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by pyrale 2y ago
Efficiency, sure, but also industry getting wiped out.
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by pyrale 2y ago
> nuclear often has to shut down in the summer either because rivers don't carry enough water or are so hot that feeding warm cooling water back into them endangers fish). I don't believe this has much impact on Germany's
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by pyrale 2y ago
For instance, Germany could import on windless winter days, and export on windy summer days.
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by pyrale 2y ago
This is a common talking point, but it really doesn't mean much in terms of the reliability of electric systems. If you import a lot and export a lot, that doesn't mean both countries could be autonomous, it may mean your country
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by pyrale 2y ago
> He was incredibly logical. Oh, sure. But his writings weren't. > But in order to ground that absurdity, the rest has to be normal. Maybe we haven't read the same books ? I would not say that conkers are the only absurd ele
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by pyrale 2y ago
> [to which someone said "Scotland" :(] Savage reply.
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by pyrale 2y ago
Your mistake is trying to find logic in something Douglas Adams wrote. It makes no sense for alien spaceships to carry conkers. That's the joke, a small dig at people believing the local stuff they're used to is universal.
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by pyrale 2y ago
Yes, Rama probably isn’t semantically comparable to one single monad. I was talking about the do notation as a way to sugar the syntax of cps monadic operations into a flat, imperative syntax. This is exactly what Rama is doing. If you look
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by pyrale 2y ago
> descent money When you want a decent paycheck, but instead get a descent into computing madness.
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by pyrale 2y ago
> you have to ask how you will grow and maintain things going forward. The typical answer is "The jobs market will provide". The issue with that method is that you end up competing with everyone and, usually, your company is no
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by pyrale 2y ago
That's because CPS is the callback hell. Promises are a mechanism that was devised to separate the composition mechanism and the function itself, much like shell pipes exist to separate the control flow from the called function. In t
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by pyrale 2y ago
I feel like these explanations based on cognitive development always end up with unprovable assertions which inevitably support their author's views. The same exist about natural language, and they're always (unconvincingly) used
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by pyrale 2y ago
I see no issue with this org being nominated. Their advocacy seems to be right and useful. Good for them. On the other hand, reading the declaration, it's pretty clear that this nomination does not exist to celebrate good news. That is
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by pyrale 2y ago
> Perhaps the committee thought it was best to express its opinion on current conflicts indirectly, as it has done so in the past. I do agree, and this is my point: this particular committee expressing concern rather than celebrating suc
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by pyrale 2y ago
I have no issue with this laureate, but it is sad that the comittee could not find someone deserving that is working on a more current conflict. I guess this is not a positive outlook for the current state international conflicts.
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by pyrale 2y ago
It's definitely possible some people do wrong stuff. I wouldn't trust people not to mess things up badly sometimes. But if you intend to criticize the whole discipline, you can't base your analysis only its failures.
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by pyrale 2y ago
I went more in depth in another reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41788460
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by pyrale 2y ago
Outreach programs typically don't influence the hiring decision. But they influence the stream of people that will try to get an internship at your company. For instance, if you're a Stanford grad and keep strong ties with the alm
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by pyrale 2y ago
There are more parameters than just changing the evaluation method applied on a fixed pool of candidates.
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by pyrale 2y ago
> As soon as you have gender/race distribution goals that deviate from your candidate stream, you have to make hiring decisions that discriminate against your otherwise "most capable candidate" The issue with this logic is
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by pyrale 2y ago
I shared my opinion about a solution elsewhere on the tread, but in my opinion change won't happen without antitrust.
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by pyrale 2y ago
The crux of the question is "how people find internet resources". And the answer is that, generally, ad-driven companies have no interest in showing their users this kind of stuff, and have taken over pretty much every entrypoint.
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by pyrale 2y ago
Adtech dominance goes beyond "stuff you don't pay". Plenty of non-commercial entities did and published stuff for free on the internet before ad money became dominant. For instance, the first forums I socialized on were all i
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by pyrale 2y ago
> If Mozilla wants to continue being relevant (as I currently write this on a firefox browser, I surely hope they do) they need to escape the adtech black hole and its reality distortion field. Nobody is going to escape the adtech blackh
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by pyrale 2y ago
> The argument would be that if you hire for diversity, you are no longer hiring for capability first That claim is also hard to prove in the first place, but apparently people can just peddle it, and expect other people to do the hard w
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by pyrale 2y ago
The few occasions I worked in a bank, our client made it very clear that anyone inserting an USB drive anywhere would be walked to the front door by security within an hour.
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by pyrale 2y ago
> The argument is that once you stop doing that, it’s over. My issue is that this statement is wrong, though. All the greenhouse gas from coal that was burned in the past, and all the coal we're still burning, will still be around a
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by pyrale 2y ago
> So, if your fathers started coal plants, you close them, stop paying for them and can forget about them. I suspect you don't live in e.g. Tuvalu? Or in a country experiencing desertification like Spain?
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by pyrale 2y ago
This article is thousands of characters long, but somehow doesn't manage to explain how exactly you're supposed to help "firms", especially without getting hammered by companies from developed countries, or without linin
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by pyrale 2y ago
So basically you’re so caught up in this infighting between two carbon neutral energies that you’d rather spread disinformation about climate change and the negative effects of coal…

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