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> But… it’s already done.

Actually the emissions and environmental damage are ongoing, and we need to stop doing them or the end result will be much worse.

> there will be wars, famines, and suffering

Personally I think we should change our behavior that will lead to wars, famines, and suffering.
If we assume RoC is the rightful government for China as a whole, it stands to reason that they are also the rightful owner of Hong Kong, no?

And since one is a democratic government and the other is a totalitarian state actively comiting genocide, then I know whom I would want as my government.
Even better is to not null terminate strings and use pointer plus length everywhere.
Hot Reload in Uno and GTK
Do you realize that the whole Apple's UIKit Framework is a version of MVC?

I have seen many versions for it in iOS, MMVC, MVVC, or whatever, but really they are iterations of separation of business logic and view/display logic.

You can disperse the view logic, without having traditional centralized controllers, but your business logic will end up centralized in one place. So, in practice you end up with a Model-Business-Logic / View paradigm, where traditional controllers end up just being a thin layer.

Protocol driven development, reminds me the old Java style of having a class (eg. MyFunctionalityClass), which was either abstract, or had only protocols declared, then have another MyFunctionalityClassImpl to actually implement it.

I didn't think it was pretty, and it seemed it was done by C++ developers to simulate the lack for header .h files in Java.

Ps. Before you reply on a ad-hominen way, I probably have much more iOS experience than you, since I both have worked on it since day one, and have worked on some the currently largest apps in the world.
Is it accurate to call it "crisis fatigue" or more accurate to call it "Chicken Little fatigue?" It's reasonable to assume this time is not different when in the past the warnings were just as dire and just as apocalyptic. In other words, it's quite rational to respond this way.
My favorite example is this: "National Park Quietly Removed Warning That Glaciers ‘Will All Be Gone’ by 2020 After Years of Heavy Snowfall"

https://www.westernjournal.com/national-park-quietly-removed...
Is this what has been happening or have the dire prognostications been different over time and just mashed together by the media/people not remembering the details?

In 1980, was the prediction that there would be experiencing the consequences of climate change, such as coral bleaching? As that is happening now. So warning that we need to avoid climate change for the past 50 years makes perfect sense.

This is not a singular disaster, but rather a sliding scale.
What known laws would it be violating?

If you're thinking of the second law of thermodynamics, bear in mind that popular descriptions that equate "entropy" with "information" or "non-randomness" are extremely oversimplifying things. A periodic change in a system does not necessarily imply a decrease in entropy.
The only sure thing is that most of these doom prediction happen to be false.
People writing this kinda things seem to think we can afford reducing the growth society. The sad reality is that if we don't all grow we will suffer way more than what climate change will bring.
Grow up, stop living like peter pan and work to find proper solution instead of complaining.
New Project to support the Wayland display server on Linux
> people are getting paid salaries that in comparison to other fields have no relation to the aptitude, education, and personal sacrifice needed to do the work.

None of these things matter. It's supply and demand, simple as that. And value created. Instagram had millions of users and 14 employees.
> Training a ML model to understand how "most sensible, considerate humans" would act is anything but straightforward.

This is exactly why it's a challenge! The point is that the goal should be to do it the way a human would find satisfactory and not the way that's easy.

Even if the machine wasn't trained to be biased, the machine should still produce results which people see as good. We didn't invent machines to do jobs just so people could say "but that's a bad result" and reply with "yes but the machine wouldn't know that". We should strive for better.
Having a potluck on my calendar stresses me the hell out, for exactly that reason.

And leaders know it. That's why the cultivate the potluck mindset when they want to work you to the bone. Everything demands 110% all the time when it's for the sake of your buddies. Of course you'll work Saturday, Sunday, after dinner until midnight. What, are your TV shows more important than your fellows' needs for your labor? You wouldn't want to let your friends down.

A little indirection, a little surplus, a little breathing room, is sometimes what makes life worth living. And if I'm feeling more or less ambitious, I can pick a different point on the effort:reward curve. I value that optionality. I don't want to be socially pressured into making the same contribution as everyone else all the time, and I definitely don't want to be pressured into working at my own redline all the time. Sometimes you just microwave some Ramen.
that’s the sort of selfish glutton bully of a nation we are

The author just alienated all the people he is trying to convince.
> what practical/medical/ethical/philosophical issue one can possibly have with eating it accidentally?

0,0001% 'holier-than-thou' extra points. Is a race for power in the olympic purity games. "I'm better than you" is the goal. Not more, not less.
Delta Variant Hot Surge Summer in the U.S.
I totally agree with the article but god do I hate when people say "we only have N years left!" as it is something for all the climate change deniers to focus on and attack to discount the points made so the conversation just focuses on some stupid number that is nothing of real value and nothing moves forward. We get stuck in this dumb loop.

