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by flukus 6y ago
You're confusing being an island with becoming one, any nation can be an island if they close their borders. In Australia we had islands inside the island, several states with land borders closed them to the rest of the country and hav
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by flukus 6y ago
This is because it was reintroduced by returning Australians due to the rest of the worlds inability to contain it. Now we'll hopefully have some minor restrictions until we get on top of things again because you can effectively contac
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by flukus 6y ago
This is the sort of thing I find OSM much better at, being an actual map and displaying this sort of up to date information, not to mention actually rendering street names and important landmarks instead of random businesses. Of course you
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by flukus 6y ago
I feel like a lockdown rating system to compare what various countries and states are doing would be helpful to those outside. Something like +1 for closed retail, +1 for closed schools, +3 when outdoor exercise isn't allowed, +0.5 for
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by flukus 6y ago
Or both in the case of places like The_Donald and voat, there's very little intelligent discussion going on and the enemy is always the "elites". The elites aren't the 1%, they're experts like doctors and people wit
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by flukus 6y ago
One of the best products I've had to maintain recently was a cgi app with very few abstractions, many of the pages in the app didn't even have functions, just construct sql, read it and spit out html. If someone had a problem all
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by flukus 6y ago
At the time of posting the front page of voat has the following threads: A moment of silence for all the FBI glowniggers that just got laid off. - https://voat.co/v/funny/4170215 If you go back to Reddit, you&#x27
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by flukus 6y ago
> Nokia started with GTK and when they went to Qt Did they ever actually get to this point? I understand it was the long term plan but the only MeeGo phones actually released by nokia were still GTK based.
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by flukus 6y ago
I think this argument is just a variant of: 1. Scientist predicts x by y. 2. Politicians take action to prevent x by y. 3. x by y didn't happen, therefor scientists were wrong. It's like complaining your sys admins do nothing beca
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by flukus 6y ago
"Absolute beginners" does not mean there is no pre-requisite knowledge necessary, just no pre-requesite knowledge of C. If I took an "absolute beginners guide to calculus" it would be assumed or directly stated that the
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by flukus 6y ago
Can you build from source? This is often enough to get around automatic detection and/or will be in you're whitelisted development folder. It is also often not against any company policy that would get you in trouble.
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by flukus 6y ago
This is a failure of the dev team not evaluating that libraries are stable enough for their organization. If you can't keep up with the iterations of the libraries you're using then you shouldn't be using those libraries in t
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by flukus 6y ago
Size is the main thing, plants like corn haven't had much in the way of vertical constraints so until we adapt new shorter breeds of them you can only grow so much per cubic meter and the economics doesn't work out compared to an
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by flukus 6y ago
Java was full of AbstractSingletonBeanFactory classes long before unit testing became a thing, or at least before it was a widespread. I think IOC containers actually helped eliminate many of these abstraction overall, you need many less si
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by flukus 6y ago
It's partly in the language itself with everything needing to be an object and the way you have to fight the language to use lower level abstractions like static methods, out of the box the language is encouraging abstractions whether
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by flukus 6y ago
Most countries don't have an oath of allegiance, at least for the general populace. I think most of the world thinks of them as some weird third reich-esque thing.
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by flukus 6y ago
Regardless of what they actually make profit on, people stop there for the gas. Take the gas away and the same people to go to any store or mall and make the same purchases cheaper, or not at all.
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by flukus 6y ago
> Some uses of hydrocarbon cannot be easily replaced by renewable electricity but most can. When a cheaper substitute is available, demand and price drop. Assuming they can maintain that level of supply as demand drops. Some the economie
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by flukus 6y ago
One of the best comments I've ever read on HN said that they should be called interruptions not notifications. Interruptions are fine for certain things, but not the vast majority of them. The biggest one I've switched off is emai
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by flukus 6y ago
> No, there's a very noticeable drop in social mobility as well in mid-July according to: https://covid19.apple.com/mobility That is when stage 3 of the lockdown started and everyone had to work from home, the next
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by flukus 6y ago
> You can't say with such certainty that masks caused that reduction - in the simplested terms there are too many uncontrolled variables. There really aren't. This was the only major change in that period for 6 million people.
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by flukus 6y ago
> 1) I'm sure the people in Victoria did a lot more things than wear masks. If you throw everything and the kitchen sink at a problem, it's very hard to figure out which of the things you did actually worked. We were. But this
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by flukus 6y ago
> All epidemics follow a natural curve where the pathogen initially spreads exponentially, but slows down over time as R(t) decreases due to the increased presence of population immunity. We were absolutely no where near this point, we h
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by flukus 6y ago
https://chrisbillington.net/COVID_VIC.html This is real world data (more relevant than any study) from Victoria where a mandatory mask mandate for anyone outside their home was abruptly introduced, it's the orange and
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by flukus 6y ago
> This requires overbuilding, which is currently cheaper that storage, and the average generation is highly predictable for day-ahead or hour-ahead trading. We should also keep in mind that this isn't unique to renewables, all power
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by flukus 6y ago
You've probably had many interactions with meth addicts and had no idea they were addicts. As real as the skin conditions and tooth decay are there are still plenty of people that don't noticeably suffer in the same way because th
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by flukus 6y ago
For me the ban on smoking in bars was a great leveler, smokers would have to go outside and hang out with people that are all in different groups inside and everyone would chat to each other. Obviously "take up smoking" is bad adv
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by flukus 6y ago
People don't want to watch the credits, so netflix doesn't show them and/or makes them easy to skip. Want proof? Next time you're in a cinema watch how many people walk out as soon as the credits roll, most people want t
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by flukus 6y ago
> but we only developed intelligence once it seems. Depends on where your cutoff point of "intelligence" is, we've seen some form of intelligence evolve at least 3 times in birds, mammals and cephalopods. If it's evol
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by flukus 6y ago
I tried migrating to wsl (1) but there was just too many little things not working so went back to cygwin. WSL had issues with watching files, mounting some network drives and windows interop that I've never had with cygwin.

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