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by fleddr 4y ago
Not to mention their role in pollination. 80% of plants are pollinated by animals, mostly insects. This includes 35% of food plants.
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by fleddr 4y ago
I'm totally with you. I'm annoyed by the climate change (CO2) narrative. It is far too narrow. Rather we should be talking about an umbrella of unsustainability that includes wildlife decimation, biodiversity collapsing, pollution
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by fleddr 4y ago
I find it bizarre how lax society treats digital property. To search my home, you need a warrant, based on a reasonable suspicion. Opening my snail mail is a federal crime. When I hire a storage box at a private company, it can't be op
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by fleddr 4y ago
Respectfully, I think your take on this does not work. If before you have a frequent flyer that regularly eats meat, and next they stop eating meat, that is to be celebrated. It's still massive progress. Further, their footprint from f
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by fleddr 4y ago
The point of an insecticide is to kill the specific insect being a pest to the crop. Not to kill every single insect altogether. Maybe people like you should experience what a world without insects would look like. I can save you the time.
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by fleddr 4y ago
It most definitely is. But even without pesticides, insects cannot survive without plant diversity. At least most groups can't.
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by fleddr 4y ago
They were blamed not for climate change, instead for nitrogen disposition. This is a uniquely Dutch problem, largely unrelated to CO2. In larger countries, there's clear zoning and distance between protected nature and intensive agricu
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by fleddr 4y ago
It's a worldwide thing. An urbanized population does not care about nature. At all. Modern life is almost fully abstracted away from it, and it seems fine to destroy it for as long as our delicate lifestyle remains intact. Every once i
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by fleddr 4y ago
I happen to study/photograph insects as an amateur and can casually confirm the collateral damage pesticides have on insect life. A common manifestation of it is to find lethargic insects. Bodily fully intact and seeming healthy, yet b
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by fleddr 4y ago
An uncomfortable way to look at it, but the more freedom and convenience we acquire, the less social we end up being. Starting with religion. I'm not religious myself, but that doesn't mean I can't acknowledge it as a powerfu
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by fleddr 4y ago
Just give up on low-end Windows laptops in combination with non-savvy users. Give them an iPad instead. Starts instantly, not in 10 minutes. Great battery life. Automatic backups when properly enabled. Far less security and malware risks. F
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by fleddr 4y ago
I strongly object to the framing where a species is considered logical to go extinct for it was not "robust" enough. The words "specialist" and "niche" are incredibly misplaced as it comes to insects. Consider
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by fleddr 4y ago
And to make matters worse, AI is coming for us. Specifically for our creativity, soon destroying any sense of remaining human meaning. And we're on the verge of a AR/VR breakthrough, probably making the screen time issue even wors
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by fleddr 4y ago
Here in the ultra-dense Netherlands, threats to insects are magnified. As such, it's easier to point to specific causes. Butterflies: 50% reduction in 50 years. Beetles: 75% decline since 1985. Ladybugs: 50% reduction in 20 years. Acro
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by fleddr 4y ago
I feel obliged to share a gotcha regarding nesting... The idea of nesting in SASS/SCSS is that you need a combination of selectors, and you don't want to repeatedly type out the first one. What I often see though is developers usi
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by fleddr 4y ago
It's so interesting, these waves of CSS improvements. Before the flexbox/grid arrival, there were years of near-zero progress. The flexbox/grid release, uniquely coordinated across browsers (for once), was an excellent milest
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by fleddr 4y ago
"So when Stability AI says we have to slow down just a little it's because if we don't deal with very reasonable feedback from society and our own communities then there is a chance open source AI simply won't exist...&q
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by fleddr 4y ago
"From full stack engineering to DevOps practitioner, our industry loves to pretend everyone can do everything." To me, this gets to the heart of the matter. As example, I present the required skillset for a front-end engineer: ht
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by fleddr 4y ago
Your imaginary deeply pessimistic scenario only highlights the issue: if you have an adversial relationship with science because you don't like the outcomes, then we're stuck on major issues in our society. Climate science is wide
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by fleddr 4y ago
The businesses you mention, small shops depending on electronic components, continue to suffer. They're last in line in the supply chain shortages, and many are disappearing.
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by fleddr 4y ago
The problem is the word "probably". There's no smoking gun, just an increased likelihood. Yet a very definitive conclusion is made prematurely. Even if you find such entity "spamming" links, it still doesn't me
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by fleddr 4y ago
It's basically a batteries not included problem. Say you create a new React app. The fact that you do is an indicator that the core tech (web tech in this case) does not satisfy your needs out of the box. So you grab a framework from &
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by fleddr 4y ago
Never had such issues, you can still do decent coordination in such hand-overs. Honestly the only issue was the inflexibility of the hardware.
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by fleddr 4y ago
New account. So? People create new accounts all the time. How do accounts come into existence? Tweeting out links. So? One of the most basic use cases there are, for example a brand tweeting links to press releases. From multiple locations.
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by fleddr 4y ago
I started my career in simpler times. Developers would produce a zip and handed it over to an admin guy. Dev and Infra/Ops clearly separated. No CI, sometimes not even a build step. I understand the power and flexibility of the cloud b
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by fleddr 4y ago
I won't take offense. It's always the crazy ones challenging consensus, I expect my insights to be celebrated a few decades after my death.
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by fleddr 4y ago
This is great, I would add one critical ingredient: provide actual customer care. Meaning, the "way out" is to point users to customer care, but this still does not help if customer care is shit. And we know it often is. Customer
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by fleddr 4y ago
A proton contains an entire universe on its own, and our universe itself is a proton. You will never reach the end of its depth as it will reveal just another nesting level, until you hit the level where one would require more than all of t
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by fleddr 4y ago
Very limiting to couple the pursuit of knowledge to application, commercial exploitation, or laying our "will" on the world.
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by fleddr 4y ago
Those are fair counter points. Another issue is the lack of political capital. Very often a product "owner" doesn't own much at all. Some may have reasonable decision power but it's constantly undermined by powerful othe

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