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by vosper 6y ago
They're not even expensive to buy. I picked one up for a few hundred dollars for hiking. I believe it's good for 10 years, until the battery needs replacing. I don't even do particularly intense hikes, usually not even overni
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by vosper 6y ago
> a lot of the lands used for grazing simply aren't viable for much else, and thus we couldn't really plant anything else there. Perhaps in the some places, but 80% of deforestation of the Amazon rainforest is for cattle ranchi
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by vosper 6y ago
Sure, and you'll notice that I didn't say there's no problem at the NYT, or that the organisation as a whole should be exempt from the actions of some set of it's staff. I'm just saying that the analogy to an (offen
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by vosper 6y ago
The NYT has 4,320 employees. If one of them spat on you, never apologized, and denied he did so, would you then judge every employee of NYT the same as you judge that one person? Edit for clarity, since I'm getting downvoted: My point
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by vosper 6y ago
> It looks like Visa is stepping in the niche that Facebook's Libra has identified, but couldn't fully explore due to regulatory pressure As far as I know, Libra (called Novi, now? Or maybe that's just the wallet name) is
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by vosper 6y ago
I think all the PyPi stats are available in BigQuery, if anyone’s interested in doing some analysis.
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by vosper 6y ago
I’m old enough to remember all of these things you’ve condescendingly assumed I must be ignorant of, including trying to find my way around LA freeways, during my first hours in America, at night, with a paper map unfolded on my lap, trying
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by vosper 6y ago
> Another day, another top HN comment that confidently presents opinion as fact. Would it kill folks to be a little less confident? Apart from the last statement "Clearly more options exist for managing spam than just shutting down
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by vosper 6y ago
There isn't a company in the world (except maybe Microsoft, with Outlook, and Azure to build on) who are in a position to even think about stepping in to replace Google's biggest services, and the businesses that are built on, a
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by vosper 6y ago
Are these things actually luxury goods? A smartphone is probably one of the most essential and important devices in many peoples lives these days. Certainly one of the most used. There is the option of Android instead of Apple, but as someo
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by vosper 6y ago
I'm not claiming that renewables have to completely replace fossil fuels (see my reference to carbon capture), or that they even need to be cheaper (fossil fuels could become artificially expensive by, eg, carbon taxes). I'm quest
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by vosper 6y ago
> I swear every yoga class I've been to I'm breathing at like 3/4 speed of everyone else in the class and so the flow moves too fast for me. Heh, you're doing better than me: every yoga class I've been in (more t
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by vosper 6y ago
Ok, but that's not the question here :) The question is whether the idea that nuclear (and fusion in particular) is the only way to have climate-friendly energy generation and "avert a looming crisis" is outdated, and may
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by vosper 6y ago
Sure, but energy density (which is essentially hypothetical in the case of fusion, because we don't have fusion power) has got very little to do with the assertion that nuclear energy (and fusion in particular) is the only way to avert
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by vosper 6y ago
> Obviously old coal powerplants are the worst, but there's more evidence every year that the allegedly "clean" natural gas is nowhere as clean as advertised once you account for fugitive methane emissions that in practice
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by vosper 6y ago
> nuclear power is the only realistic way to solve the looming energy crisis of the 21st century while still maintaining the same standard of living for everyone I assume by "energy crisis" you mean "how do we continue to
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by vosper 6y ago
Is the performance of the app the same as the website? I’ve only ever run Slack in a browser tab, and haven't had much in the way of performance problems.
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by vosper 6y ago
Thanks, while I don't really like or identify with overly-reductive terms like "left" or "right", I am aware of a "left"-ward bias in my information consumption, and I'd like to see some alternative t
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by vosper 6y ago
Lack of Typescript support was the main reason I didn't switch to Svelte for my personal projects. Other than that it was a joy to use, and a breath of fresh air in it's approach. I'd recommend any front-end dev to give Svelt
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by vosper 6y ago
I'm basically thinking "the same product as Sodastream, but way cheaper". Like Specsavers did for glasses. Granted, there may be a little less demand for home fizzy water than there is for good eyesight ;) It's not like
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by vosper 6y ago
> No one had heard of brands like SodaStream, Fitbit, OtterBox, PopSockets, S’well, Bombas, SimpliSafe and Mrs. Meyers when we embraced and launched them. I'm a little confused, it sounds like they're taking credit for SodaStre
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Cascable Pro Webcam can turn more than 100 popular cameras into webcams on macOS(dpreview.com)
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by vosper 6y ago
If you know the name of what you’re looking for Spotlight search (cmd+space) can be a quick way to find it. Not always helpful, depends on what you’re trying to do
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by vosper 6y ago
And they don’t seem to prefetch anything. Why aren’t they loading my labels, team members etc in the background as soon as the main data has loaded, so they’re ready to go when I want to edit a field?
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by vosper 6y ago
Yeah, JQL is the key, and they do a good job with suggestions and completions in the query editor. One of the few parts of the Jira UI that I actually think works pretty well. Don’t get me started on editing workflows...
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by vosper 6y ago
I’m not sure about “require”, but we use multi-hundred-gigabytes or RAM instances for our Elasticsearch coordinator nodes, which seems to work well.
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by vosper 6y ago
> I don't see why the space shuttle wouldn't be considered a rocket? It had 3 rocket engines coming out the back of it. Duh, you're right, of course - I somehow was thinking just of the boosters.
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by vosper 6y ago
You've done a wonderful job with explaining what it does, how, and why, all on the landing page.
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by vosper 6y ago
I'll preface this by saying I don't know much about space launches... > Space Shuttle had 24 consecutive launches before a failure The Space Shuttle system was not "a rocket", so possibly GP wasn't counting it? &
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by vosper 6y ago
This was my experience trying to work with the Johns Hopkins COVID data. I don't know if Johns Hopkins became the canonical data source because they were amongst the first to have public data and charts, but honestly I was kinda surpri

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