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691.
by labster 3y ago
It should be safe if there is a clearly marked exit route, fire doors every seven steps, and a fire escape ladder.
692.
by labster 3y ago
Cuck is a good word for this case, but perhaps “addict” is better?
693.
by labster 3y ago
We should definitely not write for The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
694.
by labster 3y ago
Go back to the Hadean era, bro.
695.
by labster 3y ago
The time to panic was 1980. We’re well past that point by now, and have already committed to at least a whole degree of warming, if not more. > Cover Greenland in a reflective blanket? Ha! I want to see a study on this now. Greenland alr
696.
by labster 3y ago
It’s funny because that’s the opposite of what you’d want in a new hire: you want the engineer to pick a trivial solution rather than over-designing everything, so they can solve more problems for your company.
697.
by labster 3y ago
I was not expecting this piece to mention McMansion Hell, but I was expecting it to mention how the Chinese market has caused movies to cut back on edgy films. Or how the international market in general has made movies cut back on dialogue.
698.
by labster 3y ago
I got the snowman one “wrong” because the problem didn’t say you couldn’t throw away excess snow. Maybe the lesson is that it’s hard to write word problems.
699.
by labster 3y ago
Birth rates are falling in most if not all of the countries that consume the most energy, which will reduce energy use in the long term. Yes, it poses another set of economic challenges in places where population is shrinking, but that’s a
700.
by labster 3y ago
Yes, but ESG picks values to optimize for, and picking values is the political act.
701.
by labster 3y ago
Typical university press release: this technology can revolutionize our energy grid by storing energy in a building’s foundation, because we powered an LED with some tiny cells we made.
702.
by labster 3y ago
Climatologist here, basically everything is unsustainable if you use coal power. If we’re lucky we can keep steel production and that’s about it.
703.
by labster 3y ago
Perhaps you are misinterpreting slang based on a desire to think more positively? The whole tweet, er, x had a condescending tone to me.
704.
by labster 3y ago
No thanks.
705.
by labster 3y ago
Have you considered setting up a laser link to your local park so you can reserve a campsite? If you can’t beat the HFTs, join ‘em!
706.
by labster 3y ago
(The “CT” is a typo)
707.
by labster 3y ago
That’s simply not true. Politicians are human and like to be liked; they also like to feel good about helping constituents. Lobbying actually works — why else would corporations spend so much money doing it? Voting is the absolute minimum p
708.
by labster 3y ago
There are 17576 three-letter combinations in the English alphabet.
709.
by labster 3y ago
Yeah it’s amazing how people keep buying Renaissance era CT propaganda about itself. Those classics they were “rediscovering”? They only existed at all because the church copied papyrus to vellum to books. Papyrus doesn’t last 1000 years o
710.
by labster 3y ago
If you think CO2 is scary, wait til you hear about methyl mercury.
711.
by labster 3y ago
Perl has TIMTOWTDI as a core principle so most of its users are not going to complain about doing things the “wrong” way.
712.
by labster 3y ago
Very nice. The bird should have had an X for its eye, though.
713.
by labster 3y ago
Article is 15 years old, energy and labor prices have increased a lot. We need a new cost estimate.
714.
by labster 3y ago
But why get a battery car when fusion cars are just 20 years away?
715.
by labster 3y ago
I’ll bet one hundred dollars on barbarism. Seems like a sure thing.
716.
by labster 3y ago
How good is AI at debugging?
717.
by labster 3y ago
> Maybe in my lifetime an AI could generate a few more seasons of Firefly You can’t take the Skynet from me
718.
by labster 3y ago
If a streamer doesn’t have recurring revenue, it will go out of business very fast. In other industries you may be paid once, but you don’t get asked to sign away a permanent right to lose your likeness to get paid. But they might offer you
719.
by labster 3y ago
Those things are exactly the problem. You don’t actually gain experience without going to production, and you don’t have steady enough income to support yourself. They can work hard but never actually get ahead. Imagine a world where all ju
720.
by labster 3y ago
> I think it's because they're hiring writers who are too young with too little life experience. That’s what you get when you hire writers willing to work in mini-rooms (and not go to production): inexperienced folks still spon

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