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> This is without me needing to outwardly display much sign of my choices, nor abidcate responsibility to some central power.

You can have an enormous impact on your personal emmissions, but the impact you have nation-wide is negligible.

Ofcourse if everyone acted like you there wouldn't be a problem, but it's a prisoners dillema. If we all choose to give up a little luxury we could have a huge impact. But if we leave that up to personal choice then anyone can choose to emit more carbon and reap the benefits of doing so.

There's also the question of limiting the carbon emmissions of corporations. When emitting carbon is free most companies will choose to emit more if it helps their profit margins. And expecting those companies to limit emissions in exchange for goodwill is a bit naive.
Wood didn't give way to coal that gave way to oil. This is a terrible fallacy (albeit very commmon, even Vaclav Smil fell into it in his "Oil" book). The world currently consumes more coal than it ever did. Wood consumption is also record high. We simply stacked up energy sources. Check this page: https://ourworldindata.org/energy

So far, fossil fuels still represent about 85% of our energy consumption, and about 99% for transportation.

We had a world 100% on renewable, back in the 18th century, but we were 600 millions and lived 35 years. OTOH we have no credible way to replace 85% of our energy by renewables in the next 10 years (if we want to keep climate change at reasonable levels).
"Platforms and regulators should limit streaming resolution and default to SD, the authors urged."

No, instead of doing such silliness regulators should focus on the big CO2 emitters like power plants, SUVs and home heating in the short term. In the long term legislators should implement carbon taxes and caps covering all carbon use.

Having carbon taxes will increase the prices of streaming (iff they are not running on renewables) and new devices (less so if they are made from recycled materials), achieving the same goals with much less legislation and inconvenience to businesses and consumers.
Tailwind is just like shorthand, it might not be useful to you but it is useful for some fast prototyping and iteration.
I thought you try to adhere to facts, till I got to "the land is a glowing radioactive mess" thing. If you say so, please too mention the land which is poisonous carcinogenic mess because of coal sludge leaks, tar sand mining and fracking byproducts, heavy metals and pesticides which tend to concentrate in hydropower reservoirs, etc.etc. And some of these actually have longer half-life than nuclear leaks.
no doubt its useful for that but is it really worth it considering the price? arent most assistants powered by batteries so it also has an ongoing cost, especially if you have multiple devices? all that just to add a timer 3-5 seconds quicker?

and then there's still other issues like privacy or the thing being an expensive paperweight if you're Internet isn't working
I’m tired.
I think it's fair to assume the price of the energy you buy not only account for the price at generation, but also for all the services a grid provides: transport, reliability, variability of load etc.

When it's bought back from you, they only pay for the generation part which makes sense in my opinion. Now where that price point is, I don't know! (25%? 50%? no idea)

It seems the smart meter issue is almost unrelated though. Where I am (UK, potentially where you are too as it looks like a similar issue), the old feed-in tariff subsidised the energy _generated_ by a system, regardless of if you used the energy yourself or exported the energy. That's great to kick-start an economy but doesn't scale at a national level.

I understand they are trying to push to pay for what is exported by houses only. I'm a bit sad to see the old subvention gone as it made solar panel uneconomical in lots of situations, and there's a lot to say about timing, but in principle I think it's sound reasoning.
Very interesting! I wasn't aware Midori had been widely deployed in production! My understanding is that Midori ran the kernel and all programs in ring 0 and relied on the classloader enforcing type safety and the managed runtime enforcing the other security and stability constraints normally enforced by hardware, so syscalls were just normal method calls and there were no context switches.

Burroughs MCP was written in essentially an extended Algol 60 dialect. Algol 60 only had very limited heap allocation for dynamic arrays, no GC, and I haven't read any indications that Burroughs added GC to their extended dialects.

Multics was written in a PL/I dialect, without tracing GC. Likewise, IBM OS/360 and descendants are written in the PL/S dialect of PL/I, and I haven't seen any indication it has tracing GC.

With tracing GC, you have a trade-off between the peak amount of unclaimed garbage and the GC overhead. ARC should have lower variance in both latency and heap usage, which I presume is the reason Apple moved the whole Objective-C and Swift ecosystem to ARC and deprecated the Objective-C tracing GC.

I used to be a True Believer(tm) in the JVM and other managed runtimes. I was one of 5 developers of the most popular Java desktop application in the mid 2000s. Then I moved to Google and started developing web search infrastructure. I was at Google when V8 was created, and I put a lot of effort into running all of the JavaScript that the indexing system found, across the entire visible web. For things at massive scale, spending millions of dollars per year just in electricity bills, it's extremely tough to beat highly tuned C++. Yes, it's a lot of effort. Yes, I hope safer languages like Rust replace C++ and static analysis tools continue to improve.

