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by rektide 3y ago
As horrible usages of water ad those are, it seems like significantly more water is used on also very inefficient meat production. I would love a better breakdown of what exactly California & the west's agricultural water usage is.
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by rektide 3y ago
Regulatory capture and or clamping down on speech/internet control in general.
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by rektide 3y ago
The ProxyBay disappearing was interesting. Getting sites/IP addresses you cannot block down is a huge win for The Man. Liked Torrentfreak's reporting on efforts like TLS1.3/ESNI & eDoH. https://torrentfreak.com
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by rektide 3y ago
Wowww, holy shit. CloudFlare/Matthew Prince in this piece. Started going through process of trying to redevelop a mansion on a hill, backed out/withdrew the plans, then got a special exemption added for him to the state's upc
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by rektide 3y ago
Neat data. I love how the highest/lowest price adapts to the viewpoint.
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by rektide 3y ago
Money is one compelling form of power, sure. And one a regular citizen also sort of understands, albeit not at scale. But being able to takeover ports, build bases, make claims on other nations is a way to extend sovereignty far outside you
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by rektide 3y ago
My cynicism that government will have an all useful or helpful role here is pretty low. And a big part of me thinks whatever happens here will end up impacting individuals & speech-to protect against ai we have decided all speech must b
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by rektide 3y ago
Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series was such a delight too, starting with Too Like the Lightning. Beautiful threads of high Rennaisance drama in a interesting speculative future earth. And I keep find myself recommending Arkady Martin
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by rektide 3y ago
Whoa this is crazy high tech. Sigstore signing? Nice.
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by rektide 3y ago
I think it would make app development much more complex to have to find & use a midi stack, versus having midi devices well handled & a nice standard interface available. We could all be using user land networking stacks too over ra
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by rektide 3y ago
AMP had some really awful aspects to it, was a power grab. But it also tackled a very real existential crisis, that sites were being incredibly poorly built with ghastly performance, and they did make an ok toolkit. Going power mad & ho
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by rektide 3y ago
Lots of good recs about, throwing in a couple more mentions. Just finished Red Rising , which I could not put down. Kept feeling like it was on a good arch, then exceeding expectations. Looking forward to more. Not enough Heinlein on the l
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by rektide 3y ago
The idea of belief/tribes being more rhiziomatic, being assemblages of vibes/ actually kind of has some real appeal to it, kind of works?
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by rektide 3y ago
It's a bit stickier, in that Google's very existence depends on there being a healthy, compelling world wide web, and there being just not that many people funding or supporting or driving that quest. Google has to be a power for
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by rektide 3y ago
Bars/restauraunts/cafes used to be very popular for me but things close much sooner now. There are some options but the ha bit has been hard to restart. I do spend a good amount of time at some of the excellent local parks.
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by rektide 3y ago
Spot in, yeaaahhh. It's a fun & enticing spinning up worlds & their undergirding, and muds are an approachable target! I'd love to see muds evolve that are scripting/ai friendly. If development is so fun, why not play
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by rektide 3y ago
> In our newest area of research—cultural neuroscience—we find that the neural pathways that support positive illusions are absent in certain communities. Fairly depressing an idea. How are you ever supposed to find out whether your be
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by rektide 3y ago
Nice outline. Pity the project stopped so so early. The commentary stops at getting telnet going, basically. The actual project does have some further progress. https://gitlab.com/zxq9/erlmud/-/tree/maste
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by rektide 3y ago
At first I thought this was going to be one of the early VentureStar demonstrators. No, that was the X33 program. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_X-33 I wonder how we'd do at building the conformal
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by rektide 3y ago
It's alas unlikely but oh how grand it would be to not need HDMI. USB4 ports mandatorily have DisplayPort output, on each port. HDMI is not going to catch up. It is an expensive proprietary system & won't ever match the availa
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by rektide 3y ago
So good. So much more context depth than the regurgitation of facts. Would love to know what's behind the paywall. Also what's behind the paywall on the old article on Facebook overspending poorly on AI before. Lovely to hear a ja
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by rektide 3y ago
In part it's touchscreens... But these are also slow, laggy, unresponsive systems. That often aren't great. If users could load their own launchers, could have flexibility, they might be more agreeable. Touchscreens are a tool of
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by rektide 3y ago
> I solved it, I got nothing. Alas one of the most defining aspects of business seems to be an entire lack of rewards for being the Johnny On The Spot, for tackling shit. It's absurd how little benefit there is to being good or ca
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by rektide 3y ago
> The Three Dimensions of DevEx Our framework distills developer experience to its three core dimensions: feedback loops, cognitive load, and flow state . These dimensions emerged from real-world application of our prior research, which
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by rektide 3y ago
Mostly yes yes yes but looks direly in need of a split keyboard setup!
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by rektide 3y ago
It takes years or even decades to understand the value & detriments of a given work. So yes, we cannot measure real productivity, especially not in any short term.
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by rektide 3y ago
HTC made great phones. Interested to hear of their return?!
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by rektide 3y ago
https://github.com/paypal/junodb
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by rektide 3y ago
There's such an incredible gap between corporate levels of money & human levels. To hire & pay people takes sooo much money. A couple $20/mo services per employee don't really make a huge dent. But man, to people the
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by rektide 3y ago
There are zero cars making disruptive tire nosie at 2:00am in my neighborhood. Actually, wait, there is one asshole on a scooter who locks his wheels & creates incredible shrieking horror "omg an accident is happening" sounds

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