The reality is we're already too fucking late. We should have been doing things 50 years ago but we didn't and so the future is already written. 5 years. 10 years. 20 years. 50 years. 100 years. It is all fucked.

From all the things I have seen and read from experts over the past ten or so years there isn't really anything we can actually do so that things are less fucked in our lifetimes. And probably in the lifetime of people born just today.

So actions we take are for the benefit of people who do not even exist yet and it seems pretty much impossible to get people to care about the future of the human race if it means making life 'more difficult' now and probably for the rest of their lives.

The same has been true, probably, for all of human history but certainly so in the past 50 years. Seems the vast majority didn't really give a shit 50 years ago or 40 years ago or ... as basically fuck all has been done outside of token gestures and bullshit targets that there is no real penalty if you fail to meet because, after all, who gives a fuck about the future when you can have a few more quarters of exponential growth for share holders and pay a bit to "offset" your carbon footprint.
The ROC officially still claims to be the legitimate government of all of mainland China.
Yes, watching you stroke yourself is quite refreshing, comparatively.
Haha yeah the extradition rules are hardly symmetric are they? How the mighty empire has fallen...
Also millions of lives in poorer countries. But sure… “manageable”.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/climate/bangladesh-floods...
The fact a huge amount of horrible things are already locked in does not mean that we shouldn't try to prevent locking in even more things. Especially as things probably become exponentially worse the more emissions are locked in.
It seemed that in the beginning, the goal was to flatten the exponential growth to not overwhelm hospitals. Then it shifted into eradicating the virus entirely, somehow.
I like how he calls out what is going on as Populism. Its interesting to think how a few years ago, the spectre of populism was mainly seen as a threat from the right. There was Orban, LePenn, the PIS in Poland, Bolsonaro, Trump, etc. (And to be clear, evidence supported right wing populism as a threat, although there were left wing variants too).

And then suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of a serious populist threat that is not coming from the right, but from both a one-size-fits-all technocratic front, and what some people call the woke left (personally I don't think the characterization as "left" is accurate or adds value). My point is, across some key areas, we are now in a regime where recourse to due process and liberties normally afforded to liberal democratic societies has been dropped in the name of what the (real or percieved) majority is pushing for. That is populism, that everyone agrees is bad when it runs against something they want, but that somehow people are ok with when it aligns with their desires. It's nice to see this being called out.
Actually, that's a great catch. I should have written, "The inhabited Earth." I'll edit that.
Margins are the difference between what it cost, and what you earned. But what I would call "profitability" is your actual return versus capital deployed.

For example, I know a retailer that earns a 1% margin...terrible? No. They turn over their inventory every week (roughly), so they earn that 1% 56x times a year...that is a very profitable business. Similarly, I can earn a 90% margin but if I can only turn my assets over every ten years (some business are like this) then that business isn't very profitable.

Retail provides massive utility. Retail is the link between producers and consumers. Most producers do not have the interest or the ability to sell direct to consumers, it is a totally different (and very expensive) business. And barriers to entry are significant: retail is complex, there are huge fixed costs, and you own the link to consumers (that is why distribution is where all the profit is within most value chains). The internet does make information easier but retailers also do that job, Amazon doesn't but product selection a competitive advantage (most consumers trust retailers more than they trust brands...Amazon's return policy is a prime example, retailers need trust). And there is a difference between providing information and distribution: if that wasn't true Consumer Reports would be the biggest retailer in the world (I actually agree with this a huge amount though, this has never made sense to me...but trust is complex, humans aren't totally logical, and the system we have is pretty good).

I am not clear what your point is. But one, small proportions are fine, Ferrari doesn't sell to everyone and they do okay. Restoration Hardware is a more modern example. Two, your point about those stores is my point about why distribution is profitable. Three, and the point I made earlier is that most of those stores (but not all) have essentially become derivative of each other...and that is why physical retail isn't competitive. Most physical retailers essentially threw up their hands, and decided to compete on price alone which suited online retailers very well (as I said though, this happened when retailers took more control over supply chains and started sourcing directly from factories in China, and this largely started before Amazon existed but accelerated hugely in the 2000s).

I can consolidate these points by mentioning Restoration Hardware again: no-one knew they needed Restoration Hardware before Restoration Hardware existed, their model is ludicrous, it makes no sense...but it is also very successful and gives consumers something they cannot get online. If you asked consumers what they want before cars were invented, they will tell you they want a better horse (btw, Trader Joe's is also the perfect example of this...they did almost everything you shouldn't do in retail, that is how they succeeded).
If he ends up in court for doing that I hope he realize his LinkedIn posts might be used by the prosecution.
To add to that, similar thing happened with the Terraria dev [1]. if things like this can happen to him, I don't know where I stand.

