denim_chicken

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by denim_chicken 7y ago
No, I'm suggesting that significantly reducing the world's energy consumption is intractable: at an individual level, our choices don't matter, because the slack created by a single person's efforts will eventually be pi
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by denim_chicken 7y ago
How much money do you spend per year? The money you spend eventually goes into the hands of someone whose lifestyle is much less green than yours, and will get spent accordingly.
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by denim_chicken 7y ago
Yeah, we're screwed. No technofix is going to save us this time.
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by denim_chicken 8y ago
Go work as a package handler at UPS/Fedex/etc for a few weeks and then you'll understand.
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by denim_chicken 9y ago
They track us and then sell our data.
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by denim_chicken 9y ago
Being a carpenter also sucks
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by denim_chicken 9y ago
Some people just have too much money.
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by denim_chicken 9y ago
The current level of atmospheric CO2 is not unprecedented, but the current rate of change of atmospheric CO2 is. Couple that with massive ecological decimation and biodiversity due to human habitation and it is clear that our current predi
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by denim_chicken 9y ago
It's only a matter of time before llvm/clang overshadows gcc in every aspect, if it hasn't already. clang probably has 10x more full-time developers than gcc does.
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Measuring and Reducing CPU Usage in SQLite(sqlite.org)
4 points by denim_chicken 10y ago|0 comments
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by denim_chicken 10y ago
Easy there Nostradamus.
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by denim_chicken 10y ago
That's why you should be using Firefox.
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by denim_chicken 10y ago
Yet $1600 is still absurdly high for such a simple living space.
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by denim_chicken 10y ago
Collapse is near.
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by denim_chicken 10y ago
Here's a paper published just last week titled "Is Decoupling GDP Growth from Environmental Impact Possible?" (Their answer is "no.") http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/asset?id=10.13
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by denim_chicken 10y ago
I hope they will be more useful than MPX.
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by denim_chicken 10y ago
Since it carries the Pixel name I assume it's gonna be overpriced.
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by denim_chicken 10y ago
Windows 10 is an absolute mess, and I would recommend a Linux distribution (Fedora in particular) over it even for the casual user. Nowadays Fedora just works.
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by denim_chicken 10y ago
This is gratuitous (and annoying) patronizing. If you don't like the tone of a post just press the downvote button and move on.
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by denim_chicken 10y ago
While raw "existence" is free, a sheltered existence is most certainly not. In many areas it is illegal to live in a tent or in a car, for example. It is also illegal to camp in a national forest for longer than 2 weeks.
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by denim_chicken 10y ago
What is your point???
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by denim_chicken 10y ago
Keep dreaming. If we cannot even understand or live in accordance with the life support systems of what is literally the most habitable and human-friendly planet in the Universe then there's no way in hell that we will be able to succ
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by denim_chicken 10y ago
Read Plato's Revenge by William Ophuls
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by denim_chicken 10y ago
Not surprising, since c++11 std headers are generally much larger and more complex.
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by denim_chicken 10y ago
Your point sucks.
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by denim_chicken 10y ago
Well, I can't say much other than that I encourage everyone to try Haskell for themselves and form their own opinion -- if they can find the time to get over the language's extremely steep learning curve.
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by denim_chicken 10y ago
Haskell sucks because mutability and strictness are extremely important for writing large complex programs, and Haskell deliberately makes both of these things inconvenient. Also, Haskell's ecosystem and tooling is still crappy, proba
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by denim_chicken 10y ago
> Laws do have to take into account things like physics and economics Economics is not even remotely similar to physics in any respect.
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by denim_chicken 11y ago
> Nature goes it cycles, on the order of maybe hundreds or thousands (or more) years. It's been way colder in the past than it is now, and it's also been way warmer in the past than it is now. I'm pretty sure that climatol
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by denim_chicken 11y ago
Even then you can have a GC. It just has to be conservative and non-compacting. Even C/C++ have a GC via boehm-gc, a LIBRARY that implements garbage collection! (This is why I love C. No other practical language can claim to be able

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