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by vaylian 8mo ago
The climate system in those prehistoric times was in a different stable state. The world that we live in has different ecosystems that are well-adapted to the current stable state and we will likely face a mass-extinction event once the eco
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by vaylian 8mo ago
Hank Green did a good short video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvAznN_MPWQ TL;DW: It is important that individuals show that there is a real problem and that they perform actions that address the problem. This d
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This is one of the key sentences: > Policymakers and the public, however, remain largely unaware of the risks posed by such a practically irreversible transition Most people still underestimate what it means for the earth system to chang
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What is your greatest UX concern that you would like to see fixed?
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by vaylian 8mo ago
Could this be used as a learning tool? Rebooting the computer takes so much more time compared to reloading the browser tab. And you probably can't brick your computer.
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by vaylian 8mo ago
If you want to establish a new word, you need to make sure that the word also sticks in common use. Otherwise the word will not hold its own meaning. For existing concepts it's much better to use the words that have already been establ
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by vaylian 9mo ago
The market might not be able to tell the difference. It takes effort to count fingers and toes in art. Part of the problem is also: So many companies are doing it now, that it doesn't seem effective to call people/companies out fo
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by vaylian 9mo ago
Reminds me of the forbidden word lists that they created at the beginning of the second Trump term: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/07/us/trump-fede...
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by vaylian 9mo ago
> You’re taking a bunch of pre-built abstractions written by other people on top of what the computer is actually doing and plugging them together like LEGOs. Correct. However, you will probably notice that your solution to the problem d
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by vaylian 9mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk It's basically what people used before USB sticks. But it was also the storage medium that software was sold on, before CD-ROMs became widespread.
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by vaylian 9mo ago
Sounds like golang to me
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by vaylian 9mo ago
> I'm in the process of migrating Augno's monolithic API to a microservices architecture. Didn't we get to the point where we realized that microservices cause too much trouble down the road?
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for example?
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by vaylian 9mo ago
> The design of Pandas is inferior in every way to Polars I used Pandas a lot with Jupyter notebooks. I don't have any experience with Polars. Is it also possible to work with Polars dataframes in Jupyter notebooks?
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by vaylian 9mo ago
And yet, the name immediately reminded me of the Snowden relevations.
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by vaylian 9mo ago
So much negativity in this thread. I actually think this could be useful, because tamper-proof computer systems are useful to prevent evil maid attacks. Especially in the age of Pegasus and other spyware, we should also take physical attack
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by vaylian 9mo ago
Probably also some of the things that were described here? https://0pointer.net/blog/fitting-everything-together.html
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by vaylian 9mo ago
If you want facts, then start at this overview article on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_disinformation
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by vaylian 9mo ago
Russia considers all the European countries as lesser states that should be dominated. Even Hungary, which is politically friendly to Russia, is probably experiencing a lot of disinformation campaigns, because Russia wants to ensure that Pu
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by vaylian 9mo ago
Meanwhile in Europe: Qwant and Ecosia team up to build their own search index: https://blog.ecosia.org/eusp/
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by vaylian 9mo ago
Why was the German shutdown premature?
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by vaylian 9mo ago
Another article on the same story: https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/20/trump-administration-admit...
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by vaylian 9mo ago
Another possible explanation is that the IP was not random enough. For example: network_prefix::1
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by vaylian 9mo ago
The article says: > Modern routers ship with firewall policies that deny inbound traffic by default, even when a NAT is not being used. So no, not every device needs its own firewall. You can have a single firewall at the entrance of you
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by vaylian 9mo ago
I am not so sure about that. I think the difference this time is that AI usage is fairly mainstream. People are using it for all kinds of things, including studies. Using it to quickly get done with school/study-work, is a no-brainer (
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by vaylian 9mo ago
I've never been deep into XSLT, but I kind of have the impression, that this would have solved the issue.
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Until they start hallucinating data
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by vaylian 9mo ago
I agree that staying below 1.5°C is extremely unlikely at this point. But it is still worthwhile to try to keep it under 1.6°C.
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Maybe you are mixing up threads? There is very similar thread on the front page right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46659913
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Whenever you hear a politician say "carbon neutral by 2050", interrupt them. The real goal is to avoid getting too far over 1.5 degrees warming. We need to avoid reaching tipping points that will cause non-recoverable damage to th

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