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by dahfizz 3y ago
Care to elaborate on what we do when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow, then?
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by dahfizz 3y ago
How do you power the grid with 90% solar when the sun only shines 40% of the day during the winter? Renewable optimists consistently under-estimate the storage problem by orders of magnitude. We don't have enough batteries on Earth to
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by dahfizz 3y ago
Neither of us were in the room, but it sounds like the doctors did the former. They diagnosed with FND, a real physical disease (although kind of a catch-all diagnosis with no tests or treatment, like CFS), and recommended that therapy may
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by dahfizz 3y ago
Even if a doctor believes a patient, what are they supposed to do against a disease with no tests and no treatment?
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by dahfizz 3y ago
What should the doctor have done instead? By all accounts, there is no way to test for or to treat CFS. Assuming it is real, and OPs wife did have it, what is to be done? The doctor ruled everything else out, and now there is nothing more t
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by dahfizz 3y ago
Bloating administrations is one of the drivers in the cost of education. Throwing more people at the problem will just waste more money
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by dahfizz 3y ago
It's clearly a hobby for OP, not everything needs to be optimized for profit.
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by dahfizz 3y ago
> Are you saying that we should not be able to require banks of a certain size to keep records No. I'm saying this is just some boring, annoying regulation, and your grandstanding about wanting people to feel bad about breaking laws
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by dahfizz 3y ago
Using WhatApp is not a "crime". There were no laws broken. This is just some regulators giving out fines because they can't spy on employee's private messages. If bureaucrats were on my ass about something so stupid, I w
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by dahfizz 3y ago
Let's take as a given that heavier cars are more dangerous to be around. An individual who needs to commute by car has two options: 1) put themselves and their family in greater danger by driving a lighter car. 2) protect themselves an
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by dahfizz 3y ago
It's extremely frustrating as a car enthusiast. Even a tiny 2 door sports car like the bmw m240 is almost 4000 pounds! I want a fast, light car that isn't 20+ years old and falling apart.
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by dahfizz 3y ago
EVs are not "way heavier". They are a couple hundred pounds heavier than comparable ice cars on average. And all that extra weight is in the battery. Over time, batteries will shrink to the point where EVs are lighter on average.
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by dahfizz 3y ago
Why is protecting strangers a moral necessity but protecting your own family is not?
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by dahfizz 3y ago
Nobody is saying she shouldn't be allowed to do that. But when you talk politics, everyone else is "well within their right" to disagree with you.
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The issue is different people mean different things when they say "optimization". For some developers, giving any consideration to the performance of your chosen architecture and data structures is "premature optimization&quo
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by dahfizz 3y ago
That advice is only for micro optimizations. It doesn't make sense to spend a week aggressively optimizing one function unless you know that function is a bottleneck and the optimization is worth it. But many developers take that to me
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by dahfizz 3y ago
OP's whole point is that paying for a car is a much more dignified and enjoyable way to travel. And then the tax base doesn't want to pay to improve public transit, because they already have a car.
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by dahfizz 3y ago
It wouldn't surprise me if Twitter revenue is down. It also wouldn't surprise me if Twitter revenue is up. Unfortunately, with it being private I don't think we'll ever know. > Whether its shrinking or not is somewhat
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by dahfizz 3y ago
> Yet not only is Twitter not growing but it’s shrinking. Source? Musk just tweeted about a new all-time monthly user record. It's not impossible that he would lie, but my impression is not at all that Twitter is shrinking. There&#x
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by dahfizz 3y ago
I disagree. The CLI is inherently a super-user oriented interface. The CLI needs to let an experienced user be as productive as possible. If you need a pretty UI with everything spelled out, you should go on GitHub and find a GUI that som
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by dahfizz 3y ago
I was tasked with setting up & maintaining a dnsmasq server in college, which handled DNS, DHCP, and pxe booting. I learned it like anything else. Googled it, read the docs, and trial & errord my way into a working setup. I was comf
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by dahfizz 3y ago
Why is that a problem? That's how unix does it as well. A file path is just a sequence of bytes. Don't try to validate it in any sort of encoding, it's just bytes that the OS uses to identify a file.
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by dahfizz 3y ago
From their support page[1], > we may immediately close inactive accounts to comply with local data protection legislation I'm not sure if that's actually what their lawyers think, or if blaming GDPR is a convenient excuse. The
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by dahfizz 3y ago
> What are your criteria for a richer country then? Uh... Having more money? Country A is richer than Country B if and only if Country A has more money. Country B may have a great QOL, low obesity, low inequality, etc etc. But its not ri
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by dahfizz 3y ago
> I couldn't imagine opening more than a dozen of tabs without it. I can't imagine having more than a dozen tabs open, period. You tab hoarders will never make sense to me...
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That's valid, but orthogonal. If you want to claim that British society is collapsing, I think you could write a convincing blog post. But don't try to claim that the UK's economy is structured more like Bangladesh than the U
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by dahfizz 3y ago
> My claim is that the UK is now a lot more like Poland than it is like the United States in terms of the kinds of growth it needs to do – driven by improved use of existing technology and inputs, and accumulation of capital, rather than
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by dahfizz 3y ago
In related news: ATT stock is seriously on sale right now
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What is an example of a service which provides a lot of value but is not/ could not be profitable? There are public services we choose to run at a loss, like the postal service or public transit. These services definitely could raise
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by dahfizz 3y ago
Municipal airports are nothing like the large international airports you may be thinking of. Municipal airports have like two runways and are only used by tiny private planes, not commercial airliners. The only effect on the "public go

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