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by wyager 4y ago
And politics.
842.
by wyager 4y ago
Another one - you can't use the swipe keyboard to type phrases apple thinks are "naughty", such as "white woman" or "kill myself". iOS will always change one of the two words, e.g. changing "white&q
843.
by wyager 4y ago
You are suffering from the same optimistic delusion that the Supreme Court suffered from in Grutter v. Bollinger (2003): > In her majority opinion, O'Connor wrote that "race-conscious admissions policies must be limited in time
844.
by wyager 4y ago
An interesting evolution in the camouflage meta is the proliferation of inexpensive thermal cameras. Chinese companies like Infiray are producing reasonably-priced thermal monoculars that defeat all colour-based camo. Low-spec monos and COT
845.
by wyager 4y ago
One thing I was surprised to learn about NIR requirements is that it apparently doesn't just mean "dark". I have some coyote brown NIR compliant gear (water carriers etc) and under NIR it has the same shade as grass (which is
846.
by wyager 4y ago
Because the next time there's a virus going around, they're going to put the vaccine passport app you need to go to the store or take a train in the Meta app store.
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by wyager 4y ago
Consoles used to be better about this, but now it's the exact same BS. The only console that makes an effort not to waste your time is the switch.
848.
by wyager 4y ago
We didn't solve e-mail spam by jailing people.
849.
by wyager 4y ago
Lobsters was also reddit-ified years ago. It recreated the vibe of "old" HN for a while, but it didn't last.
850.
by wyager 4y ago
Larger userbase => less selectivity => intelligence distribution shifted downwards. I've been here since 2013 and the quality of discourse has absolutely gone downhill, by a massive amount. The median link and comment are notic
851.
by wyager 4y ago
I listed a laptop on FBM, and out of probably 30 contacts, 29 were pretty obvious scammers. Really bad experience. I've had much better luck on CL.
852.
by wyager 4y ago
I'm not a "rust user" any more than I'm a java user (less, in fact). Your heuristic is probably picking up on the fact that people who pay attention to things like this tend to have correlated opinions.
853.
by wyager 4y ago
Because it's worth it. The question is why we don't ignore other causes of death that are also worth it.
854.
by wyager 4y ago
I'm not any of those guys, and of those 3 rust is by far the least garbage. Garbagicity is a spectrum.
855.
by wyager 4y ago
> The current software engineering paradigm has no meaningful answer to this The answer is to stop using garbage software written in garbage languages. Of course the current environment is too high-time-preference for this to be economic
856.
by wyager 4y ago
Do they really use straight up XYZ? Where can I read more about this format?
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by wyager 4y ago
> And <1200 kw/h per square fucking meter is negligible Why are you swearing - are you upset about this? It's 0kW/m^2 at night. > people can put solar on their roof and a battery in the basement and trivially source
858.
by wyager 4y ago
No, it's not. Why would you make such a strong statement when you clearly haven't researched it? There are only a small number of climates where solar installations on homes already on the grid have an expected net positive social
859.
by wyager 4y ago
> Preventing any house from utiliising solar has a direct and specific negative impact. Domestic solar has an extremely tenuous value proposition. If you don't have batteries in your house, you're using the grid as an extremely
860.
by wyager 4y ago
Marginal increases in panel efficiency don't solve any of the real problems with solar, such as production/load mismatch (cf duck curve).
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by wyager 4y ago
> if nuke-bros are gonna make excuses for NIMBYing solar roofs If this is the level of your discourse, why would you expect people to take your claims seriously? > 15kW of solar, which is about what you can get with a roof full of sol
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by wyager 4y ago
> In absolute numbers they allowed a 50% increase in total vegetable production over farms alone in the US. Once again, this is a facially stupid claim. If you know anything about industrial agriculture, it's clearly impossible. Whe
863.
by wyager 4y ago
> In WWII home gardens roughly doubled fresh vegetable production. This is obviously not true in any meaningful sense. I assume this is based on "fresh" restricting the numbers to a meaninglessly small fraction of total product
864.
by wyager 4y ago
> Imagine being so selfish that you are opposed to something that is objectively good for the world A randomly selected house being covered in solar panels is not "objectively good for the world". Please do some research into e
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by wyager 4y ago
Attributable to rapidly increasing police expenditures. The "baseline" level of crime in the counterfactual scenario where police expenditure had stayed constant is almost certainly increasing.
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by wyager 4y ago
A single job might cover vastly different responsibility depending on skill or experience. It's unreasonable to expect every job to fall into a nice narrow description. For most of my career I've been something like "software
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by wyager 4y ago
How is that nonsensical? Lots of times, the same nominal job might involve vastly varying amounts of responsibility or productivity. I've seen positions where 3X dynamic range would be unreasonably small, e.g. at companies which don&#x
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by wyager 4y ago
Spinach hardly qualifies as edible. It has essentially no nutritional value, and is poisonous/anti-nutritious due to its oxalic acid content. Most leaves are this way. The plant doesn't use them for energy storage, doesn't wa
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by wyager 4y ago
> each function call must consume at least N bits of memory This is going to be a problem for any long-running recursive program. Why would we mandate this?
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by wyager 4y ago
Sorry, I'm too desensitized by earnest shills.

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