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by peterashford 6mo ago
Its local environmental damage versus global environmental gains
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by peterashford 6mo ago
In NZ we're discussing pumped hydro in Lake Onslow which will provides months of backup for the country
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by peterashford 6mo ago
Over-provisioning with renewables is cheaper
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by peterashford 6mo ago
I vehemently disagree with this idea. I think you need to understand that all humans are fallible and you should have less vertical power structures and more horizontal structures. Putting all the power into one person's hands is askin
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by peterashford 7mo ago
There's the theory and there's the real world
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by peterashford 7mo ago
Enterprises do that if they choose. Patients can choose as well. And it's their choice, not anyone else's
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by peterashford 7mo ago
The laws are, the policing is not. At least not in medical data
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by peterashford 7mo ago
I think we were on the same track. I absolutely loved the Amiga and was about to jump on board BeOS when it went under. I never got to use BeOS as a daily driver (just ran their demo disk). How did you find it?
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by peterashford 7mo ago
No-one ever claimed that Java didn't use a lot of memory. The "comments about Java's GC" used to be about pauses, mainly. Java programmers don't claim that the JVM is conservative with memory use. That said, 5-20x..
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by peterashford 7mo ago
Go's GC is orders of magnitude behind Java's.
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by peterashford 7mo ago
I code Go at work. I've been using it for just over 3 years. I really like it. I prefer Java, but Go is a much more ergonomic C and its a very pragmatic language. Except for the *%!@ error system, that can burn in hell.
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by peterashford 7mo ago
This was exactly my experience when I first read about Go. I was so excited until I found they were repeating the c experience of check every bloody return value separately. That was the worst feature of c - why copy it
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by peterashford 7mo ago
Python's great until you have to refactor a large code base
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by peterashford 7mo ago
Not sure if I agree about the Go build system. Causes me endless issues at work - and my workmates, going by the number of complaints
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by peterashford 7mo ago
There are no FactoryFactorys in Java. Never have been
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by peterashford 7mo ago
Have you actually read The Wealth of Nations?
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by peterashford 7mo ago
Heh. I thought I remembered the name. I used to use Wouter's E programming language on the Amiga. It was pretty good, as I recall.
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by peterashford 8mo ago
It makes perfect sense. In a democracy your government (supposedly) represents you, thus the actions of your government are those you are partly morally responsible for and partly have some control over. If Russia or China is selling AK47s
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by peterashford 8mo ago
Using literally to mean figuratively goes back hundreds of years
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by peterashford 9mo ago
Don't underestimate the power of big media corporations to push a world view. When I was a kid in NZ, British culture was impressed on us via the media. These days, there's more American influence. I don't think that's
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by peterashford 9mo ago
Doesn't score correctly. Playing stones in your own territory adds to the score in the site, which is incorrect.
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by peterashford 9mo ago
NZ has had a free trade agreement with China since 2009. It has no strings attached in the sense of restrictions that we would not want.
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by peterashford 10mo ago
"open source projects eventually need a path to monetization" Why?
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by peterashford 11mo ago
That's why the word "Spectrum" is used
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by peterashford 11mo ago
Everyone supports that?
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by peterashford 11mo ago
"detaining those with suspicious travel patterns" is new
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by peterashford 11mo ago
I couldn't get Rocksmith 2014 running on Mint, which was a real PITA for me
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by peterashford 11mo ago
That's assuming the worst possible interpretation of what they were saying. I think you should assume good faith
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by peterashford 1y ago
I read & write Go regularly, and I hate its error handling intensely
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by peterashford 1y ago
Yup. Literally the only tech that I have genuine nostalgia for. I really miss it and the community

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