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by perrygeo 3y ago
No. I want people to do good science and to stop doing bad science. Especially when it comes to climate change, we have a moral obligation to root out bad ideas and invalid methods. I'm happy to have a conversation about the invalidity
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by perrygeo 3y ago
> one opportunistic local governement to loosen the reigns Absolutely true, which is why I emphasized "intensive management on a small scale". This is rather unlike current forest governance schemes which are mostly "indu
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by perrygeo 3y ago
In case there is a language barrier or something going on... by "clever accounting trick" I meant that the analyst in question committed a well-known scientific fallacy. Yet the author published it anyway because it proved favorab
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by perrygeo 3y ago
> [EVs] played a significant role in keeping oil demand (in terms of energy content) from rising above pre-pandemic levels. Oil demand increased by 2.4% from 2022 to 2023 according to the IEA's own report [1]. In what world is an
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by perrygeo 3y ago
It's a clever accounting trick. Try it with a random selection of countries instead of a cherry-picked sample. We have seen no decrease in global emissions. Advanced economies rely on international trade for their emissions-heavy ind
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by perrygeo 3y ago
It's worth pointing out that old growth timber operations and lumber products ARE actually reproducible forever with intensive management on a small scale. With what some might say is proper respect for the forests. You will get wildli
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by perrygeo 3y ago
> the dogma of RESTful APIs consistently push the complexity of data synchronization to the front-end. Sigh. I guess we'll never clarify this point but... as originally defined, RESTful APIs bear no absolutely no resemblance to mode
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Not sure what you're on about re: coal. I literally said solar has "less impact than a coal plant", so we seem to be in agreement.
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Well that's getting into the quality of the abstraction. Not all ORMs suffer this, most good ones give you a way around the n+1 problem.
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Because SQL isn't properly composable. You can do simple stuff like parameters to avoid blatant injection attacks. But for any remotely complex branching logic, you're back to string concatenation. This is historically an area rip
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Economics classes for the next century are going to use this as THE textbook argument against government intervention in commodity markets. The US amassed a huge stockpile of helium. But it was clear helium was no longer of strategic import
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by perrygeo 3y ago
> solar bans Important to note than most of these bans are about large-scale utility level solar installations. We're talking multi-million dollar, multi-decade industrial operations over many acres. Not putting a few PV panels on a
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by perrygeo 3y ago
I've found that people who appear quick-witted are either external processors (they like to "talk out loud" and steer their thought process by group reaction) and/or they are deeply prepared for this exact challenge from
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Let's build a realistic model of a game show host. What is the causal process at work? The game show host isn't going to reveal YOUR chosen door - that would ruin the whole game. Likewise, the host isn't going to reveal the C
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Having some "AI" that generates code in your IDE is roughly equivalent to copy-pasting code from the first google hit. Great for search/autocomplete/filling out obvious patterns. The grunt work. But terrible for doing a
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Well it's an employee-owned company. Your data is as good as mine. You assert that Wolfram's work is worth less than $1billion. You're quite emphatic about that fact. Let's just do some back-of-the-napkin math to assess
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Fair point, I've been using atuin for a few years on a few machines but never once felt the need to set up sync. I forgot sync was even a feature! It's certainly over-emphasized on the web page. I use it mainly because a) it store
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Mathematica has half-billion+ in annual revenue and has been a mainstay of engineering work for decades. So ... this world?
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by perrygeo 3y ago
> anarcho-primitivist fantasies You must be reading a different blog. I read a plausible synthesis of our biophysical reality, backed up by valid data and rigorous analysis by a respected physics professor. But you're not interested
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by perrygeo 3y ago
In software, it's clear why we don't prefer subtractive changes - complexity. If there's any chance that the code in question has non-local effects that can't be reasoned about at the call site, it's risky to make s
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by perrygeo 3y ago
It's not about speed in terms of absolute cumulative time. It's about the interleaving, the user experience of latency, and the effect that has on our cognition. A few ms of noticeable latency here and there, a few hundred ms free
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by perrygeo 3y ago
The 25% increase in size is true but it's 8 bytes, a small and predictable linear increase per row. Compared to the rest of the data in the row, it's not much to worry about. The bigger issue is insert rate. Your insert rate is li
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by perrygeo 3y ago
When has a software productivity tool ever decreased software jobs in aggregate? Every leap in software productivity to date has seen a subsequent increase in aggregate demand for software-related services. Sure, individual positions fade i
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by perrygeo 3y ago
The Cucurbita pepo squash was domesticated 10k years ago in the Americas. So there was absolutely small-scale "agriculture" throughout the Americas, roughly on the same timeline as Asia. In fact, they were experts at it (see the T
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by perrygeo 3y ago
> ecological barriers... close-range topographic travel costs I don't find this analysis very compelling. Sure there is local heterogeneity everywhere at every scale. But the important question is why would humans cross those barrie
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by perrygeo 3y ago
For technical docs, I always advocate for documenting in source-controlled markdown. For all the same reasons we source-control our code. It's the bare minimum requirement for quality control of professional software work; no one would
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by perrygeo 3y ago
I thought the whole paragraph about "This package is never going to be on CRAN" was a warning label :-) I agree, it works beautifully and performance is ok for desktop use.
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by perrygeo 3y ago
https://www.972mag.com/the-worlds-only-ethnic-time-zone/
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by perrygeo 3y ago
> GPS fix+UTC time isn't sufficient to determine time zone Most people understand that position alone can't determine time zones because their definitions change constantly. But surely with time + better positional accuracy we
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Agreed - that book is phenomenal at communicating the theory and mindset of Bayesian analysis. My favorite quote from the lectures - "Statistics should be subbordinate to Science." A very healthy emphasis on logic and proper model

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