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by cwp 5y ago
Well, sure, all good tastes come from animals or plants because that's the only stuff we can eat. It doesn't mean that no other good tastes are possible.
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by cwp 5y ago
Yeah, that is a completely well-founded fear and undoubtedly true in the short term. Living on nothing but meal squares or Soylent would be a bad idea. But I don't imagine anyone would have to do that. Nor do I imagine that synthetic f
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by cwp 5y ago
True. But we aren't infant cows. We have different and more varied needs. So I guess I'm wondering what milk would be like if we designed it for weaned humans, in various circumstances.
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by cwp 5y ago
I noticed this with turkey bacon. It's a poor substitute for pig bacon, but it's pretty good as its own thing.
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by cwp 5y ago
Sounds good - something very like animal proteins without raising entire animals to produce them. Beyond that though, I'm really interested in foods that could be created that don't mimic existing foods derived from animals or p
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by cwp 5y ago
This is great, thanks. I've only read a bit of it, but what leaps out at me is that it's clearly written prepandemic. It assumes its audience only knows in-person work, and remote work is this weird radical thing that only a few c
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by cwp 5y ago
Once all the furor has subsided and the pandemic ebbs, I think it's safe to say that many companies will got back to in-person collaboration and others will remain remote. It's clear that remote work is feasible, but not everyone
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by cwp 5y ago
Yeah, pretty much. But don't despair, this is how the industry progresses. First, elite practitioners identify flaws in the standard practices of some corner of the industry and figure out a way to ameliorate them. They give it a name
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by cwp 5y ago
The term "DevOps" was originally coined to mean organizing teams so that development and operations were merged. That is, development teams were responsible for writing, deploying and operating services. It was a reaction to the t
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by cwp 5y ago
I think most people that think they hate email just hate Outlook. Some MS product manager decided that it would force you to top post, and then endlessly growing but completely indecipherable quote vomit below the message became the norm. B
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by cwp 5y ago
Yeah, those are the right questions. The point of the article is that people who go to the hospital for non-Covid reasons - eg, broken leg, heart attack, cancer - and then test positive are being counted as "hospitalized with Covid&quo
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by cwp 5y ago
The counterfactual is "if I had flipped the switch, the lights would be on." That is a situation with changed facts, and therefore counterfactual. The tricky bit is the causality. We have to construct an alternate history, with a
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by cwp 5y ago
Yeah, I was waiting for that too. - A process wrote 125 GB of logs, why? - It was compiled with VERBOSE=true, why? - The build config was changed on 7/12/2021 by Steve, why? - Issue #5988, need to collect data one why that process
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by cwp 5y ago
"I didn't turn them on" is a fact. It's the "because" that's not a fact. The whole point of the article is that you can't get causality from things that didn't happen. There are seven billion oth
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by cwp 5y ago
That's open source for you. I once worked on a project that had RiscOS as a first-class platform, and I was pretty sure that the maintainer was the only user of RiscOS in the world.
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by cwp 5y ago
Tell that to the residents of Lytton.
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by cwp 5y ago
Perhaps. But I suspect the bigger issue is that even 5.4°F still doesn't sound like much. It's hard to communicate that the average temperature implies much higher highs and many "unusually hot" days.
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by cwp 5y ago
Taking the question at face value, I think these are the issues: - the switching costs for programming languages are very high, even if you're switching to an established language - it's hard to evaluate a new programming la
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by cwp 5y ago
I hate this kind of article. It's an opinion from a knowledgeable person, but it offers no insight at all. The only difference between what Diller said and my uninformed curmudgeonly grumpy opinion is that he used to run a studio.
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by cwp 5y ago
Alas. Hard to believe it was all ten years ago now.
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by cwp 5y ago
I got that part. So?
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by cwp 5y ago
I don't get it. You're saying we shouldn't bother to improve things because they still won't be perfect?
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by cwp 5y ago
Yup, that's true. And the things we were focussing on are good. They're just not everything.
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by cwp 5y ago
I make that argument, but I would never say "It's all perfectly harmless." The point is that the technique used to produce an organism isn't its self harmful. The question is whether the organism is harmful. Resistance t
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by cwp 5y ago
This reminds me of a recurring conversation I've had with relatives, in which I try to explain to them that Facebook isn't a person. It's not a media company with an editorial staff. It's not a company like anything we h
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by cwp 5y ago
Oh HELL no. Collective bargaining is inherently about eliminating competition between workers. That is, it creates a labour monopoly to balance out a labour monopsony. That might (might!) be a good thing for autoworkers. It would be an unmi
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by cwp 5y ago
If they did, it would be a massive improvement to public health, wouldn't it?
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by cwp 5y ago
Good point. Still, if FDB was high-profile proprietary software during this time it might have inspired an open source clone. Spanner inspired Cockroach and Yugabyte, after all.
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by cwp 5y ago
Sure quibble about the details. The point is, these are all attempts to make PG more scalable. Around the time these projects got started Foundation looked like abandonware. If it hadn't, it's possible that "how can we have r
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by cwp 5y ago
Yeah, but there are quite a few efforts out there to extend PG into a distributed DB of one flavor or another. Some examples are YugabyteDB, CockroachDB, Aurora and Citus. It's a reasonable approach, but it's also reasonable to co

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