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Maybe some were just PoCs and they served their purpose.

You could: Pick them up (cd into the project dir) Say thank you cd .. && rm -rf $projectdir


Funny how all these proponents of SI units state their age in years instead of seconds :)


It isn't funny because the GP doesn't want SI units to be used because they are a standard but because 95% of the world can understand them. I'm certain that more than 95% of people understand years.


And some will never understand humour either


This sounds like it is directed at me and I don't see why. Humor is often dependent on context. Some jokes are funny in some situations and not in others. The above joke is not funny here since it entirely misses the context in which it should be used.


Humor also often has a lot of contextual flex, which is intentional misinterpretation (e.g., unintentional double meaning) is often humorous.

Just laugh at the joke.


Phsh, I know a guy that celebrated turning a billion seconds old. Brought pie and everything


"... the speedup is over 9000x" :)


The author died 5 years a ago, when https was not as common as it is now. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Hintjens


Ah, shoot :( That's such a shame! (that they died, not that they didn't ever get to use HTTPS).


At least there is no cert which expire. And no authority to obey.

Pieter was my best friend, a great loss.

But his writings are here to stay, i guess he started to write some books after 2009, when he got his first duct bill cancer.


His book The Psychopath Code helped me tremendously. I remember also reading some other books from him. Good stuff, food for thought. A great loss indeed.


The unlikely story of a game developer from the early 1980s in a tweetstorm


The section about the sustainability winner completely ignores climate change. Mind boggling.

> The problem: Fossil fuels continue to account for over 81% of global energy product according to the International Energy Agency. It is estimated that, if we continue to burn fossil fuels at the current rate, global supplies of gas and oil will deplete by 2060.


> global supplies of gas and oil will deplete by 2060.

In 1990 I was told fossil fuels will be depleted by 2010.


The prediction was that peak oil (i.e. the maximum rate of oil extraction) would happen in 2000. For conventional oil, this was not far off: production peaked in 2005 and has been in decline since. What the prediction missed is that we would extract shale oil on a large scale. The long-term economic viability of fracking is in doubt, though, since apparently no fracking enterprise has been profitable to date; it's all financed by venture capital.

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2020/11/16/peak-oil-neve...


people are sometimes wrong, but i think the 2010 was sensationalized headlines, not actual science


Sounds like they picked a scope limited enough to guarantee competing submissions are comparable on the same metrics.

That they didn't prioritize scopes the way you do does not seem that mind boggling to me.


Is that relevant? If you do something you are way better than the folks who just virtue signal. The result is what counts. That's what Greta herself says.


You shard for load distribution. If data isolation is #1 priority, use separate tables, schemas, database instances.


Separate disks, separate machines hell even separate networks, proper data isolation can be super expensive to do right.


"... which divided each 24-hour period into 50 minute chunks"

28.8 chunks. Nice.


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I loved that writeup.


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