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I agree .. I've been hacking away on the PineWatch as a platform for the last few months, mostly to teach myself baremetal Rust, and it is an extraordinarily satisfying circumstance to be able to tell time on a watch running my own code. The hardware is decent for the price (very cheap), and it is so very, very refreshingly open.

I will pick up a PinePhone as soon as possible, based on this experience, and I'm probably going to be a Pine stalwart for the next few years, at least, as a general platform. These guys are finally delivering devices that we developers can be happy to get involved in.

I say that as a dev with years of iOS experience, where I am currently fatigued with having to keep up with yet more proprietary bollocks from Apple: the future of these devices is open.
And of course this comment completely epitomises the hand-wringing, pearl-clutching “won’t somebody please think of the economy!!” liberal centrism that results in absolutely fuck-all happening.

A non-binding commitment that tells industry “in ten years you folks will need to be in a position to switch to a technology which is already reasonably viable so better get scaling” is a pretty milquetoast effort, and describing it as “climate hysterics” is obvious nonsense. This general plan of banning new sales by 2030 seems to be emerging as a bit of a consensus in different countries, and it looks like a pretty necessary step.

You should be much more worried about this problem than you are, and this worry should translate into pressure on all governments globally to build credible plans for decarbonisation. Those plans should include the use of global trade measures to influence countries who aren’t meeting decarbonisation targets. Continuing to put off essential measures achieves little other than making them vastly more economically damaging when they are implemented later.
The US should therefore not initiate firing nukes at China unless a substantial number of US cities have already been hit, because doing so would all but guarantee that those cities would be hit by China in the next volley.

A ballistic launch towards NK looks an awful lot like a ballistic launch towards China, is the problem there. Will China "wait and see" where it lands?
> Petrol cars will be mainstay of transportation for about 40-50 years and will dominate new car sales for at least 20-30 years depending on the country.

I disagree. i think the timescale for the switchover to electric vehicles (and self-driving vehicles) will be shorter than that.
Not having a private drive is mostly an issue in London, where curbside chargers are already being built all over the city.

Here's an example of the light pole chargers that are being installed in residential areas in London:

https://www.ubitricity.co.uk/b2b-local-authorities/

They deliver 5.5 kW, which is fine for overnight charging.

They are also installing a few 43kw charging points for faster top-ups.
For those who cannot access the website https://archive.is/CypsB
Python 3.8 for example got moved from the base OS install to Xcode's command line toolset. For developers, that doesn't change much.
> The US won a land war against Saddam Hussein's Iraqi military, twice, easily.

That's one way to look at it. Another (and IMO more correct) way to look at it is that the US lost there once (hence the second invasion), and will lose again in 10-20 years as the Iraqi elites wait it out and things revert to the mean. Oh, and we lost in Syria as well, although not funding and not arming ISIS did help to alleviate some of the problems in the last few years. Assad is still right where he was, and he will remain there for decades to come.

This is much like Napoleon "winning" the war against Russia in 1812. Captured Moscow. Pissed on the floor in the Kremlin. And then he got chased back all the way to Paris and exiled.

Except in the Middle East it's even worse than that. The US tends to forget that those folks represent much older civilizations and they live on a different time scale. They can literally sit it out for 20-30 years while we sink trillions of taxpayer dollars there and while our soldiers are torn apart with an occasional IED. They also culturally don't give a flying fuck about "democracy" or whatever. There's really not a hell of a lot that can be done about that, and there's no way to "win" under such circumstances.

If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.

That's why there won't be a permanent "victory" there, in any sense of the word.
>Are these not mostly proxy emissions for western countries? E.g. is it the case that people in these countries are emitting pollution due to their lifestyles, or is the pollution mostly from energy, transport and manufacturing in the pursuit of selling products to western countries?

Good point but I think much of it could also be attributed to countries going through their own industrialisation processes and generating wealth (however that end product gets used). Are we to condemn them all to poverty? Much of China is still rather impoverished.

Also - are you suggesting we should shut down our economies in order that we don't produce anything in China for example? If not then _how_ they produce the power/do industry is in their hands not ours and it's an issue to address.

The big issue in China is the CCP have no reason to care or abide by any global rules on this (or follow the example of any goody 2-shoes western country). They have endless coal plants with very little CO2 mitigation and the corrupt/totalitarian nature of their govt makes it very difficult to have them improve on this.

>Is there any evidence of deaths attributable to shut downs so far? There’s over a million deaths worldwide due to covid, how many attributable to non-covid causes? E.g. suicide etc.
There's a strong correlation between economic strife and deaths. I'm not going to get into the missed medical appointments etc. as that is not relevant here but that's a covid factor too.
- Am I so out of touch? No, it must be everyone else who are wrong!

