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by slashdev 1y ago
Auth is actually really hard, with many really subtle high impact mistakes one can make.
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by slashdev 1y ago
I don’t know about you, but most everything I know on those subjects is self taught. University is overrated for computer science.
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by slashdev 1y ago
It doesn’t matter how much it filters out, if the top results are still spam. I barely use Google anymore. Mostly just when I know the website I want, but not the URL.
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by slashdev 1y ago
I’ll take the contrarian view. I don’t care if content is generated by a human or by an AI. I care about the quality of the content, and in many cases, the human does a better job currently. I would like a search engine algorithm that penal
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by slashdev 1y ago
Thrid for coding, after Anthropic, and Gemini, which was leading last I checked.
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by slashdev 1y ago
Those kinds of comments are a big LLM giveaway, I always remove them, not to hide that an LLM was used, but because they add nothing.
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by slashdev 1y ago
It depends very much on the quality of the questions. I get deep technical insight into questions I can't find anything on with Google.
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by slashdev 1y ago
It’s much less than decades. Unless you only drive once a week to the corner store.
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by slashdev 1y ago
Do you know what the environmental footprint of a software developer is? I’m only half joking.
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by slashdev 1y ago
I came here to say this, but you explained it better than I could have. At 3% odds, it's not worth it to participate in this market because a money market fund gives a better return, even if you believe the odds of this happening are 0
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by slashdev 1y ago
To be fair, you locked in a 300% gain, that's pretty good. I've managed to lose 60% of my networth over the last 5 years. Mistakes were made.
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by slashdev 1y ago
Yes, I chose the example deliberately :) I've got a friend who threw out $20M in bitcoin (at today's prices) by mistake. I wonder how often he thinks of that.
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by slashdev 1y ago
Currently true. You wouldn’t buy a pizza with bitcoin. But send several thousand dollars internationally - sure.
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by slashdev 1y ago
> Global oil demand is projected to increase in 2025 compared to 2024, but the growth rate is expected to slow down. The International Energy Agency (IEA) anticipates a decrease in global oil demand growth for the remainder of 2025, but
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by slashdev 1y ago
Oil demand is still increasing worldwide. It won’t peak for at least a decade, but probably much longer. There are more ICE cars on the road than ever.
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by slashdev 1y ago
It didn’t stop it. The Biden administration stopped it citing climate change as the reason. Do you mean to propose this was the real reason behind the scenes? I find it hard to believe.
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by slashdev 1y ago
It’s not being replaced yet. Oil demand is higher than ever. Solar doesn’t compete with oil, it competes with other electricity generation like coal and gas. But even that is not declining yet, globally. Global coal demand may finally have
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by slashdev 1y ago
People have been saying that for decades. Oil isn’t going anywhere anytime soon
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by slashdev 1y ago
Why wouldn’t it? Alberta pays more than it receives. It would be more capable of paying for services without Canada to hold it back.
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by slashdev 1y ago
He’s not doing anything though, it’s just words. In fact he said we don’t need more pipelines, don’t need to repeal bill C69, etc.
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by slashdev 1y ago
That wasn’t the issue
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by slashdev 1y ago
Usually it’s less severe because the pipeline has valves that shut off the flow.
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by slashdev 1y ago
It doesn’t work as well, it costs more. But it’s still better to use the train than to slow production
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by slashdev 1y ago
The oil doesn’t stay in the ground, it gets shipped via diesel trains without the pipeline. I’m guessing climate change is the reason, but it’s hard to see how the current state of affairs is better for the environment. Diesel trains are a
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by slashdev 1y ago
You’d need to overbuild by a ridiculous amount. I don’t think it’s currently close to viable.
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by slashdev 1y ago
That’s not the reason. The oil goes by train which is more polluting and has the same consequences when trains derail.
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by slashdev 1y ago
Not really, the level of production in the winter would be very low, and no batteries can fix that. They have cheap gas though, and that could be used in the winter.
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by slashdev 1y ago
Ottawa has supported the keystone XL pipeline south. I don’t see what changes there. The democrats in the U.S. are the blocker for god knows what actual reason.
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by slashdev 1y ago
If that were possible it would happen anyway. You can’t hold back progress. It’s very, very far from possible today.
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by slashdev 1y ago
Taiwan relying on energy imports is a major strategic weakness. People think China will invade Taiwan. I think they’ll just put it under siege until it surrenders.

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