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by guscost 8y ago
Gee, it’s almost as if the phrase means whatever is needed at the time to win an argument. When an opponent says that the evidence of anthropogenic cause and/or catastrophic effects doesn’t meet the threshold of proof they want before
812.
by guscost 8y ago
How is this not climate change? It's a (predicted) change in the climate.
813.
by guscost 8y ago
For those who haven’t seen it, here’s the classic Funniest Joke in the World skit: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YeMnPyusuBE
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by guscost 8y ago
> physicists have poured over the footage and ruled out every other possible explanation. This seems unlikely, to put it mildly.
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by guscost 8y ago
But if the time needed to test and deploy a change is so ludicrous, it seems like you'd rarely get a big-enough window to rerun your tests before the upstream changes again. Either people are merging in unstable code, or the release li
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by guscost 8y ago
How would you know that merging code from the first bugfix wouldn't break the (just tested) code from the second bugfix?? Would you assume that the first bugfix will be merged first and branch off of that?
817.
by guscost 8y ago
Many if not most tests are a waste of time (especially when the same guarantees are provided by, say, a type system). That said, automated tests catch a problem that would make it to production just about weekly in my experience. If you&#x2
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by guscost 8y ago
> Anybody have any recommendations for a [Red Hat Package Manager] based distro with good KDE support? You mean like Fedora or CentOS?
819.
by guscost 8y ago
Not present in this anecdote: - The replication crisis is real - The university system is a huge and corrupt industry - The university is no longer a "safe space" for wrong-thinkers But sure, whenever someone rejects good science
820.
by guscost 8y ago
Here's another colorful retelling: 199X: We have proxies that show 1998 is the warmest year in history, and things are warming so fast that we're in serious trouble. Give us power! 200X: OK, luckily 1998 was an outlier but we&#x27
821.
by guscost 8y ago
Malthusian activism goes back at least to 1972, but I doubt that any of the early climate change research was originally planned as a political weapon.
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by guscost 8y ago
> It's not your exhalation that is menacing the future of humans and other animals I don't trust you, or anyone else, with the power to make this determination. > These are people who know (and in many cases have known for d
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by guscost 8y ago
Forests are not a linear system. If everyone still burned wood for power we'd lose millions of acres of forest very quickly, and they wouldn't grow back. Unless/until the people died off I guess.
824.
by guscost 8y ago
Yep that's wrong, my bad. Emissions are going down, but not enough for those targets.
825.
by guscost 8y ago
People used to burn mostly wood for energy, then coal, then oil. Each material has more energy per carbon molecule than the last. Natural gas releases still more energy per carbon molecule, and nuclear fission is a different paradigm that d
826.
by guscost 8y ago
This is a tricky subject, and we're probably on opposing sides of the political argument, but if you're interested: Sure, there are people who say "no greenhouse gases, no global warming" and stop thinking at that point.
827.
by guscost 8y ago
Ah government, the "original corporation" that occasionally decides your grandmother is a problem, organizes a pogrom, and shoots her.
828.
by guscost 8y ago
More like "mandatory medical testing at the airport because some people don't vaccinate" from my perspective. It's a "subsidy" because we all have to spend time on it, even though lots of people don't rece
829.
by guscost 8y ago
CORS is a technical subsidy granted to (sloppy) users of cookie authentication. I’ve never worked on a project where it was anything other than an annoying hoop to jump through.
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by guscost 8y ago
I would not be surprised if someday more than one of your first four questions are all resolved by the discovery that theoreticians have made a bad assumption, and have been chasing today’s phlogiston or aether. This might coincide with the
831.
by guscost 8y ago
While the typesetting helps here, I think a lot is due to the writing style. Writing easy-to-read content is difficult, and it’s usually not that obvious when you’re reading it, because you’re absorbing the concepts rather than struggling w
832.
by guscost 8y ago
This is the best outline of the Go generics issue I've seen. As an outsider to the language (for now), thanks for writing this. What's the current conversation on sharing binary code? Unless I'm missing something, this is fun
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by guscost 8y ago
Eh, I think you’re experiencing something else. Moderation and hedging phrases seem more like blue-chip stocks in the internet points risk/reward game. You’re almost guaranteed not to lose that many points with a stance fewer folks w
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by guscost 8y ago
This is pretty cool. And it could be the first of other climate changing effects, like changing albedo based on reflectiveness of the landscape, or humidity and atmospheric dynamics leading to clouds, leading to more scattering/trappin
835.
by guscost 8y ago
From my perspective, an authority with power to regulate the gas that all animals exhale seems like a more serious threat to myself and to those I care about. I can understand how you might disagree though.
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by guscost 8y ago
The point is that let's see a "blockchain organization" (like the DAO or something) succeed first before scaling it up, you know?
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by guscost 8y ago
If it makes you feel any better, nobody really gives a shit about these stupid regulations and nobody is going to stop folks from saying whatever they want here, or anywhere else if here becomes impractical. My personal website (not updated
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by guscost 8y ago
That’s an interesting perspective to be sure, but let’s back up a bit. Has a blockchain proven that it can run a smaller organization yet? What happened to the DAO after all the hype and scandal? I’m not in the anti-blockchain macro-economi
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by guscost 8y ago
I get your point, but you have to acknowledge that there is a gap between "suffering from mental issues" and "treatment is necessary" even in wealthy societies like America and free-healthcare societies like Britain. The
840.
by guscost 8y ago
Well it's piped through a mixer first, and cmon, it was 25 bucks :)

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