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by coldpie 1y ago
I admit this is a poor and hand-wavey response, but I'll try anyway. If we agree that solar+storage is off the table, then the question is what should we build instead? And I would guess that the people who make these decisions do
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by coldpie 1y ago
> you need dispatchable power to supply power while the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing Fair. What do you suggest instead?
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by coldpie 1y ago
I have yet to see a convincing analysis that renewables+storage can cost-effectively power all the homes in Minnesota, where I live, through our 4+ month-long winters. The days get very short, the Earth tilts away from the sun, cloud-cover
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by coldpie 1y ago
The market is famously terrible at pricing in externalities and accounting for long-term needs. I think if you used the government to force bidders to account for those, you'd just end up in the same place.
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by coldpie 1y ago
Great news! Nuclear is a critical component for the non-carbon energy infrastructure we're building. Yes, it's expensive, but the only way to make it cheaper is to invest in rebuilding the expertise we stupidly threw away over the
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by coldpie 1y ago
Running in kernel space does not automatically make something malware. There are legit reasons for some software to run in kernel space, and anti-cheat is one of them. It performs a useful function for users who want to play online games w
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by coldpie 1y ago
EAC's Linux implementation is not as robust as the Windows implementation. For a high-profile game like Fortnite, I can understand not wanting to downgrade their anti-cheat protections.
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by coldpie 1y ago
If you can come up with a better solution, you'll have an entire industry's worth of money coming your way. No one likes the kernel-mode anticheat stuff, but no one's come up with a better solution either. Cheaters suck.
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by coldpie 1y ago
You're 100% right. I removed it.
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by coldpie 1y ago
Have you looked at existing MIDI foot controllers? E.g. Behringer FCB1010 or Yamaha MFC10 or Roland FC-300.
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by coldpie 1y ago
1) This is a cool project and I wish them success. It would be really cool if these became the default utilities some day soon. 2) I think the MIT license was a mistake. These are often cloning GNU utilities, so referencing GNU source in it
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by coldpie 1y ago
I think we should eat the rich as much as the next guy, but a handful of aviation enthusiasts spending too much of their money on airplanes doesn't really break through the noise for me. We got bigger fish to fry.
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by coldpie 1y ago
People always say this, but I wish they would suggest a specific one. There are so many out there, it's hard to know which ones are high quality, still maintained, etc.
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by coldpie 1y ago
KrebsOnSecurity is a really weird website. I feel like I should be the perfect audience for it, as a software engineer who is very interested in security and reverse engineering, but every time I try to read their articles it just comes acr
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by coldpie 1y ago
> I'm saying that enforcing immigration law entails apprehending and deporting illegal aliens. Okay, fine. You still haven't provide any evidence to back this up.
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by coldpie 1y ago
Nope. Unlike the wealthy, the people who need the cheaper housing do not have the time or money to spend lobbying for their own interests. The wealthy are taking all of our resources[1] and spending them[2] to turn our water & energy i
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by coldpie 1y ago
> We've collectively destroyed this concept for the next generation of young people and we need to desperately course correct. Sorry, turns out it's economically way more important for the richest two dozen people in the world
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by coldpie 1y ago
You're the one making claims that the only possible response to this problem was to send armed military personnel to a US city to arrest some people hanging outside a Home Depot or whatever. Please back up your assertion with evidence
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by coldpie 1y ago
> which is what enforcing immigration law would require Citation needed.
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by coldpie 1y ago
I don't subscribe to his paid blogs personally, but Chris Schwarz is one of the best known writers in the woodworking world. I own most of his books, and I wouldn't be a woodworker today if it weren't for his writing. If you
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by coldpie 1y ago
> That... doesn't justify any of those actions I didn't claim that it did. I think it's important to recognize the complete chain of escalation here by acknowledging those who performed the first violent acts. Without that
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by coldpie 1y ago
> You suggest not enforcing federal laws I explicitly did not suggest that: > There were, and are, many other options available to the government that would not have lead to this escalation & violence.
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by coldpie 1y ago
You (intentionally?) forgot to include the acts of violence that kicked all of this off: the government abducting, arresting, and deporting our neighbors. There were, and are, many other options available to the government that would not h
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by coldpie 1y ago
I'm not sure I agree that will happen, but if it does, then yeah like I said, it's probably my cue to exit the industry. If the fun goes out of the job, there's other things I'd rather do than sit inside alone and star
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by coldpie 1y ago
> In my experience so far, the people that aren’t getting value out of LLM code assistants, fundamentally like the process of writing code and using the tooling > All of my senior, staff, principals love it because we can make somethi
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by coldpie 1y ago
Sounds like you want systems programming? Some areas to look in could be open source companies and embedded software.
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by coldpie 1y ago
I think it is a little of both :) Emotional support animals are a real thing, but they are expensive and require a lot of maintenance and there are limits on where they may be taken. Stuffed animals can make people feel better for similar r
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by coldpie 1y ago
Open up your uBlock Origin settings and enable the Cookie Notices list. If you're forced to use a shit-tier phone web browser like Chrome or Safari, you can also use the Kill Sticky bookmarklet to clean up most of this crap[1]. If you
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by coldpie 1y ago
Just do it, man. There will be some pains in the first year or two, but it's so, so much better on the other side.
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by coldpie 1y ago
> You do fine wood work, why not that? Thank you. It's something I'm actively pursuing, I'm hoping to finish some chairs this spring and see if any local shops are interested in stocking them. But I'm skeptical I coul

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