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AggressivelyPassive

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  • I tested a hydrogen-powered bicycle. Is this the future?

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  • You'd have to sweat a lot for that to be a factor. Not that it is irrelevant, but humans can drink distilled water just fine. In fact, there are regions, where bottled water is almost exclusively distilled.

    So as long as you don't plan to participate in the Tour de France, you'll be fine.

  • Got no time to code

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  • Nah, I think you're mixing things up here.

    "Toxic" is just a label you're putting on everything you don't like and you're also putting a ton of implications behind it.

    If Stacy wants a feature, and she's the official representative, I need to clarify what that feature means. A manager can't shield me from having to research the technical implications, that's my job.

    Also, you can ignore calls all you want, if there is a genuine need to communicate, you need to have that call at some point. That's actually your first point in the list above.

    I think you never worked in a role above code grunt. As a senior developer, my job is to do all what I described above. I need to do all the technical legwork a manager can't. I need to write everything down. I need to get feedback from stakeholders. That's nothing a manager can do and that's nothing a junior can do.

    I code something like half an hour a day.

  • Naming is hard

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  • uNuSeD rAm Is WaStEd RaM!!!

  • Got no time to code

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  • I feel like these memes of hating everything other than lone coding is because you keep working for toxic companies.

    No, it's because we are working with humans and their deeply flawed organizations. As much as people hate corporations and love startups, both are always a mess. Every organization I've seen from the inside is barely functioning. Cruft, interpersonal conflicts, incompetence, or simply very bad market situations.

    Software engineering kind of has to get involved with almost all of that. If you need to get approval from department A and Stacy just keeps changing what she wants, you'll have to carry that chaos into the development and it will usually percolate through half the engineering department, because hardly any interface is actually a stable attack surface. That means meetings, calls, meetings, reviews, meetings, and fucking Stephen again wants to pitch this weird framework he's so in love with, meetings, budget calls, because there's no way, simply changing the field length can take that much work, meetings, .....

  • Naming is hard

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  • And the new Teams is not simply a replacement, no. It's called "Teams (for work or school)" or something, while the old app is "Teams classic". Both look the same and are the same sluggish mess. So why exactly did we do all that crap?

  • Has there been a person you have only known for a short time that ended up having a big impact on your life?

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  • Yes. The first woman that approached me in a club. I was a fat boy most of my life, lost a bunch of weight during university, but was still very very insecure due to trauma and some residual skin/fat.

    She simply came up to me and said "Hi, I find you incredibly attractive." - very simple statement, but this was the first time I had seriously considered the possibility that a woman would be attracted to me.

  • Russia's biggest energy company says it'll take it at least 10 years to recover gas sales lost because of the Ukraine war

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  • Oh those poor fellows.

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  • The part is what drives me mad. Podcasts and audiobooks are not that hard to do properly. You could very easily separate them into distinct apps or at least a special tab that acts like a proper player. Instead audiobooks are basically albums.

    There's a shuffle button.

    On an audiobook.

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  • Spotify actually doesn't make that much profit, if any.

    But the record labels are major shareholders and definitely influence the pricing structure. Spotify is essentially a marketing frontend for the record industry.

  • A cool guide Homestead on One-Tenth of an Acre

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  • Is it efficient land use, though?

    Keep in mind, we have to be able to feed 10 billion people. Homesteads like this are of course better than just plain grass, but compared to a farm, the output per area is probably really low. So there's still land being "wasted".

  • only as in free beer

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  • Again, that's not what obfuscation means.

    Also, what exactly is the difference between cat and journalctl? You can't read a text file without a program either.

    Of course, raw text files are more common, but what you're drawing up here is a mixture of old man yells at cloud and tin foil hat territory.

  • Small modular nuclear reactors get a reality check in new report

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  • The alternative to nuclear isn't coal....

    And if you seriously think regulations are the problem, you're denser than the lead shielding you want to get rid of.

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  • So literally every program on your machine is obfuscated. Linux kernel? Obfuscated. Wayland? Obfuscated. And even VIM: obfuscated.

    You're creating problems where there are none.

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  • Are you really sure, you're using "obfuscation" right? Because that implies that someone intentionally makes something harder to read to hide something. That's not the case here. Nothing is hidden, it's all there, the formats are well defined and easy to read.

  • Small modular nuclear reactors get a reality check in new report

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  • "Base load" is not that much. Off shore wind is almost always blowing, and all the other renewables can be stored via batteries or hydrogen (or tanks, in case of biogas). Yes, that's a whole lot of stuff, but the technology exists, can be produced on large scale and (most importantly) doesn't cause any path dependencies.

    Nuclear is extremely expensive, as the article highlighted. And to be cost effective, power has to be produced more or less constantly. Having a nuclear power plant just for the few hours at night when wind and sun don't work is insane - and insanely expensive.

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    FDA’s review of MDMA for PTSD highlights study bias and safety concerns

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  • I think you don't quite understand the comment.

    Current pharmaceuticals are usually a (life)long prescription. It's not like antibiotics, where you get a dose for a few days or weeks and you're done. Antidepressants have to be taken for years. Every day. That means revenue every day. It's a treatment, not a cure.

    MDMA on the other hand is a (potential) cure. You take it a few times under supervision and that's it.

    Problem is, this takes away customers from the former group. And that means, far less revenue from "traditional" psychopharmacology products. MDMA cannibalizes other drugs.

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  • I think you are either trolling or you fundamentally don't understand, what you're talking about.

    Nothing is obfuscated. You can download each and every code file, audit it, and build the binaries from exactly that code. You can even compare the binaries to the ones provided by major distros thanks to reproducible builds.

    Just because you don't understand code, doesn't mean it's obfuscated. Following that logic, even a loaf of bread is "obfuscated" because you don't understand sour dough.

  • Key misinformation “superspreaders” on Twitter: Older women

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  • Some people have way too much time and way too disturbing world views to be allowed on the Internet.

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    Framework boosts its 13-inch laptop with new CPUs, lower prices, and better screens

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  • And how many people do you think could accurately, or even ballpark, estimate their workload? I couldn't tell you, whether my workload would benefit from more e or p cores and by how much.

    What you're implying here is an illusion of accuracy. You want accurate numbers for something that you can't really judge anyway. These numbers don't mean anything to you, they just give you the illusion of knowing what's going on. It's the "close door" button in an elevator.