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> I used to think solar and wind power were the best ways to reduce CO2 emissions. > But the biggest reduction in CO2 emissions during the past 15 years (over 60%)
> has come from switching from coal to natural gas.

But once you transition to natural gas, you can't go any lower with fossil fuels, while to stop warming we need to get to zero human-caused CO2 emissions, so clearly natural gas is not a viable solution.

> I used to think that the world was transitioning to solar, wind, and
> batteries. This, too, was false. Trillions of dollars were spent on wind and
> solar projects over the last 20 years, yet the world’s dependence on fossil
> fuels declined only 3 percentage points, from 87% to 84%.

Sorry, that does not make it false. During those 20 years, energy production rose, mostly in emerging markets, while the transition to cleaner sources happened mostly in developed markets.

Yeah I see a big push for nuclear in the last few weeks/months... only the proponents always fail to mention the huge delays and cost overruns associated with those projects. Like the nuclear power plants currently being finished in European Union (Finlad, France, Slovakia) cost between 3-5 times of the original budget while taking about 15-17 years to build. And China is building nuclear power stations too and also seems to always be too optimistic about the costs and the time, while also building loads of renewables.

Actually the nuclear push seems to be too intensive this time to be random, so maybe it is coordinated - or is it just me?
so? that is the way it is.
They do declare projects dead. They even have a place for them https://attic.apache.org/
Technically, you could build that on top of Linux, too, just like you could build an Android-lookalike on top of FreeBSD if you wanted to.

That being said, it would be nice, at least if the resulting system exposed more of its Unix guts, but I am not overly optimistic.
Hard to say. Hard to say who is even knowingly lying. It started as a hopeful message, that turned into a feedback loop where one group repeats the talking point of another, that is picked up and repeated by another, etc.

At this point, it's part of 'common knowledge' that we are transitioning to solar/wind and big oil/big gas and corrupt politicians are preventing that transition.
The title is intriguing but this is stream of consciousness style writing with little editing. Is there a summary?
I never assumed they were arbitrary, it's more that they don't fit the product. This DB architecture fits some use cases, I'm sure, but the decision should be made by an experienced person. In the real world, what happens is that early stage startups get hooked on the whole "fast and scalable prototype" marketing copy, then hire some FE devs that build the entire app on Firestore because they don't know any better. 99 times out of 100, a startup's use case is not going to be a good fit for Firestore, but Firebase has no vested interest in informing the customer about this little detail. I've only worked with Firebase for 1 year and I've now seen this exact situation happen 3-5 times.
An Introduction to Digital Marketing
Yep it supports RPE. Just have to enable it in Settings.
Yes, and all those receiving functions are auto-generated as part of windows-rs.
This the work life balance their culture pushed on to workers, it prevented WFH from being adopted long ago. I just have no sympathy.

Their lack of work life balance is why they earn 300x the pay, correct? That's the narrative I am most familiar with as their rationale for the income gap.

I am amused at the article's pin that some of the c-level work life balance changes could trickle down via policy...this thinking is broken.
You've got it the wrong way round - the last King of Scotland actually also became the King of England, the countries were united by a political process some years later - largely to pay off debts following one of the most ill conceived colonisation attempts in history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien_scheme
By the time any new nuclear reactor is designed, built and turned on, we'll certainly have many new/more ways to store energy for longer time (e.g new battery chemistry, hydrogen…).

Here in France, half of our nuclear reactors are now off (and we had to turn on some old coal plants because of many unexpected technical issues). https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/18/business/france-nuclear-p...

The new EPR (Flamanville) continues to be delayed and the one in Finland that just went live has been shut down last week. Also, we may have to reduce the power of many of our plants that are built along rivers because we won't be able to cool them off during droughts.

It's much easier and safer to install renewables now (as we just started with offshore wind) that bet on nuclear. It's also quite difficult to envision relying on Niger and Kazakhstan to supply uranium in the long term…
Lots of union and coop workers work more than 8 hours a day.

I think you mis-understand that unions and coops are about employees having a say. If the employees want to work more for less in exchange for equity they can. All unions are not the same, because the union is the workers.

You say working at a startup should be worse, but really it’s trading things. You get to learn and experience more. More equity instead of higher wages, and greater access to leadership. I work at one right now, I get it. I think this is what your saying, and workers know this. A union does not preclude this arrangement. Also the people that are willing to work at a startup tend to be more invested and want more of a say in the company. If the company succeeds I argue they deserve a seat at the table as they built it along with the founders more than any investor.

So many comments in this post setup imaginary straw men for what a union would do, then argue against that. The union is the employees, and employees at startups are not trying to kill a company and gate keep jobs.
Can you submit a formal bug report?
Well, you can find CRC collisions too without much work. Doesn't mean they are useless though. As long as they are guarding against error and not malice.
That's really cool! You put more work into this than w3w for sure
I copy/pasted the code examples, reformatted them so they'd work in a different language (javascript), and refactored it to write my own language instead of Lox.

Then I did it again with a different destination language design, and had to reference the book less.

Whenever I end up writing an interpreter for a third time, I'll probably be able to do it without referencing Crafting Interpreters at all, if I had to. But I expect I'll still check the book before doing certain fiddly parts of the parser.
> Clever writing can let you argue for any viewpoint.

