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by renaudg 6y ago
Expecting industrialized countries to reduce energy usage immediately by double digits to reach the climate change goal is everything but a realistic pathway. In practical terms that means years of Covid19-style lockdown. We don't have
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by renaudg 6y ago
All renewables except hydro (which Germany doesn't have the geography for) are intermittent. It's impossible to go 100% renewables unless there's a breakthrough in battery storage. By the time that happens, it will be too lat
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by renaudg 6y ago
Not really, Poland burns so much coal that even the absolute numbers don't look great : https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/german-lignite-plants-e...
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by renaudg 6y ago
Indeed. For example, the 9TWh required to power France's high speed train fleet for a year produce 200kg of nuclear waste. Since the beginning of the country's nuclear programme, the total cumulative volume is 3650m3 of waste : on
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by renaudg 6y ago
> When they start repeating again that radiation didn't killed anybody, or only one people, or whatever... they lose any credibility. I guess Wikipedia doesn't have any credibility left then. Most of the casualties were from th
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by renaudg 6y ago
That was very insightful, thanks !
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by renaudg 6y ago
Every time there's a thread on the topic, I like to share this fantastic realtime map of the carbon intensity of electricity production in various countries : https://www.electricitymap.org/map As I write this, the UK&
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by renaudg 6y ago
Location: London Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Summary : Senior DevOps / SRE. Ex-Facebook. Freelance or permanent, open to short-term or 2-4 days/week. Technologies: Linux, AWS, Google Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes,
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by renaudg 6y ago
SEEKING WORK | London, UK | REMOTE * Senior DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer. Architecture, scalability, tech due diligence, part-time CTO support. * 20 years of experience including Facebook, large ISPs & many startups. * Linux,
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by renaudg 6y ago
I didn't ignore it, I specifically added "while most indie devs get to work and release steady updates over the summer" Each year between June-September, I see release notes for indie software like CleanMyMac, Gemini, Hazel..
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by renaudg 6y ago
20 years ago maybe. I don't know if you've noticed, but there's hardly any music that isn't electronic these days.
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by renaudg 6y ago
It's a direct Lightroom competitor.
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by renaudg 6y ago
> cannot turn around updates at the drop of a dime when Apple decides to give them little notice Which audio software developers are you talking about ? The ones that are given a chance in June each year to preview the latest OS like all
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by renaudg 6y ago
>Anyway, anything that gets people playing guitar is, in my opinion, a great thing. We live in a golden age of guitar equipment. I don't think it can honestly get much better than it is right now. It's an amazing time to be a g
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by renaudg 6y ago
> Developers like simple sites like Hacker News. Nobody else does. One word : Craigslist.
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by renaudg 6y ago
Are you making fun of the C64's embarrassing lack of a proper red (or any bright colour for that matter) ? Fair point, but also quite bold for a ZX Spectrum fan to say something about graphics ;) Of the three main 8-bit machines, the A
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by renaudg 6y ago
This is a strawman argument, but I will assume you made it in good faith given how widely Damore's claims have been misrepresented. From what I recall in the memo, I'm pretty sure he never said that women were less effective at th
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by renaudg 6y ago
Location: London Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Summary : Senior DevOps / SRE. Ex-Facebook. Freelance or permanent, open to short-term or 2-4 days/week. Technologies: Linux, AWS, Google Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes,
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by renaudg 6y ago
SEEKING WORK | London, UK | REMOTE * Senior DevOps / SRE. Backend architecture, scalability, tech due diligence, part-time CTO support. * 20 years of experience including Facebook, large ISPs & many startups. * Technologies : Linux
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by renaudg 6y ago
Google has an interesting "inactive account manager" feature, which is basically a dead man's switch : https://myaccount.google.com/inactive Unfortunately, it's not available for GSuite accounts. I suppo
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by renaudg 6y ago
@ is also unshifted on the French keyboard.
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by renaudg 6y ago
Here's another input filtering bad practice that most US front-end devs don't seem to know about (but really should when they build global websites) Don't assume a specific keyboard layout when you're trying to filter o
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by renaudg 6y ago
You do have a blind spot. It's not just about progress, "better pop" or "better music". The 20th century has seen 3 true revolutions in music technology that have changed the nature of music itself (photography went
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by renaudg 7y ago
SEEKING WORK | Remote (London based) | Senior DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer, tech lead. 20 years experience building and operating online services, including at Facebook, major ISPs and many startups. My core skillset is in DevOps
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by renaudg 7y ago
Location: London Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Summary : Senior DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer. Ex-Facebook. Freelance or permanent, open to short term gigs or 2-4 days/week. Technologies: AWS, GCP, Kubernet
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by renaudg 7y ago
Looks like 2020 is still not the "year of Linux on the desktop" (from a desktop Linux user years 1996-2004)
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by renaudg 7y ago
Location: London Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Summary : Senior DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer. Ex-Facebook. Freelance or permanent, open to short term gigs or 2-4 days/week. Technologies: AWS, GCP, Kubernet
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by renaudg 7y ago
2 years younger than you and the author, and I too have had a front row seat to many of these developments : home computers in the 80s, the Internet from 1994, Linux from 1996, Google in 1999, blogging in the early 2000s, podcasts in 2005,
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by renaudg 7y ago
> The 1970's gave us band after band, performer after performer who are still revered today. Who is the 1980's example of, say, Led Zeppelin? Or the Mahavishnu Orchestra? I think the hint is in the examples you're giving :
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by renaudg 7y ago
Location: London Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Summary : Senior DevOps / SRE, tech lead. Ex-Facebook. Freelance or permanent, ideally 3-4 days/week. Technologies: AWS, GCP, Kubernetes / Cloud Native, GitOps

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