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> Full decarbonization can't in any sense be considered an intermediate solution

I agree, but progressively moving to renewables is not full decarbonization either.

Energy production is not the only source of emissions:

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emiss...

And even if it was, best case scenario it will take a couple of decades to switch away from fossil fuels.

> there's not even a small working example of it anywhere in the world or any plausible proposal to get from here to there on the timescale we need to avoid disaster

Yes but we are in uncharted territory. We don't know how to do it but humanity has to find a way and fracking is certainly not part of where we need to go.

The sensible decision would have been to invest in renewables instead of fracking. Fracking has been a total waste of money even ignoring all the environmental problems it is causing.

James Hansen talked to congress about climate change in the 80s, it's not like this is a new issue.
Steve Jobs died an obscenely wealthy man.

Elon Musk will probably die an obscenely wealthy man.

Every billionaire has a plan to save the world. None of them involve paying taxes.
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Emissions are dropping but what about carbon sinks? Are we doing anything to plant more trees?
There's a flag mentioned in that issue you can pass to the installer to disable that behavior.

Also, are there seriously people running FF with updates disabled? I personally see almost no scenario under which I'd ever not want to update.
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What about carbon sinks, are we planting more trees?
try saying that to non-european countries and see how you will fare in trial.
Wow, this is amazing! I knew about Ctrl-cmd-space on macOS, didn't know Windows had caught up.
The normal way to manually trigger an update is help -> about firefox -> update... which doesn't appear to destroy any settings.
DIP1021 is one step toward a larger goal outlined in the blog post 'Ownership and Borrowing in D'. What are the next steps?

https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/accepted/DIP1...
Top of mind here are a bunch of no-code tools

Bubble.io
Adalo.com
Airtable
Zapier
Typeform
Parabola
Phantombuster
I was able to find how to exit vim fairly easily. I do like this though it's quite funny.
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I'd settle for lower latency.

Using bluetooth MIDI on my iPhone 11 Pro / Roland F-140R combo produces an occasional 1/3 second latency for some key-presses. Adding bluetooth audio on top produces 2 second latency in the music itself.

So close, yet so far.
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Coal has already killed far more beings than the highly rare nuclear power station disaster. If you care about wellbeing and human lives, swapping nuclear for coal is downright stupid.
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If they used the same map as in the article (edit: rather, the first regional map, not the world map), that actually doesn't surprise me. It took me a good 10-20 seconds to figure out what part of the world and scale the first picture was at, because I had land and water inverted in my head.

Why would anyone use blue for land instead of water?
The market tells you that it's not true.

If a horse is dead, you might as well climb down.
When you try to manually update via the installer, make sure to pass the /RemoveDistributionDir=false flag, then you're good to go. If you're a power user who understands the security implications of not having automatic updates, this shouldn't be too hard.
ATX -- the most common motherboard configuration -- also has its roots in the IBM AT.
Getting out of reinvent 2019, i realized that i wanted a better way to keep up on all the new announcements and releases. Previously my workflow was hitting reload on what's new, reading an intro blog post, and then the detailed blog post, and then going to the api docs to try and figure out what changed. Really all I wanted to see what was had changed in the apis.. so i went ahead built something for it.

https://awsapichanges.info

A Developer Centric what's new. ie. Just tell me what's changing in the apis, with field level changes highlighted on updated apis.

It works by git walking release tags on the sdks, and then diffing the service models to determine new and updated apis, and then rendering out to a static site.
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Just four return addresses on the stack.
Sometimes saying anything at all might incriminate you because you're the only suspect. Don't talk to cops without a lawyer basically is the way to go in the USA.
How about the 2009 New York City Subway plot[1]? I suppose it's possible that Zazi was a patsy, but if you take the Wikipedia page at face value it seems pretty damning.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_New_York_City_Subway_and_...
to add some geopolitics - shutting down nuclear&coal and relying on renewables Germany would need more and more of natural gas plants - the cleanest option and most convenient one due to high speed of bringing up/down among the "dirty" ones - with more and more of the natural gas coming from Russia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream#Controversies_of_N...). While Germans seem to be ok with it (Stockholm syndrome?:), other countries, like US and various Germany neighbors, are naturally either don't like it or actively against it, and as result i think a lot of anti- German anti-nuclear PR and renewables scaremongering is coming from here.
Giant middle finger to Linux users by using a new proprietary Fraunhofer codec. We have finally gotten support for some of the other proprietary codecs in Linux Bluetooth land, then Bluetooth SIG goes & picks a new proprietary codec owned by the very very old guard. Another decade of mp3 licensing fees & stacks of legal paperwork, just to encode or decode audio.

