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The problem is people who have the ability to move closer to work or who have a working PT system still choose to drive because they can afford to because they value not sitting next to a stranger above protecting the environment.

We need good planning but then we also need to factor in the environmental costs of driving to eliminate it.
We know human induced climate change is real.

We know that this climate change will cause extreme weather events.

We know that this climate change will have unforeseen consequences that we never imagined.

Then we have you, demanding that we prove that any individual event is purely caused by climate change to imply we should all bury our heads in the sand. This way lies madness and great suffering.
This isn't a desire to be helpful. A desire to feel important maybe? Is Bluescat lashing out because they can't find a good answer to the question and process no real power to fix it? Who knows, but the desire there isn't to be helpful.
How do small homes improve the affordability gap when a one bedroom apartment is too much?

Financing mechanisms and tax incentives, neither of these prevent creative solutions to problems. Zoning laws do. They dictate all aspects of land use.
Through science? e.g. attempting to model the mechanism and re-playing the model with and without climate change.
> For huge monsters like MS and Apple the argument of "we already had this, so we can't join the collaborative effort" doesn't really make sense.

It sounds like there’s a misunderstanding here about what Mantle was. Mantle was not a collaborative effort that different vendors could join in on. Mantle was AMD’s pet project. AMD saying “Hey, why doesn’t everyone use Mantle?” was a non-starter, because as it was, Mantle reflected the architecture of current AMD GPUs. Nvidia or other GPUs would be at a massive disadvantage trying to implement a low-level API that just didn’t fit their architecture right.

However, there was indeed a collaborative effort that Apple and Microsoft were a part of. It was the OpenGL steering committee. In 2013, the steering committee was not busy making Vulkan reality. They were instead trying to fix the problems with OpenGL. The more serious problems—the reasons why Vulkan exists—never actually got fixed.

This was not a massive surprise. The issues were complicated, and most people thought that OpenGL was falling behind DirectX further each year.

> Which indeed resulted in Vulkan eventually.

Yeah, in 2016. By that point, developers had been using Metal for almost TWO YEARS and shipping games with it. Some of those games had shipped sequels or spinoffs.

The project which eventually resulted in Vulkan, called “OpenGL Next,” hadn’t even BEGUN by the time Metal was released to developers. DirectX 12, I assume, was under heavy development at the time.

The story I’ve heard was that the release of Metal was a real kick in the pants for what became the Vulkan effort. If you were to go back in time and rewrite history, and wipe Metal off the face of the planet, who knows what would happen to Vulkan? History is messy.
This isn't really how supply and demand work.

If I create a job that pays $100,000 per hour for making me a coffee whenever I ask, I assure you that plenty of people will come off the sidelines and apply for that job.
Yeah, I tried to qualify my statement a lot ("normally configured", "Linux server", "number of years ago"...). But I think the subjective viewpoint I gave is probably familiar to a lot of people that used to deal with commodity Linux servers.

I share the sentiment with the wheel reinvention, though. This will continue happening...
I am sitting here going well I hope they don't decide to market it by negating the body positivity movement.
Dumb question, why doesn't California invest in desalination plants? I know they're expensive and complex. But Israel and Singapore have several of them running, if they can do it California should be able too.
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Yeah but I couldn't use it for the Voice Texts/hangouts stuff so it was limited for me :/
How does one prove that the silicon chip in your computer has no subjective experience? How does one prove another human being has a subjective experience? Until someone figures out how consciousness arises from physical processes, we have no way of knowing whether consciousness has or has not arisen from any given physical process.
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Huh? There are several big cities in Japan like Oosaka, Kyouto, and Fukuoka, and they're all zoned similarly to Tokyo.
Maybe it has to alter behavior based on your distro?

IMO, if you can't/won't reverse engineer, maybe see if you can contact Zoom support and see what they say? Obviously the support people won't know, but if you can ask the right way they might pass your question on to the developers.

For the file sync client, we got all kinds of oddball questions passed along from support to developers; and we'd make an honest effort to answer reasonable ones.
"The market" only cares about things that are factored in to prices. External costs like the environment are currently not factored in so the market will never optimize for them.

If you simply set a carbon tax, overnight the whole market puts a huge effort in to lowering their environmental damage because now that damage has a number next to it and can be optimized for.
> Quite the contrary I think it says everything we need to know about the business owner.

It's hard for me to believe anyone can assess a human being from one ambiguous sentence. This is not Twitter.
If you live in a city you do not need to drive.
As a developer, who suffered from sudden back issues that meant i could not sit down for 1+yrs.... i came to the conclusion early in my career that my time was worth much more then the prospect of success or early retirement. I quit my job in my late 20s, sold everything, and went off to the Amazon to aim my dev skills at the study of the boto dolphins in an effort to live and work in different ways.

