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> The earth is a finite world, sustainable or not you won't be able to grow indefinitely.

It's not "indefinitely". It's just "long enough that we can bootstrap a space economy and expand into the Solar System", or alternatively "long enough so that we can fix the environmental damage, get rid of poverty and most diseases, and slowly S-curve the economy into some acceptable state". Or some combination of that.

Moreover, not all growth is tied to physical space and resource use. We're also not using the space and resources we have efficiently. There's plenty of room on Earth for us to grow, but it might start looking more like improving things than expanding them.

> if we go back that would impact the GDP.

Switching to a sustainable level of growth will require that - slowing down the growth itself, and even a temporary shrinking of the economy.
You are wrong. The carbon emissions of electricity production in Germany are in a constant decline. Germany never had a large amount of nuclear energy in the mix, so we are not "reverting to coal", we unfortunately keep our coal plants running at full steam (literally). But this also was large part to some economics of the market. Still, the CO2 emissions of the electricity production are going down, last year, we had about as much reneweables in the mix as coal, this year the reneweables should be larger than coal.

There is enough data showing, that about 80% reneweables in the mix are possible without larger storage facilites, if the gaps are covered by gas power plants which can change their output power quick enough to react on the demand. Neither coal nor nuclear can do this.

That Germany is missing its emission targets has two reasons. One is, that coal is not ramped down aggressively enough, which has mostly economical reasons, coal is to profitable for the power companies, but recent forced closures of some coal plants shifted a bit here. And the other elephant in the room is the raising fuel consumption for transportation. Going electric for cars would have a large impact there.
Let's take an example.

Here's the list of the 7 long-lived fission products [1]. The nastiest appears to be Caesium-135 [2]. If you zap this with a proton it becomes Barium-136, which is a stable element (the half-life is so long that it cannot be estimated; probably it is in the trillions of years).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-lived_fission_product#The...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_caesium#Caesium-13...
I assume they have their own wikipedia.
As someone who grew up a mainstream European Lutheran, the views of American evangelical Christians have always seemed more like a doomsday cult than anything based on Jesus's teachings.

It boggles my mind that these people have taken over the definition of Christianity in such an influential country. I imagine my feelings about evangelicals are roughly the same as how mainstream muslims feel about Islamic State.
Ive almost lost hope at this point; while I will continue to support green movements and live closer to green, I don’t hold any faith that things will change.

If they do, great. Otherwise, prepare your children for a world where their children may be less intelligent due to higher concentrations of Co2. Water will be expensive. People will wear masks everywhere and only rich people can afford houses with completely pure air.

I truly hope it doesn’t come to this, but my fear is that when pollution gets to a certain point, those in charge will basically say “fuck it” and let things run their course.
Employee Experience and Training Affects Customer Experience
I could not find a robots.txt file on your site, also does your site have a sitemap?

Consider adding:
https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/structured-d...
I just want to second this. This is not a mainstream view. Dominion over the earth does not mean strip mining, hunting whales to extinction and most of all not destroying God's creation.

A school of theological thought that is gaining traction in protestant circles is that "new earth" spoken about in the bible is in fact this earth (fixed). Fixing this earth then has important religious significance.

This is in stark contrast to those extremist sects who wish for nuclear war to bring on the apocalypse.
>Jailing them repeatedly one question at a time is clearly abusive.

I believe this statement is where they tried to delineate between "a number of countries" and this instance but I'm not the OC, so I can't speak for them; however, that's the way that I'm reading it.
> First of all I don't see how man-made climate change is even controversial with the amount of evidence we have

This is a strong assumption. How can we have evidence for that? We do not understand climate enough to make such an assertion.

This is the answer to your question. Enough people see that strong assertions for man-made climate change are not necessarily backed up. Hence the controversy.

> but furthermore I don't see why we shouldn't transition to renewable energy asap anyway

Because that comes with it's own problems? For instance, around here there are a lot of wind wheels, these machines create problems. It's not just "energy for free". For example one problem is they kill a massive amount of insects.

There are also people advocating for nuclear energy, improved ways of providing nuclear energy. Maybe they are right?

> Even if climate change would be a hoax (which it is not), then why would it be a bad thing to make changes to prevent it from happening anyway?

This is a good question I asked myself many times as well. I don't know.

One part of the answer could be priorities. We can't do everything at once. SO what comes first?
But why Greenpeace and majority of other environmentalists where so strongly against nuclear energy? Were they the part of this conspiracy? It would be good to know, as all those eco organizations are still functioning and likely they are still governed by the people who were involved in this conspiracy?
Yes, but another way to look at it, does China's micromanagement of the domestic flow of information result in more or less prosperity for their people? To misquote Hayek: communism is ultimately like telling every car where they should go rather than just putting up street-signs.

