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by smadge 6y ago
This article only hints at the reasons why the plant should be shut down. Is there a good resource for why nuclear power is not a good option for California and why Diablo Canyon and San Onofre should be decommissioned?
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by smadge 6y ago
HTML typically just works, even for users on powerful hardware accessing non-essential services. You don't have to worry about some modal warping out of the screen, or having your scrollbar hijacked.
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by smadge 6y ago
GitHub fits the document model pretty well in my opinion.
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by smadge 6y ago
> SQL is a ... composable formalism I think SQL is a poor language in terms of composability, in contrast to a functional query language (Frankel and Buneman, 1979) or a relational algebra (Codd, 1970).
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by smadge 6y ago
I think what makes it murky is that it was trending because people were likely mostly critically quoting Wednesdays insurrectionists, not endorsing their words.
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by smadge 6y ago
Extrapolating, the genre of “learn X in 5 minutes” tutorials must only teach you 5% of the language.
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by smadge 6y ago
This introduces a bit of a dilemma because consumers willing to spend money to not see ads are exactly the type of person advertisers are willing to spend money to target.
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by smadge 6y ago
Learning Prolog is less about learning the particulars of the language than about learning the logic programming paradigm, which is timeless and universal.
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by smadge 6y ago
For an unfamiliar audience, can you describe which standard control theory principles these kinds of reports omit?
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by smadge 6y ago
I think this is describing early adopters who consistently chose products that eventually fail. Perhaps there is another subgroup of early adopters who consistently choose new products that eventually persist, “harbingers of success.”
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by smadge 6y ago
I upgraded my personal VPS from 1GB to 2GB RAM when I couldn't compile some Haskell standard library modules for a simple project.
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by smadge 6y ago
The only time Taibbi brought up government intervention in the article was to oppose it. Specifically he criticized a new bill that would "require that political ads or content produced by foreign governments be marked by disclaimers,
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by smadge 6y ago
The piece is written in the past tense in the tone of a history written years after this hypothetical collapse. It recasts relatively recent and innocuous business news as obvious in hindsight precursors to the collapse.
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by smadge 6y ago
It would be awesome if operating systems had super-powered file type detection, to the point where you could double click a “ancient” file format and it would download the correct “ancient” program and run it in the correct emulator transpa
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by smadge 6y ago
Yes. For example when you take a screenshot of a message in Snapchat, the sender is notified.
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by smadge 6y ago
Your criticism of this study is that is is conducted on too small of plots (6 experiment groups on 12 acres = 2 acres per group) to be scaled up to real farms. However the real farms to which you sell synthetic fertilizer or fertilizer fina
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by smadge 6y ago
SSH tunnel from localhost to prod on database port?
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by smadge 6y ago
You are getting downvoted because logically (and evidently) they could be doing both.
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by smadge 6y ago
Offending your peers is a separate issue than social cooling as described by this submission. That is an interpersonal issue. Social cooling is a relationship between an individual and powerful institutions like credit agencies, governments
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by smadge 6y ago
It has been a mostly steady trend since 1960 at 29% to now where it is at 52%. All of your examples of young adults choosing to live with their parents are because of COVID-19, which can only account for the 5% increase since February 2020,
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by smadge 6y ago
"Assume every document will become public"
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by smadge 6y ago
Where in the article did the author give any advice on using or not using Haskell? The article was criticizing the Haskell community , of which the author is a member, not Haskell as a tool.
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by smadge 6y ago
Personally I would rather wait 30 minutes for it to charge than try to replace 2,000 pounds of batteries.
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by smadge 6y ago
So you believe there are conspirators who manipulate the media to push a certain narrative on the public, but you do not believe there are conspirators who manipulate social media to push a narrative?
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by smadge 6y ago
There is an obvious isomorphism between the set of all sheep and the singleton sets of sheep, so practically speaking it shouldn’t be much of a barrier.
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by smadge 6y ago
"Without cookies, it would not be able to update without you logging in every single time. Meaning every time you wanted to see a new tweet or post a reply, you would have to login again. Every time your browser had to load anything, i
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by smadge 6y ago
Economists have done studies where they tried to determine how much someone would need to be paid to stop using Facebook for a year. Maybe people are not willing to pay for the service, but they would rather have the service than $X.
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by smadge 6y ago
Unless that energy would otherwise be reflected back out of the atmosphere.
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by smadge 6y ago
I think I work at C...
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by smadge 7y ago
> Businesses are paying exorbitant salaries and providing ping pong tables Businesses are paying market rate salaries to employees who generate them revenue. If anything engineers should be the ones questioning the exorbitant compensatio

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