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Re:Most people prefer traditional architecture on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @02:04PM (#49716365)
In public spaces I have no doubt this is the case.

I'm more curious about residential though - see huge interesting in MCM over the last decades. I am biased but I think there is a great deal of interest in warm, modernist spaces with ideas like natural materials and lots of natural lighting, especially when compared to the beige boxes of American home building.

Renewables require storage because they are bursty - sun goes down, wind stops blowing. This is more expensive than just burning as much nat gas as you need.
One existed, it was pulled from the market in the early 2000s. There's still a dog one, and there is at least one which is in late stage trials in the US today.
Don't worry, soon you won't have a job.
Re:The way we treat pigs is a sin on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @08:03AM (#48369114)
I have so much hope for lab grown meat and animal byproducts, but between opposition to "gmos" and agricultural lobbying, I think it will take a century before it's the norm.
Re:The way we treat pigs is a sin on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @08:01AM (#48369101)
Yeah, milk is disturbing. Most people's intuition about what is most humane to eat does not match the objective cruelty of what they consume. The life of an average cow versus the life of an average chicken for instance.
Re:Claude Opus 4.8 on Thursday May 28, 2026 @12:53PM (#48311737)
I actually liked not having to choose the effort level for conversational usage, this feels like a step backwards.
I replicated this experiment on several production codebases and got several crits. Lots of dupes, lots of false positives, lots of bugs that weren't actually exploitable, lots of accepted/ known risks. But also, crits!
There's going to be very very very few engineers.
Re:Why are executives enamored with AI, but ICs aren't? on Friday March 27, 2026 @07:59PM (#47549976)
Well I'm not looking forward to being out of a job and health insurance.

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