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by eropple 3y ago
This is also whataboutism, because it implies we cannot walk and chew gum at the same time.
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by eropple 3y ago
Doc Smith would find that assertion embarrassing, I think. The good news is that across the world, this sort of hand-flapping is being ignored. In reality, we have already begun doing the right thing. We're already averting the wor
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by eropple 3y ago
"Just" find "better fuels" than extremely energy-dense fossil fuels that, when you remove externalities from the equation, are already near a local maximum. D'oh! It's so forehead-slappingly easy! We should ju
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by eropple 3y ago
"Boundaries" is one of the more important quick talks I know of, and I've sent it to most juniors I've worked with.
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by eropple 3y ago
I don't see anyone saying that we should forego medicine and science, or global communication, or even industry --though we should be smarter about what we make and how we distribute it. But you (and I! I've done this too!) proba
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by eropple 3y ago
Humans found delight and meaning before flight and before cruises. Are you so limited in your capacity?
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by eropple 3y ago
> It'll be just another industrial material. It already is , except it has a legacy marketing department attached. The article's point is that they're kinda losing.
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by eropple 3y ago
I think it's just changed. Tons of people I know with disposable income buy retro gaming systems, collectible old cartridges, etc., when a MiSTer (or even sufficiently advanced software emulation) can do. There is still some affinity f
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by eropple 3y ago
> No, it wouldn't, because you'd need a display and input device(s) at your destination. So then we ended up with these laptop-style shells for Android and Windows Phone devices that supported this model and suddenly you can&#
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by eropple 3y ago
VB.NET and C# were released concurrently, weren't they?
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by eropple 3y ago
While maybe that's true, that doesn't map to my experience very well. After QBasic, I wrote a lot of Visual Basic 5 and 6. I had poked at C, but would not say I knew it, and had never done anything useful in the language. But I di
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by eropple 3y ago
Randomly slathering GPT output in Hacker News comments does not make you cool.
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by eropple 3y ago
I definitely feel that. Buying a 3D printer helped a lot with this, for me (and also building custom furniture with the aforementioned cable tracks). I've been able to (for not a lot of money) print raceways and cable ports that keeps
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by eropple 3y ago
The downsides are pretty large: you're betting on using those plugs forever. With USB-C that is a better bet than USB-A, but...yeah. Better is the modular/drop-in approach and using through-panel connectors. Cable hiding is cool,
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by eropple 3y ago
Oracle also offers 4CPU/24GB of Ampere, if you can run your stuff on ARM.
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by eropple 3y ago
> You can’t beat Prusa: the printers come out of the box working perfectly At the cost of being old and slow. I wouldn't be throwing roses to Prusa after they effectively ceded the market to everyone else. For $200, you can get a
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by eropple 3y ago
Re: Node - most waiting in most web applications is IO-driven, but yes you do want to run under a process controller.
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by eropple 3y ago
You can do that easily in modern Java--even for older JVMs, tools like Netty and later Vertx have been around forever. Or in Node, even more easily. Elixir/BEAM do have some benefits that are worth considering for many projects. But th
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by eropple 3y ago
It's not people who give a shit about climate change who are saying that air conditioning is bad. Maybe you'll find a lone crazy to validate the persection complex that compels such a mendacious post, and you'll definitely ge
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by eropple 3y ago
Phoenix is quite nice if you're coming to it from a dynamically-typed environment, but I'd strongly dispute that its type system is "good enough" at large (human, not technological) scales. Phoenix itself makes good deci
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by eropple 3y ago
> Those parking minimums and car centric developments continue to be policy because people continue choosing it This is unambiguously true, but at the same time it's not an answer. There's a deeper problem here that I don&#x2
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by eropple 3y ago
Do they? Or is it the only game in town because of decisions made sixty years ago and housing pressures and cost structures mean that if you want to live at an affordable level in that area a car is functionally required? (Hint: in almost
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by eropple 3y ago
> I've not commented on whether it's good or bad. I'm commenting about the apparent surprise at their behavior. I assure you that I am not surprised. I am angry, though.
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by eropple 3y ago
I mean, I understand it quite well. Through this understanding I am able to come to the conclusion that it bad . Like, the very concept of a corporation is ordained by a society to provide benefit to the society, not (just) to the sharehol
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by eropple 3y ago
There is a difference between "making money" and "capturing the entire thing because our growth-addled brains cannot conceive of not allocating all of the money to us ". If you fire on the ecosystem, sometimes (not ofte
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by eropple 3y ago
How did Hashicorp "take the right approach"? They wanted $$money$$, they didn't want Terraform to be bigger or better or to cede control of it to anyone else. Having seen Spacelift, Pulumi, etc. over the last few years, I hav
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by eropple 3y ago
I can't speak to it, but I do know that icebreakers aren't in the same maritime class (I forget the specific term here?) as those other ships. There just might not be somebody who checks both boxes.
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by eropple 3y ago
They'd also need to be trained on piloting the ship. There aren't many of those ships.
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by eropple 3y ago
You can sign an intermediary certificate, but nothing stops you from then giving that to an LLM.
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by eropple 3y ago
I'm currently noodling on a blog website and I'm thinking about adding a "recommendations" page largely in an anti-influencer sort of way--any affiliate marketing money is pretty incidental to somebody working in tech, b

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