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by bhaak 1y ago
Yellowstone park has a policy of natural regulation (since the 70s IIRC). The surrounding areas not necessarily.
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by bhaak 1y ago
It’s also possible that wolves hunt in a different way than humans, or different types (regarding age, gender, or health maybe) of elks. It’s an interesting question and this could be empirically tested if human hunting would be slowly redu
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by bhaak 1y ago
The nice thing about fusion reactors is that they don’t blow up but just don’t work anymore.
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by bhaak 1y ago
It's not about usability for newcomers (a mailing list is really not ideal for them) but usability for regular contributors and especially for lengthy discussions. Call me old fashioned but there is no better way of discussing stuff on
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by bhaak 1y ago
> While the Postgres community has an older and sometimes daunting contribution process of submitting patches to a mailing list, [...] The Linux kernel works the same way. What are other big open source projects using if they are not usi
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by bhaak 1y ago
Solar panels can be locally recycled. Oil cannot. Of course if you don't build up a local solar industry you are still dependent on foreign countries but it's not that China has an unchanging monopoly on the solar industry.
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by bhaak 1y ago
LLMs are pretty good at providing names and search terms for very vague prompts. Although that's also often an invitation for hallucinations so you have to be even more careful than usual.
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by bhaak 1y ago
The Ruby on Rails project I'm currently involved in doesn't struggle with training people, but rather with retaining them. There have been a few instances where we trained a junior developer and got them up to speed, only to lose
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by bhaak 1y ago
Rails might be 90% better for webdev than the rest while Elixir might be 95% better. Talk about diminishing returns. Add in problems finding developers skilled in Elixir and Phoenix and the small available libraries. Of course, you also hav
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by bhaak 1y ago
I often run into problems running Python code under Linux. I don’t know if it is a me problem or if I’m missing the right incantations to set up the environment or whatever. Never had that much problems with Java. But I’m a Java and Ruby pe
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by bhaak 1y ago
For low levels of "it just works". Every major OS update Apple changes something that breaks either specific programs or restricts the OS further which leads to breakage. The "too many files open" error could be fixed by
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by bhaak 2y ago
But the original terminal was also already using a side channel. You used them to connect to a remote piece of hardware and weren’t running anything locally. In that sense ssh itself is also a side channel. I also don’t know why you conside
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by bhaak 2y ago
I don’t think the 3.9 branch is less real than the 3.2 branch. Both branched off from the original Commodore source code, didn’t they?
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by bhaak 2y ago
How long until the Americans are trying to get rid of their king if he keeps up with this irrational behavior? Last time he was on the other side of the Atlantic. It must be easier if he’s on the same continent, right?
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by bhaak 2y ago
There is still some activity on the fandom wiki. So for any casual observer, it doesn't look abandoned. NetHackWiki (somewhen around 2010 or 2012?) moved off fandom when it was still called wikia. It took several years to overtake the
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by bhaak 2y ago
[citation needed] I've never seen that claim before. I can imagine that some subreddits do something silly like this but Reddit itself?
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by bhaak 2y ago
You can see several examples on this page http://toastytech.com/guis/win31.html that depict an icon with a computer which is almost identical to the one used by putty. I had to zoom in to verify that it's not the
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by bhaak 2y ago
> It's about buying more American weapons. He's an idiot if he really thinks that his actions will result in this. European defense stocks are going parabolic right now.
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by bhaak 2y ago
Spinners are a lie. Nowadays, you hardly encounter a spinner that actually shows the progress of the action you started. For this reason, they are mostly useless. Even worse than useless if errors aren't even propagated to the user.
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by bhaak 2y ago
Looking at all those tech people going nuts I really wonder if it might be finasteride or minoxidil having side effects we don't know yet. Sure, people got the brain eating bug in the past, too, but it seems nowadays it is much more co
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by bhaak 2y ago
https://xcancel.com/carrigmat/status/1884244369907278106?s=4...
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by bhaak 2y ago
We’re just migrating to OpenSearch from Xapian and it was one of the question we had. We didn’t want to go from a solution in maintenance mode to one which could be a dead end soon. From what we’ve seen there is lots of active development g
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by bhaak 2y ago
Misleading title. The link goes to an yet unnumbered EIP. The original title is "EIP-XXXX On-chain upgrade signaling".
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by bhaak 2y ago
Something similar happened when Rails showed up. Lots of people were able to build somewhat complex websites than ever before. But there are still specialized people being paid for doing websites today.
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by bhaak 2y ago
> Typing efforts are fractured, and the official way is... well.. it's bad. Official way? I thought there is none. As long as there is no support for gradual typing in the core language it will never be used outside of niche program
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by bhaak 2y ago
Startups are not large companies in the beginning. Although I'm not sure what the preferred language for quickly getting a startup up and running would be these days.
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by bhaak 2y ago
> And then there's the issue that terminfo is a C library so a lot of languages with average to no-C FFI support cannot use it without fork()ing -- which is slow. Plus terminfo is POSIX only which eliminates platforms like Windows -
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by bhaak 2y ago
A lot of the complexity comes not only from technology that has been dragged along for almost 50 years now but also that the maintainer of ncurses/terminfo has been stubbornly refusing to add new capabilities to the terminfo library. U
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by bhaak 2y ago
> Unfortunately it's not that simple. Both the "256color" suffix to $TERM and $COLORTERM env vars report terminal compatibility -- not user preference. Terminal compatibility that is expected to be used. If you only want t
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by bhaak 2y ago
> By all means, they can have an option to enable themes in their tool if they wish, but that should be opt-in, not the default. This touches on the problem of good defaults. If the user has to configure it then the user must know that i

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