That journey i took 10yrs ago took me all over the world eventually, and reinforced my pre-trip skeptism of what success in life was. To me, climbing the corporate ladder simply meant trading my time for more money and more stress.

So while others looked at me and skoffed at the 80$k i spent travelling the world for 2 years in a search for meaning... I now look at a post-covid world and take solace that i did it. I did it, just before the world changed, forever. I saw the world, the coral reefs, the rivers, the rainforests, before climate change, people destroyed them. No matter how much money you eventually get, or how many peers you impress, you cannot get that experience that I had.

And thats really what you are doing by chasing the startup dream. Your trading your life for status and money amoung your peers.

I came to the realisation that what drives me in life not my peers. it was love.... as i travelled around the world and saw poor families with not much nestled into natural environments that provided for them i saw satisfaction. They had a balance. They were poor, but balanced. They took joy in the love that they could give eachother and sharing that time with eachother reinforced that.

So fast forward 10 yrs since that trip. What did i learn? Money cannot by love. No matter how popular you are with your peers, without love, you go home from that recognisition into an abyss of loneliness. You are rish, respected, but alone.

Eventually I came back to life and attempted one last startup venture before figuring that its time i start working Remotely and start living everyday the way i wanted. I love to code, and finding a company that is stimulating and open to this relationship means i will give them the best everyday, day or night.

I thank covid for giving others that shake they all needed. Remote working is much more accessible now. Covid hasnt changed my life at all. I literly have not felt a single day in lockdown, even while the majority of people around me snarl in fear (i also gave up TV, so havnt even seen a covid-news-cast yet). I sit here watching my peers panic buy, while i never go a day without something i desire. I gave away more toilet paper then i bought.

To all those who have those doubt. Dont ignore them. The risks are worth the rewards. You will be calmer inside.
> Japan may have a difficult time, which is why they have been so fond of hydrogen, but I have a feeling that they may find some other solutions. Deep-sea floating turbines are falling in price all the time.

I think we need a bit more than feelings and faith to solve climate change. Nuclear buys us time to work out the issues with renewable energy, as long as it takes. And in certain cases, it just might not. That's the nature of renewable energy, much like oil deposits or rare-earth deposits aren't available everywhere in the world.
I'd be curious as well. It appears they have at least 11, including in San Diego. With 10 more planned as of 2019[0]

[0]: https://e360.yale.edu/features/as-water-scarcity-increases-d...
You pay for trash to be disposed of, not for it to not fuck up the environment
It would return food to local grown again. Making it no longer the cheapest option to ship food from the other side of the planet rather than growing in the same state.
Look into country cabins, boats and campers. Especially the first though. Many are built with only solar for power. They have 12 volt wiring for 12v lights, and 12v outlets.
The only AC is if someone plugs in an inverter to a 12v outlet.
If course there are many builds with a main inverter next to the ' battery shack', and often 110 AC wiring from that. But there is a lot of information about pure 12v systems, and it is very doable.
The problem is if you are not doing it yourself and are in a city, to find a contractor.
If you do a dual setup - I suggest using a different colour of wiring, for the 12v system. ;)
If it means less time spent in a mess of wires trying to figure out which adapter brick is squealing, I'm all for it.
Give them real investment in the business, by way of shares or a vote or something. Next!
I get the point the graph’s authors are making, but I wonder how those projections (made in the 70s) would hold up today, knowing what we know about the engineering challenges for each fusion approach.

In other words, I’d love to see a 2021 recreation of that graph.
The only changes in the CSS this year are around word-wrapping. If it looks different, something’s changed on your machine
When would I get the rebate?

Edit: For clarification, if it's the type of rebate typical in the US, that means I get it later and I can't afford the fuel now. If it's a rebate that's done at the time of purchase, then it wouldn't seem to make much difference, on average.
That’s not the way this works. You actually have to provide a structured set of evidence, not merely a theory of conspiracy. Analogously, you don’t see people plausibly claiming that Biden designed a program to hand billions of dollars worth of weapons to the Taliban. If there were evidence, then such a hypothesis could transform from irresponsible theorizing to responsible theorizing. But there is no such evidence. You have flipped the script on what you call “gaslighting” to evade the necessary evidence.
It's not just investors, it's government too. Remember they are stewards of money taken from the people; if they were to give it to some crazy person who turned out to be a sham, it would be very bad (and that happens too).
But please, please, PLEASE design a better connector than fragile USB-C.

120VAC plugs e.g. standard IEC computer power plugs can be hit with bricks and rammed into furniture while they are plugged in and they won't get damaged. All forces of impact get transferred to the chassis, not the PCB. That's good design.

