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How confident are you that if all the money that went to renewables would not have been better spent simply increasing our efficiencies with fossil fuels?

Do you feel like this is something we have the power to stop? I feel it is a runaway train, that will just run out of steam in a few hundred/thousand years.

I mean I don’t like to be wasteful, and we shouldn’t pollute the earth for the hell of it, but I’m just like what are we gonna do?

What if all those politicians selling the story of renewables, had lots of investments in those companies? Would you still trust that story, that this will somehow stop climate change, and not just pad their bank accounts?

Maybe I’m just cynical in this area, and it is easy to just look around and say I’m not as bad as most people, but I just can’t think politicians forcing renewables is a good thing.
I just want an alternative to CUDA. I am sick of Nvidia’s monopoly in this space.
It's always interesting every time I see an article posted regarding increasing inflation and we get so many responses from people who are probably in the top 5% income bracket claim how it's not a big deal. The food/energy inflation really hurts the lower income brackets.
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In fact, the NRO donated two Hubble-like KH-11s in 2012, on the condition that they not be used to observe Earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_National_Reconnaissance_O...

One of them forms the base of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Grace_Roman_Space_Telesc....
Reducing car use is of course a good idea, but it's not enough, and it feels rather pointless if everybody else, especially corporations, continues to pollute like it doesn't matter. Measures need to have teeth. Pollution needs to be taxed with the amount necessary to reverse it.
It seems safe to extend this comment to all episodes of every TV show.
Spanish Flu definitely not the same severity as COVID, not even close.

Apparently though people's risk perceptions about COVID are wildly off base, by orders of magnitude.

https://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/354938/adults-estimat...

40% of US Democrats think COVID hospitalization risk if you're unvaccinated is 50%! Fifty percent! The real answer is less than 1%. Other polls have shown similar things for fatality rates, like estimated 16% IFR on average in France. It really makes me realize why people act in such extreme ways, if that's what they think.

COVID is to a large extent a total failure of our societies ability to disseminate accurate information. Unfortunately this misinformation catastrophe is largely the work of the very same people who are constantly complaining about misinformation.
I always thought it originated in vmware but maybe they are copycats too. There are lot of these places around the valley big and small
As far as I’m concerned, “attempted coup” is a burned bridge that will never be rebuilt. I’m not a member of the Democratic party, but there is nothing the Republican party can do to make me ever vote for them in the future. I hope that the party withers and dies, and that any remaining sensible people go and form a new party.

Some offenses are simply unforgivable.
humor/trolling. sorry.
Lisp, prolog and forth.
'Curiosity' is so often a dog whistle for BANANA. Apologies if you didn't intend it that way. But so often the 'lets explore the possibility of this' and 'lets study that' questions are weaponized -- There's always a reasonable sounding additional thing. That it takes months, and that there are even serious discussions and hand-wringing over something so simple as putting a few tables outside is itself absurd[0]. Heck, if the pandemic hadn't happened, would we even be able to have this conversation about possibly putting tables on sidewalks in SF(like is done in much of the civilized world)? or would there be too many things to be 'curious' about to (s) chance such a drastic social upheaval.(/s)

The hypocrisy[1] of the current status quo is that we live in the benefit of decisions made in a far more carefree manner that would never pass muster today (e.g. filling in the SF bay.)

>https://missionlocal.org/2018/06/the-strange-and-terrible-sa...

[0]The endemic absurdity which makes it expensive to build, and by extension live in CA and the Bay Area.

[1]Never mind anti-pragmatism.

Landromat -> apartment, except it casts shadows on a school playground after school hours.

>https://sfplanning.org/standards-bird-safe-buildings

'bird-safe building requirements

>http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/ceda/documents/webc...

Some permitting requirements including treatment for migratory birds. I expect you can find some news of delays over lawsuits from environmental groups over things easily
For me, I'm making adaptations to my lifestyle now anticipating what will be necessary in the long-term. This way, myself or my children will not be in shock as society adapts.
I don’t see an issue in that, we can meet machines part way to make it easier for both of us
I've definitely seen barred owls in the area, so I bet that was it. Thanks for the tip, magical is a great way to describe it. Actually turned off the TV / lights last night when we heard them calling and just sat in the dark and listened.
I would recommend the book Apocalypse Never by Michael Shellenberger. It's an interesting read where the author talks about how environmental alarmism hurts us and makes us focus on the wrong things and the importance of nuclear.
Renewables are a feel-good hippy joke (the irony, since nuclear is more environmentally friendly). Including a random source in case you ask for it - there are also cost/energy comparisons available if you google around.

