simonhorlick

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by simonhorlick 2y ago
It's motivated by the ideology of wanting a meritocracy - the idea that if you work hard you can reap rewards. Having some people in society that can sit at home and watch the S&P increase while some have to work 50-hour weeks to m
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by simonhorlick 2y ago
Germany actually subsidises fossil fuels to the tune of €20bn/year, so in that context €3bn doesn't sound so bad. Some of the latest estimates of the true cost per ton of carbon put it around $1000 USD, so in purely economic terms
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by simonhorlick 2y ago
X is turning into a wasteland of angry people and bots. Bluesky is much more refreshing, similar to the old twitter.
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by simonhorlick 3y ago
Anything about 2C is extremely risky for civilised society. It’s likely that we’ve already surpassed the tipping point for the West Antarctic ice sheet which over time will lead to meters of sea level rise. Changing weather patterns and sim
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by simonhorlick 3y ago
Did you know that tidal energy is actually not renewable? Harvesting tidal energy slightly slows the rotation of the planet over time. Here's a quote from the relevant paper by Liu: > Based on the average pace of world energy consum
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by simonhorlick 3y ago
Note that since about 2021 renewables have overtaken fossil-based sources of energy on price. New installations of utility scale wind and solar PV are now cheaper than their alternatives. Not to mention protection from price fluctuations in
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by simonhorlick 3y ago
I don't understand how this is sustainable. The fuel is still being combusted and releasing CO2 isn't it?
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by simonhorlick 3y ago
You need to ask him what accommodations he needs in order to be effective. Only he can really answer this question. It could be small things like clearly indicating your intent - avoid sarcasm, figurative language and idioms. In a group cha
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by simonhorlick 3y ago
I recently switched from Plex to Jellyfin. It's far more stable and hardware decoding works out of the box.
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by simonhorlick 3y ago
Capitalism naturally tends towards monopoly. The idea that it breeds competition is a nice fairy tale, but doesn’t reflect reality.
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by simonhorlick 3y ago
It’s a summary report of all of the climate science, research and conclusions that went into the sixth assessment reports. Available as a responsive html site (rather than hidden in a pdf).
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Synthesis Report of the IPCC sixth assessment report(synthesis-report.com)
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by simonhorlick 4y ago
Have a look at Qwik, it’s a new framework from the author of Angular. It does SSR without the need for client-side hydration. It’s fast and immediately interactive. I’m really hoping it gains some momentum because I’d love to use it in some
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by simonhorlick 4y ago
Relationships between components and the app state are serialised along with the html. A small (~1kb) library is used to lazy load javascript as the user starts interacting. The key is that it's immediately usable, you don't requi
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by simonhorlick 4y ago
The richest 10% of the global population are responsible for an estimated 47% of emissions. The problem has never been that there are too many people. The problem is that there is a small number of people that are destroying the planet for
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by simonhorlick 5y ago
Over time, the effects of covid19 on heart, brain, lungs, vascular system, sensory system, kidneys & more will become better understood. Until then, any reassurance that massive levels of infection are ‘ok’ for society is a gamble—a gam
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by simonhorlick 5y ago
The USA is the 2nd largest emitter of CO2, on a per-capita basis it's almost double that of China.
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by simonhorlick 5y ago
We already know that the US monitors internet traffic on a global scale, so it’s a bit rich of them trying to police the rest of the world on this.
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by simonhorlick 5y ago
They measured video quality subjectively. I don't think you can just take the researchers at their word that it "looked good enough". Any rigorous video quality test would use at least some kind of objective numeric measureme
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by simonhorlick 6y ago
At what point do we draw the line between free software being beneficial and being overly ideological? If I buy a printer I'd like a copy of the driver source code so if the company goes bust I can still use my possibly expensive and s
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by simonhorlick 6y ago
The climate crisis is the defining issue of our lifetimes. Solutions to this problem are unlikely to come from technology. Start organising, start protesting and demand that governments begin to take this issue seriously.
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by simonhorlick 6y ago
Netflix is already testing AV1 in production. If you enable test participation you may receive AV1 streams right now. Youtube is also now sending AV1 streams, including to newer smart TVs.
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by simonhorlick 7y ago
I find a lot of go libraries are very well commented and very accessible, but the standard library and especially the crypto stuff is very sparsely commented.
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by simonhorlick 8y ago
I'm getting a ton of 503 Service Unavailable errors from the Google Drive API. I can't wait to see what caused such a large outage.
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by simonhorlick 8y ago
Miško Hevery's talks on writing testable code. Watching those videos immediately made me a better developer, lots of well explained, practical advice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcT4yYu_TTs&index=6&list=PLD
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by simonhorlick 8y ago
Flutter is by far the best UI library I've dealt with. Its like React, but without the nasty JSX syntax. The APIs are sane and thoroughly documented. Its layout model is (by design) super simple, so it's really quick to prototype
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by simonhorlick 9y ago
We've just gone live with a grpc-web based application. It's still early days and there are some rough edges, but it's an absolute joy to use and the amount of time we've saved is crazy.
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by simonhorlick 9y ago
It's also worth thinking about time to restore. If you have hundreds of GB worth of backups it could take a very long time to restore everything from the internet. Keeping an easily accessible backup around is really worth it.
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by simonhorlick 10y ago
NGI Systems | Embedded Android OS Engineer | London | REMOTE About Us We are an innovative IT startup looking to fundamentally change the restaurant ordering and payment experience using tablet and kiosk menu systems. We are currently the t
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by simonhorlick 10y ago
No - Linux runs great, it's macOS I'm having issues with!

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