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by usrn 4y ago
Probably near zero. My understanding is the useful kind of aquifer are the result of the shallow ones being closed off via geologic activity.
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by usrn 4y ago
IIRC they're being extremely inefficient with the water because they don't pay for it. Fix that and the problem solves itself.
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by usrn 4y ago
This. I think I'm still technically in the "junior" category (coming up on four years of experience not counting internships) but I'm pretty much financially independent at this point. I only really stay employed for lux
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by usrn 4y ago
I've been saying this for half a decade now. It's really the only thing that would ever make me consider buying a VR headset. I've thought about building something myself but honestly all the crap in X11 is too distracting an
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by usrn 4y ago
The crunch at the bottom causes people to try to get their children into the elite. This causes high competition among the elites (you can see that with college tuition going up and people with degrees working as baristas) which causes a cr
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by usrn 4y ago
My girlfriend is an Apple nut (she even asked for airpods for her birthday, now that I've listened to her use them for a two way conversation I can safely say they're garbage) and she tolerates me not only not having an iPhone but
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by usrn 4y ago
The solution is for mature adults to not behave like children because they understand being petty about brands creates serious problems both for themselves and everyone around them. Children doing it is just part of the series of learning e
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by usrn 4y ago
I live entirely without a smartphone and centralized social media (unless you count my Pinephone but that's really a small laptop and small forums of which HN is probably the largest.) I recommend this to everyone but even I recognize
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by usrn 4y ago
I get notifications on mine just fine, even with suspend. Dino generates notifications when I get messages, mutt rings the terminal bell when I get email (if I cared I could pretty easily have it generate a toast notification too.) If you t
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by usrn 4y ago
Hopefully people understand why the libertarian position makes so much sense now.
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by usrn 4y ago
I've gone to my current dentist for years and he's always extremely reluctant to even do fillings (last time he gave me a speech about how you can't replace what "God gave you" so you should just monitor it or so.
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by usrn 4y ago
It's probably because it doesn't encrypt group chats at all.
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by usrn 4y ago
It's kind of surprising that they managed to convince so many people it is secure. I think part of it is that the people who really care about this sort of thing never bothered with it since it requires a phone number. XMPP has signal
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by usrn 4y ago
These are tokens not crypto currencies. Please stop confusing them.
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by usrn 4y ago
They're a big reason pages load slowly and cause text to jump around when they do. Custom web fonts are awful.
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by usrn 4y ago
Push notifications. Once someone is hooked on the site a notification can get them back into the dopamine feedback loop very easily. I think this is why restaurant chains have started giving people free food to install their apps too (along
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by usrn 4y ago
Or even better just don't use custom fonts because they break a lot of things anyway.
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by usrn 4y ago
I grow it myself. Occasionally you have to replenish the nitrates and I keep it in a climate controlled area but other than that it takes pretty much no effort to keep alive.
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by usrn 4y ago
Python has other issues which make it less than ideal for a learning language. Really it's having to deal with an API at all that's distracting anyway.
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by usrn 4y ago
I really think ball point pens are the worst. Personally I like mechanical pencils but I would even prefer crayons. At least crayons work reliably.
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by usrn 4y ago
That would require OS specific APIs which are distracting.
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by usrn 4y ago
You can go half way and just use micro organisms like algae. Those are very easy to keep alive, they really just need sun and CO2. Then you can use the sugars and lipids as feed stock for the next step.
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by usrn 4y ago
I used to do this using mingw on a raspberry pi for course work that needed Windows exes in college. The official dev tools are really frustrating (except the debugger, I like gdb but it kind of sucks with c++)
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by usrn 4y ago
So this could trigger the flippining.
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by usrn 4y ago
For an OS most of us would consider useless that's been around for maybe a quarter of the time desktop Linux has been and half the time OSX has 2% is pretty impressive. As to the pricing, it's not like Desktop Linux doesn't w
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by usrn 4y ago
The Walmart near me stopped selling Windows PCs and only sells Chromebooks. ChromeOS is extremely successful.
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by usrn 4y ago
You've done that thing where you think the Anglosphere is the whole world when it's really something like 10%. There's plenty of room for growth.
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by usrn 4y ago
More communists than Nazis although we've forgotten about that unfortunately.
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by usrn 4y ago
There isn't a single functioning agency of the federal government. The entire thing has been turned against the American people in order to serve these large corporations.
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by usrn 4y ago
GNOME often rejects the ideas from the rest of the ecosystem.

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