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Huh? I am a passionate programmer and I always say that code is not the hard part. And what that means is simple. Beginners in the field of programming will say things like: "Do yo…

The good way of doing this is to ask the player if the difficulty shall be lowered temporarily just for that level of they keep dying. Then it is transparent and the choice is thei…

This mixes several different things into one causal puddle. Yes, keeping the remaining nuclear plants running would have reduced emissions and electricity prices somewhat. A 2024 E…

I have seen digital audio gear that solved firmware transfer like that. You basically go to a website on your phone and it flickers the screen and you hold it in front of a photose…

No it isn't, to quote another article by the Washington post: "We were shovel-ready". Meaning they cut forest fire prevention measures that would have been deployed before the dry …

Yeah? I live in Northern Germany for more than a decade now and in the past months I have witnessed multiple of the hottest days during these ten years, including one where my ther…

I once had a geography teacher who had the absolutely unhinged habit of asking spontaneous gotcha questions designed to make himself look good. The kind where the question doesn't …

I think it was electric, given the scale.

No of course not. But using the heat directly is of course favourable, since you don't have conversion losses. But that doesn't mean you can't use it also to power turbines as you …

Use it directly, see my silbling comment.

I know someone who runs a mineral water company. His biggest expense was the energy cost for washing the glas bottles. He now built a absolutely massive solar farm that feeds direc…

Totally on your side here, asking for the accomplishments of a tool is strange. Isn't it easy to envision two people using the same note taking system extensively, with one achievi…

We can all be pedantic, why do you have to be alive to exist? Depends on the specific definition of the verb existing we are talking about, right? 90% of "I'm too autistic"-insecur…

The examples are not good. In one example (incident report) the agent turns a generic "something went wrong" into overly precise error descriptions that may or may not spill intern…

Sure. You earn 5k a month. The fine is 10k a month. I'd like to see you "budget that in". It is hard to "budget in" a expense that is multiple time your earnings. Especially if tha…

With great power comes great responsibility. Beyond a certain size of corporation that may just be the only way to retain a scintilla of accountability. But some people still appea…

I am for more maths in laws like these: frist_fine = 0.06 × anual_global_sales fine(n) = first_fine * n^x And the exponent x is to be chosen by how harsh you want to be. Repeat off…

This is what drives me to sometimes DIY devices instead of buying them. There is so much crap on the market and it gets increasingly hard to tell where the catch is. Does it only w…

On a side note: I spent the night in an alpine shelter a while back. Every piece of food that was there had to be carried there. Water was rationed. Abundance, by it's definition w…

Well yes. The land where milk and honey flows in rivers and the fried chicken flies into your mouth (unless of course you, yourself are a chicken, in which case that would be horri…

Abundance for whom, exactly? And if the answer is everybody : who in charge has an incentive to do this? Sorry to ruin your day, but if the people with money could have introduce e…

A good overview on the topic. My general issue with things like these is the simple fact, that as a lifelong musician I find the "less worse" harmonic combinations (to quote the ab…

For all I, a Victorian everyman, know the world is built from small pistons, gears and pulleys. Every age has their technology which they will project onto the world. A century ago…

Well I also do not really know the legitimate use case for infinite scroll (other than trying to push gambling/slot-machine tricks onto your userbase). I get lazy-loading for pages…