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Solarpunk is to solar technology as steampunk is to the industrial revolution. I mean that pejoratively. These x-punks are generally an aesthetic set-dressed with anachronistic and impossible developments that don't mesh together. (Though I suppose I would also say that of most cyberpunk written this century.)

I would like more SF authors working mostly within the constraints of known physics and considering how ecosystems work as well as considering the engineering details of their fictional spacecraft. Kim Stanley Robinson, cited in this article, is one of the finest authors currently doing that. But I don't think that he has described his own work as solarpunk. Most of his novels feature cooperation and institutions on a large scale, along with a more sophisticated and larger technological base than Earth currently has. If his novels are solarpunk, most of them are incompatible with this exhortation to solarpunk in the article:

Solarpunk should move quietly and plant things. Don’t ask permission from a state beholden to oligarchs, and definitely don’t expect those oligarchs to do any of this for you. Guerilla gardening is the model, but look further. Guerilla solar panel installation. Guerilla water treatment facility restoration. Guerilla magnificent temple to the human spirit construction. Guerilla carbon sequestration megastructure creation.

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When Andrew Dana Hudson talks of guerilla solar panel installation he’s not joking. These things are real. The reason you don’t know about them is because these are things you build, not buy. Daniel Connell has tutorials for all kinds of tech. He has a $30 1Kw Wind Turbine, a $5 water filter and a $5 combustion stove built almost entirely from recycled parts.

You can't guerilla garden your way to a solar panel factory, megastructures, or space colonies. The solutions to the vast lingering hangover of 20th century problems, like global warming, are going to be vast as well if they are to be solutions at all. Just dodging The Man and doing your own thing when he's not looking is not a hopeful vision of the future. It's an admission of defeat. It's saying that institutions suck and will continue to suck, so we might as well spend our lives LARPing.

I think that some of this failure of vision is because English speaking readers and writers of SF imagine that the corruptions specific to their local institutions are global. They suppose that every country has a local oil lobby, a local copyright lobby, a local pharma lobby. Therefore the failure of American institutions to take climate change seriously, or to really balance copyright for the long term best interests of the public, is insoluble everywhere. But this is not true! Other countries are not free of special interests but their institutions favor different special interests. There are countries where fossil fuels are nothing more than an irritating import dependency, and there's no domestic lobbying to burn fossils longer than technically necessary. But since the UK, US, Canada, and Australia all produce large quantities of fossil fuels, it feels like the political sway of those industries is more universal than it actually is.
That's true and it's only recently that I realized the importance of it. It's imperious that patients be accompanied by a loved one or someone they can trust to look out for their interests and provide an adversarial viewpoint to the medical staff. Patients who are gravely injured/sick can not advocate for themselves and doctors will not listen.

I was recently hospitalized after an accident and was unable to have any family with me because of covid measures. As a result I received the worst medical care I've ever experienced. Including but not limited to: waiting 8 hours in the ER with four broken limbs and no painkillers, having procedures done with no painkillers that required them, being given dangerous dosages of drugs because of a miscommunication between teams despite my protests, having sequels from surgeries that were never addressed by the medical team and that I was too high to ask about, having to program my own medical bed so that it'd stop shaking my broken limbs after 5 hours of unanswered pleading with the staff, having to solve severe complications from the drugs with the help of my family doctor, not eating anything for a week without anybody getting worried... I could go on. I'd experienced similar issues during previous hospital stays, these sort of things happen regularly in hospitals, but I always had someone trustworthy with me to point them out and make a fuss before they became real problems.
Wouldn’t it push people to higher cost and higher margin products (locally made or from more ethical sources) and thereby increase their profits? Seems to me like you could make a strong case for it
First, that is really neat - thanks for sharing. The fragility of that installation makes me nervous though. Pretty easy to bump it with a knee or catch something on it and pull some wires out! But you've got some great documentation via the article.
I understand where they're coming from but could they not loosen the rules for the person who has a clearly visible injury?

Could they not check the chart? Is there even a chart anymore?
How would the UN giving people asylum work? AFAIK the only territories administered by the UN are in Syria, Kosovo and Cyprus. I don't think they'd send asylum seekers there..
I wonder if we are seeing a blow-back against this cult. In high school, I remember that it wasn't "cool" to really excel academically -- but part of that was just a reaction to the fact that academic excellence involves a bunch of bullshit, like being good at test-taking, memorizing irrelevant facts that adults decided were important, etc.

Yes, I was a goody-two-shoes who enjoyed getting gold stars from adults. But, my parents also motivated me with sermons threatening the hell of flipping burgers all my life if I didn't knock it out of the park. It's fucked up to put that much pressure on kids. Some people just don't have the ability, so we can't pretend that STEM degrees are a panacea. I happened to like science & be good at it, but I've taught/tutored enough to know that it's not for everyone.

