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by signal11 4y ago
Fair enough. Jacobabad is absolutely an edge case. The question is, is it just an outlier or are other places headed that way? Are the conditions that drive up wet bulb temps increasing, thanks to human activity? E.g. the number of Indian c
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by signal11 4y ago
> That sounds like Houston. I think it's a little different. Houston by your account struggles in the afternoons today -- similar to parts of Spain and Portugal, but it's only at peak wet bulb ~75..76 F going by ASHRAE[1] data.
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by signal11 4y ago
> Doomsday predictions about millions dying in India is an age old trope since 1947 I agree a lot of these scenarios are 'doomsday', but the risk is real and hard to plan for / budget. You're effectively fighting hist
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by signal11 4y ago
Houston is hot, but wet bulb temperatures > 35 C (95 F) -- different from standard air temperature -- are a different story. Afaik, for healthy humans, staying outside > 35 C (not 36 C) for even long durations is physiologically imp
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by signal11 4y ago
There’s no technical blocker about why this couldn’t be done in Facebook. Ultimately it’s a governance issue, about how much American/European citizens are comfortable funnelling processes like drivers licenses (or even court cases) th
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by signal11 4y ago
Facebook is effectively a "super app" already. * Friends' posts * News * Pages (manage your business and engage with customers) * Discussion * Marketplace -- huge for some people * Groups -- huge for some people * Probably ot
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by signal11 4y ago
Hey Deepak, I saw your comments about this on Twitter, and it’s good to see this article as well. Personally I don’t think UPI will ever go to a fully-paid model, but I’d love to know what you think about the potential for a “freemium” mode
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by signal11 4y ago
The EU is on Mastodon now. It makes a lot of sense for them not be reliant on commercial organizations in other jurisdictions for getting the word out. This won't mean they'll stop using Twitter -- just that it gives them an alter
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by signal11 4y ago
> Android phone: Probably - the worst that could happen is you get locked out of the play store and have to make a new account. If you have apps, movies etc bought from Google Play — those are gone too. If you use a @gmail email address,
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by signal11 4y ago
Some providers, eg, GCP, have this already. Red Hat Enterprise Linux[1] is available, as is Ubuntu Pro[2] and Rocky Linux[3]. Red Hat and DO need to speak to each other. [1] https://www.redhat.com/en/partners/googl
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by signal11 4y ago
Napron => Apron is another hilarious change, but older. What I take away from this is that pretty much every major culture “butchers” (or evolves, if you like) words on an ongoing basic.
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by signal11 4y ago
Ironically I was just looking at nslookup's man page[1] the other day and this bit of history is hinted at there: class=value Change the query class to one of: IN the Internet class CH the Chaos clas
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by signal11 4y ago
While not a Microsoft offering, code-server[1] already exists and works pretty well. [1] https://github.com/coder/code-server
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by signal11 4y ago
When you wrote wunderkind, I really didn't think you meant it literally! The work is interesting enough coming from anyone , but that little detail makes it more impressive.
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by signal11 4y ago
This article is comparing apples (Web3) with oranges (India's UPI network). Web3 is not only about person-to-person or person-to-business payments. Whatever your opinion of Web3, it's an apple to UPI's orange. UPI is great.
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by signal11 4y ago
> Facebook is not the gatekeeper for millions of peoples lives Facebook’s influence over billions of people’s lives is far more insidious. What that platform peddles influences countries’ political futures. It is absolutely a gatekeepe
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by signal11 4y ago
> If you go to any other culture on the globe and talk about non-binary gender, you will either be met with confusion, or just straight up mockery. India’s not an affluent country, and irrespective of their legal status (Google it, it ma
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by signal11 4y ago
India has stopped exports before in response to domestic need. Onions in recent years[1], and also COVID vaccines in response to its devastating 2021 second wave, after it spent 2020 doing rounds of “vaccine diplomacy” where it assured coun
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by signal11 4y ago
> And you never once considered going premium to remove the ads? I’m pretty much “no” on paying for a product that encourages clickbait and misinformation. This isn’t a uniform “no Google” thing, I use GCP, but paying for YouTube just se
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by signal11 4y ago
UK law requires its 9 largest banks to offer fee-free basic bank accounts[1]. While that's not the same as a legal right to an account, it ensures people with poor credit history have access to banking -- it's pretty inclusive but
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by signal11 4y ago
Regular people also have their phones stolen, lost, damaged or bricked on a regular basis. I suspect passwords will remain as a backup mechanism for a while.
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by signal11 4y ago
> Your average user is more concerned about losing their password than they are about authenticator sovereignty Right up to the point when they’re locked out from their Google, iCloud or Facebook accounts with little recourse or appeal.
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by signal11 4y ago
Ron, thank you for your work on Loom, it’s very exciting and I’m looking forward to using it in production code! As an aside, Ron had a JUG talk 6 months ago which I found really helpful where he went into more detail about why they chose t
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by signal11 4y ago
I guess it’s very subjective and while I’m sure the blobs had fans, they just looked weird to me. And it probably didn’t help that WhatsApp had their own emoji on Android. Note that Microsoft also had to do a refresh of all their emoji for
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by signal11 5y ago
Spring vs “writing everything by hand” is a false dichotomy.
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by signal11 5y ago
> There are many people who don't have any problems with Spring. They might not love it but they don't hate it also. A lot of “enterprise” developers don’t care. There are many reasons for this, some positive, some negative. Bu
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by signal11 5y ago
> A concise framework where all components talk the same language across the full stack. Spring is many things, but it's not a "concise" framework by any means.
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by signal11 5y ago
Depends on the enterprise. We don’t use it and we’re pretty big. Many other teams here don’t, either. Some do — it’s a big place. I suspect a lot of enterprise devs inherit the decision, or move from project to project and don’t want to rei
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by signal11 5y ago
> Using frameworks is a must Depends on what you're doing. Using an inappropriate or over-heavy framework can be a millstone around your neck. I think understanding what values frameworks deliver and their pros/cons is super im
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by signal11 5y ago
Newspapers often publish stories like these off the back of a single source. In this case, it’s “a report from the Royal Society of Arts commissioned by cash machine network Link”. Not to say it’s not newsworthy or even inaccurate, but it’s

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