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by ttiurani 5y ago
Agree with the general sentiment that moving to electric is a great place to rethink the whole design. However a "make it electric" mentality doesn't address the fact that a big chunk of the "its" (at least in the g
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by ttiurani 5y ago
This is an important study because most (all?) scenarios used by the IPCC depend heavily on these (as of now) wildly optimistic CO2 removal levels, either with BECCS or DACs. In order to hit the "brief and rapidly closing window"
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by ttiurani 5y ago
> These pesky climate problems can be solved. The thing is, it's not just climate that's the problem. The "pesky" problem is that we've crossed or are soon crossing most planetary boundaries[1] at the same time.
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by ttiurani 5y ago
Tip to the privileged[1]: find out how low you can drop your monthly spend – what are all the things you could still relatively comfortably live without? I'm now very happy living on my savings, spending super little per month, and it
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by ttiurani 5y ago
> Currently we collect around 42 terabytes of data per datacenter each day. And at the same time the article is very vague on by who and how all that data is read. A much more interesting question for a blog post is: how many bytes of th
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by ttiurani 5y ago
This is quite extreme: you absolutely can and will lose amazing ideas unless you can find them later written down. This comes up in interviews with great creative people all the time. Just listen to David Lynch: "I write [ideas] down s
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by ttiurani 5y ago
"She tells me a bit about her metaverse project, Space Falcon. I'm not really sold on it, but I'm not really an NFT person so I didn't have any reason to think it was a bad idea either.[...] It seems kind of like a get-r
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by ttiurani 5y ago
I'm sure this article is on point, and the comments here seem to confirm it. But to me it's just wild that working to bring about a net positive impact to the world isn't mentioned anywhere. And no: that's not even remot
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by ttiurani 5y ago
Is there a search engine for programming? One that not only searches stackoverflow, github, relevant subreddits and the other big sites, but also finds programming articles in personal blogs? That would be valuable to me.
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by ttiurani 5y ago
> Databases Are the Most Important Thing in My Life After My Family > I even broke up with a girlfriend once because of sloppy benchmark results. I can't say I can relate, but I do appreciate being this passionate about things!
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by ttiurani 5y ago
The quote continues: "If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality." The moral obligation Tutu captured with that aphorism has affected me imme
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by ttiurani 5y ago
> if you remove that license key check yourself, you have to make it public... ...for the users of the modified software, not everyone. If the only user is you, having the source code on your own machine is enough.
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by ttiurani 5y ago
> Unfortunately with trust in low supply these days... This is at the core of the issue: no technology, but especially not web3, is just a tool. Tech is inherently political because of both these kinds of underlying assumptions about the
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by ttiurani 5y ago
I've heard Svelte being promoted for SVG animations before too, but I haven't understood why. Is there some benefit Svelte specifically has here opposed to React/Vue/etc?
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by ttiurani 5y ago
Carmack's point about it being about products is so important. Same way a game engine is an almost accidental side result from a great game, a worthwhile "metaverse" will be a accidental result of one or more great, useful pr
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by ttiurani 5y ago
This is good to know and precisely the reason I use AGPLv3 whenever I can. IMO open source developers writing code on their free time for the common good or just for fun should make sure with a licence like AGPLv3 that their work isn't
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by ttiurani 5y ago
It's about shareholder value added. A public company or a VC-backed private company can focus on making creative nice widgets and services for only a limited time before growth inevitably stalls. After that (unless the management can a
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by ttiurani 5y ago
Based on this paper, there are these fun illustrations by Léonard Chemineau: https://www.leolinne.com/?portfolio=discourses-of-climate-de... and a cartoon by Céline Keller: https://www.celinekeller.com/disco
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by ttiurani 5y ago
Don't know if it's just me, but I find the analogy to agile methods to break immediately. I've always thought that the goal of agile is not to have more fun but to produce working software faster and better. Agile of course c
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by ttiurani 5y ago
> These eight principles form a shared understanding of what it means to be a Green Software Engineer independent of: Application domain, Industry... Let me stop this right there. We as software engineers have to stop turning a blind eye
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by ttiurani 5y ago
I agree that the benefit is miniscule even when both the writer and the readers are familiar with currying. Which is why I personally never use curry methods to keep the cognite load low, and instead do just that.
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by ttiurani 5y ago
What you're missing is that the curry() function is generic: you don't need to manually write that new function, but just type a simple oneliner using curry() to generate the function you're describing.
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by ttiurani 5y ago
Granted "westerner" was the wrong word: I meant rich nations, which are responsible for almost all of the historical emissions. "Social ownership doesn’t solve climate change," I skipped a few steps there: the reason we
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by ttiurani 5y ago
Indeed, praying for technological moonshots to save us is the most vicious tactic of delay for climate change action [1]. The root problem is that we people of the Global North are incapable of looking ourselves in the mirror. The obvious s
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by ttiurani 5y ago
> One of the challenges climate activists face is determining who exactly is to blame for the climate crisis, No. Even though researching these power plants is valuable to find low effort / high reward actions, blaming buildings is
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by ttiurani 5y ago
> I'm past hoping for people to do the right things en masse. This isn't either or: we can heavily incentivize creating climate change tech AND drive for a systemic change. It is IMO immoral to just give up on a sustainable pol
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by ttiurani 5y ago
Don't quite know what you mean by "locked in warming" (nor didn't have time to look at this report yet), but the previous scenarios have massive scale future magic carbon takeback tech baked in. I assume if there was som
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by ttiurani 5y ago
This apparent decoupling in western nations is an illusion made possible by globalization, where resources are extracted from the global South. When you count in production, no more decoupling can be found. Find the sources for these from f
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by ttiurani 5y ago
OP takes a historical view about the actual economy, and where it in real life can go from here. Your argument – a very common one and very influential in today's society – however is purely theoretical. As John O'Neil points out:
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by ttiurani 5y ago
No, those days are long gone. OWL is dive or pharah+ball or rush, and sometimes some double shield or mcree+torb. A lot of comps can work.

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