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Exactly. This litany of numbers without meaningful comparison is just an attempt at obfuscation. Of course wind turbines require resources to construct; no one ever claimed otherwise. But they create a lot more energy over their lifetime than they cost to create, which is the whole reason they're built at all.

And as impressive as those figures sound, they pale in comparison to how much fossil fuels are being burnt simply to provide energy, at a complete dead loss, with no future energy dividends paid whatsoever (as you'd get with wind turbines). Constructing turbines is like buying stock in a good company, whereas burning fossil fuels for energy needs is like frittering away all your income and living paycheck to paycheck.
Do you have a few hundred spare hours? Leonard Susskind did an extensive series of lectures, that assumes some familiarity with Calculus and linear algebra, but almost nothing else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJfw6lDlTuA
Dig a little deeper (or at least clean the dirt off the nameplate). This is a legal position and the written product is what they essentially sell. Your argument is the equivalent of hiring an applicant who submitted a regression analysis to handle time series data.
Wind complements solar well in terms of peak generation. In some markets, wind + solar + hydro + existing demand pricing could already manage current consumption requirements. Hydro is perfect for base load and for peaking.

As a bridge fuel natural gas is also perfectly capable for base load and peaking, and due to pricing has already been rapidly supplanting coal and oil. Longer term, pumped hydro where available, or even technologies like syngas could be used to store peak wind/solar capacity to generate when the resource does not meet need. Along with a better long-distance grid, it takes no stretch of the imagination for renewables to meet virtually all current demand, without even accounting for huge advances in new technologies.

Peak population is coming, and with increasing energy efficiency/conservation, we can very well expect peak energy usage to precede peak population.
It's not a strawman. There are a frightening number of people who believe the issue is not at all complex, and that the whole thing is a lie made up by their political opponents.

If you can believe his words (doubtful), the current President of the US is one of these.
Actually, given the vast number of homophones, the ability to spell correctly is extremely important. First, because spelling correctors often pick the wrong correction in response to a typo. Second, because a good spelling corrector has to lack a lot of important words (else it is prone to false positives).
I am not supporting their ignorance. But I imagine their belief arose from some deep issue with human agency. ie the apparent arrogance of trying to control natural forces, which would have been ascribed to the Divine, just one or two generations ago.

Nevertheless, I take issue with your edit. I believe your wish is in fact rooted in your own desire for agency. Those parents have lost a child, albeit from their own ignorance. In light of this, how do you think their prosecution would be a gain to society? We can surely educate others without inflicting even more damage on those poor, grieving parents.
Well, it's certainly "minimalist" and it's a very nice web site, with great photos, but it's quite a stretcher to call that a "radically new concept".

We've been making these here in the Ozarks for generations. They're not considered very hifalutin though. They're called "Hunting Shacks" here. Most have a small wood burning stove inside them and used barn tin for the roof (for style), but the design is the same and darn near as old as the mountains we live in.
I've been in two (maybe 3) unions.

Postdocs unionized and made it so that very-short-term postdoc contracts weren't allowed. After I got my PhD my advisor wanted to pay me as a postdoc for the 2 months before my postdoc at another university began -- this would have been EXCELLENT for me. But, union rules, he wasn't allowed to do this. So I had to float my own way for a couple months. Thanks United Auto Workers (the people who ran the postdoc union).
Yeah, legacy code is hard, sometimes, and sometimes complexity can't be hidden entirely.

The initscripts for MySQL/MariaDB are still orders of magnitude larger than these (unusually large) systemd unit files. Managing complexity is hard. SystemD helps. More modern service design, and simpler services, helps (compare/contrast Apache startup vs nginx or caddy, or MySQL vs MongoDB; sure, the newer options do less, but they do "enough" for some use cases).
Water is a resource with a price, just like
land or gasoline.

I don't know about South Carolina, but as I understand it in the west of America this isn't the case, as the heaviest water users are subsidised by taxpayers.

For example, in California alfalfa growers pay $70 for an acre-foot of water, while urban users in Los Angeles pay $1,000 per acre-foot. The growers use 34.1 million acre-feet a year, while urban use totals 8.9 million acre-feet a year.

