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phaemon··on Rain at the Summit of Greenland
The figures for 2021 aren't available yet as the year isn't over. If you want more immediate data, please ask your elected representative to prioritise funding scientific research.

I'm curious why you're fixating on this year though? Do you think something has changed from the past 20 years? You do know the SMB has been mostly positive over that period, right?

phaemon··on Rain at the Summit of Greenland
No, your link shows SMB, my link shows the overall loss. There is no gain. Please learn what these numbers mean. I have had this conversation hundreds of times. You are completely wrong.

EDIT: If you don't believe me, simply email the folk at the Danish Arctic research institution (the link you provided). They will confirm.

phaemon··on Rain at the Summit of Greenland
As is very clearly stated in the page you linked to: "It does not include the mass that is lost when glaciers calve off icebergs and melt as they come into contact with warm seawater."

There has of course been no "recovery". You can see the Greenland Ice Sheet loss at: https://grace.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/30/greenland-ice-loss-2...

This one is a continual talking point for climate change deniers, and is corrected every time, but it still gets trotted out. I strongly advise you to actually learn something about this topic as I've seen you attempt to post on it before.

phaemon··on Done with YC: Age Discrimination
I find it interesting. You can try your vegan post. Sounds a bit dull but go for it.
phaemon··on Bye CUPS: Printing with Netcat
You just want to make sure you have IPP and Bonjour enabled and it should Just Work. A quick google finds https://www.dailycupoftech.com/how-to-set-up-a-print-server-... which looks about right
phaemon··on Jet Li rejected The Matrix as he didn’t want his kung fu moves recorded (2018)
I'm afraid you are. If your project is open source, it's quite likely someone will put a copy up on GitHub while they're working on it.
phaemon··on The Failures That Made Ian Fleming
You can learn what Hemingway actually did in WWI, the Spanish Civil War, and WWII at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway#World_War_I
phaemon··on Building a vision of life without work (2015)
> the median American making $40-60k a year with a modest amount of credit card debt and kids to feed.

Ah, of course. Poor unfortunate Americans. How could you possibly feed your children on just $40k a year. No doubt that explains the emaciated appearance of the average American child.

> A comment like this is privilege in a nutshell.

Copy that out on the blackboard 100 times until the lesson sinks in.

phaemon··on Ink programming language
"The elements of computing systems" aka "Nand to Tetris" takes you through the process and I could understand it despite not having a degree. Highly recommended.
phaemon··on A small town in Sweden fights to preserve Elfdalian, a dying forest language
It means a secondary language, not a primary one.
phaemon··on A small town in Sweden fights to preserve Elfdalian, a dying forest language
That isn't what "lingua franca" means, which is a poor start to your "it's better to only know one language" argument.
phaemon··on A simple mistake that stuffed up world temperature records for 90 years
Not even close. What do you reckon the highest temperature was achieved in a house?
phaemon··on A simple mistake that stuffed up world temperature records for 90 years
Imagine I was measuring the temperature in your home. I measured above your grill. Is that a good average for your home temperature?
phaemon··on The Private Life of a Cat (2020)
Useless use of cat
phaemon··on I made a mistake with Terraform and Azure made it worse
> Databases (or cattle, how or what ever they may be)

It's a reference to the idea that you should treat your servers as "cattle, not pets". In other words, they're disposable and you should be fine with destroying one and creating a new one to take its place.

The parent is saying that it's fine to treat databases more like pets, where they're pampered and looked after carefully, and fed treats - much like DBAs are, I believe.

phaemon··on When static makes your C code 10 times faster
No, even if you could kill Hitler, then WW2 doesn't happen, computers aren't invented yet, so time travel isn't invented yet so you can't head back to kill him. Read your briefing notes.

Also https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HitlersTimeTrave...

phaemon··on Soldiers watch the US withdrawal from Bagram through the lens of Pokemon Go
> if this were the case, then the USA would have actually benefited from these wars

Well, sure, if you believe that the powers that be were acting for the benefit of their country rather than for themselves.

phaemon··on Canadian inferno: northern heat exceeds worst-case climate models
There doesn't seem to be any conclusions at all drawn by the journalist: it's literally a quote from a scientist that talks of the conclusion.
phaemon··on Canadian inferno: northern heat exceeds worst-case climate models
Are you suggesting that scientists shouldn't investigate anomalous events that are becoming more common because ignorant people might confuse them with entirely expected but relatively rare events?
phaemon··on Leaky pipes can be better for moving water
There possibly is great stuff there, but after having dismissed the third popup in roughly as many seconds, I gave up and hit the back button.

I've no idea why websites do this. No one wants it.

phaemon··on Gap to close all 81 stores in UK and Ireland
Inditex has revenue of about $23 billion, Gap is around $16 billion, Primark is around $8 billion. They're not as far apart as you think.
phaemon··on Note that I wouldn’t pass the listed minimum requirements
> someone who submits a truthful resume to a job posting where they don't technically meet the qualifications has only made a little white lie

They haven't lied at all. Where is the lie in saying, "I don't meet your requirements but I think you should hire me anyway"?

phaemon··on Note that I wouldn’t pass the listed minimum requirements
Your odds of getting an interview don't significantly improve after you meet just 50% of the requirements (40% if you're female): https://talent.works/2018/11/27/the-science-of-the-job-searc...
phaemon··on A Plea for Lean Software (1995) [pdf]
Surely you can with cgroups? Isn't that exactly what they're for?
phaemon··on Burnout Is Real
I'm sure you do. Along with your wish to:

"check back on this coin when its tokenomics have improved. I am not interested in something with 70% of the total supply not yet in circulation."

...

phaemon··on Ask HN: Feeling guilty for doing the bare minimum at work
He just said he felt guilty about extracting maximal value for minimum return. That's the opposite of management.
phaemon··on Ask HN: Feeling guilty for doing the bare minimum at work
104 seems enough to be meaningful. Might have a fair margin of error but that's ok. Why do you think otherwise?
phaemon··on If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (2014)
You can hold down the right-arrow key to scroll, and you reach Mercury in 12 seconds.
phaemon··on Cristiano Ronaldo snub wipes billions off Coca-Cola’s market value
If you're just having one a day, a cold beer is healthier than a cold Coke.
phaemon··on Allies Believe U.S. 'No Longer a Good Model of Democracy,' Poll Shows
The research wasn't by Newsweek, it was by the Pew Research Center. Newsweek is just reporting it.
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