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by ttfkam 3y ago
Somehow European countries pull it off without bankrupting themselves.
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by ttfkam 3y ago
We could sidestep all the drama by letting anyone who meets the academic qualifications attend public universities and colleges without tuition (or at least an insubstantial fees). We might actually end up with a system like we had 75 years
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Oh no! Some young adults might have an easier time attending college even when their lives weren't as shitty as others. Squint and we might start looking like college tuitions in Europe.
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Off the top of my head: The ability to do advanced regexp replacements with a function parameter in JS far outstrips anything native in Postgres. Array manipulation, reordering, and deduplication are worlds easier in JS than native Postgres
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Prevent? No. Discourages? All the time.
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Screen readers et al know standard HTML, especially when the features in question are more than a decade old. Dynamic event handling in JS that eventually sets focus are a demonstrably less reliable option.
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by ttfkam 3y ago
If your security is dependent on the ability of a bot to know which fields are available, why not go all the way? Make a canvas tag, draw the input fields, handle the text input, and completely thwart those bots! /s
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by ttfkam 3y ago
<input name="foo" type="text" autofocus> HTML takes care of the accessibility for you in this case. Going further, plain HTML is by and large 99.9% accessible. As developers—as uncomfortable as it may be
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by ttfkam 3y ago
A lot (the majority?) of web developers know their framework and how to script things but don't know that HTML has been able to do things like this out of the box for over a decade. Even IE 10 supported it. So much simpler and more rel
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Sad he did not live to see it due to Covid.
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by ttfkam 3y ago
I feel like this is conflating concurrency with parallelism. Also, Rust's learning curve is just "moderate"? I like Rust as much as the next fanboy, but as compared to what?! Rust is downright famous for its comparatively gla
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by ttfkam 3y ago
So you're saying we've regressed then? ;-)
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by ttfkam 3y ago
In practice, Altamont Pass is still one of the largest concentrations of wind turbines in the world, with a capacity of 576 megawatts, producing about 125MW on average and 1.1 terawatt-hours yearly. As long as it reduces the need to ramp up
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by ttfkam 3y ago
It's been fashionable to hate on systemd, but I definitely prefer it to the hodgepodge of inconsistent init scripts, logging hacks, and bespoke process monitors that preceded it. init.d was familiar to graybeards (like myself), but I&#
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by ttfkam 3y ago
> MySQL is case-insensitive by default. Postgres is case-sensitive by default. Minor quibble: If you don't quote identifiers, they are case-insensitive in Postgres. (Case folding to lowercase by default, which ends up being a distin
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by ttfkam 3y ago
That and the DOM. We dump on it today, but compared to Netscape's <layer> tags, it was mana from Heaven. IE 4's early stabs at CSS were also already superior to the existing: <font face="arial" color=&quot
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Yeah, a lot of younger folks don't get this. In 1995, the web wasn't like today, only slower. There were no web search engines, only catalog pages like Yahoo. Documentation was often so hard to come by, View Source really was your
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Depends strongly on location as do the other sources. Some locations have both strong and consistent wind. There is no one size fits all.
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by ttfkam 3y ago
I would argue the lower amount from fossil fuel sources matters most. Cost per megawatt should be secondary since the costs of adapting to a warming planet in the future will swamp any marginal per unit costs today.
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by ttfkam 3y ago
For reference: 3.5MW is a single largish wind turbine. PV solar is ~200W/m2, so 17,500 square meters of solar panels. A single nuclear reactor is commonly >1GW (1,000MW).
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Santa Cruz, CA has this. If you are a K-12 student, a child under a certain height, or a downtown worker, the bus pass is free. Everyone else pays the fare or buys a pass. The pass is also available in their app, so no extra card needed in
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Some of best, most objective reporting comes from the BBC, PBS, and NPR. (Though the latter two get far less government funding than they used to.) I still haven't found a better source of investigative journalism than "Frontline&
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Yep, Firebug
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Celsius works well for that. 0 is where water freezes. 100 is where water boils. 50 is the temperature where healthy people outside will die if they stay out more than a hour or two. Humidity and altitude affect these numbers, but handy for
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Because Death Valley is our local bellwether for where heat extremes are headed. The issues of soaring temperatures will affect far more than Death Valley, especially where the humidity is much higher.
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by ttfkam 3y ago
You seem to believe I am against renewable power. This is not so. This isn't anything against solar or wind. We need to be in this together against CO2-producing power generation. And yes, that should include nuclear for the reasons I
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by ttfkam 3y ago
> Yes, every other year thanks to the phone market. Whew! That's a relief. Too bad about those phone repair outlets though that are basically out of a job due to these unbreakable screens. > There's also the option to have t
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by ttfkam 3y ago
If by "adapt" you mean severely scaling back local coverage of municipalities, mass layoffs of journalists, and trending more toward clickbait than substantive investigative reporting, then yes, US and UK journalism is "adapt
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by ttfkam 3y ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/...
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by ttfkam 3y ago
> It takes a lot less energy to cool down a dwelling ...only in low humidity. Also, PV solar efficiency drops quite a bit as the temperature goes up. Carnot efficiency also drops noticeably as your cold sink, the ambient environment arou

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