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by solraph 3y ago
I don't disagree with the general take of the post, but I feel I can answer this particular point. > What if you’re working with a major language barrier in the team, and misunderstandings can be mitigated with processes? Process is
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by solraph 3y ago
> If you know both languages, which one would you pick? The one with the best density of good developers in your hiring region if the application ends up scaling. > Alternatively: what would you suggest someone getting into web develo
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by solraph 3y ago
It's been a long time since I had to deal with Laravel, but that code snippet looks very similar to the Laravel version I had to work with ~6 years ago. I hated it (Laravel) for those reasons, along with the madness that was the DI con
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by solraph 3y ago
Honestly, this is the right answer. I have a HP ProDesk 300 G3 mini (the mini version of the server the OP is using) running home assistant, syncthing, a bunch of other random 24x7 stuff, and the "server", router, and PoE switch p
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by solraph 3y ago
Because they have other things they need to do, and mastering it may not provide benefits that repay the investment. I say this as someone who has run Linux on the Desktop for over 20 years. I do not give a crap about knowing the ins and ou
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by solraph 4y ago
I agree with this. Anacdotally I spent years fighting my way out of the perception of being a "PHP programmer". Despite having open source projects in a litany of languages, it was all interviewees wanted to talk about. I eventual
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by solraph 4y ago
Oh, that was unclear. Having a "Total" option next to the states. That way it would be possible to see the renewable percentage for the grid as a whole.
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by solraph 4y ago
15MWh of storage seems very high? I appreciate I don't know your raw numbers of production and consumption, but don't you still produce some power during the winter? ie; you would only need to cover your shortfall. For context, I
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by solraph 4y ago
This is super interesting! As an idea, would it be possible to get a totals of AEMO greenness/renewable?
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by solraph 4y ago
> This must depend on the kind of work you're doing. Very much so, but 10 years ago most devs suffered on a laptop, now most devs would not. Obviously if your workstation reference is a multi-socket beast then you will not be satisf
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by solraph 4y ago
I think this was true ten years ago when laptops could not effectively drive two monitors, and had some serious deficiencies in the processor/ram/HDD space. I would put up with the duplicate desktop/portable system so that I
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by solraph 4y ago
> * Inflation and energy crisis will cause such a large social unrest in the west that one or two governments will be overthrown, betting on Europe, NZ or Australia I'm curious why you think AU or NZ would have this happen. Both hav
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by solraph 4y ago
> It's implausibly high for the number of people who use it as their primary workstation OS This might just be the bias of the circles I move in, but over the last five years me running Linux on the desktop in a development work env
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by solraph 4y ago
> Are most cows pasture raised? I think most are raised on feed farms. This is very much dependant on the country. For example, New Zealand beef is about 96% pasture fed, Australia is about 66% pasture fed, and Brazil seems to be about 9
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by solraph 4y ago
> and i know A LOT more people, who'd like a kid, but "when they can afford one", and that 'when' isn't 'now' (mostly due to housing prices) On top that, I think stress from modern life contribute
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by solraph 4y ago
My family went through reducing our meat intake to a few days, and honestly - it kinda sucked, since it reduced many of our meal options, since they "had" to be vegetarian. After about twelve months of this and getting sick of it,
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by solraph 4y ago
Not to negate anything mentioned in the sibling comment, but yes. A home solar installation in Australia is about AUD$1.5 per watt for a complete system (panels, inverter, cabling, installation, sign off, etc) before subsidies. For comparis
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by solraph 4y ago
Come to Australia, AUD$150k is fairly normal for a (actual) senior developer now. Note: This is a very recent thing since the start of 2022. Salary guides from even 2020 probably show $30k-$50k less.
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by solraph 4y ago
Maybe it's less patronising, and more just blindingly obvious to those of us who have had crap jobs in the past? Having grown up adjacent to upper-middle class people (I'm arguably entering that sphere now, but I definitely didn&#
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by solraph 4y ago
> Right now the only oven with a good Consumer Reports rating requires a Wi-Fi connection Is this some weird American only thing? I keep hearing on HN how everything requires wifi now, but in Australia, I couldn't find any major ove
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by solraph 4y ago
This is absolutely a real problem, but I think WFH has really only exposed the issue of most peoples lack of real community, rather than causing it. Since starting a new job a few months ago, I reached out to some former tech colleagues tha
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by solraph 4y ago
> but there isn't really a standard for 220v household extension cords Well, there is there in the rest of the world, outside of North America. Most of the power plugs are 220v-240v @ 10-16 amp (depending on country, plug, etc). Pic
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by solraph 4y ago
Could you explain the logic there? I understand the first statement, but I don't understand how the current military dependency on petroleum for land war blocks mass adoption of EVs in the civilian market.
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by solraph 4y ago
> Social networks always should have been used to meet people OUTSIDE of screens, for discovering other people and things. The commercial nature of social media is that there's a perverse incentive to keep people attached to the app
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by solraph 4y ago
Money (depending on location). I had solar installed last year in Australia. The 6.5kw grid tied system has an estimated payback time of approx six years, even with Australia's appalling buy:sales ratio for electricity (3:1 last I look
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by solraph 4y ago
Known good hardware I expect. There's definitely some hardware out there which is sorta-kinda supported on Linux, but only really works for one kernel version on one distro, and doesn't only supports the bare minimum of requiremen
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by solraph 4y ago
Which low wage people? Super low wage people can't afford cars, and benefit from the improved low cost transit provided by public transit and walkable neighbourhoods. In the Anglosphere, these neighbourhoods have typically been expensi
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by solraph 4y ago
Honestly, having worked directly & indirectly for a multitude of large enterprises over the last couple of decades, every large organisation suffers from this. It doesn't matter if their private, local, state, or federal government
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by solraph 4y ago
Agreed. At this point, I view anyone who worked for more than six months at any of the big IT consulting companies - and especially accounting firms pretending to be IT consulting companies - with deep suspicion. I've literally witness
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by solraph 4y ago
I can't speak for the specifics of using a Nest, but pre-cooling a house earlier in the day is definitely a more efficient use of power. Earlier in the year in Australia when day time temperatures were 35°C-40°C (95°F-104°F), waiting u

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