[1] https://twitter.com/demilogic/status/1358661840402845696?lan...
We actually have about -40 years left.

Just because you haven't hit the ground yet doesn't mean that opening your parachute will save you.
> Do you have an example of even one small town where average or median wages or benefits were decreased as a result of Amazon?

A couple of quotes from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/business/economy/amazon-w...

In making the case against a union at its warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., Amazon has touted its compensation package. The company notes that base pay at the facility, around $15.50 an hour for most rank-and-file workers, is more than twice the local minimum wage, and that it offers comprehensive health insurance and retirement benefits.

But to many of Amazon’s Bessemer employees, who are voting this month on whether to unionize, the claims to generosity can ring hollow alongside the demands of the job and local wage rates. The most recent figure for the median wage in greater Birmingham, a metropolitan area of roughly one million people that includes Bessemer, was nearly $3 above Amazon’s pay there, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

But other workers emphasize that pay at Amazon isn’t particularly high for the Birmingham area, even if the pandemic has reduced their job options.

The retail workers’ union said it represented employees at nearby warehouses where pay is $18 to $21 an hour, including an ice cream facility and a grocery warehouse not far from Amazon.
Back in the 1990s, I did something similar with SQL and it worked wonders.
"Across the U.S., nearly 24 million people—a little over 15% of the workforce—are involved in military, public, and national service at the local, state and federal levels. Of this number, approximately 16 million are employed in state and local governments. The federal government numbers include active duty military personnel and U.S. Postal Service workers. The U.S. military has about 1.4 million active duty service members and another 800,000 reserve forces. There are approximately 800,000 postal workers. Beyond the military and the postal service, 2 million people—just over 1% of the U.S. workforce or 0.6% of the total population—are permanently employed by the federal government. More than 70% of the federal workforce serves in defense and security agencies like the Department of Defense, the intelligence community agencies, and NASA.

Contrary to popular belief in the bloated growth of the U.S. public sector, the size of the federal government proportionate to the total U.S. population has significantly decreased over the last 50 years. It has also shrunk in absolute numbers in terms of both the full-time and part-time workforce. If we compare the size of the U.S. public sector as a percentage of the total workforce with other advanced countries, the U.S. is often smaller than its European counterparts, including the United Kingdom, although larger than Japan, which has one of the smallest public sectors internationally. In stark contrast, 40% of the workforce in Russia is employed in the public sector. In Europe, the optimal size of government is equally hotly debated, while in Russia, the size of the government and the dependency that this generates within the workforce tends to mute critical commentary."
https://www.brookings.edu/policy2020/votervital/public-servi...
Seem insanely low considering it's really just a for-profit business asking the general public to figure out a very difficult problem they aren't able to figure out on their own.
I don't know why this anthropomorphism of the earth is so popular. The earth is not sentient, nor is it alive. It doesn't have "an infection."
> monetary policy is going to be largely ineffectual in the near term

The failure mode you're alluding to is a Keynesian liquidity trap [1], a sibling to stagflation (inflation and demand failure): deflation and demand failure.

The American economy shows no failure of aggregate demand. (Quite the opposite.) Inflation expectations are rising. And these reverse repo data shows banks relinquishing liquidity, not hoarding it.

More pointedly, this increase resulted from the FOMC increasing reverse repo rates. That's monetary policy causing intended effects.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidity_trap
If this is the case, why aren’t the stdlib functions defined this way? In all of the history of the longest-lived production language family besides FORTRAN, this blog post is the first voice to point out that memcpy should be the same operation as strcpy for null-terminated strings? What is going on here?

(Rust crowd snickers as they unwrap<‘jk> &mut *foo_buf)
try ordering Allbirds directly from their website or in their stores, I'm a 14-15 too, they're in the $100 range but they're pretty stylish imo and last a while
C2X will be adding memccpy() (note two c's in the middle, not memcpy!). Overview and justification at https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/08/12/efficient-stri...
That you IMAGINE are eyefucking your breasts. Not the same
The crime isn’t the wages themselves, it’s the collusion to lower wages.

This specific type of collusion (collusion is an action not speech) that is illegal.
How do you manage data flow from your view layer to your API layer? Like for example, if a UITableViewCell has a button in it which needs to load some data from the API? Do use an event/delegate which flows from the UITableViewCell through the `cellForRowAtIndexPath` method to the controller, out to some other class? It must feel pretty great to have your business logic and API layers abstracted into other classes, and have your lean view controller just be the glue. Yay MVC!

