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by lbriner 4y ago
I suspect that the elephant in the room is simply money. Who pays? I would be happy for the government to pay me to save on my electricity bills by installing PV on my roof but I suspect they might not be so keen on the idea. Loans instead?
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As fossil plants go, gas will be the cleanest and probably cheapest overall but it is not sustainable at scale. How long until the gas has run out or we are butchering the countryside to try and find hard to reach pockets? Can we create gas
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We have enough misinformation as it is that we can do without comments like yours without some kind of citation. No-one thinks that any electricity generation is zero-carbon, the question is only about the relative advantages/disadvant
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If you want a .ovh domain, which is perhaps "markety" but is cheap, you can get one for £1.60 and then £3 per year. OVH are pretty big and decent and unlikely to go away any time soon. https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-g
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I think the amount of technology made those magazines so much more exciting than today's computer magazines which are almost always about computers as black boxes or marketing nonsense or pure software with no hardware applications. Ba
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I think the mistake with SAP, as with that other article about a modelling pyramid at Ikea, is assuming that it is possible to create one system to rule them all without it being extremely inefficient and expensive. It mirrors a dysfunction
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Yes but the interactions of moving objects are much more complex and are likely to cause inefficiencies. Obviously the amount of that would be hard to measure in real world conditions.
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I run 7 postfix servers for a company, we have not had any major problems (that are not now fixed) but this is because of a number of reasons: 1) Clean IP addresses. This can be hit-and-miss so you might need to move service providers since
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Not necessarily. Despite us armchair critics, it is also very easy to miss an attack vector when building your software. We find stuff after years that we can't believe we missed like a missing auth check. Not that unusual at all when
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I don't think the wheels of any bureaucracy turn quickly. There are two fallacies in bureaucracy: 1) With enough organisation, we can please all parties 2) Process can solve all of our problems My experience (and I suspect others) is a
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Thanks. This was the question I was looking to answer, "if we did it in cars seemingly easily, why not planes!)
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One of the main ones is "the recipient will see my email and read it" The truth is, I hope we all know, that the email is in a large pool of other stuff, it's like trying to find the right person at a football match! It becom
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Apart from myself and my boss who have had to learn about SMTP I would suggest none of the 50 or so devs I have worked with in 20 years know much at all about email/SMTP.
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It depends which email addresses you are talking about. Email works with local addresses and mail relays will cleanup any incoming destinations without a host or domain name to be routed to whoever handles local mailboxes.
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The article does smell a bit like "tech can fix everything" when the problem with WebMD and others is not that they are full of ads or SEO optimisation. The simple truth is that medical care is more complex than just "headach
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Doesn't sound like good advice. When the market drops suddenly, lots of the people on the top rates won't get any work due to demand. Could you drop them at that point? Possibly but not if your mortgage would become unaffordable.
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There is often a lot of criticism of "learning by rote" and often the blanket rebuttal is "we all have access to Google" etc. however there is a very big difference between someone who knows something and someone who has
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This is a common rebuttal but despite the fact that everyone does have google in their pockets, clearly a lot of people never use it to learn and only use it for entertainment so testing what they know off by heart does still matter imho.
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There is the network effect where to make it worthwhile, you need to have pretty much all of your friends on it, if not, it doesn't work. Most people won't pay for anything they don't have to pay for. There is also the fact t
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I remember Jetfighter: The adventure that we played on our school PC back in the late 80s. Yes, 1 PC in the whole school! You had to land on a carrier to qualify and it took so many attempts but had enough physics to make it enjoyable.
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I think this is the $10B question! It would seem that altermatives which are much more friendly to the planet involve lower yields but of arguably higher quality. This would mean food would be more expensive, although most western nations e
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I wonder how much in houses is related to how frequently we re-furnish our houses compared to 50 years back. I know old people who have the same wallpaper and furniture that they had when they got married, "if it aint broke, don't
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The bit that stood out to me was "a Figma file so big it sometimes crashed". I don't know YC but it sounds like this is the kind of thing one of their Mentors would tell them to throw in the bin and take out a paper notebook
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> Why would a company like DataDog act like such an asshole to someone they want money from? Because it's a numbers game. These companies scale their cost base and need to make up the difference in more sales. From the sales-person
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If I've learned anything from TV, all doors can be kicked in by an average sized cop ;-)
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That's not the same though. Switching it off and on might clear the problem for now but it doesn't explain why the problem occurred and how to avoid it happening again.
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Why are you running a business without any Business Continuity or Disaster Recovery? In this case, Google might have screwed up but what about if the account had been hacked, or Google had some big technical problem that killed off the prod
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It's not just that. How much is simply people transferring away from alternative buses and tube trains? These other services still need to be paid for so if we have the same overall number of passengers but more infrastructure to suppo
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This is something I think we are still getting wrong in the UK. We are building something that should be largely utilitarian with some basic flourishes, perhaps, but instead we end forking out enormous amounts for "high architecture&qu
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I don't agree. over 4000 messages on the list, so clearly, splitting these out individually producing what? 20K+ messages? not what you could record properly in a single day with concentration, breaks etc. If you look at the examples,

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