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by cies 3y ago
> What are we doing? Making use of what is cheap (hardware (CPU/ram) and network bandwidth) while avoiding to use what is expensive: programmers, tech guy helping you with an upgrade or a troubled windows install.
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by cies 3y ago
This is not subtly. This is blatant, repeated, in the face misrepresenting.
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by cies 3y ago
> Renewables alone have powered the Uruguayan economy for nearly four straight months. Not even the title is misleading, the first sentence of the article as well. "the Uruguayan economy" includes mobility (cars, planes), indus
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by cies 3y ago
not = note
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by cies 3y ago
> I've experimented I dont want to devalue your experience. But this experimentation is usually not "(placebo) controlled" and not "double blind". You could! Take a randomly selected real-or-placebo, that's
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by cies 3y ago
Exactly. Unknown risks. Unknown benefits. But let's medicate the kids. I think we should do little placebo trials at home. Not double blind, obviously. But still the risks are known (none, except character damage maybe).
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by cies 3y ago
WP as a whole is a little sad. A db schema from hell, hard to separate presentation out, PHP (don't get me started)... But then it's open source, so I'm not complaining, just not using it.
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by cies 3y ago
Nvidia hardware?
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by cies 3y ago
I think "orthodox" here is not the best choice of words. After reading the article I think "mainstream privilege" better captures what PG tries to describe. This because orthodox tend to refer to "wanting to stick
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by cies 3y ago
I feel that using Rust for low level stuff, all the mental overhead is worth it compared to using C: dance with the borrow checker, or get bitten by subtle bugs -- you choose :) Using Rust for non-pref-critical web apps is a nice exercise,
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by cies 3y ago
What part of the statement "is" because of type inference?
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by cies 3y ago
> compared to all the other common Rails apps with their ever accumulating fat models, complex controllers i interpret fat model as: what can be move to the model, sits better in the model (directory). things that cannot be moved to the
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by cies 3y ago
And for good reasons. F# and C# are superior to Visual Basic -- for a language perspective -- in every way. Also dotnetcore is MIT licensed!
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by cies 3y ago
I knew it existed, but by the time I had access to warez CDs and found a QuickBasic version I also knew about the open source movement and GCC. :)
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by cies 3y ago
I learned with but hated QB, GW-B and MSX-B. Why? Because I could not make an "fast" executable (.exe) and the compilers those days (on those platforms) we're al costly and impossible for me to come by as a kid. Man you shoul
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by cies 3y ago
> This is the first thing I have ever made of which he approves. So sad. People from this kind of upbringings are usually very good at "intrinsic motivation".
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by cies 3y ago
> Cars are loud.[0] Wheels rolling are loud. Also motorbikes. Combustion engines are even louder, and they are also put on bikes. Disillusioned young pedal-metalling in residential neighborhoods are the f*king worst.
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by cies 3y ago
They are in part by the same author. And so is the threeten library that extend the java8 time lib with some useful-but-edgecasey additions.
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by cies 3y ago
I think we were able to remove 99% of usage of Guava and Apache Commons Lang/Text by porting the remainder of our code over to Kotlin. Kotlin's stdlib has most of what we used from these tool libs built-in. The remaining 1% + remo
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by cies 3y ago
i meant "GDP x population"; messed with the formatting.
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by cies 3y ago
Do we have examples of this? I know these arguments, but I wonder if that will really happen. Maybe public care will shrink, but still many of the aging boom generation will afford private care, or not need much of it. > ...pretty painfu
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by cies 3y ago
Where I live I feel old folks make the rules, and make 'm well for their home-owning, investment portfolio having, pension fund living, selves. Look in the US? Pressie is near senile, senate is full grey. Not all countries are this bad
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by cies 3y ago
> If an economic system works so poorly for people they have to be imported Interesting thought. The notion that GDP population has to grow comes comes from that economic system. The problem is that the economic system dictates policy to
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by cies 3y ago
We can look at "prosperous" (let's find some happiness index) countries that have seen declining population for a while. Japan comes to mind. It's not like Japan deteriorated into some extreme poverty because of it, righ
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by cies 3y ago
> population growth concerns themselves are a reflection of an outdated (or soon to be outdated) economic model that we should probably focus on replacing or phasing out? I have the same sentiment. Though I take that "reflection&quo
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by cies 3y ago
Software upgrade: immutable by default. :)
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by cies 3y ago
Friend had a lot of pain from one going bad. He's stil happy with it now. But not entirely risk free.
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by cies 3y ago
Lol. Got the feeling this was some new-speak way of saying they tested women without using the word women, because womanhood is not longer a biological fact but now an opinion. Thank god it's not.
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by cies 3y ago
I'm experienced across many languages. Including Haskell (professionally), Rust (for fun) and Ruby/Python/TypeScript. When you say "fennel on top", sure that makes all the difference! I've argued in favour of u
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by cies 3y ago
BurntSushi (dev) built a grep replacement, `rg` (ripgrep), in Rust, that tends to run circles in terms of speed around grep itself and other grep replacements. The UX is also pretty nice. I install it everywhere now. I'm curious (like

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