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by perrygeo 4y ago
If you're in the US, one tangible first step (without making a decision one way or the other) is to unenroll from as many benefits at your current job and move to your spouse's health care + other important benefits. This takes a
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Yes! The flood dynamics are what create viable salmon habitat. The dams are a double-whammy for salmon - salmon can't access habitat above them, plus dams alter the natural flood regime and destroy habitat below them.
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by perrygeo 4y ago
The salmon populations has been dropping for a century and have reached critical levels in the last few decades. This is not a recent phenomemon. There are many causes and they are understood quite well: dams block spawning habitat, water t
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Harris does not think that and never said any such thing. You're literally making false statements and putting them in his mouth. Yes, he has discussed the social stratification of IQ scores. And for this, he's a racist? You just
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by perrygeo 4y ago
The author cites "right-wing author Sam Harris". Is he talking about a different person? Sam Harris the author and podcast host is about as far from a right-wing author as you can get. He's a neuroscientist who advocates rati
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by perrygeo 4y ago
That's a lot to unpack. But I agree with your general sentiment - As currently practiced, Agile generally involves a lot of ceremony before actually building, with many rounds of collaborative planning and risk management on every deci
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Seriously? Analyzing data at the country level and claiming to have achieved decoupling is an egregious logical error that ignores our global trade network. Yes the US economy can grow without burning fossil fuels because someone else burns
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Assuming you're a programmer working on software, the best way I've found to keep focus is to set up your development environment such that a) it's full screen on a big monitor without any other apps or notifications and b) t
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Yes - but have you ever seen a troop of monkeys organize themselves to produce a surplus of sharp stones for their collective advantage? Thankfully, monkeys do not have this recursive ability. Sadly, humans do.
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by perrygeo 4y ago
We know that crows and many other animals use tools, which represents at least one level of linguistic abstraction ("It's not just a rock, it's a member of a more general category of things capable of smashing open food"
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by perrygeo 4y ago
It's not just finding replacements in the future. It's about stocking a reasonable workshop with tools and spare parts today given the diversity of bikes. I have 2 bikes, my wife and son each have one. Four bikes total and each on
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by perrygeo 4y ago
> "wouldn't bother" should be "don't bother" excellent point - I should use the active present tense. That is: "most people alive today don't bother with twitter, despite the fact that it's fr
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by perrygeo 4y ago
So, if the correct behavior was known, why did you not write a test asserting the correct behavior? I understand that it can get complicated, just legitimately curious if the behavior could or could not be easily captured by the test suite.
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by perrygeo 4y ago
> See: every streaming service The key difference is that streaming services purchase valuable content and resell it. There is obvious demand and the market clearly exists. Twitter provides little in the way of mass entertainment, unless
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Some green energy advocates are pushing the narrative of that we can replace fossil fuels with wind/solar. Fossil fuel advocates are trying to push the narrative that green energy is too intermittent to make a reliable grid. Both see
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by perrygeo 4y ago
> An example like this suggests to me only that the problem is commercial or organisational rather than technical. That's exactly right. Most businesses (including freelancers, the original question) fail based on their "commer
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by perrygeo 4y ago
A few things that make full-time bug fixing unlikely in a freelance capacity: First, you need a significant amount of access and context on any codebase to be productive. Unless you're promising them a long-term commitment (and at that
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Agree that Twitter is no town square. Disagree that Musk cares more about making money. Given his financial position in this whole ordeal, it's hard to see how he comes out without a loss. Power and influence over political speech thou
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by perrygeo 4y ago
I took a few core CS classes throughout university in the late 90s/early 2000s - database design (Oracle), general programming (C++, Java), unix (Solaris) that were foundational. But for the most part, I focused on building domain expe
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by perrygeo 4y ago
"The wind farm was planned to have a given life span and now that it's over, no one is willing to reinvest in it. So it's become a coal mine because coal is more profitable. So that proves why wind is more profitable." I
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Just to be totally clear on this, you're claiming that "People who have coal will not burn it if costs more than building out renewables" You do realize that you're commenting on an article showing that people are litera
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by perrygeo 4y ago
No, we should not! But also we should not ignore the local economic incentives that will arise due to an energy crunch. When gas and liquid fossil fuels become more expensive, local stores of coal become relatively more valuable as an energ
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Yet Germany is still implementing pro-coal policies. Not saying it's right, just that it is.
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by perrygeo 4y ago
> prioritization of energy security over clean energy in Europe’s biggest economy Exactly. This is a market signal that coal is far from over. As a global resource, coal is ubiquitous. We have existing tech and infrastructure to burn it.
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by perrygeo 4y ago
The advantage360 loses the function key row but does add two interior columns, similar to the moonlander's. I'm less concerned with the F keys but I'd miss the Esc key in the upper-left, and the printscrn and volume buttons.
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by perrygeo 4y ago
A few years ago, I noticed the common ec2 instance types (c5.large) prices spiking more frequently than their n and d variants (faster network and additional NVME disks respectively). This prompted me to learn how to use them. There are dif
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by perrygeo 4y ago
An edict to reduce cloud spending can have perverse consequences in the hands of stakeholders that don't understand the technical requirements of the business. One of the primary reasons for using cloud resources is scalability - the a
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by perrygeo 4y ago
> trees will just naturally appear on unused land, there's no need to plant them. If this isn't happening on it's own, it's probably because the conditions there aren't right for them. That is only true if the se
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by perrygeo 4y ago
In addition to the other resources listed here, check out OReilly's "Programming Rust" 2nd edition, arguably a better introduction and reference than the official book. If you're into backend web development, take a look
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Is there a technique to scan for software that includes copilot suggestions? Or is this just theoretical? Sounds impossible given MS/GH's monopoly on access to the model input data.

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