drewm1980

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by drewm1980 4y ago
The money changed hands... from people gambling on financial instruments to other people who are probably also gambling on financial instruments. Significant real value was only destroyed forever if the underlying tech for this is based on
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by drewm1980 4y ago
Interesting! Not sure I would describe it as a draughts variant, given that the pieces all move differently. It seems like it would be very hard to evaluate a board position but maybe you get used to all the colors.
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by drewm1980 4y ago
That's kinda what the Dutch did but backwards. Saltwater inland has negative value; it is toxic to most plants.
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by drewm1980 4y ago
That is actually the traditional way to evaporate as much water as possible, not to save it. Trees have a lot of surface area.
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by drewm1980 4y ago
Some nuts are carbon neutral... To grow them you have to grow a forest first. Just don't do it in the desert. Start with eliminating animal products. Feed people instead of livestock. That shouldn't even be controversial but tradi
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by drewm1980 4y ago
You have to put googly eyes on them!
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by drewm1980 4y ago
Hobby gourmet mushroom grower here. For gourmet mushrooms you use about 60 percent water. For this purpose it is probably lower. Many products require many times their weight in water; this is not that bad. Mushrooms care more about competi
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by drewm1980 4y ago
Pull in a lot of transitive dependencies, without a system in place that automatically and strictly vendors or pins the versions of everything, and the probably of your build succeeding will converge to zero over time. Humans screw up semve
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by drewm1980 4y ago
Is the extra layer of indirection you don't like Docker or this nix -> Docker integration? Compared to just installing all your nix packages in one Docker layer, this does introduce build complexity. But it's analogous to the c
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by drewm1980 5y ago
Start with the assumption that someone has already done it... Do a thorough literature survey... Ask experts working on the most similar thing. Don't be disheartened if you weren't the first; ideas don't have to be original t
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by drewm1980 5y ago
It won't be true in every shop, but I do this professionally and it's been my firsthand experience. A native statically compiled binary containing just the functions that actually get called will usually be... 10-100 MB. Ungroomed
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by drewm1980 5y ago
It was meant as genuine constructive criticism and a plea to do better. They have more traction than most people to morph docker into something that comes close to its predecessors in efficiency. Somehow replace their fragile layer caching
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by drewm1980 5y ago
LOL great catch! Assume you're referring to this: "One of our code refactors introduced a bug which flipped the sign of the reward. Flipping the reward would usually produce incoherent text, but the same bug also flipped the sign
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by drewm1980 5y ago
I instinctively want to "flip the sign" on all of the automated controls they put in, just out of the morbid interest to see what comes out. The moment you have a "avoid_harm_to_humans:bool" training parameter, someone&#
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by drewm1980 5y ago
Presidential immunity helps defend against Trump-like situations. Who knows, maybe he would not have attempted the coup if there weren't so many lawsuits hanging over him. American democracy almost failed. I actually think we need a s
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by drewm1980 5y ago
Yup. That vagueness is why I asked.
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by drewm1980 5y ago
How does this control varoa? One of the arguments against domesticated honey bees is that they not only take food from but also spread disease to wild honey bee populations. The more diseased the domestic ated bees get the more hives keeper
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by drewm1980 5y ago
The carbon footprint of the cloud has exceeded the footprint of air travel. A move away from monolithic statically compiled binaries to constellations of microservices (usually bloated docker containers) is a significant part of the problem
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by drewm1980 5y ago
I'm also surprised by that seemingly negative fork rake. This claims stability is more determined by fork ~trail. http://avaghon.nl/download/Naloop_Bikestability-Forkrake.pdf This bike has a steeper head tube, red
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by drewm1980 5y ago
My observation is that there is a network effect happening with Rust due to the strict ownership model at API boundaries between libraries. You can call code in libraries without having to rely on your understanding of human-written documen
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by drewm1980 5y ago
It is ironic that so many companies are using such an efficient programming language to implement the most horribly, deliberately wasteful computations on the planet. I got into rust because I want to do meaningful work efficiently not proo
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by drewm1980 5y ago
Which is to say that I have experienced boring tech in our stack get worse and cost an unexpected "innovation token".
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by drewm1980 5y ago
"All technology will change and improve with time" Tech can and does frequently get worse. All you have to do is keep adding features indescriminately or let code with external dependencies rot.
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by drewm1980 5y ago
Indeed. Depth and balance are part of a fun astract, and those are objective enough to be analyzed this way.
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by drewm1980 5y ago
Yeah... I really feel for new developers... On many codebases they're going to have a bad time without an IDE to navigate all the abstractions. And then they're going to have a bad time trying to get by when microservices and the
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by drewm1980 5y ago
Python's static type system was kept out of the runtime object values to keep a slow language from getting slower. Mypy is also not 1.0 yet. You can still find bugs in advanced use cases i.e. when you are mixing inheritance, generics,
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by drewm1980 5y ago
I stopped reading when the author listed chicken pox alongside much more lethal childhood diseases. That said, I'm still pro vaccination for chicken pox, and went out of my way to get my child vaccinated even though it is extremely unc
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by drewm1980 5y ago
Ah yes, but it is getting old: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/great-green-wa...
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by drewm1980 5y ago
There was another article about how the original "pay people to plant trees" style green wall project already failed, and that a different, traditional way of protecting saplings from livestock was taking over successfully. Surpri
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by drewm1980 5y ago
Keeping it charged and synchronized would have to be part of the art project / status symbol. It would only take one rich person with a genuine interest in timekeeping technology to make this happen. Their servants could bring them a s

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