lukeify

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by lukeify 2mo ago
As the original poster you replied to, why do you think it's exaggeration to predict that people will die from increasingly strong heatwaves? This is already happening [0]. And: "For 2022, it was estimated that between 60,000 and
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by lukeify 2mo ago
It was inevitable we'd get to the point where climate change began substantially disrupting ecology and human livelihoods. Looks like we're ahead of schedule. People dying from extreme heatwaves, weather, and famines due to climat
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by lukeify 2mo ago
At this point I’m not sure what to do about it. I already live a low-ish carbon life. I barely ever fly. Only drive when I need to. Try and use items that are non-plastic where feasible. I don’t buy extra clothes. It’s at the point where I
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by lukeify 2mo ago
I can’t help feel without ampacity and voltage upgrades to most domestic home circuits this is like a fart in the wind.
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by lukeify 2mo ago
I can't say I'd ever consider "Material Design" to be an authority on what good iconography or website design should look like. It's always felt second-rate.
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by lukeify 2mo ago
"stayed out of it" needs to be considered relatively though, doesn't it? I don't see Apple spending billions in capex on hyperscaler DCs, and apart from the weird product direction that is Image Playground most of their
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by lukeify 3mo ago
> Is there a warranty? > Yes, we warrant against manufacturing defects for 30 days after you receive your order. Is this the shortest warranty on a consumer electronics device ever? What on earth are they thinking.
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by lukeify 3mo ago
> Even if you simplify your thinking of orbits to a 2D (square area), it's a lot of space. This is not a spatial problem. It's an intersectionality problem.
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by lukeify 3mo ago
I guess the Montreal Protocol was "degrowth talk" for you too, huh?
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by lukeify 4mo ago
I stopped taking this guy seriously after he proposed "just" digging canals to bring desalinated ocean water into the U.S. desert.
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by lukeify 4mo ago
I find it interesting you label the majority of voters in the populace who voted for Brexit as "far right", and not just "right".
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by lukeify 4mo ago
Great, so all I need to do is to authoritatively check each plausible combination of domains that _might_ work and rule each of them out before I can make my claim, according to you? What a load of pedantry.
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by lukeify 4mo ago
Within the last month both Mapbox and Etsy blocked my attempts to signup using a Proton Mail alias. How many services do you sign up for in recent years, on average? The practice is becoming incredibly common and more than likely you'r
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by lukeify 4mo ago
Within the space of 2 weeks I had both Etsy and Mapbox block signups with Proton Mail aliases. The practice is rapidly becoming more common.
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by lukeify 4mo ago
Disliking mass immigration isn't xenophobia.
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by lukeify 4mo ago
Immigration has been directly responsible in the last decade for the huge run-up in housing prices in New Zealand. It is not _the only reason_, but it is a big reason.
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by lukeify 4mo ago
And it's criticisms like this that isolate people further from each other politically and emboldens support for the parties you dislike. There are valid and reasonable reasons to dislike large-scale immigration beyond supporting despot
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by lukeify 4mo ago
Yeah. So what will realistically happen, if we look at the trajectories of other countries, is that immigration will continue to rise, more people will be peaked by the discontent it can sow, and the popularity of this party will rise furth
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by lukeify 4mo ago
People always seem surprised when someone in CS or SWE doesn't care for anime or cutesy pictorial graphics of girls.
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by lukeify 4mo ago
Without these kinds of policies you'll just see the rise of more "new-right" parties like One Nation in Australia and Reform in the United Kingdom (yes, I am aware both are not "new", but they are newly popular). It
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by lukeify 5mo ago
This is written beautifully. It's like a much more inconsequential variant of Chernobyl.
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by lukeify 5mo ago
The constituent particles of nature are under no requirement to be apparent or achievable to you.
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by lukeify 5mo ago
> Having juniors and mid-levels is about being able to promote an existing mid-level that knows the team and the system, with zero downtime. It's much easier to replace a junior than a senior. Yeah but the point of this post is that
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by lukeify 5mo ago
That's probably the bulk of senior developers. We're not all inverting custom proprietary binary trees.
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by lukeify 5mo ago
This is pretty much what's occurring in New Zealand right now, yes. 2020–2023 had pretty much zero international movement due to closed borders with COVID-19, with a low official cash rate which caused business to be in desperate need
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by lukeify 5mo ago
> A senior engineer says “I want a 40% raise or I’m leaving,” and the company’s ability to respond depends entirely on what their alternatives look like. Except where I live there's a glut of people wanting any job they can find—for
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by lukeify 6mo ago
Steve Jobs existed in an era where he could show us new technology when new technology brought a sense of joy and amazement; whereas due to a multitude of factors, new technology no longer causes such emotions for a substantial portion of p
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by lukeify 6mo ago
We didn’t have any. The project manager set it at 3 story points.
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by lukeify 6mo ago
Agreed. I'm very pro-solar but there should be incentives for residential solar and solar on commercial buildings first. Covering up farmland and natural environments should be a last resort.
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by lukeify 6mo ago
> - it's not the norm but the exception I bet makes the person dealing with the outcome of being surrounded by them feel a lot better.

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