Or in your case, just accusing them of being bots..
> But, given still higher costs and range anxiety, it will be very difficult to convince most consumers to buy electric cars.

Range anxiety is only an issue for long journeys.
Notes from the Mom Test: The 'How?' Of Learning from Customer Conversations
It's not a religious position.

It's a chain of trust, as an individual you can decide where that trust begins and ends for you, but it's impossible for you to be at the forefront measuring every possible variable, and being an expert in every field, conducting analysis of the data.

At some point you need to defer to people who know (or at least, you believe they know) more than you.

It's like with our computers spying on us. Yes you can inspect the code, yes you can check the signatures of the code running on your machine match the code as listed, but then what of the OS, what of the drivers, what of the micro-code, firmware, hardware, etc etc.

It's an impossible position to reason you out of, because you are living in a completely zero trust world.
Sure. If you ignore the very topic of this thread.
Friendly reminder that measures like this unevenly affect people in different social classes, because those who are well-off can just buy two cars and be completely unaffected.
And should we just assume that all election outcomes are legitimate? Is all talk of election fraud fake news, or is it only applicable when your candidate seemingly won? Its mere months ago that everyone left to right was frothing at their mouth due to the election in Belarus...

I find it scary that sites like twitter dare to put a sticker on what they believe is fake or misleading, especially when we are talking hundreds of unique video clips and pictures showing obvious dubious actions by election officials, have a particular video been "debunked" ? Fine put on a note saying its false, but I find it dystopic that americans are fine with mega corps defining what truth is...

You have to be pretty blind not to at least think that there was some odd stuff going on in the US elections. The states have become a banana republic where the democrats have become dependent on ballot harvesting of the uneducated masses.

Two party system, every 4 years you must choose between the giant douché or the turd sandwich. The whole world is laughing at Americans and their interpretation of democracy.
> Seems like companies that are not updating their apps is more common than those that do. I wonder why.

I'm guessing this is just a product of .NET being big in the "enterprise" world. I dont mind modern Java, but I remember when I was working with Java around Java 7 people would complain about being stuck maintaining Java 1.4-1.5 apps.
Yeah exactly what I mean, if your target is the understanding of OOP that comes out of intro courses at University then it's easy to knock down. To the point even OOP advocates complain about it.

Steelmanning for example would be taking successful, performant OOP projects and tackling the way they use it. V8, LLVM or UE4 for example off the top of my head.

Steelmanning is realizing that you can write data oriented code in OOP projects.

Steelmanning is realizing that you can write an ECS-style database with OOP. It's further realizing that the ECS pattern as described is not inherently data-oriented and requires extension to actually meet that criteria (e.g. archetypes).

And to be clear I'm not accusing you of ignoring these things but the discussion around this topic in general.

Basically as a game programmer of over 16 years of professional experience I feel a lot of this stuff is dubiously presented. And I don't even like OOP particularly!!
This reminds me of the place near me. Essentially office building near at least two if not three factories. Had 2 charging stations expanded to 8 now there is new substation... So even in location where you would expect there to be capacity it was still required to install more...
Go back or forward in time
maybe we should just focus on less people on this planet right?
I for one find the fact that such people existed very exciting. It means that some possible configuration of our physiology allows for amazing capabilities. Maybe nurturing has to do with it too, but the point is that it is possible.

Maybe one day (in a distant future most likely) the general population will have access to such mental prowess. This would then be another kind of singularity!
A theme that comes out again and again in the comments here is that in a technical community, complaining that a tool could be better is a reliable signal of a dumb/lazy worker.

At the same time, many tools could actually be a lot better and if we all magically traveled 50 years into the future we would find all these better tools and see that it wasn't only the dumb/lazy people who used them - it would be everyone. For example, how many people write applications in low-level languages like assembler today? Not many - but at one point that was the only option and anyone who complained about it would be labelled as a lazy worker.

The signalling aspect of this certainly distorts the discussion, but bear this in mind:

It is simultaneously true that git is a tool with a poor interface and a bunch of warts AND every aspiring developer should do the work and learn it in detail so they can use that knowledge to signal to people that they're not lazy and/or dumb (and the lazy/dumb people - even knowing this - will not do it, so the signal works).
Most national libraries worth their salt have done this for some time now.
The US could take out the Taliban - it would require a 300,000 to 500,000 occupying force and total cultural change to what Afghanistan is, which would require brutal, horrific crimes against humanity, to strip Afghanistan of many of its current beliefs and culture.

