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by ccooffee 4y ago
Agreed. The gist seems...rambling and unfocused. Other than "collapse" being very zeitgeist-y, I'm not sure what people are finding in this gist.
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by ccooffee 4y ago
Can't watch the video right now, but the slides (available at [0]) list these four "forgotten ideas": 1. Linda Tuple Spaces [1] 2. Flow based programming [2] 3. Xanadu [3] 4. Unix pipes [4] [0] https://codesync.glo
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by ccooffee 4y ago
An old college friend went to work for CSX (I think), and we caught up after he'd worked there for a few years. He said that most of his job consisted of digging into old COBOL code to explain why a train was routed a certain way (e.g.
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by ccooffee 4y ago
Many years ago, a user filed a bug report that the timezone information we used for historical places in Indiana was incorrect. I don't remember exactly what the user was doing, but I think it had something to do with train schedules o
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by ccooffee 4y ago
Eh, it feels like they're merely trying to undercut Tesla's Lease offers. Sure, call it a subscription, and talk about low time commitments (3 months vs 36 through Tesla), but it is the same idea. Like leasing, this comes with the
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by ccooffee 4y ago
> If we only have so much agency to make a difference in the world, how much should we beat ourselves up over the inability to change it? Definitely something to consider. For a long time, I justified my actions with a combination of &qu
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by ccooffee 4y ago
Worked for a large silicon valley company in the military-industrial space.
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by ccooffee 4y ago
I've done this for over a decade, and "Effective Altruism" does NOT prevent midlife crises. There's more nuance to it. (In my case, my day job that paid VERY well involved things that are very much against my ethics. Eve
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by ccooffee 4y ago
Your source looks at 2020 emissions, which is TRUE, but 2020 was covid shutdowns. I've seen somewhat-reliable estimates of 2-7% reduction in CO2-equivalent emissions. (If you look at 2019, it was remarkably about equal to 2018 after ma
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by ccooffee 4y ago
> If global warming reaches around 3°C toward the century’s end, Deloitte’s analysis indicates that economic damages would grow and compound, affecting every industry and region in the country. I'm betting we overshoot +3c by a fair
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by ccooffee 4y ago
"Appease the moneyed classes or starve" doesn't seem like a very just way to run the world. Granted, the IMF isn't the arbiter of justice, but punishing the PEOPLE of El Salvador for the actions of the local ruling class
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by ccooffee 4y ago
Oof! It is irrigated agriculture. :( Thanks for the link, didn't think of that.
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by ccooffee 4y ago
Per the USGS gauge[1], the current flows are 21.3 cubic feet per second. The historical low for July 22 is from 1980 when it was 60.0. The flows of the Rio Grande through Albuquerque is controlled by the Cochiti Dam, about 50 miles upriver.
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by ccooffee 4y ago
This mechanism would just get gamified. Some oligarch is gonna claim the property is worth nothing, and use their expensive legal team to prevent any attempts to purchase the property. It'll also allow the government to bully anyone th
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by ccooffee 4y ago
Interesting. I was unaware of the state of telcos in NZ. I found this wikipedia article to have some additional content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_in_New_Zeal... Using only that article as a reso
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by ccooffee 4y ago
What lessons are to be learned by the process of the JWST? I'm amazed that such an ambitious project, which required many advances in the "state of the art" has been successful so far, even with the 12 year delay. It gives me
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by ccooffee 4y ago
I also do this. But given the context of this post ("AI" models filtering resumes prior to ever getting in front of a human), maybe "decline to answer" comes with a hidden negative score adjustment that can't be (le
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by ccooffee 5y ago
DeleteMe's privacy policy and terms of service (both at https://joindeleteme.com/legal/ ) don't seem very reasonable for a company that claims to be in the service of privacy. The website asks for all sorts o
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by ccooffee 5y ago
Yea, this doesn't seem great. In my opinion, one of the biggest failures of the Affordable Care Act was the guarantee of profit for insurance companies. This bill looks like the same sort of problem. "Insulin capped at $35/mo
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by ccooffee 5y ago
I found the "What is Keyoxide?" page a useful explanation that was missing from the homepage: https://docs.keyoxide.org/getting-started/what-is-keyoxide/ I never found the identity/distributed-accou
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by ccooffee 5y ago
Woah, this sounds incredibly useful. Are there any blog posts / wiki pages / videos that you used as a reference when doing this? I'm hoping to put a garden in my backyard this month, but I'm not sure about the location.
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by ccooffee 5y ago
This website claims to have translated recipes from the Boke of Cokery: http://godecookery.com/goderec/goderec.htm
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by ccooffee 5y ago
> Why aren’t we sending an email to every user? > We evaluated the risk and consulted with our privacy lawyers and legal experts, and took the approach that we thought appropriately mitigated any issues while being open and transparen
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by ccooffee 5y ago
I found an article about Russia's military logistics problems very reassuring. https://warontherocks.com/2021/11/feeding-the-bear-a-closer-... The author claims that Russia would be very slow to go beyond the
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Nerds Saw Ukraine Invasion Start on Google Maps Before Putin Said a Word(thedailybeast.com)
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by ccooffee 5y ago
This map appears to be in the Chernobyl region, and shows that some of the sensors have detected spikes in gamma radiation, but not all. The biggest spikes appear to be on sensors near the famed reactor meltdown site, showing increases from
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by ccooffee 5y ago
It feels like all of the captchas/alternatives are suffering the same problem of "computers are just better than people". By 2025, captchas will require in depth knowledge of American culture. I got this image from a time tra