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Fascist leadership?

> While I don’t read the implementation of anything any more unless there’s a hard algorithmic problem, I do make an effort to read and document APIs thoroughly. I have some questi…

> Your job is to produce the best working result. This is as misguided as « don’t make mistakes ». Do not expect good decisions from something that does not feel the pain of bad de…

This is so obviously written by AI that it’s turning me off the whole thing.

Last time I used it, it was a a flicker fest. Has it been fixed?

Just look up how cameras give uber drivers protection against wrongful accusations and go off your high horse.

I’ve had plenty of uber drivers with a camera inside the car. I was not offended by their seeming lack of trust. They had stories to tell that made me realize these cameras were ve…

A study from 2025. Might as well be from five years ago.

> The honest counter, and it matters here more than usual. This is most likely the dip in a J-curve, not the destination. Oh, the irony of this post being AI-generated.

This is Linus Pauling all over again.

> Would love to see you convince the landlords to refurbish the building to use expensive heatpumps when gas is already in place. They've been redoing the insulation since new regu…

That’s a fair point. More years of life lost due to gun deaths. I still like to draw a parallel, because they’re both deaths that we have the means to prevent, but the culture perp…

« Heating is absurdly expensive with leaky building so people prioritize insulating. » Nope, heat pumps are cheaper and more efficient. Insulating did not even make a dent in reduc…

Something needs to be done with the heat. The common euro talking point: aircon doesn’t solve the problem, let’s insulate instead (an order of magnitude more expensive). Apparently…

That’s because you pay attention to your body and you’re not in denial. Above 37 degrees, your body cannot regulate itself, and it starts being seriously uncomfortable before that.…

Thousands will die, but one guy went jogging at 40 degrees outside so it’s okay.

Unless the aircon is a heat pump, in which case it’s also useful in the winter, it’s more efficient and carbon neutral if your electricity grid is decarbonised. If most people can’…

Same in France. The trick is to wait for a control visit, and then turn on the cooling.

That kind of thinking kills more people each year in Europe than guns do in the USA. Let that sink in.

If he is confident enough to make economic predictions, it’s only fair that we take him to task on these.

Does the « greed of the few » include the masses who use air travel across the world, who use cars, who rely on energy infrastructure? I guess the answer is somehow no, because thi…

This is honestly a very, very naive statement. We are social animals and we naturally gravitate towards devaluing and shaming certain styles of speech. We police speech already! It…