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by ttfkam 3y ago
This is not hyperbole. We are already seeing heat indexes above 160 degrees. Even if everyone in these areas had air conditioning or heat pumps—which they don't—it's far more likely a power grid failure will rear its ugly head wit
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by ttfkam 3y ago
> costs will shift around This is the fundamental failure of capitalism: there is no market for global climate change, because humans have trouble en masse thinking in terms longer than a human lifetime. We're living on credit when
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by ttfkam 3y ago
The Earth is finite, but it is not a closed system. This is how solar, wind, tidal, and hydro are able to work: The Sun. Aside from that, it's that whole "matter neither created no destroyed but merely changing forms." The di
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by ttfkam 3y ago
I hope I'm not. Only one country with a functioning press won't be enough. But if so, I hope Canada's press flourishes and provides a model for others to imitate.
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by ttfkam 3y ago
53° C (127.4° F) is extreme, even for Death Valley. We're rapidly approaching the point where larger and larger areas will be uninhabitable for humans, not just uncomfortable.
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by ttfkam 3y ago
127.4° F
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by ttfkam 3y ago
I don't see the problem. If you need to travel long distances a few times a week or more, get a gas car or hybrid. If you need to do it once a month or less, buy an electric for your day to day and rent gas for that long haul. The mone
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Or alternatively Canada is one of the only countries where journalism will be protected and not systematically starved by the tech industry as it is elsewhere.
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by ttfkam 3y ago
>> A single tornado let alone a hurricane could wipe out gigawatts of solar or wind capacity. > That sounds like a problem with planning permission or construction if the plants can't cope with wherever they happen to be insta
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by ttfkam 3y ago
pgcrypto! Honorable mention as well to ltree, pg_trgm, and btree_gist.
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Reminds me of myriad ORMs used to avoid learning SQL. Except you need to know SQL to properly use the ORM. If you need regular expressions, just learn the syntax. https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/mastering-regu
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by ttfkam 3y ago
I propose to solve the waste problem in the most constructive way I am aware of.
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Not until fossil fuels are eliminated for all practical purposes. The only real competition we have today is against global climate change. Once we get past that hump, we can quibble about non-carbon-emitting details. As long as coal, oil,
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by ttfkam 3y ago
How well do solar and wind infrastructures handle tornados and hurricanes? Also, consistent wind resources are notably absent in the South/Southeast. There are no Hoover Dam-like sites available there. Do you honestly expect to tell te
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Yes, we are talking about base load. We have about a football field's worth of spent fuel sitting in casks and pools. That's not per reactor; that's in total in the US since we started running nuclear power stations. In fast
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Svelte is neither a Frankenstein nor incredibly bad. In implementation, the compiler is JavaScript and there is JS bundled in the output. However, the developer experience is comparatively indistinguishable from plain old HTML, CSS, and JS
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by ttfkam 3y ago
How about every dollar put into the social and economic fallout of large swaths of Florida and Louisiana falling underwater? That sounds like a pretty significant opportunity cost to me.
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Chernobyl was a perfect storm of bad design, political corruption, and reckless behavior. No Western nuclear plant has ever run without a containment dome, has excluded basic plant design info from its operators, or put in incentives to run
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Pretty sure the cleanup costs for continued use of coal, oil, and natural gas due to global climate change far exceed any from nuclear, including even Chernobyl. Entire nations are disappearing under the rising seas [0]. So far they are rel
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by ttfkam 3y ago
They ended up hiring 25-30yo white males. It wasn't about color. They just didn't want to pay full wages and didn't want to be told a hard "no" because of obvious safety problems.
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Svelte Stores: observables without all the boilerplate. If you want to do manual subscribing and unsubscribing, you can of course. Stores really are quite flexible if you really want to dive deep into them.
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Big ball of mud. The muddiness is always exacerbated when increasing the number of developers, especially when they disagree on Hooks.
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Or use a module context depending on your scoping needs. Agreed, not sure what the GP is talking about.
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by ttfkam 3y ago
CSS and HTML in JS was always a bad idea. HTML can live on its own. JS is a dependent technology, on the same level as CSS. The HTML was always the foundational technology. Centering JS has always been like putting the cart before the horse
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Browsers are not the same as they were ten years ago.
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Not a pointer to a function. In JS, functions are first class objects. You might as well say toggle() is an invocation of a pointer to a function. <div onclick="toggle"> has existed since the dawn of JavaScript in Netscape N
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Angular will soon be migrating to the Svelte style of conditional flow control. https://github.com/angular/angular/discussions/50719
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by ttfkam 3y ago
It does support onclick though. This isn't a far off derivation. Also "|once" is a whole lot cleaner and more terse than the "once" variant of addEventListener, to be sure. Anyone who already knows HTML and native e
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by ttfkam 3y ago
<div onclick="handleClick">Click me</div> 100% valid HTML and within "the normal realm of HTML". The event is passed as a parameter to the function. Has been available since the introduction of JavaScrip
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Car drivers already depend on road maintenance, emergency services, city planning, etc. If you think owning a car makes you less dependent, I've got a bridge to sell you. Between gas, insurance, oil changes, brake and strut replacement

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