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by rtpg 11mo ago
The thing is it's not _their_ production needs if they are the factory of the world. If the US put a 1000% tariff on Chinese goods tomorrow, emissions in China would likely go down a decent amount, right? But is that an indicator of th
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by rtpg 11mo ago
I'm not talking about China's position, but thinking about texture of the emissions reductions in the rest of the world. It's probably fairly unknowable what percent of emissions are for products that will be exported back ou
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by rtpg 11mo ago
In the "we only have one planet" angle, I think it's worth considering that China is not just burning coal for domestic purposes for fun. The fossil fuel consumption is an input to some output, a lot of that going abroad. If
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by rtpg 11mo ago
There was still a perfectly nice window of opportunity even scratching nuclear from the list. My other glib thing about nuclear is that France, a much denser nation than the US (though of course density is a local property...), has a bunch
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by rtpg 11mo ago
As a “pip is mostly fine” person, we would direct the result to a new lock file, so you could still have your direct does and then pin transitives and update Pips solver could still cause problems in general on changes. UV having a better s
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by rtpg 11mo ago
> Right, but how is that worth your time? It's not worth my time. There are still plenty much more trustworthy sources out there. Very good point, you don't _need_ to read this stuff, and you can go towards things that are &quo
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by rtpg 11mo ago
Yes, this is part of the exercise. Gotta think creatively about universes where what's written is what's written and where you could find other information. Primary sourcing is way easier than the past! It's better when you h
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by rtpg 11mo ago
The core idea with this stuff is you can know about the bias and read with that in mind. You can treat even the facts with doubts, and understanding that the descriptions used can be influenced by what the writers believe. You can come away
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by rtpg 11mo ago
The editorial section is really embarrassing. It wasn't really great before but now so many "Editorial Board" pieces are some of the most fact-free power-praising pieces. I rolled my eyes at the "democracy dies in darkn
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by rtpg 11mo ago
I do enjoy the theory that everyone was cynically posturing for 4 years during Biden and are now _also_ cynically posturing for Trump, because it aligns with a belief that a lot of powerful people seem to have extremely malleable beliefs. I
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by rtpg 11mo ago
I have been looking at things like D2 and Penrose, trying to wrap Python around them to make it a bit easier to script up diagrams based on data. Working through the problem I realize I probably would have a better time with something like
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by rtpg 11mo ago
probably likely just a thing that happens when you suddenly fall into a pool of water?
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by rtpg 11mo ago
Sometimes with QGIS the best thing you can do is load up the stuff into Postgres, just orders of magnitude of perf improvements
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by rtpg 11mo ago
a `todo!()` away from something being way more obvious. Unfortunate!
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by rtpg 11mo ago
Same, never got Tasker to do anything useful for me (though it's been a while, granted)
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by rtpg 11mo ago
Shortcuts convinced me to go to iOS. Android has similar stuff but they're all kinda futzy and hacky in unfortunate ways. It's a bit surprising to me that, say, Zapier hasn't skunkworked up something like Shortcuts that could
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by rtpg 1y ago
I mean Heroku is also offering all of the ancillary stuff around their product. It's not literally "just" hosting. It's pretty nice to not have to manage a kube cluster, to get stuff like ephemeral QA envs and the like,
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by rtpg 1y ago
Plenty of stuff is poison to animals as well as humans! Lots of animals get sicknesses and like parasites from everything they eat. Like with humans, though, animals have immune systems which help. This is the trouble with food hygiene argu
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by rtpg 1y ago
Sorry I might have expressed myself badly, I get it works sometimes but it's not a hard law for "everything", even if... maybe it's a good default? maybe?
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by rtpg 1y ago
I think this is selection bias. I know plenty of people in Asia who have plenty allergies to some degree or another (selection bias on my side as well) Hell, most of hayfever season in Tokyo is a bunch of people with allergies! I think you
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by rtpg 1y ago
"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" makes for a fun little statement. It's not actual natural law though, right? I feel like it's fairly well documented that good hygiene is a win for humanity as a whole, so
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by rtpg 1y ago
it mentions sometimes not naming things as great, but... what does naming intermediate values in forth look like? Is there even a naming scope that would allow for me to give values names in case I don't want to get entirely lost in th
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by rtpg 1y ago
I remember hearing somebody talk about programming hot loops in either the the PS3 or PS2 in Excel, to get a good handle on the concurrency question by having assembler in multiple columns next to each other
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by rtpg 1y ago
While I won't go as far as to say that Dominos & co. are trying to run delivery entirely at cost, it is not clear to me that delivery from a shop directly vs delivery with a middle layer (having to pay lots of engineers fancy salar
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by rtpg 1y ago
This is all, of course very fuzzy, but "I will spend 30 dollars on food tonight" can turn into "I call the restaurant and order 30 dollars of takeout" vs "I use door dash to get 30 dollars of food from that restaura
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by rtpg 1y ago
The problem I think is that desktop software is often not written on the idea that they might need to sip from a straw. Anyone who has tethered their machines to a phone with a middling connection knows how bad the computer experience cna g
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by rtpg 1y ago
Stuff like the containerisation story on Macs is so miserable. The fact that so many devs use Docker and on Mac and pay the orders of magnitude file costs (or do a bunch of other shenanigans) really makes for an unfun experience. Really wis
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by rtpg 1y ago
I've tried writing GUIs with Python in the past and it was a bit tricky to get the pieces working. The one Python GUI that comes to mind that is also, like, not garbage looking is Anki.
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by rtpg 1y ago
Do military K-12 schools not face similar dynamics? It's not like the kids are who are in the military, right? Obviously there are still different dynamics between an arbitrary public school and a school on a military base in Kanagawa
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by rtpg 1y ago
> That homework was really what drove home for me that the news is very cherry picked and I basically stopped watching after that. I feel like the right lesson to take from this is that all data sources are coming from a certain perspect

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