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by sdeframond 3mo ago
Letting the sun in is like turning your heaters on. You wouldn't turn on both heaters and aircon in summer, would you ? Please bring some shade and save energy. Edit: also, without wind there is a hot and humid bubble around our own bo
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by sdeframond 3mo ago
Shades will bring your 27C to 24C so yeah, it would do much about it. I don't even get your logic here. Edit: you can still use an AC or dehumidifier on top of it. You will consume less energy with shades. Letting the sun in is like le
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by sdeframond 3mo ago
Would please install adjustable shades and ceiling fans first? And also plant a few trees if you can?
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by sdeframond 3mo ago
We can install adjustable shades and ceiling fans. Cheap and efficient. It practically pays for itself in saved energy bills if we decide to add an aircon anyway. Plus the saved energy saves carbon emissions too. We can update building regu
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by sdeframond 3mo ago
That works. A lot of people do that in their home when they have no other choice (renting the place, typically). It'd be better to block the sun before it hits the window though, so that the window itself does not get hot and heat th
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by sdeframond 3mo ago
> Uncomfortable heat has nothing to do with temperature and everything to do with air humidity That is not correct. Heat, wind and humidity all contribute. In a dry air with no wind, your body creates a "hot and humid" bubble a
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by sdeframond 3mo ago
"Wait, do you mean I should pay to capture the carbon my neighbors emits? No way!" That's why. Edit: Also, as some other comment said, thermodynamics tell us that it would take an inordinate amount of energy to bring carbon
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by sdeframond 3mo ago
> I would absolutely be looking into how to get [...] at least one window air-conditioning unit if not a heat pump before next summer Before you do that, do the cost effective thing: shadow and wind. Then you can add an aircon iff thats
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by sdeframond 3mo ago
> you'd be out of business. Correct. And we'd be "out of business" too as a country if we decided alone to fix emissions. Other economies would have passed ours because burning oil is so damn useful. Thing is, I don&#
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by sdeframond 3mo ago
So we've been stupid "solar oven" buildings for 50 years while climate scientists were warning against extreme weather events and, now that said extreme event arrives, the best we find is to rush to aircon. Seems pretty short
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by sdeframond 3mo ago
If loop time is a concern, I am surprised the author does not mention tests. Is it still worth it to wait for your test suite to run when an LLM can get it right quick ? Edit: I dont quite buy that argument, in case it was not clear. Edit2:
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by sdeframond 3mo ago
> I can count on one hand the number of times I've found a bug that was due to a type issue. Most bugs aren't type issues until you make them be type issues by expressing some business invariant in types. Refactoring makes an
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by sdeframond 4mo ago
> I bet a lot of parents would buy them for their kids. That changes the default from "anyone can do anything" to "gotta ask parents". Defaults matter at scale. It adds friction.
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by sdeframond 4mo ago
Software engineers are not artists nor shoemakers. They are factory makers. A good analyst makes a hand-crafted, custom report in a day. A programmer makes a factory that makes thousands of reports per second for a thousand clients. I am ye
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by sdeframond 4mo ago
I use Unhook on firefox and disabled the YouTube app. https://unhook.app/
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by sdeframond 4mo ago
Groups resist to change - the bigger the group, the most resistance there is. As a leader, pushing for rapid change cannot really be nuanced lest the push dissipates into the organization's entropy.
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by sdeframond 5mo ago
This works but it does not let other modules define such methods.
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by sdeframond 5mo ago
Aaah nice! Thank you!
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by sdeframond 5mo ago
The point is to mark the constructor as "private" so that it is easy to spot unintended use during code reviews (or using linters).
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by sdeframond 5mo ago
Funny, I ran into the same pattern just a few months ago! In practice, I found it difficult for coworkers to read and understand so I dropped the idea. Another limitation I found is that it breaks down when you start using inheritance. For
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by sdeframond 5mo ago
> We're all adults here and we know the consequences of reaching into implementation details. I wish you were right but, IMHE, it requires a lot of communication once teams grow and many team member do not fully understand the con
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by sdeframond 5mo ago
Sometimes I feel like "doing it with AI" is the new "rewriting python in rust". Rewriting in rust does makes things faster but if an algorithm is O(n²), the improvement won't take us much farther. Similarly with AI,
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by sdeframond 5mo ago
> Would we regard that as a major achievement of the mathematician? I don’t think we would. 1. Does it matter, really? 2. Is it very different from previous computer-aided proofs, philosophically?
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by sdeframond 5mo ago
They don't have "etron" thought, which might explain some poor naming by Audi ?
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by sdeframond 5mo ago
> Only the actual code that gets compiled. And tests, linter configuration, doc...
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by sdeframond 5mo ago
Oh, it is obvious. My point is: if you try to force people into inaction, chances are they will bypass you.
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by sdeframond 6mo ago
Does this mean an adblocker could man-in-the-middle at the browser layer and strip the "single_advertiser_ad_unit" from the server responses ? But the ofc OpenAI would change its system to evade this... and so on
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by sdeframond 6mo ago
> I think the hope for 2 is that those programmers would be forced into inaction by the language safety, rather than being allowed to cause problems. Ah! That's funny :) In practice there are always ways to circumvent safety, especi
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by sdeframond 6mo ago
> In the end most challenges for a business holding them back to better code quality are organizational, not technical. This is true. And I get sad every time it is used as an argument not to improve tooling. It feels like sort of a self
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by sdeframond 6mo ago
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