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by h0l0cube 4y ago
> Keep in mind that in this case, even a perfectly functioning democracy may not give you the result you expect I don't expect to fully know the will of the majority. If the majority think that clearer skies are great, and let&#x27
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
> I'd much rather have the city than not. I think cities are great, but it's nice to leave the city. And with more intelligent lights, we can have lighting when and where we need it. And with lower air pollution, enjoy breath
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
Collective action can help, but at an industrial scale, a functioning democracy is necessary to mitigate the tragedy of the commons. A functioning democracy requires an empowered and informed voting population. Corruption from industry seek
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
So am I. Particulates in the atmosphere make light pollution much worse.
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
I agree, but as air pollution improves around the world, that ruination is being reversed
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
> But people born in the future will think it's just normal and nice. We are ‘people born in the future’ compared to our cave ancestors, and I wager if you asked just about anyone if they thought an unobstructed milky way was ‘nicer
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
>See this actually worries me - why do you feel like that? If you think what you're being asked to do could introduce bugs and you're not convinced about how much revenue it will generate then you probably should be having a co
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
And to my original point: that a business requirement adds more potential bugs is not sufficient to obviate implementing it. The only sufficient argument is that it doesn’t provide the product owner as much value as it costs to implement an
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
Either way you’re still fulfilling business requirements. If there’s a more efficient way to serve the same goal, you’re talking optimisation, and that absolutely aligns with a smaller code base (again the actual point of the article), bu
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
> You rarely see business requirements. You see an interpretation of them. At the end of the day, you answer to the bottom line. If you can achieve what is needed of your program (i.e., the business requirements) with less code, it seem
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
> A good engineer in my opinion isn't one who can build things well, but one who is willing to say, "no I'm not building that at all" and even remove features that are being used if the cost of maintaining those featu
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
Consumption-based accounting shows across-the-board drop in the rate of CO2 emissions (for every continent [0]). Consumption-based accounting is, to quote OWID: > production-based emissions minus emissions embedded in exports, plus emis
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
Also, here's a graph from Our World In Data using consumption-based accounting for CO2 emissions. Note that US, Europe, and even India are declining in consumption (and China seems to be plateauing) https://ourworldindata
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
You can add erlang BEAM to that list. I was reading this article to see if it would inform me on how to better scale my elixir apps, and the answer is: no. It’s built to handle embarrassingly parallel computation by ensuring all lightweight
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
> It needs a battery that runs all day. It needs to not get hot and burn someone's face. It needs to be fast and responsive in terms of both local processing and network data transmission. The first AR glasses will be close to dummy
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
> you should store the state in the external system It's an old talk, but this one has a strategy for robustly persisting state across ephemeral containers. The example here is running a multiplayer game server while doing code upd
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
Agreed, Ecto is the perfect balance of helpful and explicit. It allows people to avoid the performance footguns of typical ORMs, while still providing a friendly way to do that relation mapping, pluggable way to do validation, etc. and th
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
> Thanks, that is going to be really helpful! That makes me really happy :) And if you prefer docs in web-form, just look up any module in hexdocs.pm . Also can't overstate how helpful elixirforums.com is - a lot of smart + helpfu
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
> Phoenix also feels a little bit magical in the way Rails is I've felt this about every backend web framework I've encountered, Django included. There's a tension between reducing boiler-plate, and not having directory s
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
Good points. I guess it makes even more sense when considering that the crew also needs to transport themselves to the car from the station
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
A cursory Google seems to say this is not a thing, but I don’t see why it couldn’t be, apart from having almost no market to justify its complicated manufacture.. and sliding baskets are probably cheaper and more practical
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
> Getting the car from there to the nearest Amtrak station will require you to hire a locomotive with crew I know long haul battery-electric trains don't make sense [0], but if it's a short distance, would it be feasible to hav
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
Add to that the sensible date and time primitives baked into the language as well as the super powerful and ergonomic cldr library for i18n.
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
What makes you think he wasn’t beyond ‘sins of the father’?
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
> There’s no technical reason that Big Tech can’t directly connect to the Fediverse. The ACCESS Act, a proposed US law, would do just that. The EU has passed the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which promises to impose interoperability on gia
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
The big reason for doing this is arbitrage across time. Solar generation is increasing exponentially, to the point where it makes sense to have excess generation and store it for night time. Hydrogen could be a companion technology for int
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
> oil heiress Does not imply she wields actual power to change the oil industry. Does not imply she agrees with the moral choices of of her parents. And Getty Oil is no more: > Getty Petroleum filed for bankruptcy protection (Chapte
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
> Show other users on the map I like the idea of a CB-style radio where you can only talk to people nearby and this is your way of interacting with other people. Not only does it make sense in a simulation-sense, I think it's also
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
My bad
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
Off by an order of magnitude - 1.2M

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