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by idlehand 4y ago
Especially considering the fact that alcohol is a drug where withdrawal can be lethal.
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by idlehand 4y ago
Burning at least emits CO2 instead of the methane emitted by a landfill, and can generate heat and electricity for residential use. In the end, recycling isn't feasible for most materials and the solution needs to come from the other p
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by idlehand 4y ago
That makes sense if you think of things in purely monetary terms, the money was skimmed off and given to the 1%. It doesn't make sense if you think of it in terms of the supply and demand of goods and services. If demand exceeds the ca
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by idlehand 4y ago
Never thought about that before. Ethernet supports extremely high levels of data transmission. ISB C for intrgrated charging ND data transfer makes sense, but why are there HDMI cables?
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by idlehand 4y ago
There are other options than ECT which may have fewer side effects.
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by idlehand 4y ago
Small towns don't have the problems that motivate the construction of super blocks.
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by idlehand 4y ago
So the problem is really that regulations have constrained the supply of housing to the point that rents are set as high as people can afford, rather than at the price of replacement.
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by idlehand 4y ago
Amazon takes a cut of every product sold on their store. They can give their own products a pricing advantage by reducing the platform fee.
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by idlehand 4y ago
Rome was a warrior culture too, especially in the beginning. Even their sports were bloody and gruesome, with people being maimed and dying for the enjoyment of the population.
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by idlehand 4y ago
The problem is that most Java developers like the cognitive complexity that Java EE frameworks entail. Those who like simplicity generally leave Java behind.
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by idlehand 4y ago
As a younger dev I see the opposite in my corner of the world. The senior developers spend countless hours debating the best design, engineering large architectures to bounce a handful of kilobytes of information around in the just right wa
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by idlehand 4y ago
I have received this comment a few times in my career, "why don't you ask for help more"? Usually there is a simple reason: I am not having the same problem for very long, but whenever things are going smoothly they get done
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by idlehand 4y ago
Copilot has got me writing some side projects in Java again. I love the fast compilation speed, good enough type system, strong and seamless IDE support, and the abundance of libraries. The new language versions with things like records tak
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by idlehand 4y ago
Your own code is as foreign as a third party library to a developer who hasn't been part of the writing process. Third party libraries which have a handful or more users are generally speaking relatively bug-free for standard use cases
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by idlehand 4y ago
Definitely agree with this. I've stopped worrying about remembering details, and just assume that my neural network brain will figure out what is worth retaining. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't, but life goes on. Not havi
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by idlehand 4y ago
Estonia is a lot closer to the Russia missiles and planes, though.
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by idlehand 4y ago
Oil isn't running out, the ability of our atmosphere to absorb greenhouse gasses is the limiting factor, not our access to oil reserves. We need to leave oil in the ground to preserve the climate.
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by idlehand 4y ago
There's very little reason to eat grasshoppers when chicken has roughly the same efficiency at converting food into protein. Especially considering that the necessary infrastructure and marketing already exists for chicken.
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by idlehand 4y ago
Sounds like the just-world fallacy.
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by idlehand 4y ago
It took billions of years to get to that point, too. Complex life only really got going during the Cambrian explosion.
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by idlehand 4y ago
React is the same base frontend tech but the way you write React, with hooks and state management has changed quite a bit since its initial release. That said I've never bothered to try to become an expert in any particular language or
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by idlehand 4y ago
The issue is rather that due to the unpredictable nature of renewables, sometimes the stars align so that the combined output of wind, solar, and hydro end up far beyond what the grid needs. During those times, in some parts of Europe for e
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by idlehand 4y ago
There is an abundance of experienced engineers who are willing to work for less than an entry-level engineer in the US. Wages are very low even in Stockholm. Great if you want to build a tech startup. Unfortunately the employment law is wri
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by idlehand 4y ago
Unfortunately taxes are high. 20.6% corporation tax and 30% capital gains tax.
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by idlehand 4y ago
I find it relieving to be living in a world where things are not static. So I read as much news as I can, every day. I also recognize that I have very little impact on whatever is being reported on, and that it has very little impact on me.
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by idlehand 4y ago
I agree. It's hard to work when you have a 10-minute test running, either I wait/do busywork, or I start doing something else and then I don't want to interrupt that line of work to context shift back to a failed test.
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by idlehand 4y ago
I 100% want people to continue spending their free time inventing new open source things. A lot of software I use on a daily basis only exists because some people decided that they could do better than whatever they were using before.
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by idlehand 4y ago
This is the reason why a lot of countries will elect the mayor or governor of some part of the country. Having successfully administered a smaller part of the country is probably the best predictor we have for being able to administer a lar
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by idlehand 4y ago
Maybe we will see some proper differentiation where mentorships comes with perks to offset having to lead people in person.
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by idlehand 4y ago
If you're targeting well paid jobs at interesting companies, maybe. But we're at the point where practically every municipality, every government subdivision, and every corporation has IT development needs. Developing and maintain

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