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by boucher 4y ago
As pointed out by several other comments, you're very off base about heat pump efficiency and about natural gas being "clean." Switching everyone to heat pumps would lower emissions from heating and cooling in the US by 160m
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by boucher 4y ago
It sounds like a nice idea, but I don't think it's a very practical one. It drives away anyone who wants to give but is unable or unwilling to devote the kind of time necessary to do this kind of in-depth research (the amount of w
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by boucher 4y ago
Push notifications alone are enough to force most apps to be native. But a lot of the other stuff missing is what keeps the experience from being quite as polished as a native app.
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by boucher 4y ago
Not really. In this scenario there's no functional difference between these two supposedly distinct products.
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by boucher 4y ago
FUSE will let you create a virtual file system that does absolutely anything you want it to (and there are javascript bindings out there).
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by boucher 4y ago
Also read Crafting Interpreters recently and enjoyed it.
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by boucher 4y ago
One possibly significant difference is that psychiatrists tend to charge a lot more.
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by boucher 4y ago
CBT didn't really work for me, but I have found IFS to be a bit more useful, as well as another framework called ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy). Personally, I found it helpful to read some of the books on these and related con
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by boucher 4y ago
CRIU is a really impressive tool, which can do some really cool things. It's pretty difficult to use, given the nature of what it's doing and all the moving parts to orchestrate. I added experimental support to Docker for migratin
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by boucher 4y ago
Germany paid Poland $8b in reparations in 1992: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_reparations
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by boucher 4y ago
Nobody actively wants it to be difficult, but if you don't even have the actual legal right to modify the hardware or software it doesn't matter how easy it is.
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by boucher 4y ago
Seems to me like Apple was more innovative when they had fewer employees and fewer resources, so perhaps we should break up the company in order to increase innovation.
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by boucher 4y ago
You're conflating multiple issues. Having the right to repair is valuable and desirable, even if it's not actually easy to do the repair. I think we've gone too far down the road of not owning anything we buy, and thus having
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by boucher 4y ago
Yes, that's the entire purpose of the AGPL. If that's the outcome this person wants for their project, they should consider the AGPL. I'm attempting to counter the narrative that no corporation would touch any AGPL software,
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by boucher 4y ago
SSPL is a nearly verbatim copy of AGPL, except one section. It is more restrictive than the AGPL, in a way that many feel is anti-competitive, which is why it's not considered Open Source by many, but also in a way which doesn't r
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by boucher 4y ago
Maybe? The commercial version has some extra features, but if you don't need them then there's probably no need to. I imagine there is more value in paying for a support contract.
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by boucher 4y ago
MongoDB is effectively licensed under the AGPL and seems to have no problem being used by corporations of all sizes.
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by boucher 4y ago
There's a lot of FUD out there about GPL licenses and they've become pretty unpopular over the last decade. There are trade-offs, but there's nothing wrong with using the AGPL if that aligns with your own goals and values.
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by boucher 4y ago
There's a good (and short) book about the history of Silicon Valley cultural and philosophical influences that I found quite interesting: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374721237/whattechcallsth...
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by boucher 4y ago
I don't understand why the objections would be moot; they would be the same. The "EA charity" would still invest significant sums in things like AI safety and still be driven by the same ideas that people are criticizing. Als
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by boucher 4y ago
I think the OP is asinine, but damn, it's a good response to this comment. "I cannot see a 100% perfect way to do exactly the thing I want, thus there is no reason to do anything at all." Imagine if you applied the same logic
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by boucher 4y ago
I imagine they are using either GNUStep or Cocotron as the basis for their Cocoa support, not starting fully from scratch.
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by boucher 4y ago
I could play the same game and say perhaps you didn't read the article. The article doesn't suggest it is a problem unique to Google. It suggests that Google's efforts at DEI, which you are telling us are industry best, have
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by boucher 4y ago
Yeah, or read it on a Kindle like I did and the jumping is pretty easy.
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by boucher 4y ago
I cannot imagine reading this book and skipping the footnotes.
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You Can't Buy These Books(thenation.com)
4 points by boucher 4y ago|1 comments
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by boucher 4y ago
Yes, and he's been posting the same exact nonsense for a while now. The reformed idealist narrative is a marketing gimmick to attract investors.
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by boucher 4y ago
Yeah, I don't get it either. Is there anybody who doesn't get this kind of mail at home addressed to them by name all the time?
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by boucher 4y ago
The fed actually has more tools than the ones it currently uses, some of which have been used in the past. Robert Hockett has written a lot about productive investments via the federal reserve banks, and how that could be used to transform
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by boucher 4y ago
This is such a shifting of goal posts. Could there potentially be some value in such a system? Yeah it's possible. Is that the same thing as saying: should this system be used to design a whole new "Web 3.0"? No, it isn'

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