I break about a USB-C cable a week because they just aren't designed for the ruggedness that consumer use cases demand, which are typically higher than military.
100% agreed. I am a person with very shaky hands when doing something. It may be 'essential tremors', but I've never bothered to get a diagnosis. It's come and gone since I was a kid.

I loathe typing on a phone, or worse, clicking some tiny thing on the phone. The act of tensing my thumb and moving it makes it go haywire at times.

I'm not looking for sympathy, at all. But realize at least -some- of us users will misclick things often, especially on mobile.
At FastComments we store every change as an event, which can either be pushed or polled. Clients subscribe, and poll on reconnect.

Also, integrations use polling: https://github.com/FastComments/fastcomments-integrations/tr...

The integrations work kind of like DB slave replication. They do an initial sync and then maintain state via the event stream.
Just noting that some of those articles are about mm wave devices explicitly designed as radars. But if you dig through you'll find articles geared towards "mm wave antenna arrays", which is a basically a keyword for 5G radio hardware.
Missing Middle Housing is essential for creating mixed use, walkable neighborhoods. We need to resume building neighborhoods of that sort so cars are genuinely optional.

Housing is the single biggest budget item for most people followed by transportation because car ownership is nigh unavoidable for most Americans. Even if rent doesn't actually drop, if you can live without a car and still get to work, suddenly some things make sense.

We no longer build functioning small towns and neighborhoods. We expect everyone to drive everywhere.

Financing is part of the problem because the easiest thing to finance is single family detached housing thanks to precedents set shortly after WW2 which have strongly shaped housing expectations and policies for decades.

Tax incentives, like breaks on interest, tend to encourage "housing inflation" where those who can afford a house at all buy a bigger house because it's no more expensive than a smaller house. It doesn't benefit most people looking for cheap housing. It just encourages Americans to build larger homes.

Zoning laws are absolutely part of the problem. I completely agree with that point.

But New Urbanism has tried to get around that and one of their major sticking points is difficulty in financing projects.
> That would have a particularly large impact on food prices. Increasing the portion of food cost attributable to fuel by between 3x and 10x would hit poorer people particularly hard. It would raise the price of pretty much everything else too, all of which hits people harder the lower they are on the economic ladder.

In the short term, but it may incentivize more local production chains in the future. A large part of the reason food is grown in such large, factory farm setting is because transport is a fraction of the cost of the food itself. As you say it's a complex problem and there aren't any simple solutions.
You could drop the sarcastic/cynical first half of your comment without losing anything.

It doesn’t seem to me that the claim that Japan has a worse quality of life than the USA is supportable by data: surveys of self-reported satisfaction are notoriously incomparable across cultures. But there are also many differences between these countries besides urban planning and zoning laws (e.g. the USA is much less densely populated, is younger, has more immigrants, has more natural resources, uses much more energy per capita, has much higher GPD per capita, has a shorter life expectancy, has a far larger number of drug addicts, has dramatically more violence, ...).

A cheap 10–15 minute standing rush-hour subway commute is much less objectionable than a 1.5-hour highway traffic-jam commute. I haven’t been to Japan, but the subways in China and various European countries are clean, orderly, quiet/smooth, and have trains every few minutes. They put even the best US subway systems like NYC and Boston to shame.

I know multiple groups of people in San Francisco who live with ~4 unrelated adults in a 1-story 2-bedroom single-family house, either sharing bedrooms or using every room in the house as a makeshift bedroom, and still pay out the nose for the privilege (the only other choice they could afford was living 1+ hours away in a suburban wasteland) who would much prefer to have their own separate 600–800 square foot apartments instead. The Bay Area housing market is such that people get locked into their current place and cannot afford to move if their needs change (e.g. get married, get divorced, have kids, have their kids move out of the house, get a higher-paying job, get a lower-paying job, ...). People who work full time for decades still can’t dream of scraping together a down payment unless a wealthy relative dies and they land a sizable inheritance. Building a couple hundred thousand additional small apartments throughout the Bay Area would relieve a ton of market pressure and drive down the price of housing of all shapes and sizes, including larger condos and houses.
Just FYI, I have direct knowledge of around 20% of the stories she's talked about and have personally been involved in some of them, and they're all true and not exaggerated. I have no reason to believe the others are any different.

Obviously some of the specifics have to be elided because they're proprietary information, though.

Rachel is one of the very best SREs on the planet. Working with her has been one of the greatest privileges of my professional career.
You'll probably also encounter people who are a bit jaded after their experience with Jira's hosted cloud versus on-prem. Jira on-prem can be slow also, but at least you can throw ridiculous amounts of hardware at it and make it okay-ish.
There has to be a better way to do this with homomorphic encryption.
Wasn't there a fusion project where the end product was a charged particle so energy could be extracted from currents generated by changes in the magnetic field as they slowed down?
> It's not about defending it, the goal is for it to change.

