drewm1980

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by drewm1980 4y ago
Someone thought building a giant taser and electrocuting everything on the seabed was a good idea. https://www.pulsefishing.eu/what-is-pulse-fishing/techniques If it doesn't destroy the plants too, it probably ~is
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by drewm1980 4y ago
As a homeowner in the EU just starting an ecological home renovation, the biggest obstacle to heat pump adoption BY FAR is that you have to rip up your floors and install in-floor heating to deal with the lower warm-side operating temperatu
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by drewm1980 4y ago
Yes, in the limited sense that this is a massive known problem with the USA's electoral system, and better democracies than the United States have been formed since then that are less vulnerable to the spoiler effects that resulted in
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by drewm1980 4y ago
It was news to me until recently, but the shifting of blame for destructive business practices onto the consumer is extremely well documented to be greenwashing. i.e.: https://www.vox.com/22429551/climate-change-crisis-
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by drewm1980 4y ago
They are scooping up entire ecosystems from the sea floor and grinding them up to feed farmed fish. With rare exception, fish farming should be viewed as a way to allow humans to (inefficiently) eat the entire marine ecosystem.
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by drewm1980 4y ago
The way certifications and accreditations work in the fishing industry is covered in the documentary Seaspiracy.
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by drewm1980 4y ago
New developers are still watching Uncle Bob videos online and taking those strategies as the default for how you craft code, largely because there are not very many people since then making similarly grandiose claims about how software shou
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by drewm1980 4y ago
correct. They say so in the paper.
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by drewm1980 4y ago
Indeed. Embarrassing! I consciously avoid using "intra" or "inter" in English for this reason, and when I do because of someone else's jargon I also say what I mean to disambiguate. Unfortunately we can't depre
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by drewm1980 4y ago
Safety critical software has laws it needs to follow. Testing and validation can be so expensive it doesn't make sense to touch old code. I'm an advocate of Rust for most software, mind you. The safety you get from enforcing owner
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by drewm1980 4y ago
Yep, the company behind this advertises online demos in gitlab
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by drewm1980 4y ago
RE the point about catching mistakes involving far apart pieces of code, they are clear that it's "interprocedural", so the analysis is only within a single function at a time. Like with rust, there is a focus on annotating f
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by drewm1980 4y ago
The author feels dual citizenship gave her options. Another option is to be a permanent expat without seeking local citizenship. An upside to that is that you may still be able to leave the country if it goes to war and locks in its own cit
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by drewm1980 4y ago
There is not a single sustainable winter clothing manufacturer as far as I can tell. Rayon, hemp, and linen are sustainable but I have not found any warm clothing made of them. (Cotton requires a lot of water and organic cotton even more so
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by drewm1980 4y ago
Consuming animal products.
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by drewm1980 4y ago
I agree. It is not perfect, but if pycharm can't figure out the type of an object, humans can't be expected to either.
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by drewm1980 4y ago
Use a powerful IDE and lower your expectations. Python is halfway through a decades long transition to being a statically typed language, but there is no consensus that that's where we're going, so a minority of libraries will be
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by drewm1980 4y ago
Smoke used to be the smell of jazz. Going to hear live music was the only thing that could get me to second hand smoke.
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by drewm1980 4y ago
Yeah, that gripe about the C++ standards committee not being consulted is a bit petty. It's likely the NSA didn't consult ~any language maintainers; there is plenty of error rate data coming out of large corporations to go on.
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by drewm1980 4y ago
That part was a quote from the NSA. He didn't omit it. But I agree his argument would have been stronger if added to the list the most realistic C++ competitors and differentiated against those instead of the more dynamic languages.
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by drewm1980 4y ago
I am curious how it round-trips. For the output languages that are also supported input languages, can you transpile back and get something close to or identical to your input?
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by drewm1980 4y ago
The thought experiment wasn't to end sentient life in a glorious generation of virtual hedonism, just humanity. Let the octopi build their ~own VR escapism pods.
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by drewm1980 4y ago
Agree. Even if you make a hobby out of researching purchases and pay top dollar, you still need a great deal of luck. Our 5000 euro door, made by local craftsmen with high quality materials, had an installation mistake that ruins ergonomics
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by drewm1980 4y ago
So basically, she would have to be a tree.
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by drewm1980 4y ago
I fear I am indirectly responsible for a substantial body count just by helping to build a company that eventually placed itself solidly on the wrong side of the energy transition, but I do not yet have a meaningful number for the C02e -&gt
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by drewm1980 4y ago
Their waterproofing wax is a mix of paraffin and bee wax. So if the whole point is to avoid petrochemicals or avoid animal products, this isn't a solution. Perhaps soy wax could be used for this...
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by drewm1980 4y ago
Is there any non-petrochemical tech on the horizon for this? There many natural surfaces that seem to magically shed water; it seems a shame to me that gore fabrics is replacing petro-plastic with another petro-plastic instead of going stra
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by drewm1980 4y ago
I want to believe that, but France has already recommissioned a coal fired plant. Falling back on coal will delay and exacerbate the pain of the energy transformation. I am an American at a young hip company in the EU and people here only p
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by drewm1980 4y ago
Impossible burgers take an order of magnitude less land to produce than beef. They're not made of vegetables. Beef fat clogs your arteries and causes heart disease. Putting soy in a veggie burger results in way more nutrition than putt
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by drewm1980 4y ago
I live in the EU. The thing that makes cheese cheese is arguably the mix of fungi and bacteria growing in it. We have some excellent cheeses here that are traditional except for the substitution of nut milk for mammal milk. They are current

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