Kabul in the 1970s was a groovy, swinging place with women in miniskirts and men wearing tie-dye (as was Tehran). It's the Taliban who imposed the present culture after ejecting the Soviets (with US help). Western strategy should have been to revert it to that, but instead it was to somehow replace the Taliban with a regime that was equally religiously hardline but just happened to be US friendly, and that was obviously never going to work...
I see you were in the Trump administration. Hmm... Looks like all positions are full...wait, says here you were fired? Well, you can't be all that bad, welcome aboard!
US CO2 emissions per capita have been declining significantly since 2011.
> I am a skeptic and I'm very far from trusting experts.

As you've said this I hardly think anything I'm going to show you will change your mind. However you have asked for some evidence so here is some.

> Sea levels

From about 3,000 years ago to about 100 years ago, sea levels naturally rose and declined slightly, with little change in the overall trend. Over the past 100 years, global temperatures have risen about 1 degree C (1.8 degrees F), with sea level response to that warming totaling about 160 to 210 mm (with about half of that amount occurring since 1993)

Source:
https://sealevel.nasa.gov/faq/13/how-long-have-sea-levels-be....

> Bird population

In 2018, the all-species index in the UK, based on the aggregated population trends of 130 breeding species, was 11% below its 1970 value.

Source:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

>Is carbon dioxide bad?

From the IPCC 2014:
Human influence on the climate system is clear, and recent anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases are the highest in history. Recent climate changes have had widespread impacts on human and natural systems.

Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia. The atmosphere and ocean have
warmed, the amounts of snow and ice have diminished, and sea level has risen.

Source:
https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/05/SYR_AR5_FINA...

If you really want to learn I cannot recommend the IPCC's reports enough, whether you 'trust experts' or not, they lay out the problems we face as a species. The scientific consensus is that the Earth's climate has warmed significantly since the late 1800s, caused in large part by human activity.
So I'm one of the longest running implementors of GTD (almost twenty years now). I'm also one of least into "productivity pr0n." I switched from a Palm Pilot to OmniFocus, and that was my only major shift. I dread when I leave macOS and have to shift again. I've tweaked the system a bit, and it's been many years since I've read any of David Allen's books, though I've corresponded with him a bit, so I don't know how far I've diverged.

It's interesting that Cal Newport chooses to mention GTD in his title, because what he's complaining about is stuff that David Allen has complained about, too...and, to be honest, Merlin Mann and that whole community never understood. It's not about the task lists or tickler files or whatever.

It's about being able to take complete stock of your life on a regular basis.

Everything else is based on that. You get everything captured and in one place so you can look at it and say, "Okay, is this working?" David Allen explicitly suggests similar activities for teams, and high functioning teams generally do this.

I think Newport is absolutely right about the chaos and distraction that characterizes so much white collar work today. I'm not sure how fair it is to lay it at Drucker's feet. My view from the software world is that there are twin gaps in strategy and leadership in most organizations. Strategy provides the framework in which groups deploy tactics. Leadership provides the framework in which groups adopt tactics to deploy.
Yes, but then you introduce new scope. If shard1::Foo depends on shard2::Foo, you then end up with a murder of import statements at the top of every file. Not to mention, splitting along the lines of inter-dependency does not necessarily correlate with splitting by readability/relevancy.
> These are books that are not only inferior to other options, they should not be taught in schools even if they were the last books on Earth. GP comment was arguing TKAM belongs in this category

FWIW, upon re-reading the entire thread above our posts, I don't see the extreme stance you're suggesting. "There are a ton of books that are inappropriate for use in the classroom." is the closest I see, which could be seen as a call for a total and extreme ban, but that's by no means the only way to read that comment.

> You can give teachers the freedom to modify their curricula while still mandating that some books make it into the curriculum.

I don't dispute this, but you can also give teachers the freedom to modify their curricula while mandating that some books don't. In fact, my understanding is that for most curricula there won't be much of a difference between the two. High school literature curricula are wide, not deep. I originally had a few paragraphs here going through all the stuff you have to touch on in a high school curriculum, but suffice to say that you want a decent balance of books across american literary periods, as well as contemporary literary subgenres (southern gothic vs. Western, plays vs. poetry). And you have maybe a year to do it. If you force someone to include a contemporary novel on race, they'll probably have to exclude the other relatively contemporary novel on race.

> do you really trust that teacher to move in the correct direction when given the freedom to select any other unbanned book?

I perceive the major issue as more apathy and effort (some combination of "well I learned it this way and I'm fine" and "I've been teaching the same novel for 10 years, I don't want to change my curriculum") more than like, overt racism on the part of teachers. Like I'm sure there's some of that, but I expect it's not the whole of the problem.
Yup, "1440x900" is far from max settings for me
>Are these not mostly proxy emissions for western countries?

