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by wiz21c 2y ago
The wording of the title is weird, it's like humans have developed a new banana. (that is, the title doesn't say a variant of a banana, but a banana) moreover: "The breakthrough was achieved through a collaboration between Ch
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by wiz21c 2y ago
FTA > And we have engineered machines that can transform big rocks into small ones. OK, so you solve a problem of decreasing resources by using additional energy, so more CO2 emissions...
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by wiz21c 2y ago
video here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkH8vPI-rds
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by wiz21c 2y ago
FTA: "Central Europe's devastating floods were made much worse by climate change" There are always been floods. But now they get worse. How much worse ? I don't know. And as another HNer said, land management has its par
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by wiz21c 2y ago
waho, didn't know ! Thanks for explaining.
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by wiz21c 2y ago
If only they'd used the f-word instead of Ook...
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by wiz21c 2y ago
GTFO yes !
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by wiz21c 2y ago
Seriously, why ? :-)
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by wiz21c 2y ago
bullfit ?
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by wiz21c 2y ago
Not more bad than C++ :-)
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by wiz21c 2y ago
And that goes up to every levels of the hierarchy. It's definitely about power and control. I'd add that it is also a question of geography. The work place is the place where power exists. And so having you inside the company&#x27
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by wiz21c 2y ago
How do you intercept so many beepers ? - you have to know they have been ordered - you have to know when they are sent (from Europe) - you have to intercept them (in which country ?) - to modify them - to put them back in the delivery (so y
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by wiz21c 2y ago
They are not there voluntarily. They are the product of social norms, social hierarchy, need for money, etc. If they knew exactyl what their in for they would probably change their mind. So EY should explain very clearly what they do. I gue
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by wiz21c 2y ago
and it's definitely inferior to Qt. Sure, for 80% of things thy are mostly on par (provided you can bear the 90's look). But after that, there's a world between the two.
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by wiz21c 2y ago
> It neglects to focus on stopping the fire, This can get pretty tricky when the fire is your very boss... (and honestly, been there and didn't know how to handle that, and still don't know (top management did, they fired my bo
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by wiz21c 2y ago
"Bethpage, NY" is not a basketball court...
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by wiz21c 2y ago
year 2080: "M-x ai: imagine you are a smart emacs developper, write a configuration file that sets up LSP" answer: "I did it. Please note that you're using a Microsoft protocol. Microsoft has a long history of attacking
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by wiz21c 2y ago
> Well I’m not as bad as them so they should change. It's rather "I do meaningful actions (i.e. I don't take plane) so I'd be happy if they would do it too".
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by wiz21c 2y ago
Business should accept cash when I don't want to leave (too much of) a trace of my purchase; they should accept electronic payment when I want them to leave a trace of my purchase.
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by wiz21c 2y ago
Bubba Magillicuty !!! From the wikipedia page: "THG was run by professional men, who were available each day "by 10:30" when FedEx, or UPS delivered. The other groups had to "wait until they got home" in the afterno
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by wiz21c 2y ago
> Nobody is ever going to agree with that I certainly agree with that sentence. I know I'm on a pretty radical side of the question.
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by wiz21c 2y ago
OK, I take it as a good counter example to what I have posted. Thanks for sharing.
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by wiz21c 2y ago
I understand growth as more economic activity and there I fail to see how they are disconnected. I mean, the more you move stuff around, the more you produce AI generated images, the more you consume energy ??? Of course we could as well pr
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by wiz21c 2y ago
From your own citation: > We will not be able to become, at once, a leader in new technologies, a beacon of climate responsibility and an independent player on the world stage. Important words here are "at once" == simultaneous
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by wiz21c 2y ago
The fishing market is 600B $... So if they invest 1% of that market size into the cleaning, they can go on with current practices... They can even improve the process and make it cheaper.
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by wiz21c 2y ago
> Regulatory barriers constrain growth in several ways I fail to see why it is a bad thing. We need to curb CO2 emissions which, in some wya or another, implies consuming less energy. Limiting the growth would certainly beneficial and wo
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by wiz21c 2y ago
When the borrow checker doesn't let you compile, it's either because it can't understand your code (and that's unfortunate and infuriating and costs a lot of time to figure out), either because your code won't be ab
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by wiz21c 2y ago
ahh THG were certainly ruling the scene !!! Nostalgia..
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by wiz21c 2y ago
I confirm it was working at least for Microprose Soccer :-) Was way to easy to crack... Unlike "Le Manoir de Mortevielle" or "Leisure Suit Larry" which I was never able to crack...
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by wiz21c 2y ago
Dumb question: what is clojure usually used for ? (in my view, Java is for "enterprise" stuff, python for AI/data sciences, C for performance, etc.)

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