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by jnxx 6y ago
> Intercontinental and cross continental travel are a bit harder to replace with low carbon alternatives. But much of it is either for leisure or can be replaced by videoconferencing while saving money. Regarding leisure, it might feel g
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by jnxx 6y ago
I've taken it a few times from Edinburgh to Cologne. You enter the train at around 22:25, then it arrives at London around 6:45 in the morning, then you have breakfast and walk over to St, Pancras International and can get the leaving
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by jnxx 6y ago
> One mature oak tree is like 20 kg / year. All of which will be released again when the oak dies. Net effect: Zero.
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by jnxx 6y ago
> CO2 from ancient sources doesn't have some special provenance, this is magical thinking. Chemically, it is the same. The difference between CO2 bound in coal or oil to the CO2 bound in a tree is that the former would very probably
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by jnxx 6y ago
> Between 14% and 30% of total emissions are from heating in Germany Heating is a large factor in emissions but if you fly several times a year, it is without doubt the largest source of emissions.
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> Nah, flying is totally defensible. I fly everywhere. The problem is offsetting your emissions. You are in denial about the destruction you do. No, you can't offset emissions. A single short flight will release as much as 400kg CO2
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by jnxx 6y ago
You need to compare door-to-door time which is a lot longer for air travel, partly because the airports are outside of the cities while the train stations are in their very heart.
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Or you gave your passport to the conductor.
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As an aside, I used Amtrak to travel from Rochester, NY to NYC and it was totally weird when I asked people in Rochester (which has a population of about 200,000) for the train station. Most people literally didn't know where the train
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by jnxx 6y ago
Why do you need that? Are you alone when you travel in a plane?
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You are perhaps of a different generation. In the 1980s, it was possible for young people in Europe to get a all-in-one ticket where you could travel as much as you could for four weeks in the summer. The tickets costed about 250 €. It was
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by jnxx 6y ago
The emissions of trains are always many times less. For a quantitative comparison: https://www.seat61.com/CO2flights.htm For example: London to Nice Plane: 4 hours, 250 Kg CO2 Train: 8 hours by Eurostar
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by jnxx 6y ago
Nah, you can conveniently stop the train in the night so that it arrives at breakfast time. Edit: There is also a system called "Through coach" or Kurswagen in German, where you enter a coach in the evening, it starts as part of
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Packaging Kubernetes for Debian(lwn.net)
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Small Nuclear Reactors(spectrum.ieee.org)
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They do have in fact one neighbor, Iran, in which in some places temperatures rise above 50°C, with high humidity, which is close to uninhabitable. And this is due to climate change, so it is going to get worse. I think it is possible this
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by jnxx 6y ago
I think this is good. However, my impression from trying to install more complex projects is that a main issue is a cultural one: Python package developers are happy to introduce breaking changes if they think they will not break for too ma
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Ask HN: When it is better to use printf vs. a debugger?
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by jnxx 6y ago
Indeed. There is a similar mode to match parenthesis :-D
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Here is a description of the current situation: https://old.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/equuct/i_would_help_... https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacs#toc1
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by jnxx 6y ago
> It encourages frequent and easy renaming of variables and functions across the whole project, which has allowed me to be more flexible and maintain sensible names for things even after changes. This one is really a good thing, I agree
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> The authors claim that "Modern IDEs are magic". For me, the word "magic" in the context of program development is ambivalent at best. Often, it refers to stuff that some software tries to automate wildly, with the
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Only problem with Brother on Linux seems that they do bot distribute drivers in source code but a binary-only Debian package. So, while they seem to have a good reputation for Linux support, there is still lots of room for improvement. Ah,
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> Biggest problem with IDEs is they are a big in-your-face hurricane of features that is often too much. This is another aspect. They suck up attention, which is a scarce resource. It is just like you start a web browser to look up some
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by jnxx 6y ago
So, it might please you to read that there is a slow but steady process to replace elisp by Guile: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacs And to me, this is a indication of a solid foundation: That you can swap out
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by jnxx 6y ago
> I remember everyone was using Eclipse then Sublime then Atom then Brackets then VSCode. This was all within a span of 3 years. Yes. The half-life of these things is rather short. And there are few reasons to expect that this will be be
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by jnxx 6y ago
> That said, I don't recommend non-programmers or even new programmers learn emacs. Emacs is definitely more useful to people who use it somewhat frequently, as one has to memorize some key strokes. But, there is a good interactive
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by jnxx 6y ago
On top of that, while you have tens of thousands of good tools at your disposal, you can simply forgot about those that you do not happen to need. Whenever you need them, they will be there for you, but until then, they stay out of your way
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by jnxx 6y ago
> Most of the popular text GUI editors (VS Code, Sublime Text, etc) can do these things. Yeah but Emacs could to that twenty years ago. Picking up git support in Microsoft tools took more than fifteen years, I think. The same will happen
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> Familiar key bindings Well, Emacs user interface and key bindings are by experience much more stable over time, especially if you consider that in ten year's time, that "new" IDE probably is probably not going to be arou

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