* Please add to the debate rather than down-voting. Also Hayek wasn't musing about future autonomous cars, its a metaphor about how deciding what everyone in society should do/think doesn't scale.
It wasn't just someone who got a script and ran it. It was someone who acted like they were an elite hacker, but all they had were a collection of scripts that other people wrote.
An unnecessarily hostile and childish response to an honest and calmly stated opinion. Grow up.
At uni, a large chunk of my final-year grade hinged on a large project, where we'd meet up with a supervisor, build a non-trivial application, and write a dissertation on it.

One of the best projects from recent years that was handed out as inspiration was someone that built a game boy emulator, with the ultimate aim of being able to run Pokemon Red.

This dissertation was public on the CS site for about 5 years, with source code to run it, and although this was pre-GitHub Nintendo were still very litigious back then. No ROM's were provided, so I assume Nintendo either missed it, or didn't care.
What we often don't realize though is how many of our own individual actions are actually due to societal (cultural) pressures.

For example, flying to conferences. It is considered to be normal, and people who would refuse to fly (as a conscientious objector to climate change) would be considered "weird". But it is really just a cultural norm here. We readily accept vegetarians, for example, and we accommodate for that. In a similar way, we could accept that some people object to flying (or it could even be the default).
wow, that's pretty cool. I m really glad that vscode introduced the language server and debugging procotol.
Dude, political action is possible, you just have to care enough to take part of it.

Please, try to at least be honest enough to openly admit you don't care about climate change out of convenience for yourself.
It is inherent in the idea of "finding a crime where you sympathise with the prosecution as much as you do with Manning's defence" that you will tend to believe one of those crimes to be far worse than the other.
In theory Growth could be detached from energy consumption, if I cook my neighbours a meal tonight and charge them £20 and tomorrow they do the same for me then GDP has grown by £40 but energy consumption has staid the same.

In reality it seems most of the things we find valuable do involve energy consumption. We are so far from completely decoupling it that you might as well consider money and energy to be the same thing. The more you spend and the richer you are the more damage you are causing the environment.

It seems politicians (of the environmental kind) who tell you we can grow and save the planet are almost certainly lying.
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> nuclear energy had a very bad PR for past 50 years

There is not a positive way to tell people that will be forced to quit their homes, workplaces and properties when nuclear problems eventually arose but hide information or lie systematically about it does not help, neither does the "see no evil/ what could happen?/ but nobody died / your cancer is not my fault" permanent defensive stance deployed again and again.

Nuclear energy sector worked hard to earn the current mistrust
Unfortunately most of the tools used in the EDA industry are proprietary and stuck in the 90s. So it is both expensive and pretty painful to use them, although after a while a kind of Stockholm syndrome sets in. In other words you really need Cadence and access to a Designkit from a foundry in a relatively recent process (65nm TSMC, 22nm SOI Global Foundries, etc.) to implement something serious. Similar things apply to digital design, although with tools like Chisel and Verilator (system verilog to C++ compiler) you can do more things with freely available tools. Once you want to tape out your design a lot of very expensive proprietary software is still involved. It is also pretty unrealistic to do everything yourself. It is a multi year single person project to setup an understand a new analog design kit itself.

So my best advice is to find a group that has already setup most of that support infrastructure and obtained licenses for all the tools and design kits (We've got one person alone that handles licenses, software installation, and the ASIC cluster).

Ideally the group has permanent staff with plenty of hardware experience and a professor with a proven track record of successful chip tapeouts. The number of groups that are capable of this in the field you are interested in can be counted on two hands at best.

I can't talk much about analog design, because I've only witnessed people doing it and haven't done any design with them myself, but you need to be a very particular kind of person to enjoy it, especially if you have no-one to do the layout for you.

Oh and you should think long and hard if you really want to go into this direction, it involves a lot of really hard and tedious work and is not glamorous at all. A tapeout might fail because someone accidentally checked a box in the last step before sending the design to the manufacturer, removing all blackbox pins on the edge of the design. Or someone might have though that it is a good idea to put a latch in the PLL reset path, which causes the clock to never turn on, which you only discover in the back annotated simulation 5 days before tapeout.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu_Baike
I feel you, I couldn't stay awake during lectures and seminars even if it were for my life. Even in small seminars, sitting right next to the professor, i managed to fall asleep for a couple of minutes.

It still sometimes happens that I fall asleep during a meeting. Fact is, meetings ARE boring.

Medical Tests never came up with anything. One thing that did help me, though, was diet changes. Make sure your blood sugar levels remain stable, eat food that releases it's energy slowly and steadily, instead of roller-coaster like. Personally, intermittent fasting helped me getting over the food-coma and hangriness problems.

