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by rlpb 2y ago
When the author says "ordinary Europeans...bring in 13 times more revenue than taxes on wealth", they seem to use this to justify a conclusion that we should therefore tax wealthy people more. But I think what this reasoning misse
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I understand the need for human contact and to get out of the house. But you can achieve that working "from home", too, albeit with some consideration for confidentiality requirements[1]. Usually the place you must work from isn&#
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by rlpb 2y ago
Did you miss the context of this subthread? My point was to agree with one of the (grand)*parent posts that it's still a human-specific matter.
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That's exactly what they said about oxygen emissions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event
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Sounds like something one might try to train an AI to do :)
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Yes, but only to a limit. The resource cost in ensuring longevity must be less than the benefit provided in caring for the young.
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There must be other evolutionary pressures that change cancer resistance as a side effect.
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> ...a really hard problem that evolution has spent billions of generations on... I think it's worth noting that this isn't evolution's "goal". We just need to produce offspring and give them a good start in life
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by rlpb 2y ago
I can calculate the bounding box, or indeed the exact position and orientation of some surface I want to add to, but that’s tedious and so I don’t want to . It’s like programming without higher level language constructs. Yes, lower level l
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by rlpb 2y ago
Apparently most EV batteries degrade to about 80% SOH and then stay there. My 2015 Leaf is on 79% having bought it in 2020 at 86%. I've never heard of an EV battery being "done". In practice they seem to be doing better that
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by rlpb 2y ago
It only works if traders also continue to accept such coins as payment, which they probably wouldn't.
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by rlpb 2y ago
Since such a subset would be valid YAML, it sounds like requiring string quoting would be a straightforward option to add to any YAML parser as a feature, without requiring much of a spec at all. What else would be needed?
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by rlpb 2y ago
> While their index of refraction is high, which makes glasses thin, their chromatic dispersion is high Isn’t the layer caused by the former? For a given required refraction, isn’t the chromatic dispersion the same? In complex lenses cor
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Don't Apple have a better track record for longevity of support compared to their competitors?
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> We are fine to use SSH keys as our only authentication factor for servers… Are we? True 2FA for ssh keeps getting easier. There’s FIDO2 support now for example. The gold standard includes 2FA and I don’t see why that shouldn’t continue
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by rlpb 2y ago
> including Ubuntu and its derivatives (like Mint), which are mostly used on desktops rather than servers. I don't think you understand how Ubuntu is used. It is huge in the cloud space as a server.
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A solution that people disable in practice is the least effective solution.
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> in an effort to make a 35-year-old cultural rule about C/C++'s compilation model apply to them > this is squarely a Debian dysfunction as far as I can see Nothing I have said is specific to Debian or to C/C++. I'
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One package's app is another package's dependency, so this distinction cannot work in the general case.
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Upstream CI isn't magic that only they have. Distributions run the same tests upstreams do if they are made available. If tests falsely pass, then that's a quality problem in the upstream tests.
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Tooling to apply the patches is trivial. This isn't the problem I'm describing. As the sibling comment says, the issue is when the patch doesn't apply cleanly to some subset of versions in use, or even worse if they appear to
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by rlpb 2y ago
> This will be detected during compile (since it's all static! sorry dynamic linking fans) and dealt with. If it is correctly detected, then the only "dealing with" that can be done is to fail to build.
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by rlpb 2y ago
> That feels like an advantage for the developer, not the distro maintainer. It's an advantage for the ecosystem, yes. Not the developer of the library (X in my example), but a different developer. Someone who is trying to write an
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> So trying to force all projects using foo onto the same version of foo is just a huge headache with no real benefit to anything. It creates a security nightmare. Distributions expect to be able to security patch without waiting for lag
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by rlpb 2y ago
Maintenance is much more practical if everything in your dependency tree uses the same version of every dependency. Achieving this in practice is much of the work distribution maintainers have to do. Doing this has a couple of key advantage
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by rlpb 2y ago
“Piercing the corporate veil” isn’t about discovering something that is a secret. It’s a legal principle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil > Is this legal in the US? https://en.wi
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by rlpb 2y ago
> For me, this type of thinking that comment are unnecessary, that competent ppl can just read the code, etc. is actually a sign of younger dev who never had to work on a long-lived codebase. It sounds like you're conflating "h
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> reading a comment is almost always faster than reading blocks of code Not to a competent programmer when reading well-written code. This also means that you read what the code does, rather than what a comment says the code does. Otherw
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If there's only one way to do it, or a developer familiar with the field would independently come up with the same way of doing it, then the "copyrightability" of the result comes into question. This doesn't stop you get
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For Daikin, https://github.com/revk/ESP32-Faikin works well, and is tidier (and I think more featureful?) than an external IR port. Its existence is why I bought a Daikin!

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