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You're right that individual action isn't enough. But individual action does also have an impact. Commuter cars and SUVs (not airplanes, not shipping trucks) are the largest single source of carbon emissions in the US[1], accounting for about 15% of all US carbon emissions[2]. If just 1 in 10 commuters switched to taking public transit instead of driving, that alone would drop US emissions by 1.5%. If public transit became the default method for most transportation, we could realistically lop off 7-10% of US emissions. These are individual choices. It's true local and federal governments could do more to encourage using public transit, but most of that action would be driven by increased demand, which comes from individuals.

Don't fall into the trap that there's no reason to change your own habits because you think individual action doesn't matter. It does. But you're also right that it isn't enough.

[1] US EPA, 2017, "The transportation sector generates the largest share of greenhouse gas emissions. ... The largest sources of transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions include passenger cars and light-duty trucks, including sport utility vehicles, pickup trucks, and minivans. These sources account for over half of the emissions from the transportation sector." https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...

[2] Same source, 29% of emissions from Transportation; more than half that from commuter cars.
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>Large multinationals will move more parts of Chinese supplies to other countries.

The joke is, there is perhaps no point in the next 2 weeks. If the virus so far is as virulent as it seems, there's going to be alot more shutdown countries coming once the incubation periods run down.
Reminds me of the yesterday[1] tool from Plan 9. Pretty much what the author expects, except with textual interface rather than a slider.

OHTF
Vg'f uneq gb hfr guvf pbzznaq jvgubhg fvatvat.

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[1] http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/yesterday
Fun, possibly obvious fact - same creator as Wireguard.
where coalesce(a, '') = coalesce(b, '')
Why would we have wanted to stop WW2? WW2 was an objectively good war for the Allies to fight (not that the Allies had a choice, as it only takes 1 side to start a war).
FUD. The statement that we need drastic changes is not dependent on the details of the projection and is not based on it. Further, climate models have correctly predicted the heating we have already caused.

We have known the rough level of the climate sensitivity (delta T per doubling CO2) in the current macro state for decades. We have observed it. This science is incredibly settled. We don't know where the tipping elements are and we don't know how the impacts will be distributed.

Questioning the credibility of people calling for action might look like you are being the circumspect and rational one, asking for action proportionate to the evidence. In reality you are endorsing an ignorant position that ignores the evidence we have. If this is not wilful ignorance then please read up on this. The IPCC report summary is a good spot to start. Sceptical Science also often provides good writeups: https://skepticalscience.com/climate-sensitivity.htm

The fundamental physics that drive the sensitivity are straightforward. Energy balance and water vapour. That gets you a ballpark figure that is confirmed by the last 100 years of emissions.
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My experience based on a not short career in several industries is that the worst focus killer is a manager who only knows how to put numbers in a spreadsheet. Those numbers have to come from somewhere and that is almost always from bugging their direct reports. These managers feel the need (and some of that is also pressure from their managers doing the same thing) to have a finger on the pulse of what's going on as they claim, but what is really happening is they feel that they have to show how hard they're working. So, they're constantly asking (basically), "is it done yet?".

They best managers I have had are stealthy. They'll monitor from afar mostly (while getting their work done). They get updates during appropriate times. They respect their direct reports and understand that one can't get anything done with constant interruptions. They shield their direct reports from outside interruptions as well. They do, however, interrupt when they get a sense of something slowing down or blocking. They'll work with the individual or team to quickly get things moving again.

Sadly, the former outnumbers the latter by like 9:1.
but modern JavaScript is just as quick to use. Eg, `fetch`, `querySelector`

That's one, trivial, part of JQuery. The real strength of Jquery is the countless UI widgets and libraries built on top of it. I can knock together a quick and easy UI using Jquery, Bootstrap and a handfull of Jquery UI widgets faster than with just about anything else.
Stick it to the man
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You are absolutely correct, but we are not near that point with amateur radio. If you haven't seen what's going on with amateur radio in a while, you might be pleasantly surprised. The hobby has not stagnated or gone away due to the advent of cell phones.
Bullfrog Power isn't a power company. They invest in green energy projects. https://www.bullfrogpower.com/green-energy/projects-and-sour...
I use this exact setup. It's simple, inexpensive and certainly as secure as any paid offering.
I'm learning morse code, and I stream my lessons daily on Youtube [0] and twitch [1] using LCWO [2]. It just takes 10 minutes a day, and if you leave it it's incredibly easy to pick up again, just like riding a bike.