There's so many better ways this could have gone.
No. I've spent 25 years working with research chemists, physicists, and biologists, and authored or co-authored several scientific papers.

To be fair, working on computational methods, not experimental laboratory science.

To be clear, nothing in this thread nor in the linked-to essay was specifically about laboratory science.

Your ad hominem argument is noted, and giggled at.
This is complex. Measles risk depends on how many other people are vaccinated. Right now the US is above herd immunity rates meaning that for everybody the risk is insignificant. However we are close to a tipping point, if vaccination rates go much lower the risk for everybody increases dramatically (but how much I don't know). Note that risk for everybody is just that: for some vaccinated people the vaccination doesn't work (As I recall it is about 95% works) - the risk is drastically higher for the non-vaccinated of course.

If it is only one person in isolation asking this question the risk of vaccines is worse than the risk of the disease - but if more than one person asks this questions the risk of measles for everybody is higher.

There is also the risk that some mutation of the virus will evade the current vaccine. I don't know how big that risk is (the flu mutates such that a new vaccine is needed yearly), at which point everybody is vulnerable. If enough people are vaccinated the disease has many less opportunities for this and will die.
I found D 10 years before and it had the same stale feeling it seems to irradiating today and this is turning people away

The truth is it was good enough for most uses already but people waited out for someone to step up and make things better before they felt it would be worth trying D

D really shines if you do greenfield projects where you have the luxury to reinvent some wheels. Its surprisingly pleasant to see a lot of boilerplate one might expect to accumulate to just not be there because it’s either generated or is just not necessary because the language is flexible enough
Oh sure, in general these kinds of things tend to be bordering on malware. But this specifically doesn't seem to be too horrible.
There’s no good reason to apply the word “Celtic” to the pre-Germanic inhabitants of the British Isles, other than some linguistic affinity. No ethnic affinity has been demonstrated. The word should be reserved for continental European cultures, as the Romans used it.
I was confused by this too. I've been wearing hearing aids all my life, and my latest pair (bought in 2014) was always able to connect to my iPhone via bluetooth. How is this new "Bluetooth LE Audio" different from what we have today?

It would be nice if I could connect my hearing aids to my computer and listen to skype calls, music, youtube, etc. But so far I've only been able to connect to iOS and Android devices. Maybe this change will fix that?
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Well, I'm a smoker so I am already set up to die to cancer.
We never moved out of nuclear, we only outsourced the danger to neighbouring countrys. Some of the new energy providers beyond the border are so unsafe, the local government has to distribute iodine for the worst case. (Aachen)
So all in all, irrational, yes.
Non, nuclear, no.
Falling asleep on the zafu is definitely an obstacle many people struggle with, especially at first, and has been even before antihistamines. Do you think all those people are probably on the wrong path, too?

I find acetic practices like putting vinegar in my salad helpful to meditation at times.
The only interesting hypothetical I've heard in support of surveillance is when/if some armageddon level technology becomes cheap and easy to employ. If nuclear weapons, self-replicating nanobots, designer viruses didn't happen to require the resources of a wealthy state, then extremely invasive and automated surveillance may be the only thing that can protect us from random trolls wiping out the planet. The risk of surveillance abuse is still there, but would be weighed against the benefits.
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If net importing was up then it means we've "outsourced" our polluting.

Also, the type of emissions matters, with some pollutants being more greenhouse-y than others.
Well... gamers. That was what started this whole thread, was someone asking for a NUC-sized AMD machine to use as a SteamBox.

My argument is that that product category doesn't really make sense. You either want a gaming machine in which case it's going under a TV and you'll get way better bang for your buck in the Mini ITX form factor, or you don't want a gaming machine in which case you probably just want a laptop, or an iMac replacement (but either way, no discrete graphics).
I'm open to the idea that there isn't a better default, but that doesn't make it less annoying.

Another option would be to fail and prompt the user to configure an editor preference. That wouldn't be much different (to me) than what it does now.
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People who write Go are Gophers. People who write in Rust are Rustaceans. People who write in Beef are Beefeaters? Carnivores?

Asking the tough questions here.
> - My "daily driver" is still a large Dodge Ram - though I rarely ever drive it and certainly not daily, but occasionally I need it. It's an '09 so I've had it for quite a while. I want to replace it with something less ridiculous, but our lease on the Honda HRV is up so that'll take priority. Something electric if possible though our house is old and there's nowhere to install a charger.

I've heard that replacing your gas guzzler with an electric car can actually generate more carbon by virtue of the carbon emissions associated with the manufacture of electric vehicles, and consequently you're better off driving your gas guzzler til it dies before going electric. I'd be very curious to hear from people who know more about this. Intuiting about emissions is really hard, unfortunately (which is why I'm curious about carbon offsets as a solution).
ASRC is a fun case. The Alaska Native corporations were set up in the 70s to settle land claim lawsuits and to provide Alaska Natives a way to a better economic future.

