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by pyrale 10mo ago
On the opposite, it is more expensive, and any large enough company should probably at least consider renting metal rather than services. For a small org, though, it lets you avoid a lot of infrastructure/ops work.
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by pyrale 10mo ago
> More on the laziness and stupidity of their allies. s/laziness and stupidity/corruption/g See, for instance, what happened to Gemalto.
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by pyrale 10mo ago
That is a myopic view of history. Just look around yourself. No society is comparable to what it was 10 years ago, 20 years ago, etc, in any country. If you think nothing changed in a society, you're just poorly informed.
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by pyrale 10mo ago
nameplate capacity of different generation sources can't be compared, if only because capacity factor is not comparable.
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by pyrale 10mo ago
> 1: How man reactors were built in the 1970s and are nearing end-of-life? > The only reasonable conclusion to draw is that the industry has existed. It was world class, but the institutional knowledge to bring it back to this quality
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by pyrale 10mo ago
RMS, of GNU's not Unix fame, has opinions on proper naming?
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by pyrale 10mo ago
> The company is virtue signaling Is that the way people say "advertising" these days?
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by pyrale 10mo ago
> "I ran a $searchengine search and here is the most relevant result." Except it's "...and here is the first result it gave me, I didn't bother looking further".
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by pyrale 11mo ago
> if you mis-assign blame [...] Despite many other people dissenting, you persist in thinking that responsibility is an either/or situation. My point is that both are guilty. In that context, discussing whether one is more morally r
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by pyrale 11mo ago
> nonprofits and citizens avoid lobbying because they see lobbying as an unstoppable evil force Nonprofits do a lot of lobbying. The only difference is that this lobbying is not backed by cash, unless these nonprofits are backed by corpo
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by pyrale 11mo ago
> Why is that? Well, if I'm very motivated, I might write a letter to my MP once or twice in my life. I could do more, but I simply have other stuff to do with my life, including my own work. A corporation, on the other hand, may hi
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by pyrale 11mo ago
> This article is written as though lobbying is some sort of unstoppable force. The issue here is that the line between lobbying and corruption is very thin and blurry. For instance, the relation between Nellie Kroes and Uber is not an e
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by pyrale 11mo ago
Mesolithic (although in this case it may also be Epipaleolithic - I'm not an expert, though) is the time period that happens just after Paleolithic, the one that was being talked about. It is a transition period between the Paleolithic
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by pyrale 11mo ago
The link you give documents warfare that happened significantly later than the era discussed by the above poster. To suggest that the lack of evidence is enough to support continuity of a behaviour is also flawed reasoning: we have many exa
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by pyrale 11mo ago
The above poster is asking you whether factual informations support your claim. Your personal opinion about why such informations may be hard to find only weakens your claim.
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by pyrale 11mo ago
No, the point is that saying sorry because you're genuinely sorry is different from saying sorry because you expect that's what the other person wants to hear. Everybody does that sometimes but doing it every time is an issue. I
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by pyrale 11mo ago
The goal wasn't to mock Boeing, just to point out what happens when business overrides engineering. The context is the parent post making the point that there is little business value in good engineering.
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by pyrale 11mo ago
That is, until planes fall from the sky.
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by pyrale 11mo ago
> if these books are in fact just picked by llms then what's the point of this list? How do you do, fellow nerds?
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by pyrale 11mo ago
> There is a purity spiral that organizations can enter when they start doing this You are the one summoning that spiral by making a cheap gotcha wrt codeberg using Paypal. The project apparently could and did move because the swith from
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by pyrale 11mo ago
Large-scale software is always a people problem. The hard part in software is communication, not typing the code.
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by pyrale 11mo ago
Imagine HN was Japanese and everyone was talking about how the US was threatening to invade Greenland on a topic about a new plant in Montana.
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by pyrale 11mo ago
There is a divide in this job between people who can always provide an estimate but accept that it is sometimes wrong, and people who would prefer not to give an estimate because they know it’s more guess than analysis. You seem to be in th
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by pyrale 11mo ago
> International law is inherently more of a social contract than an actual law. Isn't actual law a social contract aswell?
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by pyrale 11mo ago
> The situation we find ourselves in is that the American of today does not represent us well. The thing the person you're replying to points out is that, while you may be earnest in your comment and representative of a majority of
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by pyrale 11mo ago
> Of course it would be absolutely disgraceful for the US to drop sanctions on Russia and have normal relations with it while it continued its invasion. But that's what the US voted for. The reason US sanctions Russia is because the
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by pyrale 11mo ago
> But, yes, both US and Chinese technology companies would likely be better off than they are now without China's protectionism and authoritarianism. I really don't see how Chinese tech companies would have benefited from recei
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by pyrale 11mo ago
> In fact the actors that most opposed those laws have always been non Europeans. This decision is in response to lobbying from these actors (and their new friend in the white house). It is not supposed to benefit you.
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by pyrale 11mo ago
Nothing says market power like being able to demand that your paying customers provide proof that they have solutions for the shortcomings of your platform.
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by pyrale 11mo ago
> It's not that it's technically impossible. It is technically impossible. In that no tech can fix the greed of the people taking these decisions. > No cloud provides wants to give their customers that much rope to hang th

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