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by rob_c 5y ago
Have to agree exactly. Fed up in academia having to help students who haven't swallowed a dictionary to do science. Extra verbiage when it's not exactingly explicit doesn't offer anything over a short succinct description. I
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by rob_c 5y ago
Yes that should have been part of the commissioning plan. But then Germany also killed the plants early meaning any lifetime plans for the material to be slowly removed had to be massively accelerated due to political posturing... But then
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by rob_c 5y ago
And now we likely hear from the "nuclear bad, buy into silicon and rate earth hell with solar and short lifetime battery" crowd... Gas obviously isn't green but this looks like political maneauvering from the bloc to get back
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by rob_c 5y ago
Sorry, not sure I see the point here other than computers provide human representation of binary data? If the mapping is non trivial then unless you're careful you end up breaking basic consistency between input and stored data hence t
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by rob_c 5y ago
Then the search tool should support not being case sensitive. I understand the efficiency of case insensitive search (otherwise Google's empire wouldn't exist). But having it enforced as the source of all truth is just broken.
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by rob_c 5y ago
Have to agree. It's also usually only about 10 lines of code to support both insensitive and sensitive searching for those who can't read English that way.
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by rob_c 5y ago
And place the files in chunks, and... Wait I think we're getting close to reinventing block storage again ;)
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by rob_c 5y ago
WORD, Word WoRD.... Sorry to say I tend to use case sensitivity as a filter for me offering support to other developers. I'm not willing to find time for people who can't get their head around "turn on/off caps lock&quot
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by rob_c 5y ago
Underrated and useful reply. Thank you!
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by rob_c 5y ago
Frankly that was probably 200% unraid ...
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by rob_c 5y ago
From pointing out that renewable isn't the whole story yet in the past on here good luck with not getting down voted. There needs to be a solid configurable baseline that is low carbon which is combined with some transient energy store
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by rob_c 5y ago
So instead of investing in this technology where it could make the most difference we're going to throw everything out for mountains of broken solar cells, dead and dying battery fires and strip mining in the far east? Carbon capture h
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by rob_c 5y ago
Frankly no. Both Google and Microsoft office have taken a massive step back by implementing "smart" functionality into their mail search which makes accessing critical information (and therefore my job) impossible... I'll be
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by rob_c 5y ago
I wouldn't say people forget as a lot of people don't have the extra capital to shop for soy vegan lates every morning for breakfast. These decisions are firmly in the realm of the political economics. Either cut off the product s
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by rob_c 5y ago
If they were mining rare earths there I doubt this statement would have made it past the "hey this sounds good and makes us seem friendly" stage of marketing...
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by rob_c 5y ago
Slow clap... Popularism strikes again
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by rob_c 5y ago
There's one night every minute. Why did all of the "save the planet" and "stop polluting" crowd turn a blind eye to bad excuses for products like this? I'm certain the amount of single use things have shot up i
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by rob_c 5y ago
Frankly this snacks of the education systems starting to rot imo. I'd say "simple media" or "self respect" but if that were true it would have decreased during the papers becoming popular before the wars... My take
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by rob_c 5y ago
Get really good. By that I mean get fluent in the code, the sales pitch of a product, corner cases and examples of where this has saved real or hypothetical customers money and how. Always looks good to be active on their support groups jus
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by rob_c 5y ago
stop gloating
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by rob_c 5y ago
Heaven forbid more researchers and people fluent in tek took the time to learn to code better rather than moan they can't input maths symbols into the keyboard... I'd love to see basic computing taught alongside algebra but appare
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by rob_c 5y ago
seriously on point 9? "Open source doesn’t bring major tech innovation to market" I don't know where to begin with this alone let alone the rest of the diatripe. Closed works for them, their product and their vision, but keep
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by rob_c 5y ago
Thank you
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by rob_c 5y ago
To all on social media. Enjoy your filtered, prescriptive, fact checked approved me feed with just the right amount of anti establishment to keep you from getting up or of your seat. Frankly why any platform can be allowed to decide the wor
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by rob_c 5y ago
I didn't say zero. Imagine they locked out afrika there'd be a huge amount of screaming about injustice and isms... You can identify users by geoip and ASN surprisingly well, don't pretend supporting that has to annoy ameri-l
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by rob_c 5y ago
It's not legal reasons it's laziness. GDPR compliance really doesn't cost a lot despite what a lot of legal shills spout...
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by rob_c 5y ago
By comparison I've worked with someone who pushed a '2 line fix' live which had fallout which lasted >2 weeks because their code was pushed without checking to production and had hard-coded their uid into the fix because i
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by rob_c 5y ago
And if we accidentally make the planet nicer for everyone by cleaning up and having the rich spread the wealth and caring about others.... oh wait, this is driven from countries with a lower value on human life so I guess this explains it..
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by rob_c 5y ago
I'm leaving towards malice (through not caring so much for users) caused by big tech using this arena as a battleground. I wish all cables were equal too, but c'est la vie
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by rob_c 5y ago
I didn't realise there were so many people hating on the open source model here, well at least now I know for the future...

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