Needless to say, growers get very rich from this and make big political contributions; if they had to pay market rate they'd all be out of business pretty quickly. The political contributions work; voters widely support this baffling state of affairs.
As I obviously will not be trolling you anytime soon bc I simply have zero fcks to give about where your pants might be.
Overzealous copyright law extension in the farcical goal of the "advancement of the arts and sciences" has truly been a travesty to human knowledge.
Sorry if this is obvious but I am glad to see swiping-style keyboards on our phones and tablets. I'd someone says we don't need to know how to spell, I can just ask them if they use a swiping keyboard. If they say yes, it is easy to convince them that we should have at least some concept of spelling.
Except you have a high level of transparency and no one else is trading your house while you had it
Yeah there seems to be a lot of marketing but I found a concise definition on the author's personal website: "extract transform load for python 3.5+". It could be noted that some of the earlier commit messages include "more marketing".
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The context bubbles up to the post that said "Apple has a history of false promises when it comes to opening and documenting their protocols & data formats". That comment was down voted, but had me curious.

I was asking for examples of something they open sourced that would have exposed something like that, something more risky to the walled garden concept. I perhaps could have worded it better, but HN does seem to react to any questioning of Apple with a defensive posture.
It still has a price. It just happens that the price is artificially low. That's why the comment you quoted said the price should be increased in this case.
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This is an excellent and unsettling article. The problem is that neither the old parties nor the new right have any solutions that would really solve the problems.
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You can say that about any language I think. Maybe JavaScript is a little special because of how it has grown over the years and it's general lack of a "rigid" structure or implementation.
In the context of "Is AGW happening", your argument is not an honest argument, but an attempt to ask a thousand questions and try to drown the argument in the perception of uncertainty. In other words, FUD.

But let me try to answer them as best as I can.

> If temperature is rising, how much do we expect it to continue rising?

It will keep rising as long as we keep generating CO2.

> If rising temperatures are due at least in part to CO2 emissions, then to what degree?

Stop the "if", "at least", and "in part". Rising temperatures are due to man-made CO2, period. Other causes are rounding errors.

> How do we choose between the various complex climate models (indeed part of the reason we were so ill-prepared for Hurricane Katrina was that nobody considered the model that predicted the trajectory it ended up taking)?

You mean those that say the sea level would rise 50 cm, 1 m, and 2.5 m?

You don't have to know future trajectory of hurricanes in order to build a hotel in Miami. You just assume that a hurricane will hit it at some point in the future and plan for it.

> Are rising temperatures invariably bad?

Non sequitur. Of course it's not invariably bad. Some people made a fortune with the dot-com bubble, 2008 housing crisis, invasion on Iraq, you name it. The Earth has 7 billion people: basically no disaster will be invariably bad for all of them.

> What if higher temperatures and CO2 increase forestation?

...and?

> Or maybe it increases biodiversity of harmful things, like diseases?

Tropical diseases will most likely spread further, so yes.

> Or maybe it decreases those things?

I can't see how, but if that happens, well good. There must be at least a few positive effects of climate change. (E.g., the opening of the arctic shipping route.)

> Do CO2 emissions affect weather patterns?

Well sure.

> How so?

We're still figuring this out, I'm afraid.

> Do we get more hurricanes?

Probably.

> Do emissions affect water availability?

Yes. Google "receding glaciers".

> How about acid rain?

...how about acid rain what?

I'm surprised that you think "NK having or not having nuclear weapons" is a binary choice, after all. Does it have uranium or plutonium? How much? Is it reliable? Where can it be delivered? Would China back up NK or not? Is it invariably bad? What if it acts as a deterrent against regional war? Does it affect economy of North or South Korea? Does it affect the politics of South Korea? Will we get more military conflict or less? What about Japan?
Really? What school? That sounds...bad.

Most CS curricula should definitely not be focusing on any one language, no matter what the year. A typical first few courses are something like:

1) intro to computer science. This is typically teach entry level program flow techniques, loops, if/else, recursion, some OO. My school used java but the focus was not on the language.

2) Data Structures and Algorithms. Overview of your typical data structures and common operations. Gets in to big O, etc. My school accepted assignments in both java and c++, but didn't emphasize either one.

3) Architecture. This is low level CPU architecture. Pipelines, caches etc. We used some sort of assembly for assignments.

4) programming paradigms. This was basically SICP. Meta circular evaluators, etc. We used scheme for assignments but again no real emphasis on the language.

5) OSes. Basics of operating systems. Threads, memory management, networking etc. Assignments were in C.

I think this is the standard CS curriculum, at least according to my experiences and most of the people I've worked with with CS degrees.
sounds like the US government is ripe for disruption...

