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by palata 3mo ago
Have you ever tried Organic Maps or CoMaps? Last time I tried with Google I could only download a relatively small area, and it would only be available temporarily. With CoMaps, I can download entire countries and keep them forever. That&#x
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by palata 3mo ago
Or it's (again) a brilliant idea from those marketing people, something along the lines of "let's announce something we don't have and see how it is received, so that we will see if there is interest or not". It&#x2
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by palata 3mo ago
> more to the point, i feel like there should be a compiler switch or decorator style flag in modern languages that declare "this function is expected to optimize with tail recursion, throw a compiler or linter error at static analy
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by palata 3mo ago
Bad code is hard to read, that is orthogonal to the fact that it is recursive.
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by palata 3mo ago
Is that how the mother gets the seed from the father?
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by palata 3mo ago
This is explicitly a thread about arthropods, though. Quote from above: > they are by a healthy margin the most intelligent arthropod
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by palata 3mo ago
Depends on the time scale, I guess? We are living in a mass extinction that is orders of magnitudes faster than the one of the dinosaurs. So the norm, right now , is that later there will be fewer animals and insects. In Europe, we've
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by palata 3mo ago
The best way to prevent forest fires is to cut all the trees. No forest means no forest fire, right? The problem (as always) is that it is complicated. We are living in a mass extinction right now (orders of magnitudes faster than the one o
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by palata 3mo ago
Not shutting the discussion of course, but it's important to realise that in the early 80s, that was exceptional. Now it will happen more and more every year, there is no stopping that trend.
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by palata 3mo ago
> The climate is not changing back, it's the new normal. Climate won't get any "new normal" until we reach strictly zero emission. As long as we emit CO2, climate will get worse. There is no new normal: every year it
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by palata 3mo ago
> Blaming everything on global warming is extremely dangerous I don't think it's blaming on global warming. Global warming is just making those problems a lot worse. It is just the beginning, on average it will get worse every
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by palata 3mo ago
Ants as well
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by palata 3mo ago
Pretty sure I see many bees on Magnolias.
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by palata 3mo ago
I was a happy user of Kagi and I switched to Qwant a year ago because they are based in Europe (Ecosia seems to have US servers?). But I have to say: 1. It's slow. As compared to Google or Kagi, getting the results of a search feels sl
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by palata 3mo ago
> Just look at Lisa Su or Steve Jobs. It has a name, it's called "survivorship bias".
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by palata 3mo ago
> speaking as a founder/CEO [...] Proven talent comes with a massive price tag, but it's almost always worth it. I see no bias here /s.
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by palata 3mo ago
> Investors aren't dumb. They are not dumb, just incompetent in the domains where they invest the money. And surrounded by yes-men because they are the ones writing the checks.
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by palata 3mo ago
> I like the current world better. Think about that in the next years when you finally realise how screwed we are.
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by palata 3mo ago
All bikes look the same, all cars look the same, all cameras look the same, all bridges, all dams, hell all smartphones look exactly the same! The whole goddamn point of UX is that you make something that is usable, and hence familiar to yo
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by palata 3mo ago
Wait. I say "how does wasting 10% have more impact if you waste 10% of 10 or 10% of 1000?", and they answer "it's just not worth doing it for 1". I just don't see how this is related to waste. Of course if it&#
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by palata 3mo ago
> so might as well get the real deal. Almost the same thing for twice the price, just for the pleasure of saying that you believe Apple was first?
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by palata 3mo ago
> 1. PWAs load in the browser too I keep getting that kind of answers, and it just tells me that people just don't get my one point about end-to-end encryption... > I don't think the e2e encryption argument really holds up
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by palata 3mo ago
> What difference does it make? I think it makes a difference. To find other examples, I don't find it unacceptable that Samsung doesn't try to support GrapheneOS on their phones, even though it would benefit their users and I.
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by palata 3mo ago
Right. Yeah it seems like we agree. My point is that if you dynamically run code coming directly from a server, you have to trust the server, and that is fundamentally a problem for end-to-end encryption. I totally agree that PWAs count as
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by palata 3mo ago
It sounds to me like saying "I don't really care about football except the finals of the world cup. I wish we discovered alien football, that would interest me". I get the point, but it sounds like you just don't care ab
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by palata 3mo ago
I can't tell if you genuinely don't understand the difference between "installing a signed archive once and then running it multiple times" and "running code dynamically in a browser that is fundamentally made to be
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by palata 3mo ago
> Aren't the undiscovered ones just different colored insects or jellyfish? I was answering to someone saying that they would dream of seeing animals from another planet. Pretty sure that they (like everybody else) cannot list 0.01%
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by palata 3mo ago
I just don't get how it is cheaper in total to produce more units and throw them away. If you make more units, it's cheaper per unit . But doesn't it mean that waste is always a loss?
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by palata 3mo ago
Right. So what you're saying is that instead you should be allowed to go in the forest to get another 99 mushrooms, give them the same treatment, and then throw them away? And suddenly it's worth it for one mushroom if you threw a
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by palata 3mo ago
And as a result you get monopolies like TooBigTech and you can't compete anyway.

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