About the codebase problem, i guess it's just tough to be thrown into large codebases. It takes practice and experience, and it's not necessarily something that university teaches you. Thus, I wouldn't beat myself up over it. It comes with time.

From a practical standpoint, maybe try to find a job in a smaller company with smaller codebase? Or, try to find something where you are involved in starting a project from scratch ? Obviously that requires a bit of luck, but I'd say it's well worth a try.

And the better you get, the less forgiving people are about your small quirks (like, falling asleep in a meeting).

EDIT: more forgiving, that's what I meant ...
Retooling would be a better word. Saul Griffit (via Bret Victor[0]), calls switching to clean energy "more like retooling for World War II, except with everyone playing on the same team". The scale of expenditure and impact on the economy seems appropriate.

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[0] - http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/
This is really nice! The same techniques can be used in WebGL 2.0 which is at ES 3.1 on canary versions of WebKit. I had a hell of a time using the experimental compute shader API to implement a cellular automata framework [1]

The big issue with using WebGL at the current moment, to do large scale sims, is that fragment shaders dont have an entire workload barrier capability - so you cant do interdependent work.

Compute shaders have full workload execution and memory barriers.

Just something to be aware of if you are trying to jerry rig fragment shaders to do more advanced things like HDR via min/max over all colors..there is no way to these kind of aggregates without calling the shader twice, unfortunately.

[1] https://github.com/churchofthought/Grautamaton
Make sure to read this bit to make the formal explanation easier to understand.

https://aguaviva.github.io/KalmanFilter/KalmanFilter.html
This also depends on the type of the restaurant and what they are make money of. In Germany in most of the restaurant the money is made out off the drinks, while not really from the meal. That is the reason why they ask you, if you want more.
Is it the right question? It seems like almost all laws have abortion law and murder laws meeting at the point where the embryo or fetus reaches the point where it can survive outside the uterus. The legal test used is commonly a viability test, and current medical technology sets that to week 22. Abortion is thus usually not allowed after week 21. A murder is thus any intentional death after the date where abortion is no longer legal.

It does however get a bit complex at times. Here in Sweden there has been some discussion what to do with delays in abortion caused by the hospital. The result of the discussion was to determine viability based on the initial date that the decision to have an abortion was registered. The argument is that the treatment women go through to have an abortion makes the embryo/fetus less viable, thus making it still legal to have an abortion in those cases beyond week 22.

From a philosophical perspective I see the viability test as being a unfulfilling answer to both side of the political space, but it seems like the best approach from a practical perspective.
Thats true. Also there must be documented start in childhood.
We are already using lots of Nuclear power, turns out it didn't help!

Nuclear power is slow to build safely, and if we had started to build all that power decades ago of the sake of avoiding climate change you are already in the bizzaro timeline where the regime cared about climate change decades ago.
Probably something like schizophrenia and dementia, something that's more visible and immediate and evokes an oh-this-guy-is-crazy! reaction.

Seems like the OP thinks ADHD and ADD is more akin to personality disorders, which is much fuzzier and is hard to tell if it's a disorder or a 'disorder'.
As the artical mentions, the Chinese version has been blocked since 2016 - shortly after Wikipedia made the decision to move to mandatory HTTPS via HSTS. I'm not sure how recent this is but it seems that the site is also on the HSTS preload list used by most browsers - even within China (it seems Chrome is very popular there). It seems they have just gotten arround to blocking all of the other languages this year.

ESNI seems like it would work pretty well. Although the PRC firewall could likely be used to block ESNI and/or TLS 1.3 and force plain-text SNI.
True and sometimes you have to decide whether the time spent learning new language and development is better or worse than just using the language you know well.

It's one of the reasons I'm learning Kotlin, I know sometime in the next year I'll need it.
It's possible to address more than one injustice at a time.
> Most people fly once a year at most.

IIRC (from https://www.withouthotair.com/ ) one round trip over Atlantic is around the same carbon emmissions as a daily commute with the car. So things are not that simple.

That's why I also think it needs to be cultural norm. There is small minority of people who air travel a lot. If we could somehow manage to change the norm so they would travel less (for example, stayed much longer in the same place), it would be great.
It was absolutely in use on IRC in the mid 90s or earlier.

We used it plenty to diss the kids pingflooding their school then saying they hacked it, or using winnuke or Back Orifice (manually, by installing the client themselves) on a friend.

If you used a downloaded tool without any interest in how or why it worked, you were a script kiddy. There wasn’t really a definition or anything, you just knew.. the person was leet, or they were a skid.

