mikro2nd

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Tesla big battery fire under control after burning more than three days(theguardian.com)
94 points by mikro2nd 5y ago|81 comments
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Useful? Yes. Way overkill? Also yes (imho). HG is simpler to understand, has a more consistent CLI, and way better error messaging. Just a pity that it's been so sorely overshadowed by the Swiss Army Chainsaw of VCS. Git can certainly
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
I view it as a sort of hero-worship/cargo-cult thing... "Linus uses it (wrote it) so it must be the best!"
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
A bit misleading: He didn't actually build the lasers, but ripped them out of other 2nd-hand equipment. Damn, I was hoping for actual plans for building an actual laser, not just cobbling 4 of them together with a power supply and some
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Fossil fuels still carry indirect after-tax government subsidies totalling 6.4% of global GDP. This has to stop. Yesterday.
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Indeed, this is backed by Real Data! Back in the 1970s or thereabouts, IBM did a study where they put one group in an open office and another in individual offices and quantified the productivity difference. The "individual office&quot
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
I have to agree with the first comment: Speaking as someone who was a tech trainer and writer of course materials, tutorial, etc. for a couple of decades, if ``carge-edit`` is not core to what you're trying to teach, leave it out . Ge
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Deeply familiar with it :) and the Humanure Book goes on at length about how to compost the shit and make very sure it is safe to use. The solids that come out of a methane digester must be composted to render them safe.
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Update to limits to growth: Comparing the World3 model with empirical data [pdf](advisory.kpmg.us)
4 points by mikro2nd 5y ago|0 comments
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Excellent manure, feedstock for compost. Still too toxic for dumping into rivers.
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
If I interpret OP correctly: It's not the spambots that are the problem. It's Facebook that's the problem.
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Predictive text/autocorrect still sucks.
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
LOL - I'm not sure about many humans' ability to tell good code from bad, given how prolifically they produce "bad" code.
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
It might also become worse. It seems to me that GitHub has opened themselves (well, this Copilot thing anyway) up to a form of DoS attack: Just imagine what might happen if a bunch of people opened up a number of public repos filled with ut
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HTTPS Means Business(found.ward.bay.wiki.org)
2 points by mikro2nd 5y ago|0 comments
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Precisely. IMHO any civilisation capable of interstellar travel (at any speed) has solved all necessary questions/problems of resource/energy acquisition and control and has no need to plunder the resources of others.
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
There is certainly some truth to what you say. Threading is... just not (afaik it's a sort of green-threads thing) and UI is, as you point out, a crapshoot. However... ;) If I'm going to write code for my own amusement, I want to
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
An interesting project for devs is Glamorous Toolkit ( https://github.com/feenkcom/gtoolkit ) as an experiment/exploration of better dev tooling.
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
"Computers that you can talk to and ask questions" Pity the answers are so often rubbish and the "side-effects" so obnoxious. ST (and most other SF) seems not to have predicted that.
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
No, you probably can't. To make biogas on any reasonable scale is at least a village-scale thing; a single family/household cannot easily produce sufficient raw-material to manufacture useful amounts of methane unless you commit t
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
No. Opt-out is exactly the wrong approach. Instead consider a flag indicating that "I'm OK with mu source being used for training AI models." i.e. opt-in.
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Also mentions nothing at all about the rapidly-rising Delta strain that appears to hit younger people much harder than other/earlier strains and in preference to older folk. Ugh. This virus is horrible.
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Except that that's horizontal scrolling I saw, not vertical. Unless CSS-coders/designers in the web world use the terms "vertical" and "horizontal" in a different way to the rest of the world? Because I reall
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
There is no such thing as "too much scifi"...
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
It seems to me that interstellar trade -- with or without FTL -- is quite unlikely. I wrote some thoughts on this about a year ago, ( https://one.mikro2nd.net/2021/07/interstellar/ ) but tl;dr: If your society
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
One day in the dim and distant past, OpenOffice ate your homework, so now you're going to hate on LibreOffice, a software suite that was once, years and years ago, forked from OpenOffice and has come light-years since then while OO has
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South Africa’s startup ecosystem achieves major milestone(itweb.co.za)
1 points by mikro2nd 5y ago|0 comments
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
> "because in the author's mind, AMP is so god dang awful that when given the chance, everyone would immediately want to get rid of it" You must be a mind reader, then, because nowhere in the article does the author stat
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Fired by Bot: Amazon Turns to Machine Managers and Workers Are Losing Out(bloomberg.com)
9 points by mikro2nd 5y ago|1 comments
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Can't beat the classy reply: If you’re game to resume, we will get everything fixed for you and we’ll try to make it up to you. And if you’re already set on building your own thing, good luck and we’ll be rooting for you. In any case,

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