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by nickserv 5y ago
The default position is, like it should be for any scientific field, to assume nothing. Unless there is enough evidence pointing to a specific cause, the consensus will be "we don't know for sure, but here a few possibilities&quot
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by nickserv 5y ago
The West in general has been on a downward trend when it comes to manufacturing. Areas that were relatively wealthy decades ago now have high rates of unemployment, crime, drug abuse, shortened lifespans etc. If projects like this work out
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by nickserv 5y ago
The problem for me is that generally the highest ranked answers are the oldest, and in a fast moving tech stack this leads to really outdated advice. I do a lot of Python programming and some of the answers only work in 2.7 for example. Sam
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by nickserv 5y ago
I've had success using xid for user-visible IDs. What's nice is they're shorter than UUID, will sort in order, hides the amount of rows in the table. https://github.com/rs/xid
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by nickserv 5y ago
The US specifically bans most cooperation with China.
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by nickserv 5y ago
Interesting that they mention observation stations on the far side of the Moon, when these satellites would presumably disrupt certain observations. Obviously the level of interference will be much much less than on Earth or even Earth orbi
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by nickserv 5y ago
Many of my friends on FB know that their data is being harvested, and simply don't care. As for me, I would use an alternative platform in a heartbeat, but all the privacy focused ones so far have not gained any traction.
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by nickserv 5y ago
Take the idea just a notch further and you've got yourself an ekranoplan. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun-class_ekranoplan
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by nickserv 5y ago
The latest ships used by CMA-CGM use LNG, and they're not planning on using heavy fuels anymore. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Saad%C3%A9-class_con...
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by nickserv 5y ago
This isn't the first mass extinction the planet has seen.
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by nickserv 5y ago
It's much more than "2 new keywords", asynchronous programming is a different way of thinking about program flow and architecture. The thing is, your program is only as asynchronous as the lowest I/O level. It doesn&#x27
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by nickserv 5y ago
> Will this void my warranty or destroy my beloved headphones? > > No! > Boze.app communicates with your headphones in the exact same way that the official Bose Connect app does. I'm not sure how you can know that the proto
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by nickserv 5y ago
Amazing what a more user-friendly interface will do... Looking at you, httpd.conf.
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by nickserv 5y ago
The biggest problem from what I've experienced is Protobuf, not really gRPC. Even though gRPC works fine overall, of course a simpler, faster implementation is always welcome. But having used Capn Proto, I would reach for that rather t
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by nickserv 6y ago
Similar situation here in Western Europe. I don't even have direct road access, need to take some stairs. So when I was buying a car electric made no sense. However lately the city has made some improvement to public charging stations
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by nickserv 6y ago
Cool idea. I would be more enthused if it came from another company though. It seems like all the "green" projects Airbus does are aborted. Remember their last electric plane? Canceled before the first flight. Meanwhile a couple s
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by nickserv 6y ago
The point is, obviously, that any of those events could have rapidly ended up with me dead. For doing absolutely nothing wrong. Do you really enjoy living in a country where police have power of life and death over you and your loved ones?
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by nickserv 6y ago
In Europe, extremely unlikely. I've never even been verbally abused by police in the UK, Spain, France, or Italy. I have been stopped a few times, fined a couple times, even searched once. But not once did I feel to be in any sort of
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by nickserv 6y ago
Unfortunately it's not absurd. Police in the US are extremely dangerous. They have by far the highest killing rate of any advanced nation, and can do so basically with impunity. Also you do not need to be driving. I've had extreme
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by nickserv 6y ago
Incredibly sad that this sort of thing is required. Obviously nobody enjoys getting pulled over, but you should be fearing a fine, not getting beat up or killed.
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by nickserv 6y ago
Human children, like most other social primates, have evolved to do best when raised by an extended family unit. In modern societies we have replaced the extended family (tribe) with daycare and schooling, and in some cases, communal areas
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by nickserv 6y ago
I would avoid PHP and Ruby just the same, but for very different reasons. Anyway regarding deploying, these days Go is available. It's probably the easiest one to deploy, just copy the binary to the server.
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by nickserv 6y ago
We are in agreement. I was mainly commenting on the feel of the music. I remember as a teenager listening to Mozart and thinking "this is slow and boring", while Metallica is "super fast and cool", when in actuality th
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by nickserv 6y ago
> That would be like arguing that everything Led Zeppelin wrote was already implicit in 'Johnny B. Goode'. I hadn't thought of that, but now that you mention it, there is definitely some truth there ;-)
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by nickserv 6y ago
More Renaissance than Baroque, but some of John Dowland's lute pieces have the same emotional impact on me as Bach. Lachrimae Pavane, his most famous, is exceptional when played on lute. Although in all fairness the instrument itself i
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by nickserv 6y ago
A lot of Bach (and "classical" music in general) may feel slow, but is actually quite fast if you measure the amount of notes played per minute. But this is something I only realized when I started to learn guitar and tried playin
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by nickserv 6y ago
Must be nice to have that kind of support from management. Usually it's "what will $expensive_refactor bring to our clients, right now?"
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by nickserv 6y ago
Completely agree. When I started un the late 90's and early 2000's, it was mainly CGI/Perl. PHP was seen as very amateurish, and Python didn't have the massive ecosystem it has now (Zope sucked). And that wasn't rea
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by nickserv 6y ago
No worries, we'll have a proportional Assembly and citizen's initiatives any day now...
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by nickserv 6y ago
Icon fonts were always a workaround for vector graphics, this because SVGs were not well supported. So good to hear newer browsers have better support. Unfortunately, one does generally need to support users on older browsers.

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