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by pif 3y ago
The problem with code styles is that most developers can only reason about information systems, where the only thing your code has to do is dispatch the right data to the right place. As soon as you try and write a function that actually us
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by pif 3y ago
And where will the money come from? I often hear requests for higher wages, but nobody ever volunteers to pay more to fund such wages.
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by pif 3y ago
> it could serve to reduce deforestation in those regions by reducing the demand for more farmland Only if the food surplus gets used to improve the life of people, without increasing population size!
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by pif 3y ago
Terrible practice? That's your opinion.
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by pif 3y ago
> the UNIX haters book exists for a reason For the same reason that is behind complaints about undefined behaviour in C/C++: because there are people who do, and people who can't do. Those who can't do, need to complain i
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by pif 3y ago
> Aldi has better prices For the same quality? With the same workers' rights? With at least ea liveable profit for their providers?
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by pif 3y ago
> Keeping prices low is a great thing In absolute terms, no, it isn't! Think "race to the bottom". Coupled with the proper checks, low prices can be great.
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by pif 3y ago
> global greenhouse gas emissions fall by 7.6 per cent each year between 2020 and 2030 Which means that we need such a breakthrough every year, for 10 years.
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by pif 3y ago
> Give your support agents access to a functioning dev version. Exactly as I said, it's already too late. For it to be most effective, such advice must arrive before I start coding.
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by pif 3y ago
> Almost every company has customer support people who are beating their heads against their desks trying desperately to surface this feedback In my personal experience, this only happens after the development. We have found no way to ob
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by pif 3y ago
We have learnt how to cope with the small address space of IPv4. Full stop.
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by pif 3y ago
> But at this point we are at almost 50% of traffic, so why stop. You could say: at this point we are at only 50% of traffic, so why not rollback? In the end, IPv4 is still working fine. Maybe IPv6 was just a huge error while the status
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by pif 3y ago
> The IPv6 designers made a fundamental conceptual mistake: they designed the IPv6 address space as an alternative to the IPv4 address space, rather than an extension to the IPv4 address space. That is THE problem. Those designers
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by pif 3y ago
> I inevitably end up calling out their bullshit and/or start seeing the pointlessness of it all The fundamental point to keep in mind is that it does not matter. The only thing you are entitled to in a corporation is your salary. I
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by pif 3y ago
> We have to reform agriculture to stop and reverse biodiversity loss. Sure! Do you have a proposal to make agriculture more eco-friendly without impacting quantity, quality and cost of the food produced? > The key is reducing meat
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by pif 3y ago
> half the people still want to believe it isn't happening. The problem is twofold: on one side, you have those who think they can choose whether to believe in facts; on the other side, you have those who believe without understand
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by pif 3y ago
> Having more than one railway terminals for a city as big as Paris is not unreasonable. > There are technical difficulty with connecting the stations Both points of yours are right, but something is missing in the picture. Several no
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by pif 3y ago
What was the question, again?
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by pif 3y ago
> We kinda do. You are talking about nuclear, aren't you? I agree with you that nuclear is part of the solution. The pragmatic in me just insists that we cut drastically fossil fuel consumption after enough nuclear reactors are in
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by pif 3y ago
> even though it's adding to the problem Yes, it's adding to the problem, very little. Yes, it's helping you, very much. No, you don't have an alternative. I sincerely wish you it doesn't break. Keep cool!
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by pif 3y ago
> I have tried to change as many habits as I can to lower my footprint That may be good to your conscience, but you realise that you have not tackled the problem at all, do you? If you really want to have an impact, try and achieve a con
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by pif 3y ago
> Likely, climate change will cause 1-2B people to flee to temperate areas Rationally, that is the thing to do. All predictive models agree that temperatures are not going to decrease during the following decades. We should be organizing
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by pif 3y ago
> we can have industry without apocalypse. Just how? I've not yet heard a proposal for a plan that is expected to work.
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by pif 3y ago
Because industrial society is based on abundant, cheap energy; and we don't have yet any alternative to fossil fuels; and the most drastic plans proposed are not even expected to produce a noticeable result for several decades.
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by pif 3y ago
Stability is not the goal. Comfort is the goal. And pre-industrial societies switched to industrial societies as fast as they could!
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by pif 3y ago
Edit: sorry HN'ers, I Hadn't noticed it was a troll comment!
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by pif 3y ago
The scientific perspective: no matter what we do, global temperatures will not go back for several decades. There is nothing we can do to help them now , apart from shipping them A/C units, diesel generators and diesel fuel to burn.
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by pif 3y ago
Maybe there is no way out, but I prefer modern life with global warming to pre-industrial-times life. And I am sure I am not alone.
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by pif 3y ago
> after the government spent decades brainwashing ... Please, not that rhetoric again! Do you even know what a democracy is?
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by pif 3y ago
> I fail to see how legality is relevant to the question of whether choosing to take a drug is choosing to become addicted. A substance being illegal basically everywhere should be a strong hint that it may be dangerous. Most of the peop

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