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by glogla 5y ago
2030/35 is a trojan horse because it is far too late. That's 15 years from now, and vehicles easily live for 20 years, so when people born today will be 35, there still be ICE cars around. Thats not a measure to help, thats a fake
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by glogla 5y ago
Of course I would campaign for it to be accessible. It would be a complete revolution in archeology, architecture, engineering, maintenance, rescue and firefighting and geology should it also work on rocks. Not sure I see the relation to Ap
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by glogla 5y ago
Notch could have put 99.95 % of his riches i to helping to fix and save the world without imactong his living standard. He could have made lives of a lot of people better. I know I would. If he chose not to, and he feels empty, thats on him
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by glogla 5y ago
I would recommend "non" instead of "post" but otherwise agreed.
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by glogla 5y ago
Yup. The other axis is "do they dogfood?" meaning "if I go to amazon.com is the service used?" The services Amazon built for themselves - s3, rds, ec2, dynamo, ... are generally pretty good. Redshift and glue? Not so muc
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by glogla 5y ago
Architects are supposed to sit higher, seeing both more systems (where developers focus on theirs) and seeing further in time (where developers are focused on their next release or two). I see the job of an architect to work on how things w
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by glogla 5y ago
> Not to mention the consistent 20-30% productivity drain working in an office seems to have across the board at most tech orgs. I don't think it's so clear cut. In less collaborative environments, nobody interrupts you and you
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by glogla 5y ago
This of the externalities. To get "gas ranger extender" you still need oil drills, tankers, pipelines, refineries, tanker trucks, gas stations. Without gas cars, we can retire all that infrastructure.
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by glogla 5y ago
Does Apache 2.0 license protect from Embrace, Extend, Extinguish (Microsoft) or from Embrace, SaaS, Tax (AWS and the like) in any way?
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by glogla 5y ago
That's why I like this (10 years old, wow!) Nissan Leaf ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn__9hLJKAk It is obviously ridiculously over the top, but I think it paints interesting analogy.
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by glogla 5y ago
Only when you take for granted the whole infrastructure of mining millions of years old ferns, shipping them around world in pipelines and ships and trucks to burn them in tiny explosions many times a second to get wheels to turn. Which, ta
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by glogla 5y ago
> Hybrids were a mediocre half-measure and hydrogen was a worse solution to the problem. I believe it is more sinister - most of hydrogen currently available is made "almost free" from natural gas. So behind hydrogen, I would e
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by glogla 5y ago
Yeah, improving nothing as natural gas has similar OC2e to coal (with much smaller CO2 - but the methane makes up for it, to it comes up the same), while giving money to Europe's enemies. Perfect.
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by glogla 5y ago
The police abolitionism is much stronger in the US, where you can trace lineage of police to slavers and union-busting hit squads, than in the rest of the civilized world.
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by glogla 5y ago
It is a perfect moment since you can see the low level people panicking while the true bosses are like "ugh, this is going be so annoying to fix", completely uncaring about murdering someone. What a wonderful glimpse into corporat
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by glogla 5y ago
SQL is not a great API but its a great human interface. JSON based query language is much better API but terrible human interface. So depending on your objectives, it might make things better or worse. MySQL is strange choice but think I un
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by glogla 5y ago
I think most of the criticism is about SQL not being the best programming language - a language in which pros build application, especially web applications. And SQL is truly not best at that. It is not the best API. But in my world, SQL is
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by glogla 5y ago
Which seems very much align with what has Microsoft been trying to do for decades now.
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by glogla 5y ago
I mean it is what the bilionaires do and look where it got them. Seems our ancestors built a society that rewards it - and maybe we're in a place where it is unfixable due to the inertia of power. So yeah.
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by glogla 5y ago
Carmack has net worth of $50 million. Him saying "exploitation by big tech is not a problem, really" is very different than normal person saying it - his well being is not on the line and never will be. Go ask authors of ElasticSe
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by glogla 5y ago
Compare https://metriql.com/introduction/creating-datasets and https://docs.lightdash.com/guides/how-to-create-metrics I though you are affiliated somehow, but looking at it now, it seems you just
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by glogla 5y ago
> Actually, no. We model our data this way so it can be used for business decisions Yeah, that would be my disagreement as well. Sure, some of Kimball might be obsoleted by modern technology. But I don't think the point of Kimball i
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by glogla 5y ago
Is that related to lightdash.com somehow? It seems like a very similar technology and also the webpages for both are almost identical.
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by glogla 5y ago
Yeah but it's nitpicky :) Maybe "past 5 years" mean "over everything" and then it might technically be one column. Or if you're using something like S3 with Parquet for "columnar database" and it is p
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by glogla 5y ago
Yup. At my job we ended up some way too important stuff "modelled in BI tool" in a way that nobody could understand how it actually works, and had to do full rewrite to model it in SQL. But not all BI tools are alike - something l
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by glogla 5y ago
This is interesting article - I found that part about being "Oracle shop / Microsoft Shop" pretty insightful, as well as their argument "some major cloud is going to grab our open source and start selling it so we need t
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by glogla 5y ago
Diesel fumes will dissipate locally, but they will cause Global Climate Change that threatens to destroy human civilization as we know it. Meanwhile, radioactive toxic stuff will remain toxic locally.
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by glogla 5y ago
> "Just build nuclear" - As per the post itself, we need to build 3 nuclear plants every day until 2050 to replace the entire grid with nuclear. Yeah not realistic. > Average world electricity consumption is about 3 TW or 30
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The German Media Got Manipulated into Spreading Anti-EV Nonsense Again(cleantechnica.com)
4 points by glogla 5y ago|0 comments
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by glogla 5y ago
> First: what's the carbon footprint of concrete? What is footprint of wood framing? Carbon footprint of wood framing is terrible, because its mostly made of engineered wood with a lot of oil in it.

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