I still kind of want to be a managed runtime true believer again, but it's tough to go back after believing for so many years that managed runtimes were going to match expertly hand-optimized C++ in latency- and throughput-critical applications "any day now".
I fundamentally disagree with your point that CSS-in-JS is a result of developers not knowing CSS. That's ridiculous

CSS-in-JS solves a lot of problems that people that have been writing 'real CSS' have been experiencing for a long time. Writing CSS for very large applications that deal with lots of shared components across engineering teams is a hard task. Some of those problems are alleviated by libraries like styled-components.

It's not for every use case and should only be used when there is a genuine need (rather than 'because it's shiny.') But shrugging off CSS-in-JS because you don't understand it is a bit silly.
A very interesting article, to be sure.

It makes me wonder if there are any mushrooms that could survive on Mars...

If not, then one poster suggested that the surface of Mars is rusted (oxidated).

If that's so, then my question becomes something of the following:

Is there a food chain (from rust/oxides, to simple bacteria that would eat that rust, to more complex bacteria (that would survive on those simpler bacteria), to spores, mushrooms, etc., such that that whole "food chain" could survive on the surface of Mars?

Speculation: Maybe we'll find strange/weird "food chains" (for lack of a better term!) like that on Mars, and if they aren't directly on the surface (due to violent dust storms, too much radiation, or what-have-you), perhaps such "food chains" exist in caves, or perhaps deep underground, in caverns protected from Mars' harsh atmosphere...

I would love to know the answer to this in the future!
> Yeah this works well for specifically this case.

What do you think of the opinion of Kévin Dunglas (Vulcain) in this case. Too optimistic?

See:

https://github.com/dunglas/vulcain/issues/70#issuecomment-72...
This is nonsensical. Rocks don't rot either.
I'll cop to not getting the reference. I'm 38, overly educated in the liberal arts, reasonably well read. My recent text threads include jokes about Herodotus, Bartleby, Frankie Valli, Jason Derulo, and Belle Delphine.

Sometimes you're just in the tail end of the lucky 10,000.
Its a weird element in the story, that the utopia wants to eradicate the human race, it doesn't usually go that way in utopian novels. Makes me wonder if there is some subtle satire going on. As if the novel is predicting something like the Great Purge under Stalin? I havent read the novel.
Thanks for your response.

That's not the point I was making. I was referring to the idea that "nothing can be done without government mandates, and this kind of article that implies to conumers that it's their fault or that they need to take individual action is harmful".
Exactly which aspect is nonsense? I see this kind of kneejerk response too often.

Yes digital streaming accounts for a tiny proportion of CO2 emissions, but if the report is correct and HD video streaming on a phone generates about eight times more in emissions than standard definition, then it is the kind of thing that service providers should be thinking about when developing services.

These days ‘how can we minimise CO2 footprint’ should be standard step in service design. Information on where carbon costs are is useful
Freedom of speech but only if you say what we want you to say. Tyrants are all the same the world over.
Could be his phone is hacked and rooted. Maybe he saved the key from the authenticator app to the cloud and his account there is compromised. Could be that twitter is compromised.

Personally, I'd bet on his phone being rooted. If Twitter was compromised, they'd go after much bigger fish.
Suppose that in order to render stylized web pages, you had to install a non-free binary blob. You're free to not render websites you don't want to, and scroll through what's akin to a minimal HTML tree.

Some content creators protect how their websites look more, some less. Would you still consider CSS a part of the open web?
I always hear this but the vast majority of people are not going to base their decision to have children on climate change. The real driving factor is the rising cost of living and educated women in the work force. We are doing our best to make sure these things continue so I don't think we actually have to tell anyone to have less children, the people have already decided so for themselves.
In your research, did you find out that nuclear-powered ships are actually cheaper (i.e. combined cost of fuel, personnel & maintenance connected with the nuclear reactor)?

Because obviously the primary goal of the military isn't cost-saving, it's having subs & aircraft carriers that can stay sea-borne indefinitely. So they'd be using them even if they're actually (much) more expensive
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You're not talking about developers in general, you're talking about web developers—and holding them back a little is almost a positive thing to do at this point.
The blog post links to another one of their blog posts with a real world example for push: https://evertpot.com/h2-push-for-apis/
Agreed and that’s it’s only selling point.

Fast is not always better. It makes spaghetti code with shit design that lacks an architect behind it.

There are many threads on HN about Tailwind and it’s always very controversial.

I wouldn’t call this thing mature when there is so much controversy.
I'm very much not an expert on this, but I believe there's an additional problem with plastic made from corn:

3. It requires huge land areas to grow enough corn to make enough plastic for the whole world's population, which requires clearing huge expanses of existing forests and other natural areas.
It’s not a zero-sum game. CO2 efficiency needs to become a baked in consideration in ALL industries, it’s something we can all do but requires a change in mindset.
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There’s a new wave of thought in design called “design tokens” where you have a set of predefined values that are considered valid as part of the design, e.g. a website can only have spacing of 4px, 8px, 16px, etc.

