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by flukus 7y ago
The problem is nuclear advocates can take the poster child for poor management and say it's perfectly safe: > Between 1950 and 2000, there were 21 serious incidents or accidents involving off-site radiological releases that warrante
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by flukus 7y ago
I doubt it, it seems there's enough cognitive dissonance that he'd be happy living next to Chernobyl, the station he grew up next to leaks like a sieve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellafield#Incidents
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by flukus 7y ago
We're definitely moving away from file-system-as-tree, but our destination seems to be more like grandma saving every file on the desktop than anything resembling rich metadata.
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by flukus 7y ago
> If these rough edges are "excuses" not to use the tool, then how is that not a perfectly legitimate reason not to use it? Because it gets a little old seeing people reason themselves into a position where they are stuck with
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by flukus 7y ago
Considering so many are in favor of deplatforming things they don't like we're a long way from this outcome. The last few years of de-platforming have laid the groundwork for the CCP, that's what happens when you don't h
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by flukus 7y ago
"Private companies are more efficient" is one of those things that's been said often enough that it becomes a "truth". This obviously doesn't pan out when you've got a monopoly or captive audience. Around
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by flukus 7y ago
Well said, no pain no gain. If your not prepared to walk away from proprietary software and deal with the rough edges then you're a captive audience and the creators of the proprietary software have no incentive to improve. And let&#x2
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by flukus 7y ago
Is there a way to donate to GNU directly? Seems like through the FSF is the only way and after their recent actions I'm not willing to do that.
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by flukus 7y ago
No, they don't remotely have the military might to invade the middle east, not that this is a bad thing, but to argue they do is just silly, they can't even invade Taiwan like they've wanted to do for 60 years. As for peacefu
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by flukus 7y ago
Then explain why pro CCP demonstrators are intimidating Honk Kong protesters the world over? Explain why their are so many new accounts astro-turfing for China? Just because they don't have the military might to do it directly doesn&#x
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by flukus 7y ago
The problem isn't that China has different values, it's that it's trying to apply those values in the west and to spread it's influence. This crosses a hard line that is unacceptable and if cutting off all relations with
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by flukus 7y ago
Maps isn't about maps anymore, it's a location database that happens to show a map sometimes. If you want an actual map with useful map features like showing street names then OSM is a far better product. I don't get me start
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by flukus 7y ago
You'd think Winnie the Poo would know this by now.
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by flukus 7y ago
I think it's possible, just hypocritical and ultimately self defeating. This is an example of how it's self defeating. For the last decade the left could have been focusing on extending worker protections and putting some hard lin
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by flukus 7y ago
It's not that they should be just as upset, it's that they don't have any sort of principled stance and are in the cheer squad when the same thing is happening to the other side. They cheer people losing jobs because they dis
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by flukus 7y ago
Political speech they agree with. We crossed these sorts of lines long ago but it was political speech they disagreed with then, so it's only bad now. If everyone had been more inclined to defend peoples right to views they don't
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by flukus 7y ago
It's not a trapped gas deposit, it's methane in a solid form spread across vast areas of the world so there's nothing to contain it and nothing to drill into. It's unlikely to have any concentrations for high enough and
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by flukus 7y ago
> No. Most methane calthrate exists at depths and pressures that will not be effected by warming for hundreds to thousands of years. The calthrate gun is on geological timescales, if we've created enough warming for the reaction to
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by flukus 7y ago
Bangladesh already suffers catastrophic floods and is already being exacerbated by human influences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floods_in_Bangladesh#Coverage_... Small changes that we'll see well before the end
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by flukus 7y ago
This is a vast area, you could float and light the whole amazon rain forest and it would only make a small dent for a day.
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by flukus 7y ago
> And because Blizzard is a private company, offering a service they maintain, they have the house right, they have the final say about who can partake and who can't. And most people here were endorsing this right when it came to th
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by flukus 7y ago
IME, if you haven't already then I'd suggest biting the bullet and learning GDB. It's not as nice to step through code but far more powerful than the features typically exposed by an IDE, or at best are only exposed by GDB&#x
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by flukus 7y ago
The problem with all these dark modes is that I end up with 50 shades of grey and things are harder to distinguish because there's no consistency on where to apply the various shades. It's a testament to how primitive the web is a
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by flukus 7y ago
Open source is only thriving behind the scenes and end users are getting more proprietary and less free software than decades ago as we move to cloud software. Having source code might not be much for end users, but they've got a lot b
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by flukus 7y ago
> Perhaps, but we do not know how much better it could be today if potential contributors were not dissuaded by the politics and behavior of the existing participants. Do you know how many potential contributors you'd lose by forcin
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by flukus 7y ago
Lately I keep seeing variations of the argument "I can't switch to x because the would be inconvenient somehow, so I'll just stick with y". Eg, "I can't switch to linux, because some games won't work so I&
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by flukus 7y ago
Bash is actually pretty decent at this by itself if you don't have a lot of extra columns: cat somefile.txt | while IFS=" " read one two; do echo -e "$one\t$two"; done IME the pattern matching is where awk
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by flukus 7y ago
How often do you get warnings that aren't either real bugs or trivial to fix anyway? The problem with ignoring warnings is that they tend to accumulate and before long you can't see the ones you really do need to pay attention to.
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by flukus 7y ago
There is more: https://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html The biggest problem with the agile manifesto is that armies of agile consultants and scrum masters have never heard of it.
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by flukus 7y ago
> You're still thinking of languages as these huge things that can be offered as products. I do wonder if "Data Specific Language" would be a better acronym, successful DSL's are nearly always confined to processing v

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