For many it actually is about defending it, counter to the goal of change.

> And that can't possible be by exporting our waste and blaming the ones we are exporting to.

What's your evidence for that claim?
Awesome work! I also developed a similar project called PyWebIO (https://github.com/pywebio/PyWebIO) last year. It provides less control to HTML element but provides a straightforward way to make input and output. Hope we can learn from each other's project.
When I was younger I lived in a few different cities and the usual thing to do was share the rent with others. So yes $1500/mo for an apartment may have been unaffordable, but that's an apartment with 3 rooms so find some people to share it with and you are paying $500/mo each. If you get along with said people there are other benefits too vs living on your own, so it's a win-win.

The problem I see with this In my city today is almost all new developments are smaller, being studios or 1 or 2 bedrooms. As the older housing stock is replaced, it means at sometime in the future it's not going to be possible to share as I did. Most people who have families move to the suburbs when they outgrow their apartment, so there isn't much demand for larger properties amongst people who can afford to buy them.
>>Housing however IS a scarce resource, especially housing when it comes to being close to things like transit, views, natural amenities, parks, businesses and other amenities

Obviously density can compromise something like having good views, or the benefit of a relaxed low-density neighbourhood, but almost any other kind of housing scarcity can be addressed through densification.

The study in the aeaweb link above estimates that increased housing restrictions in just three cities in the US; New York, San Francisco and San Jose, caused the US to have 36% less economic growth between 1964 and 2009 than it otherwise would have, by inhibiting population growth in these cities, which all provide settings for higher productivity due to agglomeration effects and being coastal cities with low logistical costs.

A report by the White House's Council of Economic Advisors in 2016 largely came to the same conclusion:

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/fi...

>>else those with no barriers would see massive movement towards them

We see a massive movement of people from New York and California to Texas:

https://www.northamerican.com/migration-map

It's hard to isolate factors behind this move, but I don't think it's a leap to assume lower housing costs, largely due to fewer restrictions on housing investment and construction, is one of them. In contrast to San Francisco, which is notorious for zoning restrictions and rent control mandates instituted by extreme-left city governments, and unsurprisingly, has the highest rental rates in the world (while not having the highest average income rates), Houston is renowned for its pro-free-market housing policy, and communersately affordable housing:

https://www.sightline.org/2017/09/21/yes-you-can-build-your-...
Maybe for some occupations in some cities. No way I could carry all the tools I need with me on a bus that rarely takes me within walking distance to the job site in the cities I live near, if I still lived in one of them.
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It should be treated like other abbreviations. If I want to comment on "JCL", it likely means nothing to the majority here (though more may catch on to my meaning with context). I should write "Job Control Language (JCL) ..." and then I can use the abbreviated form elsewhere in the comment and any ensuing discussion. If I'm writing within a context where JCL is well-known (like to people who are largely embedded in the IBM mainframe world), then I wouldn't need to spell it out. It's like any other jargon, you have to know who your audience is. You can use the jargon, but you have to clarify it or you're more likely to confuse or annoy people.
where do you get that 3 years number? scientists have known about it since the 1960s, and the Industrial Revolution was centuries ago. even the article, which is from 7 years ago, talks about a drought that's been going since 2000.
Bitcoin Fog, not Tornado. To my knowledge there's no case against Tornado. It's doubtful that there'd be any point to one - Tornado is just a smart contract on the Ethereum blockchain, so it will exist as long as the blockchain exists, and putting its developers in jail is not going to change that.
Bad leadership in the political ranks. The problems that California has has hurt it for many years. We just have been able to get away with it due to tech and entertainment money largesse.

The progressive wing is against desalination plants and dams. They say that they are anti environment. They push for conservation.

The problem is that since 80% of the water is used by agriculture all the conservation efforts won't be enough. You can't reapportion the water because of water rights. The agricultural interests won't give up theirs.

Thus you end up doing nothing much and hoping for rainy seasons.

Other longstanding California issues: wildfires, insufficent power generation, bad schools, expensive housing.
I am about as backend focused as they come and even I know a single pixel left or right should never be the difference between saving your mothers last voicemail and losing it forever.
I have a watch with lume powered by phosphor-coated tritium vials. I’d better keep it safe from terrorists trying to build dirty bombs.
Not sure if you realize this but you didn't post the link anywhere. You might want to delete this and post it again.
> I see you prefer lousy results.

I wasn’t stating a preference merely observing another possible reason people don’t research solutions before diving in.
We're just cattle killing cattle