Now imagine that your table view has 20 cells, and each cell is managed by a team of 5 people and needs 1,000 lines of code to fulfill its business logic. How would this approach hold up? Would you have all 100 people working on the same `cellForRowAtIndexPath` method, piping every event for those 20,000 lines of code through there?

When people talk about scale on iOS, they are talking about potentially 100s of people working on the same screen. With something like React, this is trivial by having each team work independently on its own components. With iOS, its much harder out of the box.
The end of the growth society is only a disaster if we keep the current economic system unchanged. A world is possible which does not rely on unending growth.
So... the court claims for itself the right to "harm" these people in the same way for which it chose to imprison Murray? I'm sure I'll never understand this.
Artificial Intelligence learns better when distracted
"You’re gonna like the way you look, …..I guarantee it!"™

(Joking, but what you've written is largely true.)
Raspberry Pi OS now has SATA support built-in
The ban didn't come because of the UX. The ban came because the OP told FB that they were 12 years old, and as per Facebook's terms and conditions[0], people under 13 can't use Facebook. Hence the account was shut down. This was basically the OP shooting themselves in the foot.

[0]https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms#u_0_s_MQ
the "international community" is dominated by an affluent western minority that had no qualms about pillaging the rest of the world for centuries with no regards for human rights. _This_ is the Chinese - no, the foreign - perspective. If we think it's not useful to consider then so be it, we'll be locked in cold war for the foreseeable future. Personally I think there are more productive methods than hypocritical grandstanding.
Many times they don't work from a physical location, they do, but a phone number is harder to keep track of than Facebook messages
The problem is that timelines are central to the discussion. If we have 8 years, we are limited to existing technology for the most part and geological/biological solutions will be of limited use.

If we have 800 years, we can use more trees and bet more future technology.
It's a climate change emergency. It needs oceanic bio CCS and FF curtailment now.
I agree, and I wonder if she mentioned this shirt when the drama developed in 2017?
NPM has gotten faster over the last few years. When Yarn first came out it was dramatically faster than NPM. NPM 5 then caught up with Yarn 1 on performance, and NPM 7 is often faster than Yarn 1. NPM has not caught up with Yarn 2, but Yarn 2 had to break a lot more things than NPM is willing to break.
Have you considered, as an able bodied young man, to do your part for the future of your country?
bloomberg had an article along similar lines late last year.
The main hypothesis isn't terribly controversial to me, amazon lowers logistics wages since it pays less than the traditional players, and has sort of the 'business gravity' to immediate move in and be a significant employer. I would not call that suppressing wages on its own.

Amazon's argument is that they aren't driving wages down, they are raising them up because their employees are not from traditional logistics, but most retail and service jobs, again, on its own, probably more right than not.

That's the thing I think is hard to separate, and I want to know more about. These industries feel threatened by amazon, so where is that coming from? Is it all just business muscle and monopsony, or is there genuine disruption (even in something that relies on amazon's scale)? Sort of a competitively 'legitimate' advantage. And I would say that you can definitely discuss if they are externalizing societal costs with how they treat employees.

It's not a direct comparison, but I think about the crafts that were overtaken by factories. I think it can't be that simple, but amazon clearly changed the labor dynamics, so what did it do and how did it do it?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-12-17/amazon-am...
>The accusations against him hinge on the "jigsaw identification" theory, whereby people could piece together persons from the material he published. The problem is that it's so vague that it could be used against anyone who publishes anything about a case such as this

Have you read the court ruling on the matter? I looked through it, and it sounds like that's not at all what's going on here. The court went through each individual accusation of jigsaw identification he was accused of, and in cases where jigsaw identification was unlikely, said so. On top of that, it seems Murray himself was trying to hint to his readers that he was indeed trying to give information out for the purpose of helping people figure out who the accusers were.

>Craig's only remaining option is to appeal to the EU court of human rights, but that's gonna be a tough one because he's pissed off the Americans too much with the Assange case.

Perhaps. Or perhaps he just doesn't have a very strong case.
It's bad. It's really bad. And it's already here. So we need to talk about minimizing the forcing and the effects, and stop pretending like we are going to somehow avoid catastrophe.

That means driving emissions toward zero, and carbon removal, and solar geoengineering, and adaptation. All of the above. Climate change is already happening and we're still way behind the curve.
Line of sight is a major issue and getting masts within line of sight of all customers Starlink is targeting would be very expensive. Not just masts, but all the new fiber to connect them.