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by usrusr 2y ago
If you have dormant code, as in running everywhere but not getting worked on anywhere, a "translate to shitty rust before ever touching again" has a certain appeal. Not the appeal of an obviously good idea: chances are the &quot
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by usrusr 2y ago
I consider SMT a relic left over from the days when CPU design was all about performance per square millimeter. We are in the process of substituting that goal with that of performance per watt, or in the process of slowly realizing that ou
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by usrusr 2y ago
The benefits of billboards are a zero sum game, it's absurdly easy for the benefits of a ban to outweigh them. Here in Germany regulation of outside ads has zero novelty value, it's so much a given that I don't know anything
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by usrusr 2y ago
I could come up with a few. And they are all sold exclusively by IKEA. Never occurred to me before that vertical integration can be a positive factor in consumer trust. Usually I see myself girly in the camp of "oh noes! Sooner or late
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by usrusr 2y ago
The sponsor isn't punished when their reputation gets associated with a cheat? US Postal sued Armstrong for $100M (settled for $5M) after he got caught. Guilty by association with a PED athlete is the dominant economic risk of sports s
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by usrusr 2y ago
One possible explanation could be automated testing deployments for definitions updates that don't run the current version of the definition consumer, and the old one they do run is unaffected.
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by usrusr 2y ago
Of course they have a market. Not a market of real estate bubbles and NFTs, that's for sure, but a market of skills and cooperation. They may not have much job specialisation (or they do, difficult to tell without contacting), but even
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by usrusr 2y ago
You write as if economic exploitation was somehow off the table. But economic exploitation isn't restricted to outright slavery, not at all. Trade is disastrous when suddenly all local production has to compete with hyper efficient imp
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by usrusr 2y ago
But it isn't a fight. They want to beat the gravity well ("PvE", in video game terms), not SpaceX ("PvP"). And when they do have the capability to use their own expensive launch system in a pinch, they are free to b
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by usrusr 2y ago
They've been making servers for quite a while I think. They just don't sell them, and I certainly would not expect that to change any time soon.
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by usrusr 2y ago
Adding to my old post, I suspect that those broken incentives were the result of mixing "how" and "how much" in political decisionmaking. That's a process problem I see repeated over and over again: the "how mu
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by usrusr 2y ago
For example the suits of playing cards [0]: here in Germany we have our own suits, but those decks are really only used for some very specific games. For all other games, we use the same cards as the English speaking world and we call those
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by usrusr 2y ago
Amazingly effective game, apparently even turned into a movie not once but twice (Cry_Wolf and one Austrian adaption, according to de.wikipedia). That connection to an 18th century media hype adds an interesting new angle to the success of
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by usrusr 2y ago
Long overdue: I'm all for subsidizing renewables, let's down them in money. But the way it's currently done in Germany erases all incentive to tap low hanging fruit in dispatchability. Which has lead to the ubiquitous biogas
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by usrusr 2y ago
And look at the bloodshed that caused! https://douglasadams.com/dna/pedants.html
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by usrusr 2y ago
Reminds me of the accidental Wikipedia dive into the "Volkswagen engine" universe I once had: apparently the design lives on in a multitude of engines in the ultralight market, for dune buggies and the like. Bootstrapped by afterm
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by usrusr 2y ago
The head of the pig in the cave is such a nice "friendly pink pig" cartoon of a modern breed that I do feel like it would be more appropriate to call it "drawing of a creature that happens to look deceptively like a drawing o
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by usrusr 2y ago
What makes you assume that you will have the compartment to yourself? Do you buy six tickets? The reality is that most people will actually prefer being in the "public space" of an open plan train car with many random strangers ov
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by usrusr 2y ago
Specifying the unit for human age feels a bit formal in German. The unitless number is colloquially used like an adjective: "I am X".
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by usrusr 2y ago
The term makes a lot of sense when you read it as having the package manager at it's core, which also happens to be the update mechanism. But in the container world, that would be an idle update mechanism and package management (as in
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by usrusr 2y ago
Ah, separate target for testing assumptions in isolation.
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by usrusr 2y ago
So then you have a live image of a big black board? The beauty of the misalignment patrol drone is that it does not leave you guessing wich one exactly of your large number of inexpensive mirrors is out of line. The culprit clearly lights u
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by usrusr 2y ago
As in fly a scanning pattern around the focus point and look for mirrors that blind the drone instead of frying the tower. Should be crazy efficient compared to the terrible alternative which would require something like deliberately de-foc
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by usrusr 2y ago
Fossil burning plants that capture carbon do it for the greenwashing, not because there might be some use for the concentrated CO2. Renewable burning plants have little incentive to greenwash. Renewable burning does exist, and I suppose tha
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by usrusr 2y ago
> The point with carbon capture is that the captured carbon still comes from fossil fuels That's not a property of carbon capture, it's a property of the fuel coming in on the other side of the (stationary) process. We certainl
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by usrusr 2y ago
That's why for every very high value use case (see chii sibling post) you keep some low value use cases running that don't really require high energy concentration fuel. Burn shrubs, waste (e.g. bioplastics), whatever for heat and
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by usrusr 2y ago
Isn't the whole biodegradability thing a bit of a red herring anyways? Just have a reasonably good waste collection system, then either incinerate (yay, dispatchable carbon neutral energy!) or landfill (yay, carbon capture and burial!)
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by usrusr 2y ago
Had the same thought recently. But it would be easy enough to make a "go script" frontend that checks for a compiled version, checks the source against a hash stored with that compiled version and shortcuts to the binary if everyt
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by usrusr 2y ago
I think GP meant chips as in something you pick up while on the go, not as a side to a full meal. Notice how they mention a bag.
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by usrusr 2y ago
Food places sell identity more than anything. Food quality just needs to be good enough to somewhat fulfill expectations implied by the price range. "We're an American behemoth selling a mockery of your national identity" cer

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