wmiel

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by wmiel 10mo ago
Surprising to see how many commenters are in favour and supportive towards policy of prioritising short term profits vs. Long-term research. I understand Meta's not academia nor charity, but come on, how much profit do they need to mak
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by wmiel 2y ago
Interesting, it seems that extremely rich americans are discovering what scandinavian countries solve through taxation and effective government. They used to have it in some form with 'new deal' and 'great society' until
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by wmiel 3y ago
I'm not sure I understand why they're using java if they avoid GC? Doesn't sound like the best fit, especially the foreign memory in java isn't too pleasant to work with.
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by wmiel 5y ago
If Facebook is supposed to be a pillar of modernity then call me an Amish.
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by wmiel 5y ago
The Spanish flu largely overlapped with the WW1, and since its 2nd wave had a high toll among people with strong immune system (ex. young male) the perception was to a large degree mixed with the perception of war and its casualties, at lea
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by wmiel 5y ago
Sun isn't shining at night and it's not always windy, hence other sources, mainly natural gas is used to balance the grid, but it's deepening our dependance on fossil fuels. Nuclear is the only power source at the moment that
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by wmiel 5y ago
Also, there's a strong trend of Belarusian IT moving to Poland because of said elephant.
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by wmiel 5y ago
You can checkout Swagger and OpenAPI, there are libraries to annotate the endpoints in the code and then generate interactive docs out of that.
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by wmiel 5y ago
Even if there was, you need to be aware that the DNA has much more personal information than your name and surname, there can be multiple Joe Does, but probably just you with your DNA. Also Joe Doe doesn't tell anything about your race
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by wmiel 5y ago
Wind and solar do not work on demand. It's a huge difference. It's not always sunny nor windy. Only coal, natural gas or hydro in some cases can be a viable baseline energy sources.
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by wmiel 6y ago
1) From Russian perspective the biggest risk of having Poland and Ukraine as transit countries is that it limits the political costs of aggression towards Eastern European countries, period. It is not a good thing, because it decreases the
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by wmiel 6y ago
You're saying about 'US propaganda' and 'the leash', which pretty much explains clearly why your perspective is a bit distorted, but let me mention a couple of facts: 1. Cost of building the pipe on the sea bed, pot
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by wmiel 6y ago
What is more, the Nord Stream I and II pipes were put under the Baltic Sea to bypass Poland and Ukraine and avoid extending existing pipes, not because it was economically viable. This is a political decision that hits Ukraine geopoliticall
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by wmiel 6y ago
There are victims of coal / natural gas pollution and climate change as well, it's just not that spectacular. Nuclear kills when there's unlikely accident, fossil fuels kill when everything goes according to the plan.
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by wmiel 6y ago
On the other hand phasing out the existing nuclear in favour of natural gas doesn't seem to solve the problem either.
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by wmiel 6y ago
It can be and is controlled. It's not that easy to use the civilian reactor to get a bomb, otherwise Iran would already have it long time ago.
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by wmiel 6y ago
1. Renewables receive huge subsidies as well, especially in Europe. It is rarely being taken into account, but that's essentially what allowed it to become that cheap. The Nuclear would also be much cheaper if we were investing more in
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by wmiel 7y ago
Yet, even in the Nordic countries you have McDonalds and BurgerKing, the sheer definitions of cheap junk food.
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by wmiel 9y ago
Here's also a cool example of a game written in go, although using JS to display GUI: http://blog.u2i.com/we-made-a-multiplayer-browser-game-in-go...