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knewter··on Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries
For one thing, because it's important to know the lower bound of success in order to identify the reasonableness of the proposed solution, competing its perceived costs with its perceived benefits.
knewter··on As a Doctor, Mother and Head of CDC I Recommend You Get the Latest Covid Booster
Cool cool flip the burden of proof
knewter··on The importance of post-build audits: Do you know what you ship?
Power corrupts
knewter··on Conditions on Earth may be moving outside the safe operating space for humanity
This is what op is talking about
knewter··on The importance of post-build audits: Do you know what you ship?
The answer is sitting there for you if you'd just believe your government acted like humans
knewter··on Phoenix 1.7 for Elixir: Edit a Form in a Modal
The beam is a pretty good scheduler though
knewter··on My time with Rails is up (2016)
I think it's neat reading people comment here that don't know who piotr solnica is. He's not some ruby schlub that is unfamiliar with the tradeoffs he was discussing
knewter··on FBI, Fed Judge: Fighting Botnets Means Allowing FBI Remote Installs on Computers
The issue here is the fourth amendment
knewter··on Postgres: Continuous Archiving and Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR)
Yes but also just use patroni and wal-g.
knewter··on Calibre replacement considerations (2019)
This isn't what arrogance is though.
knewter··on Ask HN: Why is 1776 a black-holed keyword on YouTube?
Look at the length of your reply versus mine and the depth of assumptions you have made from my small post and recognize you're a loony.
knewter··on Four Korean universities evaluated LK-99: “Unable to discover superconductivity”
Wait til you hear about the Russia collusion thing
knewter··on Flash mobs invade luxury L.A. retailers with brute force, overwhelming numbers
Anecdotal, are you calling my friends liars?
knewter··on Ask HN: Why is 1776 a black-holed keyword on YouTube?
Counterpoint: I love america and loved 1776 references long before the 1619 project was a thing. There was no renewed interest on the part of me or my compatriots.
knewter··on Elixir saves Pinterest $2M a year in server costs
Though if people consistently over decades sing a language's praises on a single point consistently like they do the beam on this point, it's usually not without merit
knewter··on Lionsgate Brings Back Mask Mandates in Office
"we've done a bunch of studies and found no positive benefits but, like, maybe? Anyway, wear it if you want to partake in society"
knewter··on Flash mobs invade luxury L.A. retailers with brute force, overwhelming numbers
In San Francisco this was because people stopped reporting crimes since the cops didn't help. Unsure of LA
knewter··on Illegal raids contribute to death of newspaper co-owner
How do you propose that I find out if someone has a problem with x?
knewter··on Illegal raids contribute to death of newspaper co-owner
The screenshot is a single question. How is asking a question combative? (I ask that non-combatively, in the weakest possible reading of the words)
knewter··on Illegal raids contribute to death of newspaper co-owner
I rarely see such a succinct explanation of postmodernist morality
knewter··on Intel Wiring Up DisplayPort Alt Mode 2.1 Support for Linux
Yes, but their GPUs were far lower performance
knewter··on Twitter fined $350k over slow response to Trump account search warrant
They were in a Jira with the government banning accounts that upset government administrators
knewter··on Winter temperatures above 35C in South America leave climatologists in disbelief
On what timeline do you believe this to be the case
knewter··on Pay no attention to the USB port behind the “no USB” sticker
When people make the first half of this argument, as they do readily do, and omit this second half, you can use that as a heuristic for "unserious"
knewter··on Plans to plant billions of trees threatened by undersupply of seedlings
Growing up there was an ad on the radio each year around arbor day. A grizzled old man's voice says "when I was growing up, my dad and I would go to the forest each year on arbor day to plant some trees." It encouraged the same behaviour.

A forest is kind of by definition at capacity for how many trees will grow there. Planting a tree elsewhere means it will not suffer from the canopy blocking all it's light.

So many saplings senselessly murdered by well-meaning wordcels.

knewter··on ASML EUV lithography machine could keep Moore’s Law on track
As I understand it, exclusivity with ASML comes solely from their limited production capacity. Just buy all the machines for the year.
knewter··on Critical theory is radicalizing high school debate
Homeschool your kids. No one else cares about them
knewter··on How much better was DEC Alpha than contemporaneous x86? (2020)
I was a believer
knewter··on Graphite: Open-source raster and vector 2D graphics editor
Fireworks was the closest thing to figma we got before figma. It was the very best webdev design tool before adobe bought and murdered it.

I remember being excited that Photoshop was going to start to work more like fireworks when they bought it. What a naive dummy I was.

knewter··on US Growth Accelerates to 2.4% on Resilient Consumers, Companies
This is my experience and that of everyone I talk to in my daily life. It's like a very weird bubble on HN and in the media, where people are ignoring things like "my tracked expenses for groceries are 60% higher than they were in 2019, and my restaurant budget has grown though I go out to eat 1/3 as much"

I don't have to guess about these things, I have receipts. Still, everyone here and on the news tells me things are great!

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