"System costs for nuclear power (as well as coal and gas-fired generation) are very much lower than for intermittent renewables."

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/economic-aspec...
I like the Kindle especially for travel. Lighting in hotel rooms/planes often is less than ideal and it's great to not be forced to choose a book I'm going to be in the mood to read on a given trip. But, for the most part, I don't like cookbooks and other essentially reference books on Kindle/iPad. (I still buy them sometimes but mostly because I got some sort of $1/$2 deal.)
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Truth ain't got nothing to do with it. People wrongly assume the definition of propaganda is a government telling lies to push its agenda. That's not correct. Propaganda is merely the government promoting its agenda. It can be truthful or deceitful.

NASA public outreach is technically propaganda.
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We’ve always been at war with Eurasia. Wikipedia told me so.
Not to mention, it's not just driving that makes you a good driver. It's 16 years of life experience. You spend that time growing up riding around in cars and busses. Living in the world, knowing how things work, learning how people behave. Driving is so much more than just pointing your wheel the way you want to go and pressing the gas and avoiding objects.

So many people don't even know all the rules of the road, but still manage to drive just fine without accidents. There are different unknown rules of the road in all different places around the world, but most people figure out how to adapt to them in a very short time.
> Endrift being unhappy with $10k-20k due to their current situation & cost of living is entirely different from the person I responded to claiming that "Analogue was hoping for a screaming deal on this software"

> Analogue wasn't looking for SV contractors, they were looking for contractors in any location (in this case, a remote contractor). That Endrift happened to be located in SV changes their specific appetite for the offer, but doesn't make the offer unreasonable or disrespectful, either.

I wouldn't expect to get cycle-accurate FPGA emulation work (by one of a handful of experienced experts in simulating the original hardware!) done for ~$30 USD an hour from basically anywhere on the planet. Contracting out of Eastern Europe or South America you'd end up paying about that much for a mostly incompetent web dev -- for what Analogue wanted, there's no real way to describe it other than "hoping to hit a homerun on an absolutely insanely unreasonable offer".

This is deeply specialist knowledge that Analogue is looking for.
If you're referring to /usr/share/dict/words, no, you can't just pass over it to fix typos - it doesn't even have the proper noun 'Bel-Air' in it!
How about Cassini? (sp?) threw this little sensor disk to Saturn for information - what a cool project.
> The best case scenario is a new less deadly highly contagious strain that become the most dominant and spreads worldwide.

No, this scenario wouldn't be good news at all.

Firstly, a marginally lower case fatality rate is a linear improvement, whereas much higher transmissibility is an exponential worsening.

In other words, the reduced risk of an infected person getting into hospital is dwarfed by the exponential increase in the number of sick people, and the net result is way more hospital admissions. This could easily overwhelm healthcare systems in the coming weeks and make them unavailable for anyone who needs them, not just Covid patients (unfortunately, these indirect casualties of Covid are undercounted)

Secondly, each new infection is an additional ticket in the great variant evolution lottery. The more infections, the higher the risk of a vaccine-escaping, serious disease-causing new variant being selected. Low vaccinations rates in South Africa, plus the high number of untreated HIV+ patients there (who struggle to get rid of Covid and are a perfect breeding ground for variants) are thought to have contributed to Omicron's emergence.

That's why "let it rip through so we get natural immunity" is such a short sighted stance.
There's good reason to be hopeful. A democratic government is bound by duty to act in the interest of the common good. Just as there are clowns who refuse to wear masks, there are those who will oppose nuclear power.

A government building a nuclear power station is orders of magnitude more likely than an entire population complying with a mask mandate.

It is unfortunate that too many democratic governments are consumed by political bribery and pressure groups rather than doing what is in everyone's interest.
?utm_campaign=show&utm_source=hn&utm_medium=comment why do people do this to their own personal blog?
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Climate panic isn’t constructive (at best it causes anxiety and depression and energy directed in ways that aren’t constructive, at worst apathy), so I’ve made peace with the prospect of a highly turbulent future.

Some of my personal goals include finding and supporting carbon capture/sequestration efforts, and activism organizations who I believe can lobby for meaningful policy changes in a better direction. That, because I don’t have the skills/network to do something about it directly. If I did I’d be doing something about it directly.

Beyond that, I believe we all have to accept our limitations, that there’s a lot of luck/random chance/etc. in us being alive here on this planet in the first place and be grateful for that, and then do our best to be kind/generous to and have empathy for people suffering from the climate-related disasters.
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> Are you expecting to be able to literally summon a visual hallucination of these objects?

