lwouis

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by lwouis 5y ago
I've been in the situation where the I'm the one who ends up doing C for them after they try and make a mess. It's not fun to work with incompetent people, however nice they are, if you lead the project and have to show resul
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by lwouis 5y ago
We need to discuss effective solutions like consuming less (e.g. stopping fast fashion habits, stopping the cars-becoming-bigger trends, not moving to 5G, etc). These "scientisticians are going to fix it (while we gorge)" headline
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by lwouis 5y ago
People are driven by biological impulses. It seems reasonable to me to want to protect yourself from your own future impulses. I remember reading about an experiment at Google where they reduced snacking by simply putting an opaque cover on
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by lwouis 5y ago
I'll try to defend the argument of "first hand anecdotal data vs statistics". At least i'll provide some arguments. Imagine going to any place of work for a week. Let's say a trading center. How much will you learn
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Alt-tab on macOS: looking for someone to take over the project(github.com)
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by lwouis 5y ago
Hi everyone! I've been running this project called alt-tab-macos. It's about bringing the alt-tab feature from Windows to macOS. After around 2 years, I've other priorities, and I'm looking for someone motivated to take
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by lwouis 5y ago
Sorry, I meant to say brightness contrast: high-end dynamic displays will turn off backlighting in black areas, and turn them all the way up in white areas. Let's say your movie shows a full moon in the night. Looking at that moon on t
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by lwouis 5y ago
I would argue dynamic backlit screens are terrible for development actually. High contrast is intense on the eye. I bought a QLED TV 3 years ago, and tried to use it as an external display for my laptop. It's painful to look at. You sw
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by lwouis 5y ago
When developing a webapp these days, I use a local proxy. This allows me to type a staging/production URL into Chrome, and get the frontend and the backend from either my local machine or staging/prod. I can mix and match any comb
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by lwouis 5y ago
Only recently can people access "the world" goods. In the past there was limited range to provision from outside. Mostly boats and carriages. Famines could then occur because of a bad harvest or a few in a row. Farming has never b
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by lwouis 5y ago
There is no such thing as "clean energy". Energy always entails environmental impact. As an example, a wind turbine has large environment impact: * During its production: mining to get the metals, heavy metal work like making stee
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by lwouis 5y ago
I think Japan disabling their fission plants after Fukushima, and Germany following that path are clear manifestation of the opposite: that people fear nuclear and democratic governments act on this fear, against development of the technolo
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by lwouis 5y ago
The built-in Screenshot.app on macOS can record the screen with audio. See https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/take-a-screenshot-o...
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by lwouis 5y ago
> all we need > green power There is no such thing as green power. Solar and wind are not renewable. They require heavy industries only possible with fossil fuel to manufacture the appliances. They require physical elements that are n
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by lwouis 5y ago
We live on a finite planet. "More" can't last forever. That why people talk about degrowth. Growth is unsustainable on our planet. Either we degrow with control, or we collapse. I suggest you play with the recently added time
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by lwouis 5y ago
But how is it a good thing though. It's really not a simple "solar > coal". Solar has its own set of downside. And solar supply chain is heavy on fossil fuel right now, so you may have the same burning of coal behind the s
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by lwouis 5y ago
I advise you look into the manufacturing process of these panels. Then how they end up after they stop working. This is not a sustainable loop for multiple reasons. Some of them even have a clear negative energy output today as it takes mor
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by lwouis 5y ago
Solar power has all sorts of downsides when you start looking at who makes it, the complexity of the process, it's reliance on fossil fuel, its intermittence which brings up a whole new problem of mass scale storage, etc Headlines like
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by lwouis 5y ago
Yes there is one physical truth about where atoms are at a given point. However the type of statement discussed in this thread, and by most humans most of the time, are not about "how many of this, and at what velocity". They are
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by lwouis 5y ago
Why is that one special? People hold impacting opinions like "gays should (not) marry". Picking a side and saying "this perspective shouldn't exist" represents one group becoming dominant and trying to suppress the
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by lwouis 5y ago
The GP is mentioning "recent" things. None of this is recent. I studied the idea of truth in high school. We studied it through the historical lens of Greek philosophy and how it influenced and evolved through following European p
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by lwouis 5y ago
See my sibling comment. You don't need a consensus. You can list multiple perspectives and have them coexist. That's how we have to do with religion for example. There can't be a consensus there clearly, so we share all persp
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by lwouis 5y ago
She seems to dream of this "one absolute source of truth". There is no universal truth. The best way to know something is to know as many perspectives on it as possible. In her example of "massacre" changing to "inc
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by lwouis 5y ago
I can't imagine the EU emits 10% of global CO2. You have to account for delocalized production in countries like China which is exported to the EU. CO2 emissions of an area should be emissions of production on that area, as well as emi
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by lwouis 5y ago
You make an implicit assumption that a monopoly can't be the best way to organize an industry, and that competition is always better. I'm not convinced by this assumption as i've seen contrary evidence. I've seen monopol
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by lwouis 5y ago
Following your analogy, you will notice that grammar is similar in many European languages. You can rely on subject-verb-object for instance. Most popular languages these days have aligned patterns for common collections operations. Python
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by lwouis 5y ago
Most popular languages offer similar operations on collections these days. I've been using Java, Scala, JS/TS, purescript, Ruby, C++, Rust in the past, and these days all have a similar offering to iterate over collections using i
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by lwouis 5y ago
A code repo is like a local volunteer group or local sports club. People go there on their free time to engage in an activity they enjoy partaking in. In this analogy, it's Sunday, you go to your local bike club ready to bike in the mo
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by lwouis 5y ago
> we can mine an exhaustless supply of minerals for instance Humanity is headed towards shortages of many critical metals, such a copper, within this century, with consequences on price and availability already felt and predicted to be a
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by lwouis 6y ago
You kid but i've received 2 pull-requests on my open-source project, which only goal was to replace "Blacklist" with "Blocklist" in the app preferences. I don't receive many PRs. This is a real trend.

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