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by desine 5y ago
Natural gas space heating is a good backup solution for extreme cold. When Texas's power grid went down, people were freezing to death. AFAIK, gas delivery wasn't affected. But again, it's more of questioning the scale. Ho
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How do I cook with gas if not my home hookup? By driving my car to the nearest hardware store, purchasing or renting a steel propane tank, filling it from another tank that was filled by a truck that drove in, and driving home? This is dea
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by desine 5y ago
We're going to need to draw the lines somewhere. Blaming gas stoves for climate change seems like a bit of an over reach. Where's the resistance to people buying crappy, unnecessary junk from countries with cheap labor and low e
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by desine 5y ago
Scientific unrealistic is different than socially unrealistic. It's not easy to express, but the knowledge I have of human nature, I feel like I understand better, than the knowledge I have of quantum mechanics.
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by desine 5y ago
The fish and bird population has been in continuous decline. The lake used to get enough freshwater replenishment to maintain a relatively balanced salinity level and saltwater ecosystem. Now, the salinity is continuously increasing over
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by desine 5y ago
Life... uh... finds a way
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The Salton Sea is already a man made disaster deep into ecological collapse. Even if they do it terribly, I doubt they'll make anything worse. It's also a region with no economic future, so hopefully this brings some jobs. This
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Or you can put in enough time and effort to actually read error messages and do a little work If you want iPhone ease Linux use Ubuntu based distros. But traditionally Linux hadn’t been single click easy. Much like smartphones weren’t origi
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by desine 5y ago
If you're combining external packaging and debian packaging, or installing things manually, this is typical. Oftentimes if you're doing those, you'll have broken dependencies because Debian lags behind. I had issues keeping
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by desine 5y ago
You have an absolute right to breath the air around you. You have the absolute right to think or feel any emotions that pass through you. You have an absolute right to express these ideas and emotions. You have the absolute right to figh
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by desine 5y ago
Pedantic comment: it’s not that Debian itself is ancient, it’s that they prioritize stability and thus older packages. Both Arch and Debian get frequent updates in their packages, but Arch prefers cutting edge cool and Debian prefers “don’t
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by desine 5y ago
I’m sorry you lost a couple of colleagues too young. But statistical anomalies need to be notated as such. I don’t warn people not to golf due to the risk of lightning strike
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by desine 5y ago
Hm, fair enough point. I guess my time posting mediocre comments on HN is more valuable to me than inane internet campaigns. But I was also part of a campaign to fake Christopher Walken's presidential bid, so who am I to judge.
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Actually, they are. By and large, email is sent unencrypted, and can be spied on by a variety of groups, both private and public. Opening USPS mail requires a warrant, and it is a federal agency that protects their jurisdiction and custome
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by desine 5y ago
You would probably be appalled at the grammatical errors that make their way through the courts without any correction. On one hand - lawyers are hired to know the law, not grammar. On the other hand - one would think enough reading of leg
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by desine 5y ago
What's the motive for someone going through the effort of faking a good enough take-down notice? There's no immediate financial gain. I doubt there's a reddit bot competitor that somehow needs the extra market share, whatev
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by desine 5y ago
Slide into the DMs when that happens
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by desine 5y ago
Not if you're under 60 and not obese
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Apologies, I misunderstood your tone. >you [...] coerce no one. I disagree with that point. Where I live, there has been a very strong coercion angle. It's very obviously government sponsored.
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by desine 5y ago
When was the last time you saw a study actually replicated and not just "peer reviewed" and referenced?
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by desine 5y ago
An acquaintance of mine recently started a MFA program at NY Film School. He's going to end up spending about six figures finishing the program, if he sees it through. I want to tell him it's a waste of money, but that's no
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by desine 5y ago
This makes sense. I've done some code golf challenges but never fell into the culture. Anywhere in computer science that there is a culture, development of culturally specific tools comes into play. Perhaps I commented too quickly a
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by desine 5y ago
Probably not. I've heard of it, never looked too in depth. As mentioned I've become a fan of Scheme. The definitive text for learning it is probably SICP, in which Sussman and Ableson call programming a form of magic - calling o
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by desine 5y ago
For those in the comments just wanting a quick rundown: Python3 based programming language for "golfing" (I had to double check it was code golfing, there's probably actual golf scorekeeping or course design DSLs by now). I&#
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by desine 5y ago
Fair enough, but: 1) Hardware is a lot more fun than software. Being able to twist knobs two-handed, live, not using a mouse, is pretty freaking cool, and is a big part of the experience, IMO 2) If you do spend money, don't write off
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by desine 5y ago
>you're making space for eugenics. With an ability to reach that long, you should be a boxer or basketball player. Everything in this life is a compromise, a finding of balance between trade offs. I'm not about to support mand
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I didn't state that the old and infirm deserve to die. I stated that the young seem to be more prone to these side effects, and that quantifying these two against each other is problematic. Yes, clinical trials tend to be done in labs
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>So as the CDC link shows, the choice is clear: mass vaccination does indeed have rare side effects, but mass infection with the coronavirus (which is the only other choice) is absolutely worse. Not sure I agree that it's so easily
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Everyone else has covered some good places to get started reading and learning, but eventually you'll have to twist some knobs on your own. Assuming you do go down this path, I want to throw out a suggestion. If you get into synthesiz
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Peak cases != Peak panic

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