/s
Thanks for the reference to your project, I might use it as a guide for writing a language. I like the book "Build Your Own Lisp" because the simple implementation is easy enough to understand and hack. Using your example as a guide would be a second step for building something more practical. Very cool stuff.
Meta-comment, curl is one of the few products I know that a) has authors who care about such low level tweaks and b) does a good job at presenting it all in a blog-readable format on a timely basis...either that or it's just Daniel.
Case classes can have methods on them, for one - I can see how that might be added to yours, but it'd probably be very awkward syntactically if you wanted different methods on different cases. To me, it also feels like your enum class is more of a special case. Scala's case classes and sealed traits work together as independent features that come together to provide value. I've used case classes before without using the 'enum-like' property of sealed traits, where I just want to get equality, unapplying, etc... for free.

They also have more configurability - while a case class provides default implementations for things like equality, you can override those (this could be a pro or a con depending on whether you prefer flexibiltiy or performance, I guess - although arguably the flexibility should only have cost if you use it, assuming it's implemented well).

It's definitely not a huge difference, and arguably Scala can suffer from it's philosophy of providing tools that can do something rather than tools for something that means the language often comes across as huge and as having too much stuff in it. I like it, but it's not the C# way right now for sure.
They do have at least one open source application: https://www.cups.org/
it's fully open-source, and wholly owned by Apple, however they bought it, they didn't invent it.
I take a long bike ride out of the city and back, take a shower, and have a bowl of soup while I chat with friends or watch videos/read/play games.
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Glad to see! Thanks for sharing. I hope this trend continues.
Apple should publish something like TN1150 for APFS. several years ago, I had to implement HFS+ for an embedded system, and TN1150 proved very helpful, saved me a lot of hassle.

https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/technotes/tn/tn11...
https://encrypted.google.com seems to work better than /ncr for me
The comment you're replying to, and all the parents up to the root, like most comments here made no mention of Google. It was a discussion of Apple on its merits.

Why do we seem to tie our personal identities to corporate affiliations, to the point of bringing up corporate rivalries out of context and taking sides in them?
I follow music industry news, and it's been actively (rather than passively) on their wishlist for the past six months or so. It's their biggest gripe with YouTube, for instance. (That and that YouTube, unlike Spotify, refuse to give them money for nothing just because they demand it. https://rocknerd.co.uk/2017/04/03/record-labels-want-money-y... )
That _might_ help in a criminal case (IMO unlikely unless you can show some requests were actually modified), but any civil case is going to be decided on balance of probabilities. A slight chance of interception probably wouldn't swing that either way.
There is a large difference in effort needed for being good at spelling and for becoming the best in the world. Not a perfect analogy but you wouldn't call competitive eating a very useful skill just because eating is useful.
Also, as a side remark, in most languages I am familiar with competitive spelling would not be a thing. English is rather unique in that it does not enforce spelling or pronunciation rules on foreign words and prefers to take them as is instead.
You don't maintain an init script. You write it once. It doesn't do anything but run a program with an argument. There is no need to modify it except once every few years if your system or your application changes significantly in how it is started or stopped.

On Slack, the init scripts range from 6 lines (rc.font) to 445 lines (rc.S). Mean: 105, Median: 64, Mode: 56, 36, 48. BSD probably has even less complicated init scripts.

Your system might have more complicated init scripts, but it doesn't need them to be complicated. I suggest you direct your ire at your distribution, not init. (Most distributions totally misuse init and try to make it do things it was not intended for)
Yeah. I find it disconcerting to use Bing and discover the results are as bad as Google in incognito mode.

That is: search is such a hard problem that the search engine literally needs to know more about me than I know about myself to give me good search results.

This is disconcerting for fairly obvious reasons, but it also seems to be true.
Seeing thousands of hectares of solar panels everywhere you go might not be so awe inspiring. Could be quite dull and monotonous.

Although I guess beauty is subjective.
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I think you were not the target demographic, so it doesn't make sense to you. If you were never an unpopular, troublemaking loser (the kind that Beck sang about), there is a lot of stuff you wouldn't get.
Udacity, for instance, doesn't let me choose English anymore and is very frustrating.
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I think a better comparison would be smog and acid rain. Coal isn't giving us the plastic bottles, but it does negatively impact us in much subtler yet worse ways than a visual reminder.
I have a standing policy regarding systemd.

It's fine for my desktop and laptop, it's not fine for my server.

My servers (generally speaking) do one thing and that thing absolutely can't be mucked with, systemd does a lot of what I would consider mucking.. binary complexity and weird integration I seriously dislike.

But it's actually beneficial on a desktop system.