That's exactly what I get. I can picture an elephant, rotate it around in 3-space, imagine how it looks and how I might draw it from angles that I've never seen an elephant pictured from, etc. I'm no good at drawing living things, but anything geometric I can render on paper pretty much exactly as it appears in my head. It's like CAD but without the CA.

When I was on a field crew installing telephone switching equipment, we'd often get incompletely-engineered jobs, where for various reasons, the rack was supplied with sort of a first-guess of mounting hardware. Sometimes the engineers admitted it, there'd be a note in the plans like "add'l overhead structure tbd by installer". Or sometimes conditions had changed in the time since the job was engineered, due to other activity in the office. Either way, I'd get to sketching and ordering.

(environments like this: https://www.cabletrays.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/image-... )

Typically this meant taking a few measurements, jotting those onto paper, and then drawing out the existing structure and what I planned to add. Then breaking that down into a list of piece-parts, faxing the drawing and the list to the engineer, who would turn it into part numbers for the warehouse, who would arrange for a delivery the next day.

I did it all freehand, or maybe with the aid of a straightedge. This was easy for me, it was exactly like having a bunch of LEGO bricks and picturing how I might put them together. After running it through the fax machine to get engineering signoff, I could hand the drawing to any other installer and they'd know exactly what I had in mind, even if they hadn't initially envisioned it, and I could go do something else while they assembled it. (My upper-body strength was never ideal for the superstructure stuff anyway; if the job involved any wire-wrap terminations that was probably the best place for me.)

The majority of installers in the field could do this, though some were certainly better at it than others. Most would start with a sketch from the perspective of an observer on the ground, even if that wasn't actually the clearest way to depict it, and then add other angles as needed. I knew one who would actually climb into the rack with a clipboard and pencil if he needed to show it from another angle, whereas most of us could freely imagine and project the scene from any desired angle in our heads and just sketch it straight out.

I always thought this was quite normal, and the guy climbing into the rack because he couldn't rotate the view in his head was the anomaly.
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Yes, the cargo bike is much better for transporting children, for the simple reason that the children are suspended on the same wheels as the rider. Kid trailers have two wheels, typically of smaller diameter than normal bicycle wheels. That's a double-whammy, because the trailer wheels don't follow the same track (they hit potholes the rider doesn't feel), and the impacts are harder due to reduced wheel diameter. Trailer suspension does not solve these problems. Aside from child hauling, trailers are harder to manage, assuming the load can instead be put directly on the bike.

I put over 7,000 miles on a Surly Big Dummy, much of it hauling my son from age <1 to 7. It was far safer and more comfortable for him than a trailer would have been. I've also ridden thousands of miles with a B.O.B. cargo trailer and a Tout Terrain trailer, and I would always choose the cargo bike if at all suitable to the conditions. The only thing I prefer the trailer for is hauling gear for trail maintenance.
> organizations tend to become more bureaucratic, political and consensus-driven as they grow

Hot take: a big part of the utility of these "mature" companies in society is to serve as a kind of glorified daycare for adults. The people they employ can feel like they're contributing something to society, and legitimately earning the money they're bringing home, even if a bird's eye view would reveal that they're just treading water and not really producing any net benefit. This allows the employees to feel better about themselves than they would if the government just handed them a UBI paycheck and sent them back to playing videogames all day.

I've seen a lot of turmoil between people who are legitimately trying to make the world a better place through their work (spoiler: it wasn't always me), and coworkers that prefer to just operate in daycare mode.
Yeah, I have the same concern as well. However, I felt that being able to visualize things in my head allowed me to solve some of these problems very quickly (in around 4-5 seconds). I can make the 2-d image collapse into the 3-d object in my head. I guess not having aphantasia would make you quicker on these tests? I must admit though, I had to look back and forth for some problems as well.
> nothing really went wrong yet

Seriously, what do you consider to be 'something' or 'going wrong'?

There are so many things, and they are going so badly wrong. Case in point current Kentucky tornadoes and the article you're replying to.
My kneejerk reaction is "throwing money away" but thinking about it a little more, most consumption in modern economies is for crap, but physical crap that clutters up your home, and then ends up in a landfill. Maybe virtual goods are the step towards not buying stuff you don't need.
I don't know what to do with it. You can't find Github Wiki results on search engine because of Github's robots.txt. The project is thus quite legit.
Source: https://github-wiki-see.page/
This is super misleading, from the linked website:

> Nicehash does not have enough hashing power for most larger coins, so we also calculated what percentage of the needed hashing power is available from Nicehash.

For Bitcoin, that percentage is zero which renders the dollar cost 100% meaningless.

For Ethereum, it's 7% so it's also nowhere near vulnerable from the attack vector this website is calculating a price for.

