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by ddevault 4y ago
I mean the bigger issue is that cars and trucks aren't going away and EVs are clearly important, but the much more important problem is investing in public transit, especially in the United States. We don't need everyone to "
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by ddevault 4y ago
The idea of an individual carbon footprint was invented by oil companies to shift responsibility for climate change from corporations (the cause) to consumers (the victims). Your personal responsibility to address climate change begins and
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by ddevault 4y ago
They aren't false.
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by ddevault 4y ago
Alpine is small, stable, and built by professionals with a purpose in mind. I would not consider running anything else in production, and I run it on all of my devices -- servers, workstations, laptops, phone, SoCs, even my TV runs Alpine.
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by ddevault 4y ago
At the only job I've had where Bazel was in use, we had a team of 4-5 engineers dedicated to maintaining Bazel for a larger team of about 25. Bazel is a nightmare . I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
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by ddevault 4y ago
It will, if anything, cull the bottom performers. It's essentially an incremental improvement on a script which searches stack overflow for a query and copy/pastes the first result into your program. Having tried it on more intere
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by ddevault 4y ago
AI is not in and of itself an existential threat, and is unlikely to be one within our lifetimes. The singularity, in this sense, is not near, and state-of-the-art machine learning does not resemble general intelligence. Focusing on the mis
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by ddevault 4y ago
"I do not have an email address" is not a reasonable state of being. The way you can resolve this is via email, and you should obtain one.
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by ddevault 4y ago
The exact rate limit, to my understanding, is tuned by the moderators. So one of them presumably thought you were making some inflammatory comments and made a conscious choice to slow you down. Reach out to hn@ycombinator.com to find out mo
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by ddevault 4y ago
This website's tracking consent pop-up is unlawful: unticking each spyware service one at a time rather than a one-click opt-out is not permitted by the GDPR.
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by ddevault 4y ago
Well, I said upfront that the level of comments here is fine. Just offering a perspective on how it could still be good code with less. In general I think it's fine to expect a reading of the code to be paired with a reading of the doc
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by ddevault 4y ago
From the perspective of someone who generally writes far fewer comments than this, I find that this code has a number of comments which is well-justified due to the complexity of the subject, poor availability of external documentation desc
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by ddevault 4y ago
I'm very excited about the Digital Markets Act. Some things that excite me which are definitely in scope: - Interopability between walled gardens like messenger apps - Side-loading software on your devices I'm also hoping that we
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by ddevault 4y ago
Naturally they have reinvented the proprietary wheel instead of implementing PGP, so that their domesticated users are nicely corralled in their walled garden.
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by ddevault 4y ago
FWIW I've been in NL for a little under 2 years and got a fresh Dutch number when I arrived, and I have received zero spam calls. Even after registering my business with the KVK and entering my number into the public record -- when I d
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by ddevault 4y ago
This is a pretty unusual situation, where you presumably live in the sticks and commute to the city, or vice versa? In the cities, particularly Amsterdam, cars are not the favored option. In Amsterdam 38% of travel is by bike, Zwolle is 46%
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by ddevault 4y ago
I am in a position to hire and fire people in this market, albeit at a much smaller scale. We only hire those that we can afford to keep, even based on our most conservative financial models, because it's the right thing to do. When co
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by ddevault 4y ago
This is not okay. The only ethical way to do telemetry is opt-in . If not enough people are opting in, you need to incentivize them to -- most simply by just paying them for their data. After all, telemetry is "valuable", isn&#x2
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by ddevault 4y ago
Wow, I don't think anyone who commented here actually read anything in the paper. I strongly agree that Mozilla makes constant mis-steps and that the scope of web browsers is hugely problematic, but to dismiss anything they say outrigh
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by ddevault 4y ago
Nice how the goal for artificial general AI (which is literally defined as a sentient artificial being) is to commoditize it and enslave it to capitalism.
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by ddevault 4y ago
Other comments addressed your (ridiculous) argument so that I don't have to, I encourage you to read them instead.
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by ddevault 4y ago
Propaganda and PR are the same thing. The term "public relations" was invented in the wake of public sentiment turning negative regarding "propaganda" in the wake of the second world war. Prior to that PR was just called
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by ddevault 4y ago
The problem is that you cannot ascertain with certainty that someone is, in fact, a murderer. Countries with the death penalty will always execute innocent people. Roughly 5% of convicted persons are estimated to be innocent, and an executi
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by ddevault 4y ago
The death penalty is abhorrent and indefensible, and religious freedom and the right to free expression are both included in the universal declaration of human rights, to which Pakistan is a signatory.
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by ddevault 4y ago
This is indeed the main difference. The reason that agreed that the plan was suitable was the combination of the ongoing work on incorporating -reuse with the Go module mirror and the Go teams decision to accept responsibility for the traff
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by ddevault 4y ago
> Because they like community contributions to their stuff, so "open source" it for that, but don't want their competitors benefiting from the initial work they did. Which I understand. The distinction between competitors
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by ddevault 4y ago
Language /does/ evolve. However, it's still dishonest to use an established term in a manner contrary to the broadly understood definition. Furthermore, the rationale for an unorthodox definition of open source is generally f
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by ddevault 4y ago
Agreed. It's important to use the correct terminology. This does not qualify as open source and should be described as source available instead (or should switch to a license which is open source). I've written about this subject
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by ddevault 4y ago
I hate the fact that "developer relations" is so cargo culted that someone calls it DevRel unironically now.
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by ddevault 4y ago
In addition to the risk of sudden death, even on the first use, they cause permanent brain damage with each use and regular use will reduce you to a gibbering shell of yourself from which you cannot recover -- and then you'll probably

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