Searching for the term probably won’t help much though as we bastardised as much text as possible back then. 5cr1p7 k1ddy, sk1d, skiddy, scriptkid, skript kiddy.. it was essentially a sport to make your text as illegible as possible while still being able to understand each other. A form of slang I guess.
Not really, COM is a subset of OLE 2.0, designed to replace VBX as OCX originally.

Naturally OLE was designed as C framework back in Win16 days, with endless pages of boilerplate code.

https://www.amazon.com/Windows-Programmers-Guide-Book-Disk/d...

As such COM can be called from C, specially since C++ Windows compilers have a VTBL layout as if they were a plain old C struct with function pointers.

However unless one is masochist, it is not sane to use COM from bare bones C.
It looks like you could be right. If this is true then publishing the following on the Google developer blog is downright deceptive:

"Because Chrome OS runs Android apps, targeting Android is the way to build Chrome OS apps."

Note that they're not saying it's a good way to build Chrome OS apps, they're saying it's "_the_ way to build Chrome OS apps".
By the way, the EROEI of fossil fuel is terrible. Do you know how much energy was required to turn all that organic matter into oil? A single gallon of gas requires 98 tons of plants to grow, then be buried, and then pressured and heated until they become oil, then finally be dug out and refined.
Ask HN: DevOps/SRE, what do you think of this open source tool?
Pimping up the CV.
I don’t necessarily agree with that person, but he didn’t deny climate change, only that humans are at the cause, and, in a not so delicate way suggested that climate change studies may not be accurate and may be colored by politics.

What if (Man Made) climate change was simply a set of natural processes and feedback loops? Wouldn’t alternative energy be better? Absolutely. It’s quieter, more efficient, and cleaner, especially nuclear energy. But a lot of the malthusian politics and negativity would have to go. Perhaps you could have a bigger house and not feel guilty about it? Maybe you won’t shame a neighbor for having another kid? Perhaps millions of people in the developing world can live a better life without being told they should stop to save the planet.
> Have you been able to find hacks and/or work arounds?

The only way I have found it working is to outsource my scheduling to someone else. I believe that explains why many people are diagnosed during college. College is much less restrictive than school and as a consequence people have to do their own planning.
I will appreciate your feedback to improve the tool.
"technology will save us" isn't a performative utterance. It's barely better than saying "god will save us".

Tech will certainly play a role, but I'm convinced that without a cultural, political and economical change we're doomed.
Saying "tech will save us" make people believe that they have no part to play, no responsibility.

We know what to do, the fact is that we're not acting fast enough.

"At the heart of capitalism is a vast and scarcely examined assumption: you are entitled to as great a share of the world’s resources as your money can buy. You can purchase as much land, as much atmospheric space, as many minerals, as much meat and fish as you can afford, regardless of who might be deprived. If you can pay for them, you can own entire mountain ranges and fertile plains. You can burn as much fuel as you like. Every pound or dollar secures a certain right over the world’s natural wealth."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/15/capita...
One of the requirements for an airplane to receive a certification is that the pilot needs to put more and more pressure on the stick to achieve higher and higher angle of attack. If at some point the airplane starts to pitch to higher AoA without extra pressure from the pilot, that's a big no. Reason: otherwise it would be all too easy to inadvertently enter a stall condition.

Boeing 737 MAX without MCAS violates that requirement (caused by the lift generated by large engine nacelles in front of the wings). MCAS is indeed designed to restore that required back-force. Back-force that is required to prevent stalls.

I suppose one could debate whether the stall prevention effect of MCAS is direct or indirect. But I don't think it's debatable that it is designed to comply with a certification requirement that's intended to help prevent stalls.
Were there protests in previous notable anniversaries?
The first step to doing something about climate change is to vote for a political party that actually believes in climate change.
You are wrong. As long as one is living in a democracy, it is very easy for the individual to change things. To fight climate change, we mainly have to get rid of carbon fuels for electricity production and for transport. Except for flying, there are carbon-free replacements for both, which require no sacrifices from individuals. Keep pushing for them.
How to prepare for the enterprise 2G/3G shutdown
I understand that, another user has linked some good sources.

Never heard of Solar leaving a large chunk of a country uninhabitable for millennia though.
I might! Thanks for suggesting.
- I've never flown to a conference. I've been on a plane twice in my entire life.

- No investments

- I work remotely; no commute.

- I hardly ever buy meat.

Yet none of this matters. If everyone in my country followed suit, it still wouldn't amount to more than noise in the statistics. Individual action like this is pretty much futile. You just need to catch a glimpse of what are the largest sources of CO2 (and equivalent) emissions.
How’s the quality of the content as compared to Wikipedia’s?