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by rendall 2y ago
Europe has significantly reduced its reliance on Russian energy. Russian pipeline gas imports dropped from over 40% in 2021 to about 8% in 2023 ( https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/infographics/where-does-t... ). Ye
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Soon, and it's starting to happen as we read this, Europe will beef up and smash Russia for this kind of nonsense.
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Well done. My first impression: Cons: they are just a bit too casual with their language. The casualness came off somewhat studied and inauthentic. They were just a bit too eager to fill silence: less than a split second of silence, and the
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by rendall 2y ago
Teleworking, or robotics training? Using a workshop on the moon, for instance, to repair broken remote equipment.
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> ...our world has a resurgence of anti-intellectual... That's the US, not the world. There has always been an anti-intellectual strain in American culture.
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Metaculus has this at 4% that it will launch anything to low earth orbit by 2032. https://www.metaculus.com/questions/12245/spinlaunch-payload... According to The Space Bucket youtube channel, there has been no up
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State of Tech Hiring in 2025(coderpad.io)
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by rendall 2y ago
"More recently" meaning, of course, currently .
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Qatar publishes articles like this in order to distract and divert from its own slavery problem. https://www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/findings/spotl...
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There is no last survivor of slavery in Qatar. Despite its officially being abolished, Qatari slavery endures to this day. https://dohanews.co/report-qatar-fifth-highest-proportion-sl...
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by rendall 2y ago
No, I did not interpret it that way. Perhaps he did think the mission was dumb, but he was not letting on even subtly.
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I interpreted it to mean that he was still Captain and part of his job was to keep up morale and model positive attitude. Even hypothetically, he was not going to gripe to his troops, and as far as they are concerned, he believes it is a wo
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This is all cultural. As an immigrant from New York to a Nordic country, I have been lucky enough to experience two working cultures intimately. New Yorkers are considered blunt and no-nonsense, but I had no idea. Nordics are utter minimali
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by rendall 2y ago
Agreed: if the situation were completely and totally different to the one described by OP, then yes, different circumstances apply.
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> ...they just happened to have a prebuilt UI component With respect, that's not what is described. OP rolled an API, handed documentation to frontend, and "after a week" frontend "came up" with a UI that held
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by rendall 2y ago
Speculation here, but given the frontend team reverse engineered OP's API and attempted to work around its limitations, and then engineer countered by taking the time to craft a whole library, with very few words passed between, I
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by rendall 2y ago
> The documentation already says you have to use the nextToken from the current request - adding more words to the effect of "no, really, you do have* to use the nextToken from the current request" is sadly unlikely to help i
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by rendall 2y ago
I don't really agree with the entire premise. At first I read about this trying to understand what the security implications are of obscured pagination tokens. Why would one want to obfuscate pagination tokens from hackers? Turns out,
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by rendall 2y ago
You're not demanding evidence that the job of police officer is high stress. Interesting, that bias. On what basis do you support that claim?
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Even if that were true, and it's not, it would be mitigated by better training and careful psychological filtering.
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> The issue is that police operate in extremely high pressure novel situations all the time. In the US, police officer does not even rise to top 10 most dangerous jobs. Groundskeeper is a more dangerous job than being a cop. The la
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by rendall 2y ago
Perhaps, but in my opinion this incident does not demonstrate it. His explanation is plausible. > "So I help a seriously troubled man, who just happens to be black, Ye (Kanye West), who has been decimated in his business and virtua
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by rendall 2y ago
You might be right that black companies do not exist and that the article is fantastical nonsense. But you seem to be making the argument it does not happen to me nor anyone I see therefore they do not exist . Isn't that not really a
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by rendall 2y ago
I agree with your general point that we are in no way inherently superior to our ancestors, but Roman concrete, Damacus steel, and Greek fire are inferior to what we have today to accomplish the same things. Practical Engineering on Roman c
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by rendall 2y ago
> Understanding how frogs can do this might provide valuable knowledge to help in the management of high blood sugar in people with diabetes. Also, space travel!
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If they do not track me, and offer iron-clad, actionable guarantees for violations, I might consider it.
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Not sure why it's necessary to mention you weren't around in 1981. I wasn't around when lots of things happened, but I don't feel it necessary to mention it every time something before I existed is brought up.
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James Watt was Ronald Reagan's Secretary of the Interior 1981-1983. The political climate was similar: conservative Washington Outsiders considered to be barbarians in the gate by the political establishment. Watt pushed hard for resou
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by rendall 2y ago
Agreed. He should not be AG. If he is appointed, I predict he will flame out quickly and be replaced.
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by rendall 2y ago
For those wondering, this is the reference: https://x.com/mrddmia/status/1854200785975775609 Following the rabbit hole further, this is the manifesto that inspired the comment: https://www.article3proje

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