Much of the value of a degree is simply as a marker, not as value-added by the process of getting the degree. We're seeing an expansion in the number of roles that require degrees, but this may be just as much a consequence of the declining selectivity of a degree, not that the average job is increasingly requiring workers with higher skill levels. At some point, this becomes detrimental to the overall productivity of society, and for individuals.

It's unfortunate that talking about equality of outcome vs equality of opportunity has become a third rail in (neo)liberal circles.

>we have a talent deficit in our teaching core. The only way to fix that problem is to make the profession more attractive.

Another no-brainer that we should really work on!
In that context youtube-dl would be a camera which most assuredly isn't illegal.

In the criminal sense, you're correct.

In the civil law sense, you'd be wrong. Using a camera to record a performance is an act of copying and is subject to copyright law. Generally, if the performers and/or the owner of the copyright don't give you permission to record the show, you don't have the right to do so. (Note that taking pictures or recording short clips is usually but not always regarded as fair use. Recording an entire performance without permission is rarely treated as fair use.)

However, recording the performance is also an act of creation, resulting in a derivative work that has its own copyright, but one which is useless without a copyright license to the underlying performance.
The whole point of HIT is that you get all of the cardiovascular benefits of endurance sports without the repetitive stress injuries.

And the current evidence is that your maximum exertion is what matters, not time spent exercising. So someone that does a few sprints, to max intensity, over 20 minutes actually will have better cardiovascular health than someone that runs or jogs for an hour or more.

If you’re sprinting at full exertion for a few minutes, you’re able to hit a much higher max than you would if you were running long distance.
It is effectively routing by public key - similar to how a Tor hidden service doesn't require DNS or TLS CAs for you to connect securely to it. The underlying tech we use is p2p streams in libp2p (part of IPFS) which allow you to dial a public key. The actual IPs of the node are looked up in a DHT, and then the connection can be authenticated without a CA because you already have the public key (the stream itself is TLS1.3). Any file/dir chunk in Peergos has an address which has 3 parts (owner public key, writer public key, and a random 32 byte label). Most data is content addressed, so no need for location based addressing at all. Modifications need to be routed to the owners storage server, which is done using the p2p stream method just described.
That would cost Amazon money.

Besides, the rules around country of origin are complicated, and some countries have product description law about this. And what's to stop Amazon sellers sticking fake country of origin on, as they can already do for CE marking?

Or the reverse: Amazon stick a China flag on iPhones. Apple are going to get extremely upset about this and sue/offer money to change that to a US flag.

The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Anti-Boycott_Act may make it illegal to force Israeli sellers to identify their country of origin.
Even better would be a cat walking by and causing the whole thing to raise up suddenly :)
Either if that passkey is forgotten no one can own the land anymore, or there is a central authority (court) that can reallocate land, at which point there is no need for the decentralized trust of a blockchain.
Recurring Events and PostgreSQL
Psychotherapy centre data breach victims receive extortion emails
It honestly seems like technology affects older generations more than newer ones. Look at the people most susceptible to fake news online, vast majority over the age of 50. Younger people understand how the internet works; you can’t trust everything you read online.
No... I'm not sure where people get the idea that Git provides what a blockchain does.

The biggest hiccup with this proposal is that whoever is provisioning the Git repository (most likely us) would also have the ability to change read/write permissions. This is not the case on a public blockchain. With the solution you describe, we would basically be running our own psuedo-private blockchain, with no advantages over a private blockchain like IBM Hyperledger.

But we use a public blockchain for a reason.
Useless when Apple won't activate them anymore.
What leads you to belive that he is lying?
Uh, bet on the other guy
> (On a given architecture)

Yes this is a good caveat. When I've tried the OpenSSL implementations on older ARM chips (a Raspberry Pi Zero), I've seen MD5 come out on top. I'm not sure exactly why it switches.
He thinks passing around the world state as a functional immutable data structure is “gross”, but modifying the same state as a global from anywhere in the program... isn’t?
Comparing canine brains using 3D-endocast modelling
I think this is referred to as "the oracle problem" in Blockchain
A cool initiative that applies time-stamping on blockchain to fight fake news/increase accountability in online publishing is https://wordproof.com/.

I've been trying to analyze the robustness of their approach but I think their hashing algorithm (sha of json content blob) and the trustworthiness of the blockchain (they use EOS) are the two only components. Can someone who has more background in cryptography and blockchains perhaps share some thoughts about their approach?
This article only touches the surface on how bad it is.

Read about what they do to women, what they're doing in their temples, etc. And the surveillance too.

