edynoid

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by edynoid 5y ago
Living in the area at the height of the protests, so I can fill in. Some of the reasons: many people (including experts) argued that the project could have been done for half the price with almost the same effect by upgrading the existing s
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by edynoid 5y ago
And that, comrades, is yet another way to realize our economy's incentive system is misaligned with people's material needs.
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by edynoid 6y ago
> It is the most successful social welfare system ever implemented, saving billions and billions of dollars for everyday Americans without costing taxpayers a dime. It is a testament to the power of compounding interest, to the power of
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by edynoid 6y ago
What's up with that weird tangent about feminism? It's not like no feminist ever noticed the bottled-up toxic masculinity in some gaming communities and started analysing that. Do more sports is definitely one of the more naive &q
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by edynoid 6y ago
Who said a hobby had to be useful? This self-improvement cult is really annoying...
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by edynoid 6y ago
exactly, and that's a good thing. scaling means basically exploiting of other people's labour.
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by edynoid 6y ago
You'd have a hard time arguing that breaking GDPR is the only way to stay in business. There are enough compliant news websites to undermine that argument.
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by edynoid 6y ago
Nix contributor here. You are completely right, that is missing. Unfortunately the documentation is somewhat fragmented and its structure makes it quite hard to find relevant information, especially to newcomers. We started to work on makin
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by edynoid 7y ago
You can get pretty far with a statically typed, purely functional language. For example, Elm's package manager enforces semantic versioning: https://elm-lang.org/ I don't think you can do that with JavaScript.
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by edynoid 7y ago
Yes, cyclists should not run red lights. But we need to improve cycling infrastructure a lot. Right now there is a lot of incentive to break the rules in small ways here and there, because the situation is pretty bad. There are quite a few
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by edynoid 7y ago
Electricity is not everything. Heating and transport eat up much more fossil fuel. That can be replaced by, uh… nuclear-powered electricity and synthetic fuels, I guess? However you do it, it adds a lot to the necessary power budget.
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by edynoid 7y ago
Trains and isolation are great. But gas still produces net carbon emissions. So if you adopt it, you have to move away from it very soon anyway. Seems like wasted effort from my point of view.
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by edynoid 7y ago
My first thought to this: can the turbines be made from wood instead? Searching for it, I found this: https://newatlas.com/timbertower-wooden-wind-turbine/25007/ Making things out of wood is generally a good idea
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by edynoid 7y ago
Paying for traffic to be prioritized is the exact opposite of net neutrality. No need to pay lip service to the idea then. The obvious danger here is that small indie studios may not be able to afford making enjoyable real-time multiplayer
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by edynoid 7y ago
This website consumes about half my CPU. But for what?
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by edynoid 7y ago
Don't know about the material science behind it. But from a purely physical point of view, the problem there is that void (= vacuum) does not have any pressure. So the frame would have to support itself against the atmospheric pressure
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by edynoid 7y ago
Interesting… most of the motivation to use new tech is that it enables me to solve problems more efficiently. When you use older, but more established technology, its limitations still hold back the problem solving a bit. This is especially
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by edynoid 8y ago
What you allude to there is pretty bad TDD. It was never intended as a replacement for good design, rather as an aid to be clear about design and requirements without writing tons of specs up-front. And I agree, that there are lots of anti-
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by edynoid 8y ago
If you look at more recently developed GUI architectures there is this heavy influence from functional reactive programming. The UIs are modelling as reductions over event streams with no mutable state. Most architectures around React do th
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by edynoid 8y ago
I find it quite fortunate, that they don't use it automatically. Introducing a 1e-3 relative error is quite a deal breaker for some. Not for games sure, but for science that is mostly unacceptable.
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by edynoid 9y ago
The "right-wing" categorization is probably not that helpful, I agree. If I understand you correctly, by turning the argument around (against LGBT, atheist, liberal, etc. people) you want to challenge my point that it is okay to c
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by edynoid 9y ago
For the record, I am not alleging this in particular. For all I know, it might be true. Although given Breitbart's history reading anything on that site does not hold much value. After all, they have run stories about Hillary Clinton r
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by edynoid 9y ago
Admittedly I have not fact-checked a statistically significant sample of their articles. But their Wikipedia article for instance tells a tale of published falsehoods, conspiracy theories and the like. The political disagreement is an ortho
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by edynoid 9y ago
This sounds like that weird right-wing notion of "censorship", that has become popular recently. Let me elaborate a little… When I hear "censorship" I am thinking of government agents sitting in newspaper editorial rooms
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by edynoid 9y ago
That is barely credible given the source is Breitbart.