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by ilyt 3y ago
> A virtuoso at the piano may experiment with discordant notes. A novice banging on the piano keys and calling it music is not the same thing. That's why I always chuckle at people scowling at learning music theory because of "
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by ilyt 3y ago
Only sounds like "irony" if you don't understand problem. The problem is not isolation or lack of it. The problem is that app require complex set of permissions for both users files and other apps. App might want to send noti
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by ilyt 3y ago
That doesn't make any sense ? Why it should check some random group ?
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by ilyt 3y ago
> But we all know how the western societies view and treat migrants these days. Migrants from incompatible bring crime and strife. Countries don't want to have more crime and strife.
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by ilyt 3y ago
And makes any discussion absolutely obnoxious with the usual "if you don't agree you must be on the other side and be the enemy"
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by ilyt 3y ago
Right. But to many "saving the future" is to have good future for their children. Saying that basically sounds like saying "don't have children peasants, so our the world is better for our overlord's children"
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by ilyt 3y ago
Some of that is also caused by forcing everyone to show up 8-9 AM. In city I live driving to work at 9AM is nightmare but delay departure to just 10AM and it is suddenly reasonably pleasant drive. Similarly with public traffic, going at 8-9
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by ilyt 3y ago
Putting solar on home can at least offset part of that usage.
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by ilyt 3y ago
> When they switch buses or trains over to electric, they have to build a new vehicle... the processes of manufacturing them aren't 100% renewable. No one's exactly making renewable steel. When they have to repair a road for th
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by ilyt 3y ago
Shooting you would be far preferable to getting rid of my pets.
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by ilyt 3y ago
Or water boiling all day. I think that's just power companies not wanting everyone to turn on AC at roughly same time is the reason for those power "saving" tips.
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by ilyt 3y ago
If anything it should be less efficient the colder you go. Cold house running during middle of hot day should be lowest efficiency during the day
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by ilyt 3y ago
I'd imagine that has more to do with price of power than absolute amount.
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by ilyt 3y ago
There doesn't appear to be any actually sensible evidence in the article? > I also remember getting similar tips from PG&E here in California. Company that sells you energy telling you to not stop consuming energy... Aside from
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by ilyt 3y ago
Last time I checked it was roughly double, but that didn't included the fact the house could have solar which isn't really an option for an apartment. Impact is pretty much more heating/cooling required for house and I'd
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by ilyt 3y ago
You'd think simple log in/log out test would be trivial to automate...
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by ilyt 3y ago
Web pages share browser with other web pages, desktop apps don't.
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by ilyt 3y ago
Another pet peeve is getting logged out just because chrome or FF upgraded in background...
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by ilyt 3y ago
My bank does that but also: * logs out after 10 minutes of inactivity - so doing anything that involved switching between accounting app and it is annoying * not allowing more than one tab open at once - that's just stupid in its entir
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by ilyt 3y ago
> I have a nice set of front windows, but that means a risk of someone breaking through them. I accept that risk for the windows - the extra light and visibility is well worth it, and the windows are not the only way in. Compare to short
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by ilyt 3y ago
Stolen hard drive is rarely what you defend from, and arguably might completely not matter if say their short lived session is dead but long-lived password manager one is up. Exploits owning software on machine are far more common than mach
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by ilyt 3y ago
Also building fiber infrastructure for city is multi-decade investment. For corporation its whatever next fiscal year result investment. Small city with fiber everywhere is pretty attractive place for people that can work remotely and that
563.
by ilyt 3y ago
...the company famous for shuttering anything that doesn't make ridiculous profit margins is not a good example for that.
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by ilyt 3y ago
The town doesn't want to connect few streets to the internet. The town wants internet available everywhere because even if boomer parent might not care, their kids when grow up might want to have stable internet for work, same with any
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by ilyt 3y ago
Honestly infrastructure itself like fiber to the homes should be operated separately from the ISPs. Would be far easier to have a competition if new player in town would have to only get their connectivity up to some central spot and then p
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by ilyt 3y ago
> It doesn't traverse parent directories So there is chance it won't be massive security hole enabled by default! Great! > it doesn't have good overwrite/merge logic, multiline support, or variable expansion - thin
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by ilyt 3y ago
I'm sure they will find a way to do it securely and not have user uploading wrong name of file fuck up the security of the app..
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by ilyt 3y ago
Assuming this guy on quora didn't fuck up math [1], "multiple suns worth of photons" - [1] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-total-radiation-pressure-o...
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by ilyt 3y ago
SO, why would people be against removal of GIL ?
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by ilyt 3y ago
That's interesting way to do shared hosting, can jails limit by CPU time ?

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