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901.
by hkt 5y ago
I suspect the answer is "both".
902.
by hkt 5y ago
I refuse now and didn't two years ago. Anecdotal, I realise. But I think lots of people have decided that the message heavily test oriented recruitment processes send out indicates a bad work culture and sense of entitlement from emplo
903.
by hkt 5y ago
> it is reasonable to wonder about the psychology of opponents of standardized testing It is, at its core, a fear that testing largely reproduces the status quo. If one accepts the idea that there is an intellectual elite who constitute
904.
by hkt 5y ago
There is some extraordinary work that goes on in the modding community. A personal favourite in a similar vein is Portal Reloaded: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1255980/Portal_Reloaded/ Portal, also with
905.
by hkt 5y ago
Milk in Europe is pasteurised. The main difference is actually with cheese: making some types of cheese with pasteurised milk is impossible because the cultures in the milk confer flavour etc.
906.
by hkt 5y ago
Pretty much. Worth shouting out that it is also sourced in former colonies that still have major dependencies on their old imperial masters. Niger/France have this relationship and Niger produces the majority of uranium used by the Fre
907.
by hkt 5y ago
Yep, this. Fraud is not a synonym of "lie" or "wrong".
908.
by hkt 5y ago
I'll not argue with anything in your post and accept the issues with CSP as per the status quo, but hot water needn't be a micro, single household scale. I've benefited from a CHP plant powered district heating system and it
909.
by hkt 5y ago
For the sake of argument.. isn't the fact that people can freely make those forks something of a guarantee around agency, and possibly also privacy? My guess is that because Mozilla is a hostage (and arguably antitrust human shield) of
910.
by hkt 5y ago
> the reactor body can be built into the ground and concreted over until its time to decommission it. This seems wild. Who is doing or proposing it?
911.
by hkt 5y ago
While you're not wrong to imply PV doesn't work at night, concentrated solar power (CSP) actually does. It achieves this by heating salt into a molten state which can then discharge heat (and drive turbines) overnight. CSP is very
912.
by hkt 5y ago
Not so. Fraud requires an intent to deceive to make unlawful (or unfair) gains. They're probably just abiding by the license of the data or struggling with a technical limitation.
913.
by hkt 5y ago
Only because the extraction process is dirty and we aren't willing to do it as cheaply. Waste from mining other minerals is rich in REMs, and deposits are plentiful. "Rare" is actually a misnomer: https://foreignpo
914.
by hkt 5y ago
Blaming the engineers rather than the businesses seems.. odd. It isn't like the people writing that code had control over what the company set as priorities. If anything, what you experienced seems to be a reflection of corporate short
915.
by hkt 5y ago
_People_ are boring.
916.
by hkt 5y ago
Conflating giving somebody an "upgrade" with preventing disease is fairly disingenuous. So is suggesting something you can acquire through work (owning a computer) is comparable to something you must be born to. They're not t
917.
by hkt 5y ago
I suspect not. A VPS on the order of £10/month could do this fairly well, and I've seen managed services options at £50/hour/month. Even assuming half a day to set up standard monitoring services etc, and another to set
918.
by hkt 5y ago
Recipes should probably not have filler either (unless it is a recipe for pie)
919.
by hkt 5y ago
I'm sure this wasn't your intention, but you've identified that there are two groups (or more) with very different levels of utility associated with their choices. People who "just want to feel in control" are, esse
920.
by hkt 5y ago
Because of the law on unintended consequences, not to mention the Rubicon that will be crossed when the rich start editing further advantages into the genes of their (already hyper privileged) kids. It is a recipe for a medical or social di
921.
by hkt 5y ago
Isn't cultural exchange grand?
922.
by hkt 5y ago
Excuse me sir, but I am forced to correct a grievous error in your post. Some of our food is beige.
923.
by hkt 5y ago
> And any property where no beneficial owner can be established (and thus taxed) should just be seized. Amen. Social contract dodgers are wrecking the west. We can't afford to let crazy rich people run things, it isn't efficien
924.
by hkt 5y ago
Neat, TIL! Thanks
925.
by hkt 5y ago
Virtual power plants are smart batteries in homes which in aggregate behave as a power plant, taking energy when it isn't in demand and supplying it when it is. It is a very strong contender for replacing gas power plants for peak load
926.
by hkt 5y ago
This sounds awesome but I'm in the UK - how are you for mostly remote work with the occasional week in office? (I'm a DevOps person if that makes any difference)
927.
by hkt 5y ago
TIL about stocks - thank you!
928.
by hkt 5y ago
> A typical Java project pulls in half the internet for dependencies, including multiple logging libraries. Rationalising a language's ecosystem is harder than building one. I suspect that this drives at least some new language adop
929.
by hkt 5y ago
I can't speak for JavaScript or PHP, but I hated ruby's package management. Gem dependency hell was a blight that made jumping to Golang inevitable for me personally.
930.
by hkt 5y ago
I'd speculate that perhaps more senior people are moving, and/or a greater overall rate of attrition combined with much more complex technologies and organisations. In other words, it might be harder to become good at jobs now, an

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