drewm1980

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by drewm1980 4y ago
Public service announcement from the vegan community: Cutting out meat doesn't mean you have to eat bugs, or any other gross animal byproducts. Plants are plenty nutritious.
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by drewm1980 4y ago
I'm vegan, but our numbers are so vanishingly small, we're a distraction in this conversation. Essentially the ~entire market for these products is meat eaters, and I don't believe meat eaters care about what they're eat
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by drewm1980 4y ago
People would notice. There needs to be meat in there so customers can worry about food poisoning and complain that it isn't cooked exactly the right amount, regardless of how it is cooked. It is part of the burger tradition.
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by drewm1980 4y ago
"I started out coding in the mid-90s and refocused my career on Bitcoin and crypto in 2016 after leaving a very large software company in Seattle." You're embarrassed to have worked at Microsoft but not on crypto pyramid sche
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by drewm1980 4y ago
Unsustainable prosperity fueled by fossil fuels.
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by drewm1980 4y ago
I would posit that the climate and the season matter enough to be a solid moral distinction in this case. Civilian lives depend on gas and electricity in all scenarios, but they depend on them ~much more in a Ukrainian winter.
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by drewm1980 4y ago
I have had reflexes learned from contact improvisation kick in during a couple random low speed falls from standing or walking/tripping. I had a feeling of "ah I have been here before" as I fell. Maybe not relevant to oneboar
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by drewm1980 4y ago
There is a documentary called "Duty of Care" about lawsuits along these lines. Governments are getting sued for endangering their own citizens through inaction on climate change. Similar lawsuits are being brought directly against
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by drewm1980 4y ago
TLDR; they reprocess natural silk from silkworms to produce silk fibers with better tensile strength. This is partly achieved by doing a better job of washing out non-strong compounds from the fiber, so the yield is strictly lower than that
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by drewm1980 4y ago
This is also starting from the assumption that calculus is not fun. It's where a lot of seemingly disconnected mathematical ideas suddenly come together like a beautiful puzzle.
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by drewm1980 4y ago
I switched to wireless charging pads because USB connectors keep failing on me. Now the USB connectors on my wireless charging pads are dying!
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by drewm1980 4y ago
Environmental conservation laws should be considered a matter of national security. We need to mobilize the military industrial complex on the side of the environment before everything dies.
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by drewm1980 4y ago
We need a state of climate emergency to just ban some needlessly destructive practices, ideally globally. Mowing lawns is something we can just decide not to do. Meat and dairy we can just decide not to do.
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by drewm1980 4y ago
Or our entire civilization will collapse into famine and war because we refused to transition off of fossil fuels in time. That methane needs to stay in the ground.
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by drewm1980 4y ago
How would the Russians react? Would they launch extra nukes just to be "safe"? Maybe we should build a weapon that ~enhances the yield of their nukes, so that they figure sending one is enough!
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by drewm1980 4y ago
Besides giving a block of code a name, functions also reduce the scope of the data the code can possibly be acting on. They also introduce a namespace that lets symbol names focus on locally relevant information. How did this huge refactori
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by drewm1980 4y ago
Some of those things do exist. The future doesn't arrive everywhere simultaneously.
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by drewm1980 4y ago
415 Bungholiomarks ought to be good enough for anyone.
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by drewm1980 4y ago
Oil companies are printing their own money now? God I hope you made that up.
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by drewm1980 4y ago
Do they have an API for refusing to accept ETH mined via proof of work? This is a start, but personally I'm still never going to accept BTC or ETH as payment; their history taints them forever. The real value burned in the mining of th
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by drewm1980 4y ago
Thank you for the term "Equity Theatre"!
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by drewm1980 4y ago
Depending on your perspective, the airplane is not successful until we figure out how to do it sustainably. We may yet have to go back to lighter than air flight, which arguably has precedent if you count aquatic life, i.e. swim bladders. U
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by drewm1980 4y ago
Below a certain size, propellers are less efficient. It's a fluid dynamics thing. I learned about this from a colleague flying robots inspired by insects. If you find an article about bee flight dynamics that's not BS (creationist
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by drewm1980 4y ago
On my first skim through the article it seemed like objects were getting copied between regions, i.e. when they change color. I guess the key is one of the first sentences "all objects in the heap are organised in a cyclic double-linke
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by drewm1980 4y ago
Lol, you should see how they hacked the watch's winding wheel!
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by drewm1980 4y ago
These things have become symbols of wealth inequality, and sports cars in particular have become symbols of wilful environmental degradation. Many commenters would hate on a non-technical piece of art that symbolized/promoted the same
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by drewm1980 4y ago
I was hoping this would be about the entire business model imploding since golf has no place in the modern era. We need to be using land for important things like food and re-wilding to preventing climate collapse and mass species extinctio
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by drewm1980 4y ago
We could feed people instead of cows, chickens, and pigs.
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by drewm1980 4y ago
This is not at all true for the USA. Farm subsidies there are famously massive: https://liberalarts.tamu.edu/blog/2021/11/03/farm-subsidies-...
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by drewm1980 4y ago
Is there really a "Recommended daily allowance of meat and dairy protein"? Sounds like propaganda from the meat and dairy industry like the food pyramid. I once met someone who studied to be a professional nutritionist, but left t

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