jesstaa

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by jesstaa 2y ago
I guess if you feel like you're not wasting enough money on roads this would certainly be a way to waste a lot more.
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by jesstaa 3y ago
A guy describing his most basic bitch lifestyle as unique and different from everybody else.
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by jesstaa 3y ago
Sure they can. They just have to do it in a way that doesn't create a disadvantage for other advertising providers. Google isn't allowed to stop others tracking you without also removing their own ability to track you because that
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by jesstaa 3y ago
> so more layers of abstraction can be added The problem is that they're not layers of abstraction, they're just layers. An actual layer of abstraction should allow you to replace or combine the lower layers. But we just have l
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by jesstaa 4y ago
The trade off has changed over time as memory access has become a bigger and bigger bottleneck. But caring about this is still "premature optimisation". The claim of 20x program performance difference is overblown. Compilers can o
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by jesstaa 4y ago
Contractor is the wrong metaphor. They're building a house based on a plan already designed by an architect. Software isn't the making of a thing, it's the designing of a thing. Ask an architect how long it will take for them
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by jesstaa 4y ago
The numbers from the article are: * $300 million for equivalent solar * $200-400 million for equivalent onshore wind (they don't mention offshore wind which is more cost effective over it's lifetime) * $1.5 billion for the SMR Ass
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by jesstaa 4y ago
So it's estimated to cost 4x the cost of wind or solar today and it's not being deployed for at least 10yrs. Sounds like a bargain.
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by jesstaa 5y ago
If you have any unauthenticated routes that you don't want arbitrary websites calling. > using JWT in a typical SPA <-> API scenario. Is this typical? It's a pretty horrible setup. Cookies have a lot of great features tha
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by jesstaa 5y ago
> You kids have no idea how easy you have it. Sure, but the needle has moved. The thing that took you two weeks to write in 1987 isn't even considered anything useful by today's standards. The parsing needs to happen in real ti
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by jesstaa 5y ago
'Shellshock' was sitting there since 1989 and only detected in 2014.
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by jesstaa 5y ago
> All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces. > Teams must communicate with each other through these interfaces. I read that as interfaces to the team , instead of interfaces to software
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by jesstaa 5y ago
South Seas Company, 1720
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by jesstaa 6y ago
Amber Electric in Australia has this same model of passing the wholesale prices on to customers. But they have a cap. "We pass through the 30 minute wholesale prices directly, and this is typically significantly cheaper than the Govern
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by jesstaa 6y ago
> These companies are profitable, but only because the process relies on a supply of cheap fossil fuels. If solar panels supplied the energy, the extra costs and space for the energy supply would again cancel out the savings in terms of
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by jesstaa 6y ago
> Don't force me to pay for your little communist ideas and then force me with my own money to pay more for the privilege to use my own car. Parking and roads are massively subsidized by government taxes/council rates and are
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by jesstaa 6y ago
"consumerist capitalism is an environmental disaster" isn't a hard argument to make and people eventually realize most environmentalism is just stacking the deck chairs on the titanic.
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by jesstaa 6y ago
This seems completely ridiculous. If it was profitable to do then companies would be doing it directly at the source of emissions more much efficiently.
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by jesstaa 6y ago
This is what we do in Australia. Government supported places in courses have a price cap, loans are CPI indexed and paying back the loan is scaled to your pre-tax income. If you earn more then you're required to pay back your loan fast
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by jesstaa 6y ago
>A good way to start would be to split up libraries. Instead of creating one big library that does everything you could ever possibly need, just create many libraries. Your god-like library could still exist, but solely as a wrapper. Thi
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by jesstaa 6y ago
Yep, There are so many psychology studies that show groupthink , people using statements of an authority as a way remove individual responsibility and people overriding their own perceptions to agree with an authority. "I guess the com
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by jesstaa 6y ago
This is definitely it. The best markets for selling software are the wealthy countries with their cultures. You need people in those countries that are part of those cultures to develop that software. So your employment market is limited by
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by jesstaa 6y ago
Proxying increases the cost and effort of tracking. It's more involved than simply adding a bit of JS to a page. Things like the Facebook 'like' button is a tracker that people adding it to their page won't even realise
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by jesstaa 7y ago
I expect that tracking will just move to being proxied server side. It will be more annoying for the people setting it up but services will spring up to help. Little will change in the advertising and tracking space.
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by jesstaa 8y ago
human powered transport like walking or cycling works great in dense cities, it's more space efficient so it scales better too.
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by jesstaa 8y ago
"maintainers pledge to making participation in our project and our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of...level of experience" https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/787
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by jesstaa 9y ago
My understanding is that the cost of the FPGA implementation is about the cost of modifying the tooling that produces a Mill family member from a spec to produce Verilog as described in the 'Specification' talk https://
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by jesstaa 9y ago
> I just want to work with people that I like and who can handle the job. As do other people. People just want to do work in an industry they want to work in with people they want to work with and don't want people to use use their
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by jesstaa 10y ago
"the ruins of the beautiful cathedral of Unix, deservedly famous for its simplicity of design, its economy of features, and its elegance of execution" unix is the bazaar enabler. An OS that is so simple as to be mostly useless wit
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by jesstaa 10y ago
Given the CTO's views it's a lot more scary.

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