One component having mr-4 and another having mr-3 is chill if that was the designer’s intention. If not, then it should be picked up during design review and easily fixed (since you end up really only having to pick from like a few values).
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Behavioral change is pointless. 2020 has proven the climate activist narrative is flawed.
The narrative being ‘less of everything, stop consuming (sinning), the sacrifice in comfort is worth it.’

In 2020 airplane travel cratered, car traffic halved, tons of factories were shut down, ..., life came to a screeching halt.
Basically 2020 is what climate activist tell us is the future. And the result? A measly 7 % drop in CO2 and many many people being miserable living like this. You might think that’s worth it except it needs to drop like this every year and you can only shut down travel and factories etc once.

The only solution is geo-engineering.
I have an idea for a simple language similar to basic but using emojis to represent functions and variables (really putting the "symbolic" in basic), with click or drag n drop from a toolbox rather than pure typing so everything is available at the start.

This would be a toy language designed for to introduce the world of programming to those who are learning to read. So for example, ⭕5 would draw a circle of size 5 where the cursor currently is. I have a page of notes for implementation but haven't made time to try it out yet.
The vast majority of the climate change and pollution problems are the work of industry, not individuals. Individual actions are very meaningful but the individuals in control here are the ones making decisions at these companies, not the person deciding whether to buy a 4K TV or a 1080p TV.
It being the case that banks launder money for criminals at scale, it's kind of mystifying why you think anyone would need an additional way to do so.
> I had listened to what they said — exactly as they said it, but I did not realize until much later that I failed to actually understand what they meant.

Two things come to mind:

1) Wants are not needs. To pun Ford a bit, "I want a bigger, faster more reliable horse to get to work. Something safer for my family" is what the clearly stated want is. Remove horse and you're at root need. The Need. Too often, The Need is never distilled from the want.

2) In Covey's classic book "7 Habits of Highly Effective People" he says something along the lines of: Seek first to understand, then be understood.

Yes, listen with intent. But before you write a single line of code, draw - yes, free-hand - a prototype of (what you think) you heard and share it with the other person - the user, the customer, even a colleague.

Never assume. Never assume a want is The Need. Never assume you understand until you've vetted that understanding.
I have been doing frontend dev for nearly 20 years and CSS in JS has always struck me as completely unnecessary. I have yet to see a need for any of it that doesn't introduce more problems than it solves. Do you have any examples of cases where it is needed? Im using SCSS with SSR super well. I dont get why JSS in CSS is seen as superior?
> Why do you think Saudi Arabia is slowly allowing women to participate? They need them in the workforce for an economically sustainable future.

Do they? Has doubling the work-force helped Western economies? I think that Elizabeth Warren & others have questioned that idea - i.e. that the wages were reduced to compensate for the increased labour supply - although even if not beneficial for individual families it could still be beneficial for the economy as a whole (and especially for the capitalist class).
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This is not an answer to the above thread.
Wasn't the problem that they did it on devices which were out of warranty and could not even get their batteries exchanged (at least not for a reasonable price)? Which in turn resulted in permanently degraded performance on otherwise usable products.
Every time one of these Twitter warriors with pronouns in bio gets put in their place the world gets a little bit better.
Most unions have anti-racism and anti-xenophobia in general as a central part of their organisation. Explicit rules exist in most, but many go further with resisting deportations, exposing discrimination in workplaces, solidarity strikes with workers in exploited countries, etc.

I'd recommend you contact some local trade unionists, you'll find that they're overwhelmingly pro immigration and anti-racist. You'll also find that marginalised groups (including immigrants) are vastly over-represented in the labour movement in general, since we are exploited more.
It looks like bacteria that eat rust do exist: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/12/101210-new-s...
Choose what works for you and consider using at least two.

See https://www.searchenginemap.com/

Comprehensive listing of options are on https://twitter.com/SearchEngineMap/lists

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To be fair I am not very confident either in the mRNA.

I am very sad than only China used the inactivated virus way. I would like to have the same known technology developed by another country (But yes that statement is totally bias).

Beside I am following as well the development of Pasteur-Gsk vaccine using a way with a higher degree of confidence (already in use in commercialized vaccine).

Personally if I can I wont take either mRNA from pfizer/Moderna or adenovirus from Oxford Astrozeneca.

If you want here another of my comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25285249#25286854
Agree. This is one of those pretty but pointless things. Not to disparage anyone but technically trivial too isn't it? I.e., this isn't novel enough.

