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by blunte 5y ago
I call bullshit on this: “More lately, renewable energy has been the main beneficiary of the government's benevolence, receiving more than three times as federal incentives as oil, natural gas, coal, and nuclear combined” This is simpl
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by blunte 5y ago
Somewhat related, there are these amazing homes in Bali made of (treated) bamboo. I believe they are treated by soaking them in a boron solution which results in better resistance to decay and insects. https://greenvillagebali.c
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by blunte 5y ago
What I fear is that Facebook will just rename itself to Metaverse, and then use its money and legal team to sue anyone who also uses that generic name.
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by blunte 5y ago
Old white men wanting to control everything, including women. Especially women. Religion is used as an excuse, but that's also just old white men wanting to control people.
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by blunte 5y ago
Isn’t your custom framework exactly what I said? Use an existing one , or write one that only you (and your team) know. Of course, the bigger your codebase and the more unique your needs, the more reasonable it becomes to create your own.
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by blunte 5y ago
Most people do not hate frameworks. They either use an existing framework, or they eventually end up creating a custom framework which only they understand and which gets thrown out and replaced with a common framework when they leave the
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by blunte 5y ago
There’s no chance they put 1% into support. It’s probably 0.01%.
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by blunte 5y ago
And google has enough money and power to fight to reverse this situation. But that would only result in good for the world, not revenue for G.
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by blunte 5y ago
If google can be so easily fooled, perhaps the easy way to get attention to this problem is to submit similar bogus claims en masse against very high profile sites - major players like wsj, Fox News, bbc, etc. Of course doing so would be i
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by blunte 5y ago
It doesn’t take long for consumers to know which white label brands belong to the retailer. But it doesn’t even matter what the brand is. If it looks like an equal replacement for a more expensive product, many consumers will gravitate to t
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by blunte 5y ago
I wouldn’t say so. It’s just a complex environment with many moving parts, not the least of which includes a last minute swap of type of aircraft. Ironically, it’s our human limitations which allows us to build systems which we can’t compre
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by blunte 5y ago
I’ve worn Shure ~280$ in ear wires earphones for years, and with the right temperature sensitive foam inserts they passively block more sound than my AirPods Pro do. And they provide better sound quality. Maybe these new AirPods have better
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by blunte 5y ago
Too bad Apple shows performance compared to intel cpus. I’d like to see it also compared to 8 core M1. Edit. Correction. The other link directly to the new processors does give comparisons to standard M1. It’s really impressive! But it’s a
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by blunte 5y ago
Haha, yes. I forgot the name. I estimate it can be 10-20% extra pedal power required to overcome the extra friction when the dynamo is flipped into active mode. Sucks. Grocery stores sell the little led clip on lights, so most people done u
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by blunte 5y ago
More modern ones do have front and rear caliper brakes. But the traditional oma/opafiets bikes use the pedal to activate the rear wheel hub for a brake. This is fine for a casual Dutch ride. The only big downside is that you cannot bac
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by blunte 5y ago
Not suggesting that this practice is ok or reasonable, but many other big tech companies have used similar advantages to steal from smaller innovators. Apple, Microsoft, and Google have all copied novel technologies from their smaller busin
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by blunte 5y ago
I didn't realize that one of the worst legal and patent abusing companies of the 90s was still at it. They've lost so many cases and had so many of their patents invalidated that it's astounding they still exist and are stil
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by blunte 5y ago
Indeed, my favorite bike for technical mountain climbing in Colorado was a singlespeed. As for the weak brakes on old Dutch bikes, you can flip on the headlight friction generator for some added stopping power :P.
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by blunte 5y ago
Regardless of who provides this, and even irrespective of marketing concerns, there most likely will be data leaks/theft. Imaging having audio+video recordings of what you see and what you say in the hands of the wrong people. And &q
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by blunte 5y ago
Dutch bikes are best for the Netherlands, but not generally best. Dutch people are bigger than most people elsewhere, and they more often ride with children or another adult on the same bike. So heavy steel frames last longer and are worth
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by blunte 5y ago
Not in defense of google, but public boards and places for comments illustrate that most posters are idiots who at best post irrelevant text or at worst… well many worse types of content. What is particularly frustrating is that tons of gar
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by blunte 5y ago
I believe it should be normal, and that the proper balance of pay and perks is much different from what is common now and what certain “business friendly” folks believe. These days, paying more than required is contrarian unless you’re a bi
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by blunte 5y ago
My last company was a big, successful HR and recruiting firm. But in our large IT department, there was significant turnover. The colleages were great, but wages were not high enough and upper career options were limited due to some parti
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by blunte 5y ago
Yes, they did raise the minimum wage at that company. The expression "minimum wage" gets applied to different contexts. National minimum wage is the minimum wage specified by (presumably) a national law. Likewise some states ha
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by blunte 5y ago
I don't know if Paul was the only guy working on the network code, but I believe he was responsible for most or all of it. He wrote that code when he was 18 or 19 years old I believe. But unlike some of the other devs at Ensemble, he
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by blunte 5y ago
It was a joy to read their website, particularly where they describe "who is it for" and "who is it not for". Clear and honest. No excuses, presumably no lies. I wish all product websites were like this.
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by blunte 5y ago
When the "leaders" show themselves to be so proudly ignorant, it makes you wonder what other decisions they have made which are completely wrong and fully executed. In this case, I'm not terribly surprised since that governer
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by blunte 5y ago
From what I've read on the main page plus some of the documentation pages is that it gives you - preconfigured dev environment with some tools already installed (using asdf, which is easy to add more tools with) - preconfigured firewal
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by blunte 5y ago
These days, aside from configuration (which is no small thing), one's data is often stored or at least very frequently backed up in the cloud. If this service vanished overnight, you would likely just lose the time it takes to tune a s
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by blunte 5y ago
> More smoking guns What is your agenda? What do you have against this guy and his service he's offering? You have other comments that seem negative toward this service or its creator. Heroku is "just the Amazon cloud",

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