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hutzlibu
3y ago
"Being charitable I'm sure tons of people just have an extremely bad intuitive yardstick for what actually matters" People on average just have very bad physic knowledge. No understanding of basic science at all. I actually t
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hutzlibu
3y ago
"However, I would also (anecdotally) say that the teen culture in Germany around drinking is healthier and less prone to binging than in America." There are huge local differences. In my youth and hometown, it was definitely binge
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hutzlibu
3y ago
Oh well, Heroin might even "work" better in that regard..
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hutzlibu
3y ago
There are also centrifugal forces at play, meaning heavier elements get also pushed upward.
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hutzlibu
3y ago
Then you have to rely on the common sense of the person checking you.
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hutzlibu
3y ago
"I often see folks complain/express confusion about shading languages.. " The confusion already starts with the name. Historically shading languages had the purpose once to calculate shades - but otherwise there are no shades
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hutzlibu
3y ago
"At 18 you were able to get a driver's license and start drinking stronger drinks" You must have lived in a different german reality then. For us it was always easy to get someone else to buy your booze, if it was not already
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3y ago
"but it feels like they're expected to fight harder and harder for less and less." And they also should feel ashamed for what they get and consume, as it has a CO2 impact and their future is doomed if they use too much. But i
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3y ago
"As much as many people want alternatives to JavaScript, there are also people who consider themselves JavaScript experts (or the various related languages like TypeScript). They’ve invested a ton of time and effort into getting to whe
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hutzlibu
3y ago
"Internet posts are just text, yet people act as if we're forcing others to read what we write. Imagine if writing books that make other people feel bad was banned - what a culture would that be." Between death threats and in
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hutzlibu
3y ago
“Begin. The rest is easy.” It really depends what you do. Usually yes, after you just start, more ideas are coming in faster than you can implement them - but you also have to know when to stop, when you are going into a dead end.
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3y ago
What also works, is developing a habit of double checking bottles in your bag - as spilled liquids are never nice in your stuff. And some backpacks actually have working bottle holders on the outside ...
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hutzlibu
3y ago
I have a somewhat rugged chromebook(Asus C201), which is not waterproof, but quite waterresistant and still with a decent keyboard. I used it while backpacking in rough areas and it got wet and sandy and got dropped in wet dirt - but never
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hutzlibu
3y ago
Depends. There is lots of irrational fear with this and as far as I know, no solid proof for harm, but there is extra electricity flowing in your head, because of the transmission of your phone. I don't like talking on the phone that m
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3y ago
"you could use your brand's themed version of [Insert UI Library]'s searchable combobox with checkable items, or you could show 4 normal labeled radio buttons or checkboxes. " Ahhh ... that's likely a Stilbruch (bre
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3y ago
"The author has no expertise in the field. If your claim is that they're a "scientist"" Are you intentionally missreading me? I never claimed that the author of the article is a scientist. I said the article is quit
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3y ago
Hm, last time I checked and tried this, there were still limitations, but it has been a while and maybe something improved.
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3y ago
"On a purely technical level the main thing stopping PWA adoption" I rather think, the main thing stopping PWA are that browsers still can not decide how to treat them. In some ways you can just do anything unrestricted and in oth
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3y ago
We already caused earthquakes because of fracking and conventional geothermal plants and there is only little energy captured. Allmost everything that is scaled up massivly in reality, comes with its own problems. Burning some coal? Not a p
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"Yes but based on what you write, you don't know much about geophysics." Never claimed I did. But you apparently claim you know more and that this article and the scientists are BS, but I just read a generic rant from you and
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3y ago
Yes and this is awesome, but the comment I replied to, seemed to imply that all the problems went away since years and this is just wrong in my experience and can create wrong expectations for people trying out Linux again - just to get dis
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3y ago
Well, Total Warhammer 3 for example did not work for me through official Steam, even though it should. It runs on the same computer on windows without problems. And with much more tinkering I surely could get it to run on Linux as well .. b
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3y ago
I suppose I need to add a disclaimer every time I participate in those debates: "I am neither left, nor right, nor US and don't have any horse in this race." But most of this just smells like classical strawman debates to me:
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3y ago
So ... all the windows games now run on Linux? That would be news to me. And I was just recently messing with drivers, kernels etc to get a working result, but in the end I still could not play the (officially supported) game on Linux that
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3y ago
Can you provide a definition what "leftist" means to you? Or more advanced, can you provide a definition what "leftist" means to which leftist would agree? Or is the definition of a leftist to you, someone who does not d
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3y ago
Shouldn't he or she then be somewhere around bragging? Also if you can send BTC to some wallet, why couldn't you send it to another wallet where you indeed have access?
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3y ago
Well, probably nothing we build will. And probably nothing we say will last forever, actually last forever. We still use the word forever and other unprecise terms in common language. I also hate it at times, how unprecise (and wrong) norma
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Well his response to this: "They tried their best. They called me every name in the book. They cut off my health insurance. They deleted all of my fucking stories, which like, what the fuck? And then they still lost. People keep asking
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3y ago
I think the article was quite fine, compared to the average pop science article. And by all practical means, savely tapping into the earths heat, would indeed mean unlimited energy for our needs (there is a LOT of heat down there). We also
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3y ago
"or maybe they always were" Well, since this story is from 1995, so allmost 30 years ago, I think people are still as uptight today, when you compare it to this easter egg.
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