From what I understand, the federal government sets aside contracts for small businesses owned by certain disadvantaged classes (disabled veterans, women, Alaska Natives, etc). But apparently ASRC is able to continually spin off wholly-owned subsidiaries that are considered Alaska Native-owned small businesses, even if the overall ASRC is too big to qualify for those set-aside contracts.

Today ASRC is the most successful of the Alaska Native corporations, but along the way has basically become an evil oil company mixed with an evil government contracting company. But hey, they give each of their Inupiat shareholders a multi-thousand dollar dividend every year, so they seem to be a necessary evil.

Notably, ASRC just quit the Alaska Federation of Natives, basically because the AFN acknowledges a climate emergency but ASRC just wants to keep drilling for more oil.

I've also noticed ASRC contains a fair amount of what might be seen as nepotism elsewhere. The CEO's family and the chairman's family are certainly well represented in the company's ranks. But on the other hand there aren't a whole lot of employers in the North Slope so maybe that's just to be expected.
Institute carbon pricing and nuclear will be competitive. Solar can only deliver 40-50% of overall demand because the rest of the energy consumption happens at night. If the carbon costs are high enough, solar + gas will be more expensive than nuclear.
Artificial outside? If the ship, for lack of a better term, were big enough its conceivable that you could have a larger open area with grass and trees which would feel much like a park.

Could even paint the roof blue.
Yes, I agree that GTD isn't a one-size-fits-all solution.

David Allen, in GTD, recommends an alphabetized system. Something that I don't do because all of my reference material is digitized and easily searchable.

Search-ability is the primary reason I avoid keeping a large physical file system.

I take inspiration from multiple books written about productivity and organization. Other books that have been highly influential in my systems are:

- Principles (Dalio)

- The ONE Thing (Keller)

- Organize Tomorrow Today (Selk, Bartow)

- Productivity Planner (more of a journal than a book)
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Off topic: did you sell your house? :)
Interesting, both Chrome and Firefox seem to show the Punycode encoding after I enter the emoji in the URL for me.

Do browsers always show the Punycode encoding, or do they show the encoded glyphs only in some scenarios? I can't find examples of Punycode in the wild used by normal websites.
Renewables aren't a rounding error, unless you consider multiple percentage points of growth in every power market in the 2010s as rounding errors. Yes LNG has accounted for 3 or 4X the coal closures, however renewables don't incur methane leakage. Overall, both renewables and LNG are greening the grid by killing coal.
Genuine question: why should we put solar panels on our roofs versus investing in a solar coop or buying solar power directly? I would think the latter options would be more cost-effective/efficient (it's more efficient to service one solar farm than the equivalent number of panels on roofs scattered across a community, etc).
interesting, thanks for the insight
That would depend on how you've set up your compiler.
I contributed an idea to one of these and was contacted by someone who wanted to contract with me to build a tool. That's not what I wanted. I didn't want to spend $15k to get someone to make something for me. I wanted to say "this is annoying to me. If that gives you a hint as to something that you could build, that's awesome: I'll pay you $7 / month".

What I definitely did not desire is a bespoke solution. I can go get that from a contracting website.

What I also definitely didn't desire is wanting to research things so I can create a nice opportunity for you. That's a waste of my time. I can just pay someone on Upwork to research for me.
Just like HN, no?
Already there.

P.S. click the link to see the spec...
"We all learn the same" is not the correct conclusion to draw from this report. The only thing this report claims is that all existing studies about differing learning styles are flawed and therefore not reliable.

The actual conclusion, straight from the source you linked:

"But psychological research has not found that people learn differently, at least not in the ways learning-styles proponents claim."
I wonder how much success there's been in hiding the version information from visibility by any software... Obviously the cheat developer could just hash the game files directly and halt if there's a discrepancy between the known-vulnerable versions, but it'd be interesting to see whether that was tried with any highly-cheated-in games.
Fair enough, however the I would counter that the JMT can be sectioned, though not necessarily as day hikes. Other than the permit requirement it is way more accessible and less difficult than the Enchantments (don't get me wrong, they're both hard). I agree the JMT is the best hike in CA. I see how Yellow Aster could be considered the best hike in WA, the Enchantments is just different and special in its own unique way.
The first few years (2 or 3 in my case), is tough. You don’t get any more RSU hence you need to stick with it. After that period, I got awarded more every performance review. So, the vested schedule is bearable but I still feel it is a golden handcuff. If I quit I would lose any unvested shares (1-2 years from now).
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I'm particularly interested in some kind of overview of what your goals were, what you learned in the process, and what was particularly successful or unsuccessful.