When exactly would I want to share an image of my source code? I'd mostly share it as text since, you know, that's source code's native format, quite efficient in terms of data size too. If for the typography, yeah I'm already good with my current editor. After all I stare at it all day long!
So if the current Mushroom OS has a plastic version > your bottle's, then the bottle melts away.
Agreed on the tokenization but you can do this via variables in Sass.

And put constraints as well! Comment them! Write for loops to create a full spectrum of tokens!

Then use those tokens to create a card class. Extend it for customer-support-card class!!!

What’s missing here?
Probably this post prompted it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25286487
It is widely believed around here that one toxic mushroom is reason enough to throw away the entire basket.
Casper Schoppen broke all the previous records in puzzle rush (a mode where you get to solve as much puzzles as possible in 5 minutes) by memorizing most of high rated puzzles. After that chess.com decided to add a lot of new ones.

https://www.chess.com/article/view/puzzle-rush-confirmed-rec...
https://www.chess.com/news/view/new-puzzle-rush-chess

Although I don't think there were lots of players who tried to use this tactic among all the ones who occasionally train on chess.com.
Say what you want, but I grew up in Montreal, Canada, and my impression is that Catholics there are quite liberal. I went to a Catholic high school and we were given proper sex ed, including how to properly put on a condom, with the assumption that quite a few of us would start having sex before finishing high school. We were also never taught that being gay is sinful.
In the original design, wasn't there an optional safety feature that added a second AoA sensor? It seems unbelievable, and is possibly one of the most ridiculous things about this whole story.

Presumably as part of the update, this optional feature has become standard?

I'd also like to see a list of all the airlines that chose not to spec the additional sensor in their initial order of the aircraft. It probably says a lot about their safety culture.
1. Pass a carbon tax.
2. Producers will be incentived to make the pipeline more efficient, or pass the cost onto the consumer, which will influence consumption.
3. Profit.
And turning off the video when you are listening to a song was until more recently disallowed on mobile, and is now a paid option.
We've already got 12 (4 fast + 8 slow) cores in mobile phones, why not more?

I can see the battery life advantages of using a lot of low-power cores for background tasks like networking and I/O and reserving a few very fast cores for foreground apps. If a background music player can get one or two slow background cores while you're using your device for some heavy workload you'll see fewer context switches and better optimized L1 cache for your main task.

My computer has 12 cores but runs 118 processes even when idle. Phones probably run maybe half that, but even still a high core count for even sub-gigahertz cores could bring a noticeable benefit if the OS's scheduling algorithm would be able to optimize for them.
There will be no consequence for Saudi Arabia disintegrating. Most of the world (hint: their neighbors and their own population) will welcome it. S.A. has lots of lands and other resources (religious tourism is big, they are the center of the Islamic world). They are only poor because of their own mismanagement.

The Emirates will be largely fine since they have diversified a lot. They might need to cut a bit of spending but otherwise they'll keep as a wealthy nation. Qatar will also probably be fine. They have lots of money and built lots of infrastructure which they can open to the world.

Actually, I think post-oil, we'll finally have peace in the region. Nothing to fight over any more.
Agree, 2021 will be a mess. Very sad about this situation.
To Europe. In the form of hydrogen, ammonia or other chemical energy storages.

Europe will need lots of those. It can very likely not be produced in Europe alone.
Yeah work of studios like 2Advanced and Hi-Res! was what got me interested in being a designer.
I don’t get why so many people think misanthropy is the solution to what is essentially a tech problem.
It was disabled at one point, but definitely enabled at the moment in buster at least (try docker run -it debian:buster-slim /bin/bash if you don’t have Debian at hand).

Looking at https://sources.debian.org/src/bash/5.0-4/debian/changelog/#...,

bash (4.0-5) unstable; urgency=low

* Re-add dependency on dash, lost with the upload of 4.0.
* Don't configure with --disable-net-redirections.
* Fix name of system wide bash_logout in bash(1). Closes: #546200.
* Stop shipping the sh and sh(1) symlinks. Closes: #545103.
* Apply upstream patches 029 - 033.

-- Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:55:54 +0200

it seems net-redirections has been reenabled more than a decade ago.
The E5 comp quoted here correlates with the comp offered by the large FS organisations in the UK for senior tech roles (Solutions Architect, Development Lead, Principal Eng etc).

edit: spelling
> and stupid path-dependencies like the appendix

Recent research has shown that the appendix isn't as useless as it was long thought - there are strong suggestions that it acts as a "safe heaven" for the gut flora: https://time.com/4631305/appendicitis-appendix-gut-bacteria/
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"If a feature is going to cost start-up time, I would rather not have it."

Well, I strongly disagree... and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Imagine being at the restaurant ordering a pizza. There are only 2 pizzas in the menu: one with 1 topping, the other with 3 toppings. Each topping would take an extra minute in pizza's prep time. Which one would you pick? The one that is being delivered faster? Or the tastier one? I think for most of us the answer is obvious.