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by cletus 5y ago
Electrifying vehicles at a mass scale actually has a lot of problems, not the least of which is does the grid support the ability to transmit that much power. In many places it does not. That aside, electrifying vehicles doesn't necess
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by cletus 5y ago
This is pretty damning stuff. Here's the question I have: there are a ton of quotes in here from employees. In what context were these statements made? In depositions? I would guess not. I'd guess they were made in emails, Google
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by cletus 5y ago
So let's do some math. Let's consider natural gas. According to the US government [1], natural gas produced 1.358x10^12 kWh of power and 5.6x10^8 metric tons of CO2 so 1 metric ton of CO2 equates to ~2400 kWh of produced power. Th
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by cletus 5y ago
Why did he leave? The tl'dr is the L6 glass ceiling and the remote pay cut. I can speak to both of those: First, for those that don't know, new grads get hired at L3, PhDs at L4 (which IMHO is actually a mistake but that's an
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by cletus 5y ago
This is a detailed, depressing and really damning view of the current state of the world. Some general thoughts: 1. Some things are clearly not Linux's fault, like proper support from NVidia; 2. The decision to make device drivers part
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by cletus 5y ago
No format can get me to shut the window and move on faster than a Twitter "thread". Just put it in a Twitlonger and tweet that post. It's literally that simple. I honestly cannot fathom why anyone thought it was a good idea t
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by cletus 5y ago
This. You see this in NYC. Yellow cabs are fairly easy to find in Manhattan (below 96th Street anyway) but you'll never see them in many areas of the city. The medallion system was invented to stop too many taxis appearing such that dr
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by cletus 5y ago
Two reasons: 1. People (in the US at least) overall consistently choose more land over living somewhere walkable. In a lot of places, the marginal cost of more land is near zero; and 2. The dirty secret of car dependency is that most people
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by cletus 5y ago
To those noting this is salary only: that's a completely fair criticism. For many tech employees this is less than half of their total comp. The article explicitly mentions the push for remote work. The one thing I'll add is that
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by cletus 5y ago
Fun fact: Jimmy Hoffa remained president of the union even after being convicted and imprisoned. He only resigned as part of his commutation agreement with Nixon.
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by cletus 5y ago
Stadia will only ever be a niche and honestly should not have been launched. You can point out the fatal flaw with two words: "input lag". No one who cares about actions-per-second or reaction times is ever going to seriously use
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by cletus 5y ago
This is history all over: the pendulum ends up swinging too far and it has to correct. Unions came about to bring about workers rights in the industrial revolution to correct terrible working conditions. This is something that needed to hap
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by cletus 5y ago
It's worth adding that the DEA scheduling classification is a little weird. Example: fentanyl is a Schedule 1 drug but it's an extremely potent opiate that is prescribed typically to end-stage cancer patients and others in extreme
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by cletus 5y ago
Here's a fun fact: since 1968, only one US institution, the University of Mississippi, has had a Federal license to grow marijuana for medical research [1], although this may be (finally) changing [2]. The barriers to Federally funded
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by cletus 5y ago
Genuinely curious: what could you do on this that you couldn't do on iPad? I am perhaps biased on this issue because I'm still mad about what happened with the Macbook Air (13" in particular). I bought one in 2011 and it was
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by cletus 5y ago
Ok, these I find a little weird, honestly. I guess they fill a niche for some? My best guess is that these were a compromise with what the M1 could then do. It's kind of the same reason we didn't have M1 MBPs last year. That'
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by cletus 5y ago
And so ends the last of the Dark Days of Johnny Ive. Don't get me wrong: he innovated a lot. My theory is when Jobs died, he lost his counterbalance and his designs suddenly became without compromise (no that isn't a good thing).
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by cletus 5y ago
This applies to function parameters and return values: you almost never want to use a bool. Instead you want to use an enum with two values. Booleans are hard to read in most cases. Obviously there are trivial cases where this isn't th
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by cletus 5y ago
On exceptions, I respectfully disagree. Even if you don't use exceptions in C++, just allowing them (and thus supporting them) imposes a cost, both in terms of extra code but more importantly on the programmer to make sure what they wr
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by cletus 5y ago
I love this so much. This may be one of my favourite comments ever. Can I ask if this has a source? From a particular company? Meme? Quote? Paraphrased from something?
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by cletus 5y ago
2010-2017 Certainly at that time, creating your own templates was explicitly disallowed by the C++ style guide (ie readability requirements). The public style guide mentions template meta-programming specifically [1]: > The techniques us
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by cletus 5y ago
You see a lot of millenials in particular complain about how they're basically screwed, financially. Houses are unaffordable, they have a mountain of debt, etc. Probably the only reason you don't hear this so much from Gen-Z yet i
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by cletus 5y ago
It's well known that no one really programs in C++. They program in whatever subset of C++ their organization allows, their brain can handle or both. Personally I found Google's C++ dialect to be sane, even pleasant. No exceptions
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by cletus 5y ago
This is interesting for sure but I have several issues with the premise. 1. The issue of using rockets to transport goods and people rapidly on Earth has already been discussed at length. The only real benefit is speed. The risks involved i
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by cletus 5y ago
You mean other like within 50 miles of New York City [1][2]? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Point_Energy_Center [2]: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/do-you-live-wi...
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by cletus 5y ago
Oh really? [1] The most serious incident is probably the partial meltdown at Three Mile Island. While it wasn't as serious as Chernobyl or Fukushima, "without incident" seems at best a stretch. [1]: https://en.wiki
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by cletus 5y ago
> Governments and corporations have not responded to climate change adequately This is something that's both true and untrue. On the face of it, it's absolutely true. But what are governments, really? They're a reflection
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by cletus 5y ago
I honestly don't buy into the nuclear proliferation objection to fission power for several reasons: 1. Uranium is abundant. There are parts of the US you can walk around and pick up rocks that contain Uranium compounds that can be extr
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by cletus 5y ago
According to the EPA [1], electricity accounts for 25% of greenhouse gas emissions. While that's significant, replacing all fossil fuel usage for power production is significant. The standard concerns apply: 1. We have no long term sol
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by cletus 5y ago
I wonder if you really need a like or dislike button. I'm increasingly convinced they're both being used wrong. If you're listening to a random stream of songs there are only really two actions by the user that matter: 1. The

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