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by phatfish 3y ago
Why can't we do both? Personally I don't want plastic trash polluting the environment. I think this attitude gets the the heart of the problem. When it actually comes to lifestyle changes it suddenly becomes someone else's pr
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by phatfish 3y ago
Why dismiss it as a distraction? Every positive action is a step in the right direction to help keep the planet in a liveable condition. I'm happy if restricting single use plastic like plastic straws helps even a small amount to reduc
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by phatfish 3y ago
It gets lumped under "safety", but I bet it is also due to perceived reputational damage. The powers that be at Google don't want it generating insecure code (or to look stupid in general), so it is super conservative. Either
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by phatfish 3y ago
Just reading it now (from another post that linked it so not biased by your comment) it was quite touching. A more than charitable attempt I'd wager.
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by phatfish 3y ago
FirefoxOS was a moon shot. The sort of project a profit making company burns a few 10s of million on in the hope it somehow works out. Mozilla should have been focusing on the one thing anyone cared about, the browser. Rust and Servo were t
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by phatfish 3y ago
I'm counting down the days like it's Christmas.
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by phatfish 3y ago
Nice try, but that link says 41,731 deceased in the first paragraph, and 43,014 deceased under the the visualisation with the Soviet stars (bit weird). I admit this is based on a machine translation, but I expect that Google and DeepL can g
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by phatfish 3y ago
You don't screw over your peers. Those that control the big investment funds or have a private fortune probably liked having a golden parachute themselves at some point. Same as when normal people quit a job they don't like it&#x2
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by phatfish 3y ago
Putin will need to put a gun to his head in a bunker before anything "normal" happens. Russia is a Third Reich level regime at the moment. Hence 300k killed and wounded causes zero reaction from the Russian public. The Soviet-Afga
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by phatfish 3y ago
I see, meat packaging is different in the UK. Styrofoam trays are not used in any major stores, they all use the same rigid sealed containers, even the cheap options. Butchers cutting meat for you is much less common in store now, those tha
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by phatfish 3y ago
Sure if it is horrible it might be necessary, if warm water and disinfectant spray don't sort it out. We have not had our grocery shopping leak that badly that I can remember.
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by phatfish 3y ago
When I went to Germany for the first time in around 2009 they didn't have any bags at the grocery store checkout. You either carried you shopping in your arms or took one of the cardboard boxes they brought out from the deliveries, if
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by phatfish 3y ago
Indeed, which is why it is strange they are pushing this narrative that reusable is "bad", rather than keeping quite.
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by phatfish 3y ago
Sure, if you recycle them then that makes it much better for the environment. The problem is most people don't recycle them. Not so sure on the energy usage, if feels like the manufacturing and recycling chain would be more energy inte
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by phatfish 3y ago
Is there an equivalent of the FDA for plastic bags?
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by phatfish 3y ago
You throw them because something leaked. Why not clean it with a cloth? I've used the same 3 long lasting plastic bags for the weekly shop for around 4 years now. I take a couple of thinner ones I reuse when just going to get a few thi
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by phatfish 3y ago
Why would you need a timer for pressure cooking? Don't you just stand there staring at it counting the whistles?
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by phatfish 3y ago
The PlayStation also had an effect. The Amiga was easier to use than MS-DOS (or even Windows 95) in a console kind of way (just put in the disk you want to play and turn it on). I remember a couple of kids at school going from Amiga to Play
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by phatfish 3y ago
Unfortunately change the world will likely mean zombifying most of the population with social media streams. At least with a phone even the most addicted have to put it down sometimes when they need to use both hands.
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by phatfish 3y ago
I suspect they dislike the person. JRM is the type to jump on any wedge issue like renewables that might appeal to his GB News viewers and boost his figures (crazy that politicians in the UK can have a permanent campaign platform, not even
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by phatfish 3y ago
I feel like there are very few "high-quality" journalists that can support themselves on Substack/Patreon alone. A story might take months of research and travel to do properly.
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by phatfish 3y ago
It works fine now, many sites i visit have a "Deny All" button which was how it was supposed to work. Initially, (inevitably) private corporations found a way to subvert the spirit of the law to their benefit. Getting the legalise
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by phatfish 3y ago
Marketing sure painted themselves into a corner on this one by counting backwards, they only have one generation left before things get weird. Will they use fractions or go negative?
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by phatfish 3y ago
I think one of the issues is that software engineers are building on sand. Civil engineers have Newton and Einstein to fall back on. It feels like there is no ground truth in computing, each layer has to assume the layer below is generating
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by phatfish 3y ago
It would be interesting to compare the solutions from day 1 to the solutions a year from now (maybe less, but a year would give time for most people that cared to publish their solution and for them to be picked up in re-training). Of cours
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by phatfish 3y ago
You don't "go viral" writing something.
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by phatfish 3y ago
There is nothing special about most rich/powerful people (there are those that are genuinely exceptional of course and built a fortune because of that), they want the same things as "normal" people just on a different level.
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by phatfish 3y ago
Humm, I wonder what happened in 2022 that might make other countries freeze Ruzzian assets?
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by phatfish 3y ago
People liked having Napster, but it didn't stop file sharing going from a big mainstream app to underground sites run out of Russia (or other places that ignore copyright law). Sure, you can download music/movies still, but it&#x2
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by phatfish 3y ago
Society may be "completely OK" with human artists taking inspiration from each other. It's a big old reach to assume we are "completely OK" with Microsoft and OpenAI doing the same thing with computer software as su

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