To buy a kitchen knife, they have to engrave it with a barcode which registers the knife to their name.
My solution is that bash_profile simply runs bashrc, and bashrc starts with:

if [ -n "$PS1" ]; then

That seems to work fine everywhere.
>but as far as I could discern, almost nothing like that had come from flying

How would you determine this without solid contact-tracing? Nearly all of the cases where I'm at are associated with "international travel", so at least some of that has to come from planes.
Read the introduction and conclusion for usecases. Self-hosted FaaS gives a "serverless" hands-off experience, whilst making packaging and operating flask, Go, Node, Express, CSharp, etc, etc trivial. Try it, see what you think.
So, you're saying assimilate or die? What is this humanity or the borg collective?

Seriously, this is some black-mirror take on how society should function. Fascism doesn't even begin to cut it:

Fit in, or die. Be the same as everyone else or die. No originality allowed or die. Sounds like a lovely world you envision living in.
Another fantastic post! Just one minor point for anyone just browsing the title - bootstrap loads were of course also used in 4004 which preceded the 8008.

Bootstrap loads get a mention in Federico Faggin's presentation on the 4004 at the 35th anniversary CHM presentation - it's a really interesting and engaging talk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j00AULJLCNo&t=26m0s

I think it's reasonably clear without bootstrap loads and the other innovations that Dr Faggin pioneered then Intel wouldn't have had the early lead in the microprocessor market which they were able ultimately to convert in a dominant position with x86.
Yeah, I should have worded that better. I was referring to Youtube's license with the RIAA, since Youtube doesn't provide a copyright license to its users for content licensed from third parties.

If the license between the RIAA (or other licensor) and Youtube allowed visitors to make permanent copies of Youtube streams, then downloading a Youtube video would not be a copyright violation. But generally, having entered into streaming and downloading licensing agreements with the RIAA before, I would be extremely surprised if the RIAA would enter into such a license with Youtube, as it would kill sales of digital music downloads if people could just download permanent copies of Youtube videos instead for free.

If you own the copyright and upload a video to Youtube, then it wouldn't be a copyright violation to download that video from Youtube.
The US won't let you just sue foreign governments in its courts like that.

"Manhattan federal judge George Daniels signed off on a pro forma default order Monday against 'the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran'"

https://nypost.com/2018/05/01/9-11-victims-families-win-mult...
I've dislocated my shoulder once and it was reset without any pain killers.

While the method indeed is quite similar to medieval torture, it was certainly not the worst pain I experienced that day.

Although I might have been lucky that the doctor worked in a ski resort and was very skilled in "the art of resetting shoulders".
Just throwing the entire design at the synthesizer these days seems to be pretty close to a collection of hand laid out hard macros. The synthesizer being a lot more aggressive about optimizing out signals that leave the macro (and downstream uses of those signals, so those global optimizations that are hard for a human to see) seems to make up for it's deficiencies with perfect local layout.
This isn't docker, it's containerd and once deployed this is mostly read-only. You can also mount a USB hard drive of NVMe over USB if you want.

Personally, I netboot my RPis, and faasd works equally well on the public cloud.
> Most importantly Solarpunk is a rejection of dystopic fears and a return to hope, not as a con-trick, but as a construct.

Yeah I just don't find that to be very "punk." In cyberpunk, we have drug-addicted hackers, alienated from society. "Solarpunk," to me, sounds pretty wholesome and very much in line with the direction that society wants to go.
ZeroMQ's variety of socket semantics is great, and it does a good job abstracting away the messy details of TCP. You can build rather complicated systems on top of it much easier and faster than you could using raw sockets. The implementation itself has some rough spots, such as the multi threading. I really like the elegance of nanomsg, but it never really got the same polish that ZeroMQ did. I wouldn't expect the same raw throughput as a hand-tuned TCP based protocol, but it's generally more than fast enough for most use cases.

I believe the original developer passed away a few years ago?
As a US resideny, I'd rather have Sweden able to introspect my traffic rather than the US.
That was exactly my thought as well. Why do we need to start polarizing the workplace now too?
Behind a paywall. Anything noteworthy in this interview for this audience?
> We should focus on what people really need to live quality lives, which is...

Which is what maybe ~1% of the most wealthy and lucky of human population currently get, some of the time.

> and then the rest of Maslow's hierarchy.

Oh wow, I like Maslow's "hierarchy". Although satisfaction of the human needs laid out there defy "provision", they are to be earned and achieved by the person.

> Cars, TV, home appliances, and the whole lot of today's energy-hungry living isn't sustainable, and I'd argue isn't even the thing we should be shooting for.

The very things which people invented, and are willing to pay for, to further themselves in the satisfaction of their needs. Which needs are laid out in Maslow's theory of motivation.

I presume you do realise this. Could you please explain how do you resolve this conflict?

A. Provision every human being with complete satisfaction of entire set of needs (bodily, security, society, esteem, knowledge, beauty, self-actualization and transcendence).

