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by ciconia 4y ago
A few years ago we were visiting friends in northern Netherlands. Our friend's father in law was feeling unwell and asked to be taken to the hospital. Apparently in the Netherlands you can't just go to the hospital (unless it&#x27
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IANAD, but I believe there are some reasons why immune systems might be out is practice in large parts of the population: - Under-exposure to pathogens due to living in an overly sterile (i.e. artificial) environment. - Over-reliance on med
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by ciconia 4y ago
I have a small electric car, with a range of about 100km. From my experience it really depends on your driving style and speed.
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by ciconia 4y ago
Ruby has this too: require 'bundler/inline' gemfile do gem 'httparty' end p HTTParty.get("https://acme.com/")
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The Billionaire and Rising GOP Mega-Donor Gaming the Tax System (2022)(propublica.org)
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COP28 president: UAE's oil boss(theguardian.com)
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In my mind the only thing that can work to mitigate climate change (any way we cannot reverse it) and stop damaging our ecosystem, the planet earth, is to practice sobriety, reduce our economic activity voluntarily, and thus reduce the burn
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> yes, but there’s no reason to believe you couldn’t replace it with renewable energy down the line. Is there any chance of this happening by, say, 2050? I don't think so. The whole "energy transition" idea is a fallacy. T
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> "This is good news, not only for LKAB, the region and the Swedish people, but also for Europe and the climate... No, this is not good news. Mining is one of the most polluting human activities there is. In addition, all those mach
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by ciconia 4y ago
Ruby 3.2.0 does provide a significant performance boost, around 10%-20% across a bunch of my projects. Pretty sweet!
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Christmas day is getting closer, Ruby 3.2 is almost here(twitter.com)
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"Be the change you want to see in the world" is often used in a political or societal context. But it's the personal application of this idea that I find more interesting. The hard part is understanding want you want. If you
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> So if/when fusion power is to hand, it will add to or replace existing decarbonised power sources. There are a few misconceptions about energy I think it's important to clear up. - New energy sources have never replaced older
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We are at war with nature: UN environment chief warns of biodiversity apocalypse(theguardian.com)
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I've had a really bad case of it: trembling uncontrollably, becoming completely stuck in my mind, and failing miserably. This predicament has basically destroyed my career in music (and I'm a pretty good musician!), and made me av
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How to (Quickly) Build a Cycling City – Paris(youtube.com)
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I live in France. When trying to teach my kids some Ruby, I showed them how to use _puts_ to print stuff. That would always crack them up, as it sounds (in French pronunciation) just like a not so nice word.
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by ciconia 4y ago
2017 study: https://academic.oup.com/humupd/article/23/6/646/4035689 2022 study: https://static.primary.prod.gcms.the-infra.com/static/site/h...
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How to Make Biomass Energy Sustainable Again(lowtechmagazine.com)
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How to make ourselves more resilient to disease: - Less air pollution. - Less water pollution. - Pesticide-free food. - Less sugar consumption. - Physically active lifestyle. - Less stressful life.
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I find the obsession with having a sterile environment ridiculous. Our bodies themselves are teeming with microbes and viruses, actually our bodies contain more of them than our own human cells. They play an important role in our digestive
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I developed a faster Ruby interpreter(developers.redhat.com)
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Desalinating sea water in order to replenish the sweet water reserves we ourselves have degraded with unsustainable practices is pure madness. What needs to be done instead is to stop interfering with the water cycle [0], let rain water inf
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> Researchers have found that the fertile terra preta (black earth) is distributed over large areas in the Amazon forest. It is now widely accepted that these soils are a product of indigenous soil management. The development of this soi
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Ruby 3.2.0 Preview Performances(old.reddit.com)
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I don't do any workout at all. Nevertheless, I'm very physically active. I work from home, and in general I set my own schedule. Whenever I want, I can open the door, go out, work some in the garden, build something, or do any of
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Biggest carmakers to build 400M more vehicles than 1.5C climate target allows(theguardian.com)
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https://archive.ph/Jx005
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Can Elon Musk Make the Math Work on Owning Twitter? It’s Dicey(nytimes.com)
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Cop conferences are a big game of let’s pretend and 27 won’t be any different(theguardian.com)
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