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Pierre Rabhi: respecting the life to which we owe life (2017)
2 points by ciconia 5y ago|0 comments
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by ciconia 5y ago
This is not only a question of transitioning to "green" energy. It's also a question of values. For me, humanity is at a cross roads, all possibilities are open, and we need to choose, individually and collectively: short ter
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What They Don’t Tell You About Setting Up a WireGuard VPN(medium.com)
1 points by ciconia 5y ago|0 comments
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by ciconia 5y ago
> Curious if there’s anything public about improving ruby performance from the I/O angle mentioned in the post. I'm currently working on Polyphony [0], a Ruby gem for writing highly-concurrent Ruby apps. It uses Ruby fibers und
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What's new in Polyphony – July 2021 edition(github.com)
1 points by ciconia 5y ago|0 comments
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by ciconia 5y ago
To me people wanting to do something else while driving their cars is the same as people burying their faces in their phones while sitting in a cafe: mindless escapism. Be present in the world, enjoy the moment, whether it's sipping a
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Fullstaq Ruby Server Edition: a server-optimized Ruby distribution(github.com)
2 points by ciconia 5y ago|0 comments
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by ciconia 5y ago
> it's about Democratizing Space Tourism[0]. Sorry to be a party pooper, but why should space tourism be promoted and developed in the first place? Given the ongoing climate crisis is this responsible? I mean, what's the end ga
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by ciconia 5y ago
I suspect it will only be 5-10 years until humanity finds itself face to face with the environmental disaster that is disposable masks, this stuff will be just everywhere .
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From boyband member to turkey farmer: 10 of the best pop star career changes(theguardian.com)
1 points by ciconia 5y ago|0 comments
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by ciconia 5y ago
Off topic: Am I the only one who finds the stock photos in the article off-putting? They have nothing to do with the subject matter, except in a very indirect, sort-of-metaphorical way. I would take the article much more seriously if they w
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by ciconia 5y ago
We're currently transitioning from a multi-tenant 2TB postgres DB hosted on AWS RDS to using sqlite instead, a separate database for each client. We're doing this for multiple reasons: a) As our DB grew the service became very exp
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by ciconia 5y ago
> My best guess is that pretty soon the supply of greater fools runs out. “Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I am not yet completely sure about the universe.” – Albert Einstein
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by ciconia 5y ago
> We are talking about energy that could be saved just by switching things off or turning things down. In order to do that you'll need to make energy much more expensive - artificially so.
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The great nutrient collapse (2017)(politico.com)
2 points by ciconia 5y ago|0 comments
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‘Potentially the worst drought in 1,200 years’: scientists on the US heatwave(theguardian.com)
144 points by ciconia 5y ago|142 comments
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by ciconia 5y ago
Ruby has fibers, though up until recently they weren't used much for anything, except lazy iteration. Recent efforts have built on fibers to provide concurrency with non-blocking I/O: https://github.com/socketry&#x
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The rush to ‘go electric’ comes with a hidden cost: destructive lithium mining(theguardian.com)
2 points by ciconia 5y ago|0 comments
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What the Rich Don’t Want to Admit About the Poor(nytimes.com)
57 points by ciconia 5y ago|35 comments
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by ciconia 5y ago
Compare to earthships [1] - in many ways the exact opposite of this. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthship
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by ciconia 5y ago
> Someone’s gotta run the hotels and restaurants and laundromats that serve our beloved digital nomads. Someone’s gotta run the coffee shops where they hang out. Someone’s gotta pick up their trash, and grow their food. Someone’s gotta b
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by ciconia 5y ago
> “A lot of functional diversity studies have a ‘humans are bad for the environment’ approach,” Armstrong told Science. “This shows humans have the ability to not just allow biodiversity to flourish, but to be a part of it.” Absolutely!
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World leaders ‘ignoring’ role of destruction of nature in causing pandemics(theguardian.com)
1 points by ciconia 5y ago|0 comments
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G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than green energy(theguardian.com)
291 points by ciconia 5y ago|308 comments
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by ciconia 5y ago
Rails has a tendency to turn an I/O-bound problem into a CPU-bound one. with those hundreds or even thousands of object allocations per request, and dozens of abstraction layers, no amount of async magic powder is going to save you. At
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by ciconia 5y ago
That's a great development, but I'm afraid in a way it's already a lost cause. That stuff is everywhere .
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Notes on using splice(2) from Go (2018)(acln.ro)
1 points by ciconia 5y ago|0 comments
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by ciconia 5y ago
There's a lot to be said for slowing down, taking time off from the churn to just think. Reading the comments in here, this does not jive with the HN crowd. Funnily, I have found slowing down, taking time off from the computer screen,
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Réunion: the postmen of the peaks(theguardian.com)
54 points by ciconia 5y ago|18 comments
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by ciconia 6y ago
"That's Hedley!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBmkyDTX08Y

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