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At this point I’m not sure what to do about it. I already live a low-ish carbon life. I barely ever fly. Only drive when I need to. Try and use items that are non-plastic where fea…

I can’t help feel without ampacity and voltage upgrades to most domestic home circuits this is like a fart in the wind.

I can't say I'd ever consider "Material Design" to be an authority on what good iconography or website design should look like. It's always felt second-rate.

"stayed out of it" needs to be considered relatively though, doesn't it? I don't see Apple spending billions in capex on hyperscaler DCs, and apart from the weird product direction…

> Is there a warranty? > Yes, we warrant against manufacturing defects for 30 days after you receive your order. Is this the shortest warranty on a consumer electronics device ever…

> Even if you simplify your thinking of orbits to a 2D (square area), it's a lot of space. This is not a spatial problem. It's an intersectionality problem.

I guess the Montreal Protocol was "degrowth talk" for you too, huh?

I stopped taking this guy seriously after he proposed "just" digging canals to bring desalinated ocean water into the U.S. desert.

I find it interesting you label the majority of voters in the populace who voted for Brexit as "far right", and not just "right".

Great, so all I need to do is to authoritatively check each plausible combination of domains that _might_ work and rule each of them out before I can make my claim, according to yo…

Within the last month both Mapbox and Etsy blocked my attempts to signup using a Proton Mail alias. How many services do you sign up for in recent years, on average? The practice i…

Within the space of 2 weeks I had both Etsy and Mapbox block signups with Proton Mail aliases. The practice is rapidly becoming more common.

Disliking mass immigration isn't xenophobia.

Immigration has been directly responsible in the last decade for the huge run-up in housing prices in New Zealand. It is not _the only reason_, but it is a big reason.

And it's criticisms like this that isolate people further from each other politically and emboldens support for the parties you dislike. There are valid and reasonable reasons to d…

Yeah. So what will realistically happen, if we look at the trajectories of other countries, is that immigration will continue to rise, more people will be peaked by the discontent …

People always seem surprised when someone in CS or SWE doesn't care for anime or cutesy pictorial graphics of girls.

Without these kinds of policies you'll just see the rise of more "new-right" parties like One Nation in Australia and Reform in the United Kingdom (yes, I am aware both are not "ne…

This is written beautifully. It's like a much more inconsequential variant of Chernobyl.

The constituent particles of nature are under no requirement to be apparent or achievable to you.

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> Having juniors and mid-levels is about being able to promote an existing mid-level that knows the team and the system, with zero downtime. It's much easier to replace a junior th…

That's probably the bulk of senior developers. We're not all inverting custom proprietary binary trees.

This is pretty much what's occurring in New Zealand right now, yes. 2020–2023 had pretty much zero international movement due to closed borders with COVID-19, with a low official c…

> A senior engineer says “I want a 40% raise or I’m leaving,” and the company’s ability to respond depends entirely on what their alternatives look like. Except where I live there'…