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by zdragnar 11mo ago
The world's total energy consumption (most of which is fossil fuels) is currently estimated at 620 exajoules, or 17TWh / year. Assuming zero growth in energy consumption (hello AI), extracting even half of that seems like it would
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by zdragnar 11mo ago
HTML was an application of SGML, and precedes XML. HTML is a markup language, and not all of the elements and features are semantic in nature. The "span" tag literally exists to provide a way of affecting a bit of text where no ta
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by zdragnar 11mo ago
There's a bunch of regulations that need tweaking. AIUI, it's illegal to charge SNAP more than other customers. someone who paid cash and gets rounded down technically pays less than what the government got charged. It's only
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by zdragnar 11mo ago
COVID happened. However, all three of the banks I visit regularly (over branch of a national bank, two branches of a local credit union) all have coin counting machines in the lobby, though it took awhile for them to be added back to the br
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by zdragnar 11mo ago
> The appropriate amount is one that makes the poor and rich alike avoid the behavior. Well, you suggested the percentage based fines, I'm curious what you think that would look like. 0.5%? 2%? Should I lose my home if I'm unde
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by zdragnar 11mo ago
I'm genuinely curious, what is the appropriate percentage of a person's wealth to take when they overstay at a parking meter for a few minutes?
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by zdragnar 1y ago
The least vaccinated communities also tend to be the least visible. I suspect it wouldn't be terribly effective in the large.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
There are also plenty of places where flashing a 100 dollar bill and a Rolex will ensure you don't get home at all.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Odd, we went from a bare instance to VM to a tiny k8s cluster, and k8s was the most stable and easy to administer of the lot.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Funding ffmpeg also essentially funds their competitors, but a closed fork in-house doesn't. Submitting bugs costs less than both, hence why they still use ffmpeg in the first place.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Not really. Their whole reason for not funding open source is it essentially funds their competitors who use the same projects. That's why they'd rather build a closed fork in-house than just hand money to ffmpeg. It's a dumb
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by zdragnar 1y ago
I don't know about the coma bit, but there's a comedian whose early career was largely defined by having slept off a concussion and waking up with a stutter. It may or may not lead to a coma, but I surely wouldn't let someone
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by zdragnar 1y ago
A highly acute dose could kill in seconds, but a lower dose can cause confusion, headaches, dizziness and more prior to inducing a coma and death. It is not outside the realm of possibility that he became confused and in pain, decided to li
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by zdragnar 1y ago
If you don't mind a TUI, I've been very much enjoying gitui - in fact, this is the second time I've recommended it recently. Adding hunks and single lines is easy, and the various commands are all visible, so it lacks the usu
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by zdragnar 1y ago
It's bad enough when I have to fight for elbow room with the people next to me. It's a whole 'nother experience to fight for the elbow room of the people in front of me to have a place to put my knees.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
They'll make accommodations, but those will be very budget accommodations and not comfy, just like everything else about them. Hence why you're better off going with something else. In fact, you're almost always better off go
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by zdragnar 1y ago
I don't know about the UK, but in the US this is only half true. Degree-requiring jobs still have better social status over trades and low/no skill work, at least from a "what do you want to be when you grow up" point of
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by zdragnar 1y ago
There are dozens of open source Google calendar clones in JS; picking a random not-react example off of the front page of an npm search: https://fullcalendar.io/
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Extradition of a foreign citizen to a third country is not a simple matter, diplomatically speaking. The US might not have the hegemony it enjoyed 20-30 years ago, but it certainly has plenty of sway. When it's a matter of drug charges
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by zdragnar 1y ago
I worked for a company that fell into the trap of over fitting their product for their first customer. The customer seemed ideal in every way; they really needed the product, they were willing to be beta users while the product was going fr
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by zdragnar 1y ago
In most cases, distracted driving is a secondary cause for a stop. Police need some other reason to pull the driver over. That's what the hands free laws in most states addressed- using a cellphone while driving became a primary offens
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Visual design is only one part of UX- interaction design and information architecture are equally important components. At my last two jobs, when I did v front end work I had to coach designers through UX on a regular basis, because the des
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by zdragnar 1y ago
I can't think of any of my employers I've had in the last 15 years that would have cared that I committed code to a compiler project, with one exception. That one exception would have told me they'd rather have me work on a d
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by zdragnar 1y ago
That was why I mentioned compilers along with HFT. Rust was originally an ocaml based compiler too. I don't build HFTs and my compilers are just for fun. None of my day jobs have ever been a situation where the smaller ecosystem and co
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Unless you're building another JS, it'd be nice if there were other companies so heavily invested in it. There's a lot out there beyond compiler prototypes and high speed financial trades, but there's not enough talk of
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Subsequent exposure to poison ivy definitely increases, not decreases, the reaction, at least in my family's genes. My dad got exposed a few times in a row and had to stop eating cashews (same plant family) for awhile.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Eh, jellyfish isn't really any good. For the money, there's many better things to eat. I should admit I've only had it the once, but that's enough for me.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
I use gitui on Windows and it is amazing, though mostly from a git bash shell.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
> With phones there's such social pressure to allow their use, including from forces external to the school, that there was never possibly a hope of the equilibrium immediately settling at phones being banned. Phones, and electronic
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by zdragnar 1y ago
As I heard someone say, happiness is your reality minus your expectations. Smart people see more variables that could be changed, more components that could be modified, and are less likely to accept things as they are. This creates a false

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