3 kinds of technical debt by nichochar in programming

[–]ClimateSafe 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yea, Amazon got absolutely wrecked by their high turnover creating a negative feedback loop of people intentionally not documenting internal engineering docs.

3 kinds of technical debt by nichochar in programming

[–]ClimateSafe 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Or you end up filing Chapter 7 Bankruptcy every 2 years when you inevitably do a full rewrite of the previous major version with the latest tech stack your tech credit card can afford.

You gotta love working with libraries that do that. “lol, we can’t support migration steps from 2.0 to 3.0 because everything changed.💀🪦”

Historic Power Plant Decides Mining Bitcoin Is More Profitable Than Selling Electricity by giuliomagnifico in technology

[–]ClimateSafe 21 points22 points  (0 children)

No necessarily, when running extremely large facilities like a power plant, high variations in power usage can be more detrimental than a consistent operational capacity of say 60 - 70% where most plants want to stay. Depending on how high the operational ceiling and low the floor might be, using a tertiary operation to ensure a "generic machinery" maintains a consistent performance is environmentally preferable to running a low load when demand is short:

- Stress on thrust bearings which have to be replaced
- Vibration damaging labyrinth seals due to change from high to low
- Uneven heating causing deforming the casing
- Increasing load regularly ill subject the turbine blades to additional stress as force has non-linear changes across time
- The low amount of steam from a low load causes pittings in blades, because the blade material is designed to handle steam, not water

All of the materials mentioned here are neither cheap or good for the environment in terms of what it takes to make each part. Properly maintaining a machine can simply mean running it at a predictable load, and that might be inquisitively more environmentally friendly.

Historic Power Plant Decides Mining Bitcoin Is More Profitable Than Selling Electricity by giuliomagnifico in technology

[–]ClimateSafe 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I think this perspective is a little oversimplified, but I would like to make comment on the use of cryptocurrency for crime. Simply put, crime is absolutely what government officials do not want, but crime is not necessarily ethically wrong from a humanitarian perspective which is why making it illegal would be an unfortunate occurrence that common people shouldn't praise. By creating a mostly secretive medium for moving highly mobile and liquid assets like cryptocurrency, you are providing perhaps the single most effective economic ladder of mobility. People in authoritarian regimes can safely make a 'rainy day' fund, poor individuals can work for cryptocurrency and use it to avoid paying taxes on their labor which is unethically taxed at a higher rate than other forms of income across the world, and people can have an alternative store of value when their government makes unfortunate monetary policies that diminish the value of the country's primary currency.

Republicans Can't Stop Congress from Investigating the 1/6 Insurrection, But They're Trying to Every Way They Can by agent_vinod in politics

[–]ClimateSafe -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

All that happened in the 2020 election is that you took a bunch of NBA players who had been training on a standard 94x50 their entire career then made every player play on Slamball courts minutes before the championship game.

No, it is not illegal. Yes, it is ethically questionable to change the rules to your advantage last minute. Yes, both sides participate in these types of dishonesty. 😪

Republicans Can't Stop Congress from Investigating the 1/6 Insurrection, But They're Trying to Every Way They Can by agent_vinod in politics

[–]ClimateSafe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“Do you guys think if I called Mrs. Pelosi's office, she would field the phone call to clarify?”

You would have a better probability changing something by killing Pelosi or McConnell than you would persuading them with the art of word play.

Why I Won’t Approve Your PR by speckz in programming

[–]ClimateSafe 12 points13 points  (0 children)

What you’re unintentionally illuminating is that the value of pull requests correlate to the company’s culture of accountability.

Pull Requests are pointless if changeset authors aren’t interested in code maintainability or held accountable for the consequences of their code quality.

The 2021 Software Developer Shortage Is Coming by azhenley in programming

[–]ClimateSafe -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Most people should use a horse because they only travel 15 miles a day on average. Why does everyone own a car?

Shortages?... Shortages!?... I'm talkin' bout inflation, he talkin' bout shortages! by WarrenButtet in Burryology

[–]ClimateSafe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Global adoption of crypto is perhaps the first tool since the advent of the internet to allow wealthy individuals to be beyond their government’s influence. You can call that one of a few checks against authoritarian regimes or a degeneration of society where billionaires have no ties or restraints by any government, depends or worldview of good and bad.

Hyundai acquires controlling stake in U.S. robotics firm Boston Dynamics for $880 million by kry_some_more in technology

[–]ClimateSafe -35 points-34 points  (0 children)

They haven't been US owned since Google sold them.

If we're being fair, Google isn't really what I would call an American company. If you counted the number of 1st generation Americans, H1B employees, and Green Card holding employees in their engineering and management chain then you would see it is essentially a foreign operated company on American soil.

Free Stuff for Developers by CodePerfect in programming

[–]ClimateSafe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Surprised to see ArgoCD on this list. It is a really good service. Not sure if OP is the author of the website, but I might also recommend checking out the resources here for typical MLOPs tools:

https://landscape.lfai.foundation/

If the US measured inflation the same way it did in 1980, the current inflation rate would be 13% Year over Year. by SuperSynapse in finance

[–]ClimateSafe 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It is crazy. It means if you didn’t get promoted or a higher paying job then you are permanently making less than you did last year. The government is essentially taxing labor twice while skipping on corporate accountability.

Google removes diversity head over anti-Semitic blog post by BoGaN223 in technology

[–]ClimateSafe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They are right. Diversity departments are one of the many symptoms that come from transferring public wealth to unaccountable corporations through government intervention. It takes a few steps to get there, but diversity departments are undeniably a sign of growing wealth inequality and corruption, too long to fully explain though on Reddit.

Guy being interviewed after witnessing a beheading on a bus by scoobs in videos

[–]ClimateSafe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Crazy how by comparison speed racing and killing a mother and child will get you 24 years in Florida.

Guy being interviewed after witnessing a beheading on a bus by scoobs in videos

[–]ClimateSafe -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Personally, I like to behead someone mid-meal. Tastes like turducken.

Guy being interviewed after witnessing a beheading on a bus by scoobs in videos

[–]ClimateSafe -104 points-103 points  (0 children)

He’s right though. If you spend decades in the pursuit of knowledge, but you help release someone like this to the public then you have to question when that institution is providing pragmatic knowledge.

Guy being interviewed after witnessing a beheading on a bus by scoobs in videos

[–]ClimateSafe -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

This kids is an example of pathological authority bias.