I've had similar aspirations before but without a strong background in actually running a business and knowing how much work goes into the management, I've been unable to determine if the work effort to automate a large portion of it is worth the time.
They sell your activity to data mining companies, retargeting, and ad replacements you’ll never notice; also your email and related profile to marketers. They have your logs. Not having them is a huge liability for them, you have absolutely zero reason to believe they don’t.

https://thenextweb.com/insider/2017/10/10/purevpns-non-exist...
I'd definitely subscribe if you blogged about your efforts.
Thorough note-taking from a live stream is only appropriate when it's impossible to record.

In school, thorough note-taking during lecture is a terrible idea. Only jot down your own questions to follow up on later; don't copy the material.
Record the material and replay it later to review.

Note-talking "offline", at your own pace, from a book or a recording, is a great way to build your memory of the material.
The only scenarios where using a low yield nuke make sense are the deliberate and calculated scenarios (with the Soviet example again being unique is the sense that the submarine had no contact with outside command, and with the submarine being the only option for using a tactical nuke should the rules of engagement warrant it). As there are always superior tactical options to a low yield nuke, and it will always be a incredibly terrible strategic option, there is essentially no basis for speculating this will ever happen, outside of having a nuclear war already taking place. Even in such a scenario, it’s hard to imagine how low yield devices fit into a MAD strategy. The MOAB has an equivalent yield to some tactical nukes, it’s only been used once, and was arguably chosen as a show of force (and in a very particular scenario where collateral damage was minimized). A strategy that makes no sense with a nuke.

There’s clearly no basis for thinking anybody is likely to want to use one, and the hypothetical examples of where use would be most plausible are frankly still very, very implausible.
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I believe unordered_map does invalidate integrators on resize, but does not invalidate references to keys/data, which means the data can’t be stored inline with the hash table structure.
Griefers.
I’ll laugh about this now but then probably find out later that it was actually based on an obscure teletype terminal that actually had an “qa” key.
“BTW, without even discussing the evidence you gave to the question on topic, I would like to respond with whataboutism because I don’t like the answer.”
I am spreading the knowledge that individualized improvements are not nearly enough and we have to change the structure of our entire economy to save the environment. I am optimizing my life to organize around that.

I also think it can only be done through an international planned economy, seeing as capitalist nation states keep going to war against each other and prioritize short term gains in their competition with one another.
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Products with Bluetooth 5.0 are a lot easier to use than Bluetooth 2.0 from 10+ years back, in my opinion.
Yeah I've messed with dynamic range a bit, even got caught by the 24/96 hype for a while. But after running my own blind tests, I couldn't tell any difference with it.
Struct destructors are always deterministic: https://dlang.org/spec/struct.html#struct-destructor

Class destructors can be declared deterministic with the "scope" keyword: https://dlang.org/spec/attribute.html#scope

Scope guards are useful if you cannot change the data type itself.
That's not what your link says. The link says no one is a pure visual or auditory learner.
This book tries to argue that we've got as close to objective truth about the universe as we'll ever do:

https://www.amazon.com/End-Science-Knowledge-Twilight-Scient...

and that most remaining science is just find of filling in the tiny bits.

I personally don't expect anything that will change with respect to backwards time travel or faster than light travel.
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I love updates so much I run Nightly!
I think the reason earth-like exoplanets generate so much interest is not because of the terraforming / colonization potential but rather because they are more likely places where we might find alien life.
You have to account for methane leakage too though.
In Theravada Buddhism becoming an Arhat is the gaining of wisdom / loss of ignorance into dependent arising of suffering. You could make the argument that is philosophy, philosophy into the ultimate.

If you meditate without learning and growing and analyzing the causality of different kinds of suffering (that is, psychological stress) eventually overcoming them, you'll never become enlightened. If anything, the analyzing type is the ideal type for enlightenment. Maybe not for meditation, but definitely for figuring things out. A trick is to not get in the way of what you're observing. If it feels bad there is a natural tendency to try to change it, but if you're changing it, then you can't observe it in a clear and scientific way hampering learning and growth. If you want to try to figure out solutions to suffering, it can be done after meditating, but meditation itself is not getting involved, beyond setting breakpoints (called noting) to accelerate awareness if the same problem arises.

If you find yourself getting involved in stressful ruminations, it is helpful to remember that stress/suffering is impermanent and will disappear on its own without any involvement, so you can relax even while stressed. This has the side effect of increasing awareness because involvement decreases awareness. However, being avoidant outside of meditation often makes the problem worse, so it is important to not have aversion. There needs to be a middle ground here, as with everything else.
Record the lecture, so you can replay a high quality copy instead of a badly rushed copy.