[0] https://youtube.com/c/n0ssc
[1] https://twitch.tv/kawfey
[2] https://lcwo.net/
A new adage: Don't judge a blog by its jarring background and low contrast fonts.
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Please don't try to turn HN into Reddit.
Managing the Hidden Costs of Coordination
> I just know intrinsically that they're useless and it's a waste of time. I just know that 95% of my code works and I know what the 5% I'm unsure about is and what manual testing or browser testing I need to do to clarify it.

I'm with you 100% here. I would even go one step further:

Unit tests, where Bob is writing code to test that the code that Bob writes does what Bob wants it to (that's a mouthful), are pointless. They don't test Bob's assumptions, they don't test for correctness, and they don't test for robustness beyond the corner cases Bob can come up with (if Bob bothers to test robustness beyond ensuring that the coverage metrics hit 100%).

Even if Bob comes back in to refactor the code later, the unit tests begin to fail solely because the code has changed locality. That changed locality means that the unit tests have to change as well, invaliding any usefulness of the original unit tests.
This is a really similar idea to a Chrome extension that exists for Google Docs, Draftback: https://features.jsomers.net/how-i-reverse-engineered-google...
German banks are hoarding so many euros they need more vaults
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I heard this interview with him, and he came across better, though this might be down to the topic being a bit different.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csy6c1
Which files did you experience an error? While we do rate limit the amount of parallel incoming connections, many of our directories have no bandwith limits and the site is hosted colo on a 10gbps line. You can also view our current traffic at https://the-eye.eu/traffic/.
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Even if you ignore the statistical forecasting models, look at the natural disasters occurring every season, and the massive changes happening in glaciers and arctic regions. Forget future projections, what's wrong with acknowledging many historical records are being smashed here and now? Isn't that evidence of climactic change to you?
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My next steps will be writing to my government representatives. I live in Alberta and we just elected a right wing party that scrapped our carbon tax (although we now have a federal carbon tax).
I feel like scroll hijacking is a recent thing, or at least I've started noticing it a lot more in the last few years. It's honestly so jarring 90% of the time, that my initial instinct is to reassess how badly I want to read the content!

I do not have a problem with it for full page scrolls though, which I know a lot of people hate. Or that one page that showcases the scale of the solar system by forcing you to scroll for ages!
Seriously, I've worked with coders where English is a second language, they literally had no idea that the combination of letters making up words we recognise were anything but symbolic of the function.
I would never crowdfund a game that wasn't open source. There is literally no point. If you don't get the source code then you have zero recourse when they decide to jump ship. And if they aren't regularly committing their work to a public git then you have no way to know if they're bullshitting or not.
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> But if cautious, ultra-democratic Debian can opt to retain systemd, then it seems here to stay for the foreseeable future.

Yes, I agree. That's why I'm shifting to BSD.
legit. He's trying to mimic nature and keep the photosynthesis running by using ruminants to speed up the decomposition of organic matter and by timely management, have the regrowth sequester more atmospheric CO2 without overgrazing and compromising the grass plant or ecosystem.
For coronavirus, it doesn't necessarily have to be the death rate as of this moment that should cause worry. Coronavirus can cause ARDS, described here: https://youtu.be/okg7uq_HrhQ

Treating ARDS in a handful of cases isn't so bad. It's treating ARDS in hundreds of thousands of people that's very very bad.

Hospitals can quickly become full and hospitals also rely on supply chains for materials, which would also become overwhelmed.

I'm not saying panic is the right thing to do, because it isn't, but what I am saying is that the quarantines aren't excessive and there's a reason why governments are paying attention.
I'm reminded of Feynman's famous anecdote about the Millikan oil drop experiment: Millikan underestimated the charge of the electron, and over the ensuing years, subsequent measurements slowly but surely converged on the correct value.

Why? Because experimenters who got the correct value figured it must be too high, and ran the experiment again until they got a more-erroneous value, one that was nonetheless higher. Eventually it worked itself out.

But climate modeling isn't measuring something objective and static like the charge of the electron. It's prediction. I'm afraid that the incentives are to credit models that predict more warming just a bit more than those which predict less; the expected effect would be that the predicted warming effect would get larger over time.

