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by olau 5y ago
Dan, if you're reading this - you could try something like body { margin: 0 auto; max-width: 50em; } Although I must confess that I'm personally enjoying the quirky long lines in your writing.
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by olau 5y ago
It sounds like a bike is not for you, but for those who use a bike, they do have solutions to your problems: Weather: Cold is easy enough, unless there's deep snow. You buy warm clothing and take it on before riding and off afterwards.
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by olau 5y ago
I think the pro thieves just grab the bike and put it in a van. They look relatively easy to remove with a few tools in workshop. Perhaps you can simply lock pick them, with some practice. But they do protect against casual thieves, the one
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by olau 5y ago
Not trying to make a point, just some data: There was a show on national television in my country that had a bunch of cases like this after the 2008 crash. The typical scenario was a couple buying a house pre-crash to start a family, then b
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by olau 5y ago
Here's a little anecdote regarding Seeing like a state. I read the book some years ago, then afterwards as chair of a kindergarten had a state-like experience with the local municipality. They wanted to use a language test on all recen
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by olau 5y ago
When you're a Django beginner, yes, it can be annoying to go from something that's just super easy to having to stitch together something yourself. I'm not sure what exactly causes this feeling, but I did learn that you need
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by olau 5y ago
I don't think it's on purpose. I think the problem is that in a modern society, you are so far removed from the habitats that our ancestors evolved in that a lot of people simply can't cope. We're designed to spend time
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by olau 5y ago
Rope with hook. You can even use that when visiting friends.
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by olau 5y ago
It's just not a great protocol. Many years back I was working on a desktop client for XMPP. The first problem I encountered was that XMPP does not actually send individual XML documents each time it sends a message. Instead it starts w
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by olau 5y ago
Is it not Slashdot you're asking for? It has always felt to me to be dominated by sysadmins.
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by olau 5y ago
Actually people have analyzed the issue at scale and concluded it's doable with renewables. It's not that difficult to find these studies, if you actually care to look for them. Whether you believe those studies or not is immateri
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by olau 5y ago
From your Wikipedia link: "A 2017 assessment put rising nuclear construction costs, low gas prices and improving renewable generation economics as the three main causes of the failure of the nuclear renaissance in the United States.&qu
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by olau 5y ago
If we're going to generalize this old saying, let me point out that naming is just a specific instance of resource management, name space management. So I guess from this perspective, there's really only one hard problem in comput
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by olau 5y ago
Besides existing hydro, there's biomass (like coal plants, just without the coal), new pumped hydro, thermal electric (where you heat up rock and use the heat to drive a turbine, still no full-blown plant), and chemical batteries like
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by olau 5y ago
I think you need to be careful here. There's this trope going on in circles of people who love nuclear tech that expensive plants are just expensive because of X, where X can be environmentalists, government bureaucrats, old, bad desig
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by olau 5y ago
In EU, I think one of the requirements is a minimal capital requirement. I can't remember the exact number, but something like 5 million EUR. I don't think most of the small local banks could have started in the current environmen
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by olau 5y ago
There was indeed a lot of hot air in sustainability thoughts in 2008, and probably still is, but Mackay's treatment is sometimes bordering the absurd. For instance, the chapter on wind power starts by comparing a back of the envelope c
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by olau 5y ago
I'm left wondering if women would make for statistically better bomb putter-togetherers. If the account on Wikipedia is to be believed, it sounds like a true Darwin award with only a screwdriver separating him from certain death.
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by olau 5y ago
Persistence: I'm not sure that line of reasoning is actually valid. I think you need to be able to rule out other reasons for persistence before you can make that conclusion. The article mentions that the genders are learned at an earl
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by olau 5y ago
I really enjoyed reading the first post about how you went about it. Impressive.
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by olau 5y ago
Well, animal feces is commonly used as a fertilizer. I think it would be bad news for a plant if bacteria were traveling around inside it. People reusing human wastes generally try to compost it for a while, I think, probably partly to redu
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by olau 5y ago
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
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by olau 5y ago
I once went to a chiropractor with a bad lumbar. She started off x-raying my back to check if something was really bad (it wasn't), then did her little grappling knee chiropractor thing (which felt good), then proceeded to use an elect
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by olau 5y ago
Intuitively, it does make sense. If you only ever encounter something once, it probably does not make sense to spend brain resources storing it.
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by olau 5y ago
Probably only if people chip in and help. I don't know much about this eco system, but it's my impression that most of the components are already there, including Android emulation, they just need more work. Probably rewarding wor
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by olau 5y ago
I'm not sure this observation is to the point. Most enterprises do not allow this kind of behavior either, unless you happen to sit at the right place in the hierarchy. If you had violated the terms of service of Google Maps, they woul
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by olau 5y ago
I think this way of framing it is perhaps misleading. Yes, it's plainly true that the bank owns (or rents) the hardware, software, databases, etc. and that you're paying for a service through various fees. But IP is much less clea
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by olau 5y ago
People seem to interpret blacktriangle's post in a parser setting. I don't know why, but if you're writing parsers, you're explicitly falling into the category he's mentioning where static types make a lot of sense.
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by olau 5y ago
I think competition in its essence is antisocial. If you are participating with the primary goal of winning, you're participating to make everyone else experience a loss. I understand structuring social events as competitions adds dram
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by olau 5y ago
Great story. :) I feel sad that your kindergarten didn't have a garden. Almost kindergartens in my country have one, or at least a playground, and the kids usually spend half their day if not more out there.

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