My friends who have learned systemd are basically the same as you- "Eh, it's alright when it works.. and it's where everyone has gone so I guess I'll live with it"

I take exception to that statement entirely, this is open source, the land where you can replace your kernel with a BSD one and continue trucking with GNU ultilities as if nothing happened basically- why do we have to go backwards in usability for someones ego.

(and it's hard for me not to see it as one mans ego given his repeated hostility and arrogance regarding how other people use computers professionally)
This reminds me of a comment I made on a programming blog a while ago:

"I sometimes wonder if young programmers should be required to work for a year in a cube farm with fluorescent lighting, no windows and only instant coffee. Say in a government department or something. We could think of it as the IT equivalent of compulsory military service."
No I don't need to be told that. That's my point. Most tech products make it difficult for me to do my up-front research, because they want to paint a rosy picture of their product to drive adoption. But I'm less likely to adopt it if I can't easily understand its constraints, failure scenarios, scaling bottlenecks, maintenance headaches, leaky abstractions, etc.
Huh, that's weird, I've never had a Node process silently die in production without a good trace or robust high level logging. Are you sure you're​ not just making stuff up?
Don't forget the 100Gb fiber connections.
Wikipedia sure as hell won't stand for it, I can (I think reasonably, on my understanding of editor and Foundation viewpoints) tell you.
I would say that non-technical competencies are not optional and they will help your career one way or another. Maybe a better question to ask ourselves is how do I continue to add value in the environment I'm in? I doubt the answer to that remains constant throughout a long career.
Yep...exactly. All in due time, ehhh? So, after familiarizing one's self with the dialog then apparently one must direct their target audience accordingly. See how easy that is? Also, I don't think this is "merely an exchange of opinions". I "think" this has turned into a hate campaign between both sides of the debate and perhaps it would be more beneficial if you all BOTH stuck to the facts but obviously neither side is capable of doing so... this is a perfect example right here...this online hate campaign against me is futile to say the least. I mean what have you internet warriors actually accomplished and/or how has it been beneficial to your anti-bsl campaign? NADA...ZIP...ZILCH. What have you learned exactly about me that has been such a "hush hush secret"? Please do share... What conspiracy theory do you all have for me now, huh? Let me make myself very clear bc apparently you all need things spelled out for you. I post MY personal opinion on my own PERSONAL timeline of which I have zero 000 friends or acquaintances involved in either side of this issue. It is YOU people who seek out my posts and monitor my timeline 24/7. I mean...how incredibly pathetic??? If you don't like what I have to say on this issue it's really a simple fix...block my account or maybe just stop trolling me? Easy...peezy.

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It's actual scientists saying this.

> On the one hand, as scientists we are ethically bound to the scientific method, in effect promising to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but — which means that we must include all the doubts, the caveats, the ifs, ands, and buts. On the other hand, we are not just scientists but human beings as well. And like most people we’d like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates into our working to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climatic change. To do that we need to get some broad based support, to capture the public’s imagination. That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have. This ‘double ethical bind’ we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest. I hope that means being both.

--Stephen Schneider in APS News, Aug/Sep 1996, p. 5 [0]

Note especially: "So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have. This ‘double ethical bind’ we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest."

He necessarily implies that one must be dishonest in order to be "effective." This raises the question: effective at what? The answer is obvious: effecting their policy goals.

This raises other questions: If a policy goal requires dishonesty to garner public support, is it a worthy goal? Is it backed by sound reasoning and evidence?

Most importantly, why should the public trust such sweeping policy to a few people who have decided that they know better than everyone else, and are therefore entitled to lie to the uneducated masses, for their own good? Is that not authoritarian? Does not madness lie down this path, or are climate scientists immune to lapses in judgment and ethics and morals?

0: http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/199608/upload/aug96....
Does it really? Cannot there be a separate water system for both operations? For example, for nuclear cooling, there is one pipe network that cools the steam, and another water system that cools the pipe network that cools the steam.
Excellent life insight, thank you :)
And regifts: Virtual presents you can receive on an occasion, hate, and send to someone else on their occasion such that you don't seem cheap.
You could pick a solution area you feel attracted to from the Drawdown book (http://www.drawdown.org) and see how you can contribute. The Drawdown team has spent several years computing and ranking the impact of over 100 solution areas that can combine to reduce CO2 while also providing other benefits (so called no-regret solutions)

You may find that high impact solutions are in areas you may not be thinking about but that energize you, like the fact that educating girls beats out rooftop solar power (which is also a very high ranking solution).