fooblitzky

9 ms·

31.
by fooblitzky 7y ago
For two main reasons: efficiency and preventing habitat loss. Higher densities of people make many things more efficient, e.g. shared heating in apartment building, making mass transit viable, sharing resources like food and water. Climate
32.
by fooblitzky 7y ago
I've heard of one car-free mother that moved seven kids around by bike on a daily basis. If memory serves, she got a shout-out in this book: https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/item/show/2862141030
33.
by fooblitzky 7y ago
I believe they are referring to the Tk GUI toolkit, which is intended for use from Tcl and really nice to work with. It is full featured and has plenty of widgets and layout controllers. You can find out all about Tk here: https:/&#x2
34.
by fooblitzky 7y ago
"Under the hood, Aquameta is a "datafied" web stack, built entirely in PostgreSQL. The structure of a typical web framework is represented in Aquameta as big database schema with 6 postgreSQL schemas containing ~60 tables, ~5
35.
by fooblitzky 7y ago
Maybe this? https://aws.amazon.com/dms/?nc2=h_ql_prod_mt_dbms
36.
by fooblitzky 7y ago
It seems if you use '=' it leads to dangerous programming bugs[1], whereas ':=' somehow prevents those bugs? [1] https://effbot.org/pyfaq/why-can-t-i-use-an-assignment-in-an...
37.
by fooblitzky 7y ago
Seeing the explosion in e-bike popularity, maybe they should have focused on those instead. In addition to being a smaller, cheaper product with higher margins, you have a much larger market to sell to (not many countries have roads like th
38.
by fooblitzky 7y ago
The AWS Oil & Gas offering is explicitly about helping "energy companies" find and extract more oil, faster . From their page: "Accelerate and optimize exploration, drilling, and production". That's not just
39.
by fooblitzky 7y ago
I think the point was the NBA needs to take a stance on HK itself, in support of democracy. "We support free speech" is a cop-out, because China is happy for you to support free speech, as long as you don't say anything they
40.
by fooblitzky 7y ago
The one that gets me is Warren Aakervik - he retired long ago, but still comes into the office of Ballard Oil for the sole purpose of delaying the Missing Link. It's a poor legacy to work so hard for, in a city packed with inspiring ex
41.
by fooblitzky 7y ago
"[Ryan Vancil] argued that the SEPA delays on Mandatory Housing Affordability, the Burke Gilman Trail, and Fort Lawton were due more to his office’s unusually high caseload." - Yes, that explains the 20 year delay on the BGT Missi
42.
by fooblitzky 7y ago
Self-driving and electric cars won't solve traffic congestion. 112 sq ft/person is not efficient for transit.
43.
by fooblitzky 7y ago
You are still describing a situation where a client connects directly to a server. At Google, those client connections are probably kept open at a load balancer. The load balancer has its own connections to servers on the other side, and th
44.
by fooblitzky 7y ago
The article considers efficiency from the client side, but it doesn't really consider scaling effects on the server side. Simple polling requests coming in are easy to load-balance, either randomly or by a round-robin scheme. It's
45.
by fooblitzky 7y ago
I agree that thinking humanity will be wiped out in 15 years is over the top. I think though, that anyone that has fully grasped the IPCC reports, has to go through a grieving process that begins with despair. Climate change is unlikely to
46.
by fooblitzky 7y ago
You are 100% correct, this is known as the carbon-fee-and-dividend[1] scheme, and it has a number of advantages for all sides: * It does not further harm poor people - as everyone receives an equal dividend, it makes a bigger impact the les
47.
by fooblitzky 7y ago
Yes, you are right, I was off by a factor of 1000, must have typed '000' one too many times. Sorry. Also, yes, the TWh was a per year amount.
48.
by fooblitzky 7y ago
Is it really safer than solar? "The problems with today’s reactors, such as the risk of accidents, can be solved through innovation." - this is an example of wishful thinking. We don't know how we would solve the problems, we
49.
by fooblitzky 7y ago
That would probably also have the effect of reflecting some of the energy leaving Earth back down onto it, essentially increasing the greenhouse effect. Also, assuming you need to reflect 2% of the incoming light, and using 8ft diameter bal
50.
by fooblitzky 7y ago
I think your last statement is absolutely on point. If we as a species had addressed climate change when it was first raised as an important issue in the 1970's, it would not have required nearly the same level of upheaval that address
51.
by fooblitzky 7y ago
You'd think in 2019 that they could think of another use besides managing a shopping list for the woman.
52.
by fooblitzky 7y ago
Renewables would be ahead on cost down to USD 9-10/barrel: https://investors-corner.bnpparibas-am.com/investment-themes...
53.
by fooblitzky 7y ago
Excellent. I hope the technology also works for truck drivers.
54.
by fooblitzky 7y ago
That Venus may once have had an Earth-like climate, until it hit a "runaway greenhouse gas state", is a scary thought considering our current challenges on Earth (and melting permafrost and methane bubbles). Sometimes people say &
55.
by fooblitzky 7y ago
How can you meet Paris commitments early when you are working on helping oil & gas companies extract fossil fuels from the ground even faster? https://aws.amazon.com/oil-and-gas/
56.
by fooblitzky 7y ago
Where does AWS Oil & Gas fit into the picture? https://aws.amazon.com/oil-and-gas/
57.
by fooblitzky 7y ago
Hopefully more people will start riding e-bikes, which are much more efficient. 10 miles ~ 200Wh.
58.
by fooblitzky 7y ago
Currently both Amazon and FedEx both use independent contractors (sorry, entrepreneurs) - and your experience will vary widely with the contractors operating in your area. We always groan when FedEx is doing the delivery, because in our ar
59.
by fooblitzky 7y ago
My credit union (First Tech) does wires. It goes through another bank, but they allow me to initiate it from my account etc, so there's no practical difference.
60.
by fooblitzky 7y ago
The author is very cavalier about open source licenses - they seem to be implying you can just use open source code whenever you want, even for closed-source, proprietary applications. Whether or not that is true depends on the licenses inv

More ›