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by buzzkillington 7y ago
> If you’re one of the eight or nine people on the planet who has never interacted with Alexa, you’re both missing out and not really missing out. I must be officially old, because I see no reason to give voice commands to things. If I d
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
>But the thing is, wind and solar (and quite a few other reneweable energies) are now cheaper than nuclear and don't bear the risk of contaminating large regions in case of a major accident. And are destroying every grid which they
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
It's an indictment of double think that the party which believes we will all die from climate change (rightly) is also the party that has made sure the one power source we have that could have saved us in the last 70 years wasn't
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
Most humans born today will experience the negative effects of climate change over the next 80 years, with between 10-30% of them dying due to events caused by it. Dying at 60 from cancer is still a hell a lot better than starving at 15. An
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
Also: Belgium, Spain, Holland, Switzerland, Chehia, Sovenia, Romania, Bulgaria, Sweden, Finland, Ukraine, and others: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Nuclear_... OP is wrong, and wron
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
>With practically all high-level langs in modern collaborative environments readability is prioritized. Readability and verbosity are two different things. I can see how someone using Java would think that typing faster is better. But th
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
Not when you modify state in the same scope. You now have 5! (120) ways of introducing bugs, if you just wrote it as a function that doesn't modify global state you only have 5 ways of creating bugs.
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
I'd go one step further and say that allowing you to type faster just makes your programs worse. >Why should I spend time implementing this logic as a function when I can just use macros to type it 5 times with 5 key strokes?
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
No, that's category 3, pi^2, or roughly 10 times the estimate. Category 1 is >I've written a script to get the data from tables 1 to 24 of this database, now I need to write one for table 25. It should take me an hour. >Oh l
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
I can. Do your estimation normally. If you've done it a dozen times multiply by sqrt(pi), if you've done it a couple of times multiply by pi, if you've never done it before multiply by pi^2. I'm not off by more than 20%.
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
>Right now we have huge overhead in training and communication. Low s/n ratio follows. You can fix that gatekeeping science a bit better - pick more talented, better educated, harder working candidates, and train & finance &
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
>WTF, are you out of your mind? I was doing a PhD in high energy experimental physics until I finally notice that the majority of my peers were not doing science, they were padding a resume. Today we could stop doing high energy physics,
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
If you haven't already, would you mind reading about HN's approach to comments and site guidelines? >Be kind. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
She is doing peer review. There is nothing new about this. The publish or perish culture is new and it's eating away the foundation that our civilization is built on. If you can't trust science to be accurate you can't trust
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
>Why wouldn't it just attract users organically the way other content does? [[citation needed]] Would you like to present proof that t_d did not grow organically in 2015/2016? So far you're heavy on claims and light on pro
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
>That just proves my point It proves that reddit admins didn't like right wing shit posting and were willing to rewrite the algo to deal with it. Which is completely the opposite of the point you were making that these algos are som
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
Back in my misspent youth I had a bash script that would connect me to whatever access point I needed. I can't imagine much has changed since then, just add the logic to change the mac address between entering the SSID and actually con
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
A bash script? You can scan for the networks in the area, select the one you want, run the name through, say sha256, select the first 8 characters and reset the mac address to that.
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
>The author supposes that there are some mustache-twirling masterminds behind the scenes at Google, Twitter, and Facebook, picking and choosing what content is promoted. But the algorithms, at there most basic sense, promote what is popu