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Peak Chinese coal consumption was 2013, it's still substantial but total usage has been falling along with percentage of total output for a while now.

Context is incredibly important. The author is writing from the standpoint of a startup trying to fine tune an MVP. Of course it doesn't matter if it lasts if you don't know what y…

I was thinking more TempleOS or Time Cube

I must have missed the parts where South Korea and Taiwan were bombed into the stone age for years and then forced to repeatedly fight their neighbors for continued survival. From …

Some chiropractors do have the education and experience to operate as physical therapists. When I was doing competitive weight lifting, I saw a chiro who had a masters in sports me…

Working for a for-profit company is a completely different labor relationship than working for an OSS org or other non-profit. You absolutely should fight to prevent management fro…

Wasting massive amounts of mostly carbon-producing electricity as the planet dies to do absolutely nothing productive is a pretty cyberpunk evil megacorp thing to do, agreed.

Neat project, awful name. Overloading Flow, an already important part of the React ecosystem, just makes it harder to both find information about your project and find information …

I think a fair few of us have been burned by companies where this level of respect absolutely did not and could not exist and engineers were treated equivalent to you, an amateur, …

Something I never see mentioned in these discussions is the surprisingly high hurdles to actually operating a distributed company. You'd think in 2021 it wouldn't be difficult to h…

FIG standards are explicitly interoperability standards. They make it easy for anyone to jump into a new company or open source project with minimal friction and minimal bikesheddi…

8 days, but the bigger problem is that increases the expected sea states encountered by several levels. Huge container ships don't like that.

So what's your proposed alternative that doesn't involve checking? Option-style wrappers enforce consistent checking and handling, but so do explicitly nullable type signatures. At…

Having worked on a number of CRM and other business applications, yep, it's maddening. Not all addresses and names are your address and name.

Individuals may not need it, but companies? The company I work for has multiple products which internally rely on geolocating arbitrary addresses. OSM keeps our costs way down, we …

$125 for my zoji that I've used at least 4 times a week for the last decade is significant value that you just don't see out of most appliances anymore. I'm more impressed by the r…

If pumping and dumping for the robin hood chumps is far more profitable than years of dividends, which is the real product?

It seems really premature to make any declarations about brand loyalty when Uber is still majorly subsidizing consumer prices with a VC cash bonfire.

Postgres stores records by primary id sequence. If you have completely random IDs, records inserted at the same time are fragmented across the entire set, which makes accessing the…

If we were serious about preventing deaths, a lot more could and would have been done before going as far as taking risks on experimental drugs.

It's not a question of perfect, it's a question of __unnecessary__ fragility/vulnerability. We all rely on electricity because the alternative is far more difficult. We drive despi…

Dealing with the hell of mixed ISO-8859-1/15 vs CP-1252 vs UTF-8 vs simple ASCII was enough to make me an early embracer of UTF-everywhere despite mostly only having to deal with E…

Completely agree, a change is an atomic change and should be contained in a single commit, I don't need to know the sub-steps it took to arrive at the final solution when I'm tryin…

"Removing outdated or poorly written laws by paying off Congress is more effective than funding lawyers to litigate their misuse on a case by case basis forever"

It also still requires 32-bit drivers, which were initially missing from the last nvidia update, forcing a rollback. I'm incredibly grateful for the work they've done on Proton, bu…