Last time I checked exports were around 14% of Chinese emissions. Significant but domestic emissions are the majority. Repeating the proxy emission meme is quite disrespectful if you consider this context. i.e. you are saying that although the other 86% are domestic, their primary purpose is to support the export industry and therefore should be counted as export emissions as well. It's almost the same as saying Chinese citizens only exist for the sake of first world countries.
Climate change and coronavirus isn't some masterplan created just to incovenience you. You're a person out of 7 billion other people on this planet, our collective actions have consequences.

You can't see your cells, smell or see carbon monoxide, or touch the other planets - yet you trust that you have red blood cells, CO gas kills you in your sleep, and that mars is made from rock. You've been told this as well by scientists and experts, what's the difference?

Over years, PR companies employed by the big oil companies have sown doubt in climate science, this is not an accident. They did the same with cigarettes & the link to cancer - it took decades to correct the public health message that tobacco causes cancer.

I prescribe this podcast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000l7q1/episodes/player
>> I/Q Data is a signal representation much more precise

Is precise the right word here? It’s more complete, less information is lost (sampling is never lossless though) but there’s no difference in precision.

If i have IQ data then i can derive the data that would be preserved by any other modulation (phase, frequency, amplitude shifting). I can’t recover the original IQ samples from a sampled FM signal.
When it gets to £16 there will be protests, when it gets to £64 it will be repealed. This is what happened in France.

If new personal cars are EV only by 2030 then by 2025 most manufacturers will have changed most of their product line, by 2029 virtually all will have changed virtually all.
Before hitting cars you need to provide a viable alternatives.

Most people have no alternative at the moment so hitting cars can only lead to unrest.

An example is France's attempt to heavily tax diesel, which partly led to the yellow vest protests because people have no choice at the moment.

Put a good, viable alternative in place then you can make the move against ICE/cars in general.
Why should leisure time require a car?
Rpcs3 is extremely impressive, but remember it took 9 years to get to the point where it is now, and still many games break or have unplayable performance even on the highest-end PC's you can buy today. So it kind of proves the point how ridiculously difficult it is to emulate that machine.
I wouldn't exactly call it "forced obsolescence".
Backwards compatibility is a niche feature used by a tiny fraction of the customer base very occasionally (who invariably still have the old hardware), and console manufacturers dump millions into added BOM cost/engineering time to get it working despite the economics making almost zero sense.
CrossOver runs on macOS just fine, including Apple Silicon macs.
>civil nuclear program

Sure, right.

Iran already receives nuclear fuel from Russia. It makes 'perfect' economic sense to risk massive sanctions to enrich 100x times the amount of 'fuel' Iran needs for a single 1000MW nuclear generation unit in Bushehr just so they could ditch their supplier. In a country with nearly free gas and oil. Which everyone accepts has done nuclear weaponization work.

>You haven't answered why saying it is worse than killing people.

I'm saying the Iranian regime kills people too, just with a slightly different cover.

>That said, the Iranian government generally translates it to "down with x,"

"Generally". Weasel wording doesn't impress.
> I think this kind of explanation irritates many people for some reason. As if things just can't be that way, there must be a repeatable, reproducible recipe that someone else could follow, and if they did, they would get the same results as Ramanujan.

Oh, there is an easy recipe : just emulate the universe as it was back then and observe Ramanujan. As we know, having a recipe doesn’t mean we have the resources to implement it.

There are several movies on Ramanujan as well as biographic books. Apart from the tragic path of is life, these material also depict him not only as gifted but as a compulsively working his maths. So that’s no wonder he would even dream about it. And of course, you can model that as the result of unconscious thoughts throwing the result of problems that were fed to the mind during awaken time.

So, the magic recipe is practice, practice, and practice even more.

> I think maybe because it flies in the face of everyone that claims 10x developers are not possible.

On what metrics? The ability to be able to throw impressive "magical" code and being able to work efficiently with the rest of a team will not necessarily come together, for example.

> Or that some people are just genetically gifted and there's nothing you could possibly do that would get you within a hundred yards of them no matter how much hard work you put in, or how good your teachers were, etc.

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” is generally attributed to Oscar Wilde.

Every life is genetically gifted, but not all lives encounter the environment that enables to thrives this gift – unfortunately.

Also no one is perfect. Many aspect of human life are not only dependent on how performant you are individually, so being really "too ahead" can be actually a severe handicap – at least if it doesn’t come with equal excellence into convincing other to trust you. And so depression is not something you can expect to be out of the realm of gifted evoked here.