prevented me from getting into software for many years. Back in the 80s I was an mainframe engineer at IBM. One of our customers (a bank?) was heavily into APL, and occasionally I would fix one of their keyboards. (Sidenote: these were
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by beachy 4y ago
This advice is confrontational but somewhat true. At 47 you are at the half way mark in life. There's plenty of time left, but yes you need to get a move on. You are a great age to meet your future wife, who will still be young enough
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by beachy 4y ago
> Elon is a modern day Kissinger You're going to have to elaborate on that fascinating historical reference.
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by beachy 4y ago
Good luck to you and your family. Time heals all wounds, as it did for us, though scars of course remain.
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by beachy 4y ago
My brother in law died slowly and painfully from motor neurone disease. The worst way to go. He was a real fighter, and had several goals - to see his son turn 21, to get to some big rowing champs, etc. He achieved some of those goals, and
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by beachy 4y ago
Shaken. Not stirred.
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by beachy 4y ago
True in theory (and much more so for physical goods) but in practice for services like Netflix, Google and Facebook, from the EU's point of view, who cares. Giant tech company, pay your 15% based on local advertising revenue from local
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by beachy 4y ago
Same, it all depends on your costs, if you are SaaS and have a dev team that knows Oracle then why not use it, it's not going anywhere, it's hugely reliable and it will definitely scale up vertically as high as anyone. And plsql i
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by beachy 4y ago
> Here's some facts... The diver guy launched a public attack on Musk at a time when kids needed help. Everyone was focused on helping the kids, but this diver decided to get some attention by insulting Musk out of the blue, in a CN
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by beachy 4y ago
You're right, I did miss it. But it looks he followed up with this (after the apology) so the point stands: He blasted: "He's an old, single white guy from England who's been travelling to or living in Thailand for 30 to
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by beachy 4y ago
Elon's slide into max doucheness is a real shame. I used to tell my kids he was one of the most admirable people around for jump starting the EV industry (yes, I know he didn't do it all). Then came the pedo guy comments. I cut hi

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