bobfromhuddle

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by bobfromhuddle 9mo ago
We don't use CO2 to make cement, we use limestone, and CO2 is the byproduct of heating the limestone to make reactive calcium.
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by bobfromhuddle 2y ago
Not at any scale that counts. There are a whole bunch of companies _trying_ to make zero carbon cement, but it's all very early stuff. The lifetime of a cement plant is 30-50 years, and they cost 100-200M Euros to build, so even if the
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by bobfromhuddle 2y ago
Yes! Likewise for grinding: offload excess power to industrial plants so they can grind rocks when it's windy. If you look at the problem in the right way, a silo full of ground rock is just a battery.
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by bobfromhuddle 2y ago
I work on decarbonising cement production, and the cement producers are betting _heavily_ on carbon capture as their "get out of jail free card". I think they're likely wrong, but - again - it's not like we can just stop
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by bobfromhuddle 2y ago
Concrete absorbs co2 while curing. It's the calcination process, where we heat limestone up until the co2 burns off, that has unavoidable emissions. Since this concrete is recycled, that's already happened.
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by bobfromhuddle 3y ago
Billions of people do care https://www.carbonbrief.org/interview-why-global-support-for...
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by bobfromhuddle 3y ago
The emissions trend is slowing. We have the technology we need in order to change course, we're just not deploying it fast enough. The worst projections, at least, are off the table: we're not headed for 6 degrees of warming, we&#
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by bobfromhuddle 3y ago
If you're new to programming, steer clear of design patterns. If you're a working python programmer who's curious about how other ecosystems use design patterns, try https://www.cosmicpython.com/
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by bobfromhuddle 4y ago
I'm starting a new job doing exactly these things in order to reduce the carbon intensiveness of heavy industry, specifically cement production. I'm hyped because I think the technical challenges aren't too daunting, and the
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by bobfromhuddle 7y ago
And they're free to continue their speech elsewhere. Cloudflare and Voxility are within their rights to refuse service to a client on the basis that the client is persistently associated with terrorism and kiddy porn. Why is that a rem
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by bobfromhuddle 7y ago
The difference is that every single one of your counterexamples is something that society depends on. Nobody depends on 8chan. 8chan is not comparable to "air". This point is so incredibly banal that I'm surprised to find mys
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by bobfromhuddle 7y ago
Yes. Reasonable people "exclude the middle ground" on support for domestic terrorism.
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by bobfromhuddle 7y ago
Your comments here aren't helping. The clear implication is that Dr Bouman is receiving "undue credit" in order to push a "feminist narrative". If that's your honest reading of events, then you're the prob
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by bobfromhuddle 8y ago
* Email - neomutt + notmuch. * Chat - Weechat + WeeSlack ( https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack ) * Pair Programming - tmate.io + neovim * Google Play Music - tuijam( https://github.com/cfangmeier/t
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by bobfromhuddle 9y ago
I had issues with depression when I was younger. Self-harm, severe depression, suicide attempts, the whole gamut. Wasn't hospitalised, but that was the next step. Looking back on it from my thirties, I've come to the conclusion th
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by bobfromhuddle 9y ago
Made.com | Backend engineers and Architects | Soho London | http://www.made.com | Fulltime, ONSITE Made.com is a rapidly growing online platform for bringing high-end design to the mass-market. We apply ideas from DDD and event-
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by bobfromhuddle 9y ago
We use nginx-vts ( https://github.com/vozlt/nginx-module-vts ) to get metrics out of our nginx servers, and then we send them over to our Riemann stack with a Collectd module: https://github.com/bobthemig
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by bobfromhuddle 10y ago
I'm running Arch on a Dell M3800, most of my colleagues are running various Ubuntu flavours on the same hardware. Works well, up to and including the touchscreen. Battery life is poor compared to a Mac, but it's really light given
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by bobfromhuddle 11y ago
Heuristics. Really complex heuristics that defy simple codification: the feeling that a particular group of stones just isn't quite safe yet, the feeling that there is weakness in a structure on the other side of the board that can be
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by bobfromhuddle 11y ago
The same arguments were made about object orientation: I've never needed it, it's useless baggage with no real world benefits, it sounds great in theory but has no practical use... I've built hypertext APIs, and they worked r
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by bobfromhuddle 11y ago
It's really not, I'm sorry. State is carried by the client, the client traverses links to find out what it can do, the responses are described by a published content type, and the content type defines the semantics of the protocol
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by bobfromhuddle 11y ago
I don't see much use for this project over, say, Compose, but I use dockerised services for development in my current day-job. I'm an architect helping to move a a cluster of monoliths to a proper service-oriented setup; some of t
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by bobfromhuddle 11y ago
So much fear and loathing in this thread, which puzzles me. Anyone who sets out to write a hypermedia API in JSON is going to end up with a structure not dissimilar to this one. If this fits your needs, then use it, by all means and let you
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by bobfromhuddle 13y ago
I get the sense that you're concerned you won't be able to keep up with technology trends. This is a non-issue. 95% of what you read on Hacker News is essentially froth, the ephemera of technology. You can ignore it all. The probl
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by bobfromhuddle 13y ago
> I reject the premise that boys and girls are different, at least, prior to puberty. For a kid of 3 years, I contend that they are exactly the same, but that they are treated differently, and that is what makes the difference. That&#x2
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by bobfromhuddle 14y ago
+1 for this. The first job is to stabilise the system by fixing critical bugs. As you're doing so, move all those queries into one big fat DB class, and when you spot groups of related queries, split them out into their own classes. The nex
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by bobfromhuddle 16y ago
c# Web developer - London, UK Senior JQuery, CSS, HTML developer - London, UK Huddle are hiring in London - we're a .Net shop with rapidly growing user base, and we're currently expanding our dev team to work on our online collaboration sys
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by bobfromhuddle 17y ago
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, dude, but to my knowlege Huddle have a global trademark on the use of the word "Huddle" in relation to collaboration. Would suggest re-considering the name. IANAL, however, just a programmer.