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by pytester 7y ago
>There are obvious solutions: Mocking everything, removing global state, writing more robust test setup code... But who has time for this? I find that doing all of this tends to actually save time overall it's just that the up front
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by pytester 7y ago
>where before Ecuador was a brave independent nation, but the moment they do something someone doesn't like they're a puppet It's also the previous president who gave assange asylum saying this: https://twitter.
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by pytester 7y ago
The legality of the incident relies upon the notion that a camera's telephoto lens could be mistaken for an RPG. Watching the video is enough to dispel that.
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by pytester 7y ago
There was a BBC interview with Moreno where they asked him why he was kicked out and he brought up the cat story. They then asked him if it wasn't instead because Assange was a spy. He said no. Not asked about : What the previous presi
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by pytester 7y ago
After embracing open source, they appear to now be extending it...
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by pytester 7y ago
>That’s total BS. Development is full of boring mediocre tasks such as fixing spelling mistakes in UI controls, updating help messages for dialog boxes I would say this counts for much less than 1% of what I have to do. A lot of this stu
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by pytester 7y ago
>Companies with defined, well established revenue streams need to build mentoring programs that turn mediocre developers (solid C) into good (solid B) developers. Those employees tend to be the most loyal and are capable of a great amoun
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by pytester 7y ago
>Most of the economics profession is biased in favour of some regulated form of free markets and globalization. >That's a bit like saying scientists are biased in favour of anthropic climate change: it's a rational bias base
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by pytester 7y ago
They used to be ok at holding the government in power to account before the Hutton Inquiry. Now they're slavishly obedient. Worse than their bias, though, was the defunding for investigative reporting. These days the front page is cove
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by pytester 7y ago
It's a hard thing to do right despite looking deceptively simple.
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by pytester 7y ago
Article seems to think that it's actually 0.04%: >half the country belongs to just 25,000 landowners, some of them corporations.
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by pytester 7y ago
This is oddly seen as something to be proud of rather than an embarrassment among some of the media: >It is encouraging that a man whose family first got rich because his ancestor was the fat huntsman (gros veneur) of William the Conquer
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by pytester 8y ago
>Although Given-When-Then is a fantastic way to describe interactions, state and behaviour, it is a lousy way to describe data and calculations. I follow a slightly different technique that I think makes given/when/then also a
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by pytester 8y ago
Assange can't even get a hostile media to report what he said correctly. The idea that he is running a propaganda campaign is as fantastical as the idea that you are running your own personal propaganda campaign. Assange cannot frame
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by pytester 8y ago
Apparently there was a solid legal defense for the journalist murderers in the videos released by assange. They are not facing any kind of legal action.
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by pytester 8y ago
In this case it was cracking a password to blow the lid on US war crimes in Iraq.
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by pytester 8y ago
>intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access In this case it was Chelsea Manning accessing the computer. Assange didn't touch it. >It doesn't matter if you guess the password because
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by pytester 8y ago
He's being prosecuted for allegedly extracting a password from a hash value on behalf of Manning and encouraging him to leak more information (Obama's DOJ refused to make this charge because it's something all journalists do)
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by pytester 8y ago
I moved from github pages because github pages didn't do 302s.
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by pytester 8y ago
I watched the TV series and it was actually remarkably sympathetic towards the Russians involved. The Russian government obviously wasn't very pleased with it, but I doubt the EU were either (it portrays neither state in a good light).
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by pytester 8y ago
>Will Germany have 100% renewable in 20 years? Probably yes. They seem to be poised to get there quicker than anybody else. The inhibition to us achieving this goal earlier wasn't a lack of faith in nuclear power - it was a lack of
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by pytester 8y ago
In the 17th century Bolivia was considered the richest country in the Americas because of the Potosi silver mine while the eastern seaboard of America was basically a poverty stricken nowhere. Now Bolivia is the poorest country in the Ameri
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by pytester 8y ago
https://www.ge.com/renewableenergy/wind-energy/offshore-wind... Quite right, my mistake. GE's new turbine has a 63% capacity apparently. So, 428 of them are needed, apparently. Either way, I don't see wh
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by pytester 8y ago
Russia is a state that has occupied at 7/8 European countries in the last century. Judaism is a somewhat vaguely defined cultural/religious grouping. In European history the last large scale attempt to blur the distinction between
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by pytester 8y ago
There's a vast difference in the effect on a country depending on whether its competitive advantage comes from resources or people though. If it comes from resources then the incentive to develop the people is lost and they're eit
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by pytester 8y ago
Yep, although: * The wind is always blowing somewhere. * At current prices it makes sense just to overproduce and figure out ways to time shift demand (e.g. start using electric storage heaters again)
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by pytester 8y ago
Yes, maybe they should have closed coal rather than nuclear first between 2010 and 2014. However, from this point onward it makes little difference. It makes little economic sense to build new nuclear plants given that they are more expensi
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by pytester 8y ago
It certainly doesn't look like natural gas usage is ramping up: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g... >They produce 3x the CO2 of France, despite their commitment agains
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by pytester 8y ago
>Calculate how many wind generators you need to guarantee the same production as Hinkley point Hinkley Point = 3200 MW Average wind turbine generates = 3 MW That's about 1,100 wind turbines at current tech. GE is working on a 12 MW
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by pytester 8y ago
>How I wish that was true. >What they actually do is preferring to not burn coal, but when the choice is between blackouts or burning coal for power even the most environmentalist governments in Europe prefer burning coal. It is true.

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