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We haven’t seen a quarter of known bee species since the 1990s(nationalgeographic.com)
638 points by esarbe 6y ago|220 comments
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by esarbe 6y ago
Malthus wasn't wrong in a sense that /if/ there's geometric population growth, there /will/ come a point where a die-off of said population is inevitable. Funny thing is that Malthus already recognized the effe
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by esarbe 6y ago
Well, I've been working in financial and data services for many, many years now and I can tell you as much: many of the code bases I've been dealing with (and am dealing with) written in less strictly typed languages (much Python,
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by esarbe 6y ago
Scala is just an amazing language. I'm very happy that the worst of the 'Scala as a worse Haskell' days is over and that the Scala community is finding it's own programming style. I remember years ago when I had a heated
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by esarbe 6y ago
If you want to build native mobile apps, you probably better stick with Kotlin/Java on Android and Swift/ObjectiveC on IOS. If you want to build progressive web apps; sure. You can use Cordova ( https://cordova.apache.or
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by esarbe 6y ago
Is there a language with better tooling and a better ecosystem? Because the Scala tooling has become quite awesome in the last three to four years and the ecosystem is superb. Sure, you can go with Kotlin which I guess shares much of the ec
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by esarbe 6y ago
Scala and Scala.js ( https://www.scala-js.org/ ) It's an amazing stack, integrates nicely into the existing ecosystem and has phenomenal usability.
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From First Principles: Why Scala?(lihaoyi.com)
7 points by esarbe 6y ago|0 comments
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by esarbe 6y ago
Both these applications are open source. And even if I teach my grandma to start a VM everytime she wants to send me a message - they still have to be packaged for each and every distribution. That doesn't seem practical.
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by esarbe 6y ago
.... and still you need something to run those apps and utils like Signal or Threema and those will never get into the base system. It wouldn't make sense. And you don't want to burden the developers of that software to have to pa
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by esarbe 6y ago
Let me quote: > D-Bus has also been criticized as being bloated and over-engineered, though those claims are often unsubstantiated and only come from online rants. It remains that D-Bus is still heavily popular and that there’s no replac
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by esarbe 6y ago
Why? All these components -- polkit, dbus, wayland, pipewire -- allow for sandboxing of applications. Flatpak already makes use of that to isolate applications from the system. If anything it will reduce the security nightmare.
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by esarbe 6y ago
I'm pretty happy that GDRP finally starts being used to limit that type of data agglutination. Max Schrems and NYOB are doing a great job pushing for better privacy protection in Europe. I just hope that the big ones also either change
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by esarbe 6y ago
Holy crap, indeed! The older I get, the more icky I find subtyping. It just makes things messy...
885.
by esarbe 6y ago
No, not acually. Generics in Go are vastly different than templates in C++. They might be used for similar things, but whereas Go's generics actually build up on Go's structural typing, templates are ... something completely diffe
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by esarbe 6y ago
I don't think that Go ever was a very good successor to C. Go might have been conceived as a systems language, but simply because of the GC it can never ever fill that niche. Go is a perfectly fine middleware language, but no C replace
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by esarbe 6y ago
How about sets?
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by esarbe 6y ago
I like Gnome. I use it every day and I'm very satisfied. There might be little issues here and there, but no other DE gets out of my way and lets me do my work like Gnome. Thanks guys and gals!
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by esarbe 6y ago
Unfortunately very few democracies give their sovereign that much power. They prefer to keep power in the hands of the bureaucracy.
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by esarbe 6y ago
Yeah. The first really troublesome sign of climate change for most Europeans will be the waves of migrants desperately trying to find a place to live away from their homes that have been turned inhabitable because of climate change. And the
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by esarbe 6y ago
And yet the hottest 10 years in recorded history are 2009, 2005, 2013, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2019, 2016. Yeah. Nothingburger.
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by esarbe 6y ago
Dude. No one's claiming that the planet hasn't seen worse. It's been worse. It's been freezing cold for hundreds of millions of years. It's been blazing hot for hundreds of millions of years. No one is claiming that
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by esarbe 6y ago
Nope. It still applies to all users not in the EU.
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by esarbe 6y ago
> But I certainly think the current implementation is so absurd as to be worth challenging. Absolutely.
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by esarbe 6y ago
That's an unfortunate drawback of a constituency trained to prioritize short-term goals. I wonder if it's possible to change this and have a 'wise' constituency that is able to do a more long-term prioritization.
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by esarbe 6y ago
Are you sure about that? Myself, I think that copyright today has been grotesquely distorted away from its original intent; the furthering of the arts. Especially in the U.S. and E.U., the media oligopoly has had enormous success in transfo
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by esarbe 6y ago
I don't know. Just ignore them, the hate is not relevant.
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by esarbe 6y ago
China has done an amazing thing in lifting so many hundreds of millions out of extreme poverty and even poverty. But then again; with the means of a tyrannical dictatorships I guess it's pretty easy to implement the policies that will
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by esarbe 6y ago
>> There's barely any interesting development to the main character. >> the author is not writing in the American tradition where a "character arc" is expected. My critique is less about a "character arc&quot
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by esarbe 6y ago
The checks and balances against the tyranny of the majority, I guess.

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