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by namuol 4y ago
I have a gas stove in my studio apartment. I still use an electric kettle to get water boiling before dumping it into a preheated pan to cook noodles/whatever. Highly recommend this approach if you are stuck with gas.
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by namuol 4y ago
Worth mentioning that CH4 ultimately turns into CO2.
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by namuol 4y ago
Surely it’s not that simple. In Germany, wasn’t it the abandonment of nuclear that ultimately led to the heavy reliance on fossil fuels? I would think that plays a deeper role.
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by namuol 4y ago
As usual, follow the money: I suspect this is a wedge issue because it has been manufactured/amplified as one with the encouragement of the fossil fuel lobby.
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by namuol 4y ago
Regarding #3: I think the stated missions of e.g. SpaceX and Tesla are the main draw of talent. The rest is loyalty, without which most talent would leave for less a less stressful work environment. At the very least I think we can expect m
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by namuol 4y ago
Thankfully it’s an important enough question that some people have already done some work for us. The IMF put out a report last year about this very subject. Here’s a relevant snippet from the summary: > Globally, fossil fuel subsidies w
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by namuol 4y ago
Methane leaks are bad, but new satellite tech (deployed by … charities, apparently?) will solve the problem by lowering the cost of finding leaks! Carbon emissions are bad, but new carbon capture tech will solve the problem! Reliance on unp
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by namuol 4y ago
State-sponsored nuclear fear-mongering is likely to accelerate dramatically online in the coming years. Will it be the right that goes anti-nuclear this time? Hopefully not.
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by namuol 4y ago
I recently stumbled upon RSD Academy (previously on HN [0]), a free course in electronics, on YouTube [1]. I've really enjoyed the video lectures, and recently learned he has a hand-crafted online textbook and course series to accompan
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by namuol 4y ago
I’ve heard that air source heat pumps can be very effective too, and far simpler to install. I wonder if there’s any discussion about converting ordinary AC units into reversible units, which supposedly is basically all an air source heat p
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by namuol 4y ago
From 2020, so not sure how up to date this is: “Solar Foods is a Finland-based start-up company that utilises CO2 captured from air, water and some minerals as sole raw materials to produce a protein powder using renewable electricity. Bran
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by namuol 4y ago
On the other hand, war is actually very bad and avoidable.
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by namuol 4y ago
SemVer allows for near-arbitrary version suffixes which can convey info like date and hash, so nothing should stop you from using both versioning conventions together.
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by namuol 5y ago
You're exaggerating. Skepticism is is a multi dimensional spectrum. Certain flavors of "skepticism" have been abused and, well, society has shifted its trust accordingly.
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by namuol 5y ago
Their games are so inspiring. The formula they employ is so much simpler than the typical "tycoon" or "sim" game (in a good way) and practically begs to be applied to all kinds of different scenarios like farming, restau
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by namuol 5y ago
I recently re-installed Kairosoft's "Game Dev Story" on my Android phone because I needed a good distraction from the world. I had to uninstall it years ago because it was shocking how easily I became hooked! I had no idea th
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by namuol 5y ago
Radiolab had a nice podcast about this fascinating subject back in 2018 (re-aired July 2020): https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/baby-...
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by namuol 6y ago
> I'm still miffed about the extreme reliance on Javascript modern web applications have. Flutter is written in Dart, which needs to compile to JS or WASM to run on the web, but can compile to native code. I'm guessing the nati
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by namuol 6y ago
Yes.
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by namuol 6y ago
It's really both rolled into one. But yeah, for now the kinds of web applications you can create with Webflow without custom code/hacks are pretty limited. For now. But more to the original question's point: Webflow provides
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by namuol 6y ago
Developers are ridiculously expensive and comparatively slow for many tasks.
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by namuol 6y ago
Somewhat related: https://sketch.systems "Markdown for State Machines"
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by namuol 6y ago
The difference is that Twitter and Facebook make a real effort to police violent or otherwise dangerous communications on their platforms. Parler was literally created as a safe haven for stuff that gets you banned on other platforms.
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by namuol 6y ago
Thanks for calling me out, there. I did some digging and I _think_ this is where I first came across the idea of "information density" as a function of info/syllables: https://www.researchgate.net/publication&
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by namuol 6y ago
(Disclaimer: IANAL - I am not a linguist) The Japanese language itself has very low "information density" - it takes many more syllables to convey the same thing in Japanese than it does in most languages. This is the result of th
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by namuol 6y ago
Yeah, I don't disagree. The more facts we have to choose from, the more susceptible to bias, because we will have a wider variety to cherry-pick from. But for those who are genuinely interested in the truth and vigorously fighting bias
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by namuol 6y ago
The difference is that with the spinning dancer optical illusion, there's never a "wrong" way to view it. This isn't always the case with politics, or any kind of view for that matter. It's important to empathize wi
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by namuol 6y ago
If EVs are that uncompetitive by 2035 then we've got bigger problems.
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by namuol 6y ago
> To have these conversations at work is just making employees less productive and asking for a controversy. I dare say it might be time for some employees at Facebook to pause and think about how their work may have an impact on the wor
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by namuol 6y ago
I think we can count on it to be around for awhile: https://www.npmtrends.com/@angular/core-vs-react-vs-vue

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