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4y ago
We get that Zig doesn't have memory safe features. How much of a big deal is that anyway - what proportion of issues are caused by memory safety errors? And as an aside - how many Rust codebases use unsafe code? (I don't know the
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4y ago
That's an excellent point. The US is a prime example of a nation-state that is too good to last. Humans just can't take it.
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4y ago
The US has significantly more cultural and economic cohesion than the EU, and there's a good chance it won't last my lifetime either.
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4y ago
>Battery storage and conversion losses are far less than the conversion losses from generating electricity from an ICE. No, they are not. Here's some research for large-scale battery storage systems: https://www.osti.gov&
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4y ago
Fuel oil is a very cheap way of generating power, when you have several thousand tons of it already on your ship :) The possible few percantage difference in efficiency between ship-based oil-powered generation, and land-based power generat
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4y ago
There isn't a way to do that without HGVs (heavy goods vehicles) paying practically all of the annual VED. It's pretty clear that "smart chargers" will become "smart tax revenue generators" in the near future.
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4y ago
>The least efficient part of any ship is turning mechanical energy into electrical I think you meant "most". The least efficient step is converting chemical energy into mechanical energy. Given the cheapness of fuel oil and gen
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4y ago
VED (Vehicle Exercise Duty), as it is currently known, is now based on emissions. It would be a hard sell to undo that, and base it on something else (like vehicle weight/size/etc). The most acceptable way to tax EVs at this point
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4y ago
If by "us vs them" you mean, "those of us who support the right of crypto users to demand support and software for free vs those who support people's right to choose where they invest their efforts", then I'm i
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4y ago
If this is typical sentiment from crypto users, then the maintainer has done the right thing. I too would not like to spend my spare time and energy supporting people who can't distinguish between "oppressing minorities" and
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4y ago
How are those statements possibly true? https://www.google.com/search?q=bitcoin+annual+energy+usage https://www.statista.com/statistics/580087/energy-use-of-fac... Facebook uses 6% the amount of p
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4y ago
>Their existence is threatened by crypto adoption and open source permissionless banking infrastructure. The only thing threatened by such things is the amount of time and money that devotees pour into them.
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4y ago
While we're picking random data points - Malillia (Sweden), at 57° N, set a record temperature of 38°C in 1947.
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4y ago
Pretty clearly you would have to radically re-think how much animal produce you would get to eat. Also - countries like The Netherlands have a strong tradition of backyard chickens to suppliment a household's diet.
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4y ago
How many of the animals that are >"Domestically FED and raised" ??
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4y ago
I'm fully aware of that, which is why I said "domestically FED and raised". >Also, the feeding animal 10KG to get 1KG looks rather wasteful? Depends heavily on what animal product you are producing. Obviously we won't
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4y ago
What is morally and ethically worse - eating an animal fed and raised domestically, or eating soy-laiden "plant-based" foods that were grown on recently-raized rainforest several thousand miles away? It's our demand for goods
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4y ago
I have worked very hard to stop my addiction to Youtube. I watched a lot of "lifestyle instructional" videos (ToT, Ave, Fireball Tools, LPL, Tom Lipton, Matt's Recovery, etc), but after you've had your "inspiration
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4y ago
You say "radical". I say "attempting to undo some of the damage of the past few years". Anyway, I've always had an independent streak, and never liked how my of my life was controlled through my phone by big tech. I
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>you are likely to understand my concern for privacy and personal integrity, I've given up on the high ideals I used to hold about (online) privacy (and anonymity). There's an argument that they, in some circumstances, are the
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4y ago
1. Ensure all docs/pics are backed up somewhere on a PC I own 2. Discard smartphone 3. Delete gmail account 4. Enjoy a peaceful and productive life!