dlisboa

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by dlisboa 9mo ago
Argentina is an outlier as their economy is in the dumps, for the rest of SA food is much cheaper than in Europe. But in general you are right that food prices in some countries in SA are artificially high because most of our food is export
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by dlisboa 9mo ago
Not in South America. Cattle here eats grass. Soybean is exported mainly to China which uses it for other reasons, not feeding cattle.
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by dlisboa 9mo ago
Soybeans have probably a worse impact on the environment than beef. Most of the deforestation in SA in the past couple of decades was for soybean farms.
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by dlisboa 9mo ago
From a pragmatic perspective it’s just common sense. Europe cannot produce food at prices its population expects. It has no cattle herd to speak of yet consumes lots of beef. It wants for multiple commodities which don’t grow there. And as
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by dlisboa 9mo ago
It's crazy how power hungry UK homes are, or maybe it's UK power consumption habits in general. I use about ~300 kWh/month. A little bit more with AC some times of the year. What are you even powering with 15000 kWh?
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by dlisboa 9mo ago
Unfortunately the rest of the world has no real example of that. Which is more of an issue with imperialism itself than the people trying to escape it.
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by dlisboa 9mo ago
Most being the operating word here. Economy class tickets still make a profit if the airline wants it, just see the vast majority of regional flights which have zero business class seats. Southwest for instance has single-class layouts. S
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by dlisboa 9mo ago
Style matters, maybe unfortunately depending on the point of view. Products like consumer electronics have a large amount of fashion to them. Just like the t-shirt was perfected in the 1950s people still make new ones with little style chan
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by dlisboa 10mo ago
The one thing this thread has shown me: It's very easy to be a parent when you have no children.
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by dlisboa 10mo ago
That's a useless statistic in this context. Statistically you're more likely to be killed by yourself than someone else. So, do you kill yourself to get it over with? Do you let a shooter shoot you because statistically it's
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by dlisboa 10mo ago
There's just no discussion that modern parents are more personally involved in their kids development than parents in the 70s/80s. That's just a fact, not an insult. I never said you can't raise kids without all the over
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by dlisboa 10mo ago
Do you have children? Would you point them a loaded gun that's only, say, 0.5% likely to go off and shoot them? 1 in 100k cancers also disappear spontaneously, should I wait and see for my kid and not treat them? When it comes to your
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by dlisboa 10mo ago
It's a cultural shift. Your peers are now way more aware of child abuse, kidnappings, murders, than your parents were. Not that yours were necessarily bad parents for that time but there is way more information today of the issues with
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by dlisboa 10mo ago
To be fair, even if I appreciate Beck, some people do get too famous and start to inhabit a space that is far removed from the average company. Many of these guys tend to give out advice that is applicable to a handful of top earning compan
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by dlisboa 10mo ago
> It has captured a staggering percentage of software development In hindsight it's obvious why: it was the only free editor that has a product mindset and a product team behind. Microsoft put heavy hitters on it, some of their bes
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by dlisboa 10mo ago
Yes, absolutely. Journalism was in a much better standing a few decades ago.
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by dlisboa 10mo ago
So, do absolutely nothing is your plan?
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by dlisboa 10mo ago
The US sanctions have nothing to do with free market maximalism. I thought that was quite obvious historically and specially now. They've imposed tariffs on literally every country on the planet.
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by dlisboa 10mo ago
Investigate and do what? It's not illegal to buy GPUs, the sanctions have no power in this space. Who could a law even hurt here, the seller who is a single individual? If they made it illegal to individually export them out of the US
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by dlisboa 10mo ago
I love how, in 2035, fusion energy is still 10 years away.
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by dlisboa 10mo ago
> Then I realized that this constant start-stop process is literally melting my brain and making me unable to do any real work myself. It's basically having the same effect as scrolling any other algorithmic feed Yes, it’s extremely
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by dlisboa 10mo ago
Not to call you out either but it seems you have really no idea what a basic CRUD app is. Which is fine, I guess not everyone likes to reads the base definitions of these things. It's clear I replied to the wrong person as we don'
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by dlisboa 10mo ago
Yes, like a guided missile is a fancy firecracker.
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by dlisboa 10mo ago
Regular SaaS products of different kinds, cloud software, hosting software, etc. Really representative of most of the Web-enabled software out there. For every one of them there has been an almost negligible amount of CRUD code, the meat of
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by dlisboa 10mo ago
I think I'm "most" engineers and I haven't ever worked on something that was "just" a CRUD app. Having a DB behind your web app doesn't make it "just" a CRUD. It's really overestimated how m
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by dlisboa 10mo ago
Which is why every tool that is better than humans at a certain task are deterministic.
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by dlisboa 10mo ago
The US Congress doesn’t pass laws anymore. Let alone fair and useful ones.
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by dlisboa 10mo ago
There is also mental friction with learning an entirely new tool. `jj` is different enough from `git` that one can't transfer knowledge. Currently the documentation is not good enough to assuage that issue.
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by dlisboa 10mo ago
Outside very simple programming techniques there is no such thing as well-established when it comes to PL. If one learns more than a handful of languages they’ll see multiple ways of doing the same thing. As an example all three of the lang
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by dlisboa 10mo ago
There are far more people running/writing Zig on/for systems with overcommit than not. Most of the hype around Zig come from people not in the embedded world.

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