Please note that I'm not calling climate science a "Cargo Cult", as Feynman put it; I accept the basic premise of anthropogenic warming on first principles, and see that historic measurements (not to speak of recent ones) show a warming trend. There is cause to be concerned.

Nonetheless, it would be surprising if climate modeling, which is inherently inexact and involves irreducible guesswork, didn't drift toward the more alarming, due to similar social forces to those identified in Feynman's essay.
Yes, I solved it, but not by that method. When I talked about "basic modular arithmetic" I didn't mean repeated addition and the usage of "mod"; I mean that I used certain basic operation which gets taught in any introductory discrete math program. Sorry if I don't get very specific, I don't want to spoil it :). A suggestion: think about the end of the sequence and move backwards from there.
Ask HN: Software Valuation and Quality Assurance
Are there reliable software valuation methodologies that consider the extent to which the software product meets QA standards?
Especially because they seem to test it by making it predict history, but we don't have anywhere near the same amount of historical data. So what are you testing, really? Just that it accurately finds average temps?
This is a sexist institution.
Your description of how things are is exactly how Thomas Kuhn describes the process of "Normal Science" in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Cracks in our understanding grow, and patchwork theories are put around those contradictions, but eventually the dam breaks and a scientific revolution reshapes the way we think about a subject.
I feel like you're missing my point, but I'll concede it may have been a bad example, even though I find it hard to argue that it was good that all those people died, which would be a child's understanding of the event.
I switched from Keepass to 1Password recently and couldn't be happier with the decision. I think I could have dealt with Keepass forever if it was just me - but my non technical partner needs access to the family passwords and accounts too. Using 1Password has been a huge boost in my password management because my partner just didn't want to use Keepass and so would just use her default username and password when signing up for new stuff. Now it's so easy that she's 100% on board, and I have to say that the ease of use for 1Password vs Keepass feels well worth the money.
Daily targets can be okay as long reports like "I tried these and none of them worked for the problem I'm trying to solve." or "There is new XCode update which broke my build and I'm still trying to figure out why." are accepted as progress.
Related article discussing the coronavirus papers: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3b3v5/archivists-are-byp...
> the military would be the first to occupy

What's your reasoning here? The purpose of the military is to defend valuables from others. Deploying military to Mars is as likely as deploying military to the Antarctic.

Scientists will be the first and probably last to occupy. Difficult to imagine it will ever expand much beyond research missions. The Antarctic environment is far less harsh than Mars and no-one maintains a permanent base there.
> You have some novel research that seems to contradict well-established consenus. It comes under close scrutiny, because science tends to be conservative.

Indeed, even people we nowadays consider brilliant minds of their time, encountered plenty of resistance [0] during these very same times because their proposed ideas just seemed too outrageous.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_theory_of_rel...
If each unique symbol for a number was made up of smaller symbols arranged using a simple algorithm you wouldn't necessarily need to memorize them all. Kind of like Roman numerals, but much a bit more complex.

I don't have to remember the exact symbol for 2,020 in Roman numerals, because I can figure it out. In fact, I have no idea what it would be without sitting down and doing so.

I'm not saying it would be a good system, but it could be usable by mere mortals. I guess you could debate if this would really be "10,000 unique symbols" or just something akin to our current writing system for numbers.
I literally watched the select dropdown jitter all over the place scrolling on mobile. It's bad. The native controls don't require a library and are fine. And all of the event handling and HTML5 form validation works as expected.
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if every person being upset with how Elon allocates resources allocated $100 to the "proper cause" it would amount to orders of magnitude more $.
Ah, thanks. I have no idea why academic papers don't have the date right under the title. That's what's nice about papers on arxiv, the date is right there on the left margin of the first page.
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You don't want to work for these companies.
If there's no strong evidence of a large effect one way or the other and everyone has their own anecdotes pointing in different directions, is it really worth worrying about? If you can say anything, it's that humans are highly adaptable to many different diets like no meat, high meat, low carb, high carb etc.

Reducing meat is one of the biggest ways to reduce your own personal carbon footprint and reduce animal suffering. Those two reasons are good enough.
I believe you are confusing best with common here.
malloc: Have a big static block of uint8_t and return pointers from it.

exit: longjmp.