Even forgetting about that glaring issue, purchasing hashing power on NH would..drive the price of hashing power up. You would not be able to buy all the hashing power at the price that it currently trades, just like you wouldn't be able to buy all BTC or GOOG shares at the price they currently trade. This should be obvious.
This is a good reminder, I've jackknifed with a kid trailer fully loaded under emergency braking. They laughed, of course.

(your rear wheel gets light and the trailer pushes it to the side)
The future is very bright then? But Java definitely.
Like I said - it has such a stop, it's just old and a bit worn.

It's column shift despite bucket seats.
Eh, aerospace involves a lot more testing and specification and generally being careful in engineering practices and still failure for new products is expected.

You launch your first few rockets expecting them to explode because even with all of the care, it's just not reasonable to expect that you got everything right in simulation, test, and design.

This is why the public response to "failures" from SpaceX, NASA, etc. etc. are so frustrating, people don't understand the nature of product testing. You don't get to see a washing machine or microchip or car or whatever else do its equivalent of exploding on the pad, but they all do and much worse.

The first flight of a rocket not exploding is like spending days writing code, compiling it once without errors and running it in production with no issues. It's basically unimaginable and when it does happen you sit and wonder what's actually going wrong that you don't know about yet.

Once you do get a working configuration, you don't change it or make only very safe changes. You rely on what's worked before because things are actually exactly the same, not constantly changing like so much software today. This leads to a lot of conservatism that people don't understand (why is military hardware using X, it's so outdated!)
> Spanish Flu did evolve to become more mild

That doesn't make sense. We have seen regular waves of flu, some being more pathogenic than others. There has not been a "direction" of flu strains becoming milder. So-called Spanish flu came after weaker strains.

> All modern seasonal flu variants are descended from it.

I don't think this makes sense either. The more serious strains of flu we've had in recent decades have for example included contributions from bird and pig viruses.
Skepticism and methodological criticism are definitionally "science". Not cult like faith. Ad hominems and appeals to authority are not valid arguments.
yes, turns out "all our vehicle have the necessary hardware for full self driving" was another of the many boutades that aren't technically lies only because layers of fine print included and generous interpretations thereof from the Musk sycophants.
It’s believed that 70%+ of South Africa have already had covid, and there is substantial protection from severe cases on reinfection.
> What we should be doing is getting governments to band together and penalise industrial-scale polluters.

I agree with this as well. We should do all of the above.
> FPGA doesn't really solve your other two issues, nor is it practical for anything post-PlayStation/Saturn/N64

I agree with most of your point here, bus is that particular one true? Doesn't the Gamecube (for example) use a PowerPC chip? I would be very surprised if isn't an effort to make FPGA implementations of the PowerPC.

I realize that there's a lot more to making a clone system than "just recreating the CPU", but why would making an FPGA for something after the N64 be impractical?
I thought that peoples' reactions to electron apps was way overblown, and it certainly comes with benefits, like customizability. So I thought I'd try hyper shell on windows. It was unusable. I expected terminal windows to open right away but there's a really annoying delay every time you open a new one. Really, everything was slow. Maybe it was just my computer. I would definitely prefer to use a less capable terminal that's fast.
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Fortuitous timing! I've actually been tasked to build something that will need semantic search at work. I'll be diving in - thanks!
I bet it was a barred owl from what I've been reading -- not exactly like anything on that sounds page but similar enough I think they're related.
> One is that the vaccine programme has now completely failed

You mean succeeded? As in, prevented many people from dying, and forced the virus to mutate into Omicron, which is far less dangerous.
We have an open source PHP application and we’ve been fielding dozens of questions asking if the app is vulnerable - even from IT managers / system admins who in my mind, should know better.

This has me thinking no one cares anymore about the stack of software being used - it’s almost sad to think about how it is going to be get worse with insane dependencies software comes with nowadays.

I’m thinking there’s a business opportunity for someone to curate list of software and it’s dependencies and provide subscription service for vulnerabilities alert on the stack of said software.

PS: Looks like Vuldb [0] is halfway there, but wonder if they alert based on dependencies or even version of said application / product.

[0] https://vuldb.com/?kb.alerting
I've heard that IDA explicitly allows licensed users to decompile IDA itself. What's stopping someone from reverse engineering it transparently and making a competitor?
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This sounds trite or oversimplified, but the best thing you can do is stop using every single industrial supply chain you possibly can. The urge to produce/consume away the consequence of industrialization is a capitalist pidgin-hole and is impossible.

The more involvement you have in global industry, the more entropy you are morally responsible for accelerating. Involve yourself as little as possible.