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by lbriner 4y ago
I think for me it depends on whether it is something that I kind of need and therefore I have to learn enough about it vs one that I might be considering as 1 choice of many that I am not tied to. In the first instance, I try and build a si
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by lbriner 4y ago
Isn't the difference more about collateral damage? In the battle, you have at least an inkling of the person you are shooting being an enemy, if you are ordered to bomb a house and find out that a load of kids were killed as well as th
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by lbriner 4y ago
I suspect this is exactly what they are going for but at the same time, reliability is critical if you only have a handful of them you can't afford for some to not work, so by the time you use some prime components, they start costing
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by lbriner 4y ago
A judge is not deciding whether something is "fair" they are deciding whether it is illegal to the letter and/or spirit of the law. The reason this is at odds with us is that many things are legal that are not "fair&quot
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by lbriner 4y ago
There is a healthy dose of pragmatism. Probably, very few people would choose nuclear if there were loads of alternatives, the capital cost and build times are insane and despite improvements, let's not pretend that nuclear fuel is eas
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by lbriner 4y ago
I think I understand where they are coming from but let's not pretend that dads in prison doesn't also have a massive effect on the development of their children (or not!). In some ways the only people who should be in prison
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by lbriner 4y ago
Agree. How well-trained would a journalist need to be in order to effectively analyze something that has probably taken several years of effort. Lots of numbers != good interpretations and little data != bad conclusion. But agree with OP th
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by lbriner 4y ago
Isn't the issue that humans will never accept something is finished. People have spent many years sorting many things but at some point someone suddenly decides (for good or bad) that sorting could be better, that files could be done d
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by lbriner 4y ago
I've tried using Ecosia for their good environmental work but I frequently get a server error when searching but also it seems like searching for programming content rarely returns the right stuff, which might be page 1 on Google. Goog
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by lbriner 4y ago
I don't want to defend them because I hate Meta particularly but the problem with transparency or the conversation that most people want to have is that something that is worth like $50 to them turns into $1000 of time arguing with an
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by lbriner 4y ago
Sadly, many countries have moved to multiple unit trains to avoid wasted time shunting. Motorail in the UK used to be a few carriages tagged on the back of (usually) a sleeper train. There were all kinds of issues with the time it takes to
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by lbriner 4y ago
In the west, the economics are stacked against trains and usually require government subsidy to run, sleeper trains are some of the most expensive since they use lots of staff and carriages that are not much use for anything else. This comp
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by lbriner 4y ago
The duty cycle is indeed a problem. When I used to work for Intercity West Coast back in the day, the sleeper coaches got serviced and then sat in the yard for the whole day since they can't be used for much during the day.
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by lbriner 4y ago
What were the hard saefty challenges? Fire proof carriages maybe?
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by lbriner 4y ago
There was a great TV show about the line that runs up the west coast of India from Kerala to Mumbai. The line that the British didn't build due to the terrain was built by the locals privately and despite the poverty of many people in
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by lbriner 4y ago
I think for me, the problem is that each producer only has some "news" that is of interest to me. I might see one really good NYT article per month and something else in the New Yorker, Guardian etc. If I pay for a subscription th
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by lbriner 4y ago
It is still widely used in microcontroller programming. Although general purpose programming is often easier in C or similar, if timing is critical, you either have to start with C and tweak the assembly or just do assembly from the beginni
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by lbriner 4y ago
Possibly except that they returned the building the day after the article was published.
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by lbriner 4y ago
I knew plenty of kids who would still pull off the ones that are supposed to stay detached because of the "fuss" of having something near your mouth. I can see this happening with the new design, people won't want to drink wi
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by lbriner 4y ago
This isn't the argument. People vote with their wallets. If the corp makes recyclable glass bottles, customers will buy a competitors plastic ones. It is still mostly down to the customer to either buy something more sustainable or to
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by lbriner 4y ago
Same in the UK although unfortunately, the per-person cost is roughly linear on the railway and not in a car that will only need slightly more fuel per extra person. I guess the only way round this is that the per-person cost should be so m
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by lbriner 4y ago
That makes the most sense. With the sort of jobs I have, there's no way I could only work up to 6 hours per day without leaving something important undone.
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by lbriner 4y ago
Unless I've misunderstood, I don't like this proposal. To me: Scenario 1: The code needs doing as part of the work I am doing. Solution: Do it before your current branch is merged otherwise your story is not complete. Scenario 2:
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by lbriner 4y ago
The most obvious use-case is not having to login to 100 shells to do things like updates or manage keys but do them centrally from one place?
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by lbriner 4y ago
> otherwise why would you pay extra for a hotel night on a train from a city that you live in Because if you stayed at home, you have to wake up early and deal with the airport to fly on the airline. This way, you can take your time, mak
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by lbriner 4y ago
Crypto doesn't solve this, you still need to pick a currency/exchange and pay them transaction fees. That on top of the potential delay issues/fraud is much harder to deal with in the crypto-sphere etc.
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by lbriner 4y ago
If they are unregulated then it isn't a crime until it is a crime, and in this case, by then far too late to sort out. Even when it does go wrong, there still might not be a crime any more serious than being an idiot, obviously would b
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by lbriner 4y ago
You say this, possibly as someone who knows a lot about this stuff but there are plenty of people (including engineers) who don't know enough to refute the bold claims made by the crypto-evangelists and who be convinced that "obvi
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by lbriner 4y ago
I don't know what due-diligence that YC do but I can imagine, as someone who only knows the basics of crypto-currency, of being sucked into some confident founder telling me that, "of course it is safe, it uses stable coins".
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by lbriner 4y ago
It seems like they are the worst example of the stereotype of a software developer. They make out that they are the best examples of technical prowess but not only are they not but they also have no people skills. Just tried reporting a b

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