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sc4les··on Report from the German Parliament's “Sustainable by Design” Conference
This. But that’s not the current narrative unfortunately
sc4les··on Microsoft.Recognizers.Text: numbers, units, and date/time in multiple languages
Finally! Maintaining Duckling as a native Python library isn’t trivial unfortunately
sc4les··on Emacs: Mastering Eshell
vterm
sc4les··on Ask HN: Tools to visualize data in SQL databases?
Metabase
sc4les··on Is soy a key driver of deforestation?
Haha what. The magic pastrami saved your life with the magic ingredient of what? What did the blood test show?
sc4les··on McDonald's is adding plant-based burgers to the menu
That’s saying “I want change but I don’t want to change”
sc4les··on McDonald's is adding plant-based burgers to the menu
True. But for a start don't pay for dog fights and switch to oat milk, gets you 99% there ;)
sc4les··on McDonald's is adding plant-based burgers to the menu
"I don't care but looking at pictures it doesn't feel right" yeah the classical it's-ok-as-long-as-I-don't-think-about-it attitude
sc4les··on McDonald's is adding plant-based burgers to the menu
Haha what. So it's okay to have dog fights since the dogs wouldn't be born otherwise? That's such a weird argument
sc4les··on McDonald's is adding plant-based burgers to the menu
"I'd switch in a heartbeat if vegan food is cheaper, healthier and as tasty or tastier"

duhhh you'd be stupid not to at that point. Until we get there the consumer needs to signal big corporations that demand exists and McDonald's adding plant based options is a huge step. Every burger sold will contribute to encourage more companies to offer vegan options, even cheese

sc4les··on Redefining what sustainable fishing means
there's an obvious and easy way. but we value sushi all you can eat over that one
sc4les··on Oatly: The New Coke?
Yeah, a lot of claims with 0 sources doesn’t inspire confidence. So milk was never shown to be unhealthy, fat+cholesterol isn’t harmful but oat milk is terrible for you. Gotcha
sc4les··on A philosophical difference between Haskell and Lisp (2015)
Clojure takes that approach
sc4les··on Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
Emacs. Automate all the things :)
sc4les··on Impossible Pork
Well a company offers a food you’re not forced to eat and that was enough for you to state your discomfort of people simply showing you the result of your actions. Not much more to say really
sc4les··on Impossible Pork
That’s a ridiculous and stupid argument. Do you really believe that or are you just triggered because your believes are challenged?
sc4les··on Impossible Pork
Australia is burning. Animal is not only reason for climate change and species extinction but one of the big ones that we need to eliminate if we want to have a chance at stopping this madness. I'd stand up for the future of my children and grand children, so why do you value your taste pleasure more?
sc4les··on Impossible Pork
And thw WHO stated that processed meat causes cancer
sc4les··on Impossible Pork
Sure. But that's a very weak excuse if it's one at all. I sometimes jaywalk, does this justify me mudering someone? I mean I can't be perfect right so why even try?
sc4les··on Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years [video]
It takes mental effort. Imagine your coworker asks you which version of your app is running on staging and if the latest modification runs without throwing an error. Sure, alt-tab to your terminal and 5 commands later you’re in your app‘s repl to answer that but by then you had to switch your context. Opening your custom helm search for your servers which then displays a new window with your docker instances on staging plus pressing enter to dial into a repl session there is not only convenient, it reduces mental effort
sc4les··on Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years [video]
My killer feature is when you want to streamline your workflow. Adding a new test runner on VSCode for your favourite language? Possible but takes a lot of effort to get right. Adding one in emacs? I can inspect the source code or my language bindings and add/change the command it’s running. In a few dozen lines of elisp I can add shortcuts to all my daily tasks and even combine them. Search for an error message I get in my tests on Honeybadger? Check. Run code snippets in org mode against my local machine and export the whole document as PDF or markdown to our wiki? Saves me a few minutes here and there
sc4les··on Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years [video]
*OS
sc4les··on 16-inch MacBook Pro
Evil escape and binding esc to fd or jk is a game changer
sc4les··on Humans will not 'migrate' to other planets, Nobel winner says
Given the progress on climate agreements in the last years: yes
sc4les··on The Amazon in Brazil is on fire – how bad is it?
Cheap burgers are cheap for reasons
sc4les··on Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cows’ Methane Emissions by 99%
What cows eat? Ah you mean soy. Nah we can’t use that. Would be a shame if the cow used 10x the amount of calories to grow before we eat it when we could eat the crops instead and make your comment look uninformed
sc4les··on Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cows’ Methane Emissions by 99%
But not water usage, land usage, suffering for sentient beings, transport of feed, waste of human food for feeding etc etc
sc4les··on Western intelligence hacked Yandex to spy on accounts
It’s a dance. You complain about every hack, every interference in elections and claim moral superiority while doing the exact same hoping no one finds out but when they do always shoot the messenger instead of defending yourself. Thanks WikiLeaks for showing the world
sc4les··on Up to one million species are on the verge of extinction, U.N. panel says
Yeah, this sounds like typical carnist propaganda. Meat has some magical ingredient needed for health that no one can name? Almost all peer-reviewed studies show that vegans (diet done properly) are the only group within healthy range for almost all markers; most meat eaters are deficient in B12 etc etc. It is strikingly similar to smoking: educating the public takes a very long time, laws are always behind and good news about your bad habits become industry-funded public "knowledge". Maybe we will have figured out how not to kill ourselves by the time we colonize mars
sc4les··on Fat, Not Meat, May Have Led to Bigger Hominin Brains
Well fat to grow but it burns sugar
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