B. Take away from people, and punish them for having devices which are universally known to affordably address specific and provably existing human needs.

How do you propose to do A (at all), and then insist on B?

Am I right that you are a communist? Would you like to have a chance to live in the USSR?
This doesn't make sense. What are the repercussions if they change product direction? They can just ditch the blockchain along with the parts of the product they committed to.
GP's point is that long distance runners are also doing HIIT if their training is managed properly.
Can someone ELI5? Is it just a parser for Rust concrete syntax tree?
My first one with the opiates was at a ski resort too! First run of the day, dislocated on the bunny run. Ironically, it relocated itself when I stood up, so I was like, "oh hey it's ok!". Then I started doing arm circles to prove it was ok, and that's when it got stuck out. :(
Over here in the UK they generally mean well, almost without fault every one of my specialists, doctors and nurses have been awesome.

That said man do they fuck up, most recently was a fun one, I had a scheduled appointment, turned up for it, doctor was in his treatment room seeing patients, forgot to see me and went for lunch.

I mean it's minor but I'd checked in, the computer had me as waiting but he'd looked at the list, not seen me and went for lunch - I spoke to the nurse told her I didn't mind waiting while he ate and she tracked him down, he was incredibly apologetic (unnecessarily so, shit happens).

It's inevitable in a system as complex as healthcare that mistakes are going to be made but we probably should assess the proximal causes much like the airlines/plane manufacturers did to reduce the incidence.
Yes.. working on that one, they don't have e2e testing equipment and don't have a personal interest in it so default to not doing anything about it. In the meantime armhf and arm64 are available here, along with custom build instructions - https://github.com/alexellis/containerd-arm
Many corporations accept using GPLv2 code to some extent, while GPLv3 is just a red flag. Tivoization is one problem. If you have GPLv3 in your (embedded) product, you must provide tools to the customer to reflash it. Many corporations don't want that, and in cases where type appovals are required it might be illegal. Think of a car owner reprogramming the engine control unit or the brakes.

That's probably all not very applicable to gdb, but corporate policies might not allow such a nuanced perspective.
We’ve reached a sad state where any criticism of a non-white country or government is regarded as “racist” or “xenophobic.”

Sadly if there were any Chinese team members that heard you and took offense, you could have been reported as saying racist things in the workplace.

This is what is silencing people and politicians from speaking the truth on China and other oppressive governments.
I find this deeply confusing.

- The distinction between integrating information in time vs in space is not clear to me. The author talks about how EM fields "instantly computes" solutions to physical equilibrium problems (how will iron filings be arranged, etc), but also how "dynamic EM field information" can do computations like AND. Doesn't that mean we're talking about computation/information processing that unfolds in both time and space (like everything else?)

- But more fundamentally, I don't see why consciousness is better explained by neurons influencing each other through their EM fields rather than just the normal, slower, ion gate / axon / synapse / neurotransmitter / etc way we already know they interact?

- And I don't get the local vs global distinction the author tries to draw:

> I estimated that the EM field electrical perturbation from the firing of a single neuron extends into a volume of only about 80 µm encompassing a maximum of about 200 neurons

> within the brain, the light cones of all the trillions of emitted photon will almost entirely overlap. Any charged particle in the brain (or outside, but with rapidly diminishing probability) can potentially be the receiver of any of the trillions of emitted 10 bit packages of information available in the entire field

... so it sounds like the author thinks both locality and global reach are important?

But I think mostly, I don't get why the distance-weighted-sum way that EM field information gets integrated together would give you anything better than a noisy jumble. The complexity of our behavior and experience seems much more likely to be explained in the connection and interactions among neurons, where the 'summation' is both complex and informed by the complicated way neurons have wired together. But I don't see how any of this begins to approach the subjective side of things, even though he name-drops Nagel.
Airbus to keep A320 output at 40 per month
It's very possible to have a TOS violation but not a copyright violation if you're the copyright owner of the video being downloaded.

Owning the copyright means you don't violate the copyright in making a copy, but that doesn't mean you get to make that copy through any means; you still have to use legal means, and for a website, that means methods that are acceptable under the TOS of that website.
Honestly, I see us heading towards a world war... w/ water becoming precious commodity - I can't see who's gonna win, or even what the pairings might be...

Maybe EU, USA, Canada, India, Israel, Japan vs China, Russia, N. Korea, Iran, Saudia Arabia?

Except there's some racism/xenophobia between Russia, Islam, China, so maybe not...

But a lot of those places lack water, so that could be motivating factor for more strife, and ignite border clashes, and we might pick sides and others pick their sides and before long it's everywhere and everyone fighting.
It's "wolf warrior".

Avoiding Chinese made products isn't a practical solution. Contract manufacturing needs to move elsewhere.