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brazzy
3y ago
You completely misunderstood. The kite is not for "delivery", it actually generates the power.
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brazzy
3y ago
But it's a news discussion podcast, and you can discuss nearly any topic for a nearly unlimited time.
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brazzy
3y ago
The behavioural change will be one the podcaster's side, who now have to worry more than previously about keeping listeners enganged.
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3y ago
I really don't think "completely authentic to themselve" is an accurate description at least for David Bowie, who had to come up with "personas" to embody so he could feel comfortable on stage.
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3y ago
Completely different thing. The gist of the Boeing theory is that it was ruined by a finance-driven culture that resulted in cost-cutting away quality and safety. "Enshittification" is not based on cost-cutting or optimizing for p
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3y ago
Because you cannot stop a plane mid air to wait for confusion to be cleared up.
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3y ago
"no kid left behind" is not international, so that kinda kills your theory.
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3y ago
No, exposing the shit and concentrating on it is not accurate. Building your world view on the part of the world you can personally observe, which has some good and mostly boring normal aspects, is not ignorance. I'd argue that for m
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3y ago
Nobody except a very small minority of techno-nerds (and most of those not teenagers) was alawys online until about 15 years ago, the advent of the smartphone. It took easily another 5 years before a significant amount of teenagers had them
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3y ago
As far as I understand, at least with some designs, the fuel elements have the property that it overall becomes less reactive above a certain temperature (that the elements can withstand without damage). So it's basically self- moder
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3y ago
The problem is that only about a third of all Americans have a passport.
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3y ago
Important corollary: it may well be possible to reduce fraud much closer to zero (then the currently accepted rate) without negative effects on legitimate business. For example, the USA's lack of a national ID (and the resulting adopti
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3y ago
Unfortunately the "how it works" is very shallow, the Wikipedia article has a lot more meat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble-bed_reactor
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brazzy
3y ago
You're not up to date with how fast IO can be these days. Nobody who cares primarily about performance uses spinning rust anymore.
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3y ago
No, it's more like using a million dickbutts in different colors as pixels to make a Mona Lisa copy.
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3y ago
That just seems like the strongest possible encouragement to uninstall the app entirely.
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brazzy
3y ago
No. Most customers will tolerate quote a lot of this form of advertising just like other forms. Enough to make it profitable to spend significant effort on it.
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3y ago
Here's an article about that one and how the psych evals are actually a big part of the problem: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/the-madness-in-our-metho...
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3y ago
If it doesn't have to be video, https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/ is also excellent.
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3y ago
> Commercial airliners crash into mountains even with the ground proximity warning actually. A lot less often than they used to, though.
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3y ago
>most fossil fuels formed between the evolution of trees and fungi that could breakdown lignin This is only true for coal, not for oil (which is formed mostly from sea plankton biomass that is mixed into sediment layers).
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3y ago
https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/agrivoltaics-solar-and-agr...
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3y ago
> lachrymator One of my favourite words that I never expected to encounter in the wild! "something that makes you cry".
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3y ago
> You mean worthless like those trillions of dollars worth of cash out there? ...which is getting used less and less in the developed world. In an increasing number of countries, carrying cash is a thing of the past, or done as a rarely-
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3y ago
>Or when I talk to people who run online businesses and the plethora of problems they have with credit card payments. Because a credit car payment is not a payment. It's a something where the receiver of the money is held responsibl
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3y ago
> Credit to SQLite developers for adopting an extant binary JSON format, as opposed to inventing yet another one. The comment you are replying to cites a statement saying explicitly that they are not adopting the Postgres JSONB binary
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3y ago
>But as far as I understood from reading, the main difficulty was the technical climbing part. Combined with the low oxygen atmosphere and low temperature of high altitude. The danger of avalanches, weather changes, and the non-availabi
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3y ago
That's an interesting idea - I guess when it's all shut down, simply copying everything can't really fail or break anything. Since I'm using the same setup (docker compose for nextcloud, MariaDB, and some other stuff), m
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3y ago
Hm so I guess your setup uses the default SQLite database? I switched to MariaDB because I kept having Nextcloud freeze after a few weeks.
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3y ago
>On the plus side, if you're using the docker image, upgrades are a breeze. I've had problems that required fiddly manual interventions twice after updating to a new major version. And what keeps me from using it for anything o
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