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by perrygeo 2y ago
The last time the world was at +4C was the mid-miocene, 16 million years ago. Sea levels were 40 meters higher than today. The climate was so wet that grasslands grew in what is now desert. Gigantic mammals roamed everywhere. Human ancestor
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> You should have declarative schemas but inferring migrations is crazy. Only pain will follow. Inferring migrations isn't crazy. Automagically applying those migrations without review is crazy.
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This is important because one of top arguments for tariffs in a globalized world is to disincentivize anyone from undercutting prices by committing environmental or labor rights violations. Example: US timber companies have to follow enviro
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Great point, this maps to my experience. Almost every "fix this existing code" problem posed to LLMs is a failure. The approach of simply spitting out the next probable token doesn't work if any complexity or design aesthetic
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For the same reason they don't focus on software quality, simplicity, or reliability - those things cost money and require good ideas and critical thinking. Too hard. Much easier to sell slickly-marketed garbage.
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I had a linear algebra teacher who would not speak to us. Literally conducted most classes in complete silence. His English wasn't great but manageable - that wasn't the issue. He would just walk into class without acknowledging u
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Is multi-level selection really controversial? It seems bizarre to claim that natural selection only works on a single level of abstraction. As we go from the individual, either up or down in scale, do the mechanisms of natural selection ju
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In a similar vein, Tusker is helpful tool that diffs your declarative schema and auto-generates migrations. It uses live postgres connections so you can connect and diff against a running instance too, allowing you to sync up multiple insta
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> I personally haven't found Rust that difficult to prototype in Rust is actually a pretty nice language for prototyping IMO. I agree with your take - Rust has many escape hatches you can use to develop quickly. Then when it comes t
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Or worse, decades in the future when historians look back, they might determine that collapse started before 2025 (perhaps 9/11, 2008 financial collapse, covid, the re-emergence of populist fascism, AI, microplastics, climate change ..
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The problem with claims of imminent societal collapse is they treat "collapse" like an event, with the world neatly divided into before and after. Historically, societal collapse is much more fuzzy. No neat single cause. No single
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>. In his confirmation hearing, the Liberty Energy founder pledged broad support for renewable energy. But when speaking to conservatives, he declared, “We don’t have replacements” for coal, oil and gas. This is not doublespeak. It'
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I was an early adopter of Docker (because Python) and I immediately hit the "now how do I run it in prod?" question. K8s quickly jumped in to fill that space. But I like to imagine a saner world where Quadlet came first and became
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A creation myth is literally a story about where people come from, the connection seems fairly obvious.
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Myths are not meant to be believed literally, they tell a story about how to live in right relationship to the earth. And that's why I find the first nation stories so valuable - it's a philosophy born of a very different historic
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> interest in technical matters is driven by a trauma response... attaining mastery over an "objective" arena allowed us to feel better about our place in the world. Interesting insight. I do think there's some truth to t
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Don't focus on finding work, you'll just be selling your time to the lowest bidder. If you can afford it, build something for free, blog what you learn, and ship it. Build a portfolio of real working software and technical writing
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That line jumped out to me as well. It's simplistic extrapolation of data without any physical basis. We're at 430ppm now. 500ppm by 2032 would be a climate disaster. 1200ppm would be a mass extinction. But hey, good news, we&#x27
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Exactly. I think Dijkstra was off on this one. Simplicity may be a prerequisite for a software engineer's sanity but there's no natural law that simple is reliable. If anything, nature trends towards highly interconnected, distrib
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I don't know, the more I learn about mitochondria, the more crazy sci-fi it sounds! Sometimes it feels like they're calling the shots and our bodies are just their spaceship.
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Yes! Feels like our concept of an individual gets blurrier the more detail we get: Plants are not truly separate, they are connected via fungal networks - the "wood wide web". Lichen are not one species, they are made of a coopera
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Earth's greatest mass extinction... so far. Despite whatever success Amphibians had during past hard times, they are getting demolished now. 40% of species are threatened with extinction and the situation is deteriorating globally and
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Given how bad Google search has gotten recently, I'd give this a try even without the trees. If they can provide a decent search experience _and_ reduce CO2, even better.
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You give him more credit than he deserves. Not sure there was much thought beyond "rare earth" sounds cool to his fan club, who still think he's a master negotiator. Meanwhile, he's threatening allies and using our &quot
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This mirrors the long term trend for almost all insect populations, globally. Think of the impact on everything that eats insects; they're the base of the Animalia food web. It's not an exaggeration to say we're watching the
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Twitter and platforms like it encourage snippet-based thinking. I've noticed a communication trend recently where, instead of a few well constructed paragraphs, you get a pile of half-finished thoughts in 200 charachters each, strung t
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AI can do amazing things... and they pick syntax checking as an example? It's almost like people hyping this stuff have no idea what they're talking about.
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The world _wasn't_ zero sum when we had limitless economic growth. But growth has effectively ended for the majority of people. And resource constraints look they will define the future. Extracting resources has always been the central
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Junior developers may be able to crank out more code. But so can senior developers! Which is more valuable? AI is a force multiplier and senior devs are now WAY more effective. If a 10x developer was a thing in the past, they're now 10
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I picked up Clojure recently after a 10 year hiatus. My early complaints were around tooling - a Lisp-specific IDE felt all but required to get the benefits of the REPL and structural editing. And leiningen, god how I despise that tool. Wit

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