More people should participate in a debate club. A common assignment is to argue eloquently for a position you don't believe in, allowing you to see how eloquent sophistry can be placed in service of any position.

When it comes to technical questions like energy it should be logic, math, and real data or go home.
So if one of my friends has Crohn's and I search for it to understand what I should be aware of, my rates would go up? HIPAA specifically prohibits the sharing of medical information unless needed for care. If there is any one here that we should be annoyed at it's the insurance companies. Hospitals are losing money and the insurance companies are posting record profits.
Correct, these are papers on monocultures vs non monocultures. But GMOs are inclined to be grown in monocultures.
That works until Chrome (not open-source derivatives) tops 85% or 90% of market share and the entire Web (by which I mean Cloudflare and AWS) start CAPTCHAing browsers that don't present a Chrome-proprietary user session token.
Generally speaking there is no reason that this cannot be put together by competent lawyers in a few weeks to a month, so yes I think they should be able to give a timeline if the blockage is a business reason.
how would you write that? real question
> Jordan Belfort, the Wolf, like literally the guy they made the movie about is now also pumping crypto.

Why am I not surprised?

This is a pretty good article. I started out thinking "this guy's against providing things for free and then charging for it later!" But he's not. His "wolf" examples really are wolves.
OMG, now that you put it that way, you're right! People making personal choices you disagree with is the worst thing ever!
>natural gas reserves are limited

People have been claiming peak oil since the 1930's. Yawn.

> So green energy has supported economic and social development through electrification without adding new pollution sources.

Except for the manufacture and disposal of these "green" sources.

> Pursuing nuclear is great but solar/wind are much cheaper.

Solar and wind are cheaper? Ha! We already have problems recycling blades from wind turbines and most are still not at the end of their lifespan. Same for solar - what do you do with all this crap a the end of it's 20 year lifespan?

*Total* cost of ownership. And never mind solar and wind still suck for base load management since we still lack cost effective energy storage that can scale at the grid level.
Good point, and fair.

Apache presumably has criteria for accepting an open source project? Although all I can find is this, marked "draft": https://www.apache.org/dev/project-requirements

But I'd suggest they need some, and also minimum requirements for remaining an Apache project, which if not met, the project will be either removed, or perhaps just clearly marked archived/unmaintained/historical on apache pages. (a status from which perhaps there is a way to escape with renewed attention as well).
To be fair Germany isn't especially sunny or even _that_ windy. Somewhere like Colorado or Morocco is far more reliable for renewables. Maybe not to the point of baseload, but enough to plan for. So location is really important here.
There are many metrics. I was mainly interested to know which ones would be selected. The whole thread is about using data instead of widely held beliefs...
"We dream of a world in which your information is yours once more" I don't recall when my information was really mine. Like ever. In pre-internet days I didn't even knew who had what about me. Well, anyway... They are offering ability to manage data accessibility - all that by my self! Seems like another good part of my life gone doing just that and worrying if I set everything correctly.
Finally, I assume that once the 'pod' infrastructure goes down I can't use any of the apps - commercial or govt, right? naah, thanks
I’ve always explained “technical debt” to program managers in the finance industry as behaving more like an unhedged call contract than debt.
So one idea I have thought of since I wrote this, which is a bit janky:

1. Start a free Dropbox account, create a public upload folder and share said upload link with everyone in the group.
2. Start a throw-away Gmail account, schedule an email containing the username and password to the Dropbox folder to all of the club users for a future date, X weeks in the future.
3. Logout of the dropbox and Google account, throw away the passwords to both.

As long as the email from the throw-away gmail account goes through, then everyone gets the time-capsuled password to Dropbox at the same time and can then log-in to Dropbox at their leisure to view the documents.

Obviously this solution is for a small, very-trusted group and doesn't scale, and has other security problems and the risk of losing everything.

Edit: Also found this, a bit old-school, Windows-based, PC-based solution, not really a modern tool designed to work over the web/internet it seems. https://www.jensscheffler.de/filelocker

There also appears to be a standard way of locking files in bash, which could be used to cobble together a solution where perhaps a file could be maybe scp'd into a server, locked upon upload, and then perhaps the directory unlocked at a pre-determined date for all users, but that seems like it would require a lot of thinking and building and sys-admin manual labor. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1715137/what-is-the-best...
Very nice. Thank you for the ultra-convenient F-Droid repository!
Yes, that sounds about right.

At the time I was there, Altria's entire business model was basically "let's lobby for the regulators to ban everyone but us."

It also seemed like they also didn't really want e-cigs to cannibalize trad-cigs, but they wanted it in their back pocket in case it started to take off. They were not interested in increasing sales at all and sometimes seemed to be actively working against it.
Agreed. It seems the author is falling into another shortsighted position after getting out of the previous one.

> it’s time to be honest about all the costs and benefits of every energy source

is a good advice, but then you can't just say

> Solar farms need 75 times more land to produce the same amount of energy.

based on a study that compares the footprint of only the facility. To be honest about the costs, you have to compare the lifetime operating costs: the area lost to mining, the infrastructure to service the facilities, and to distribute the power (wind farms are farther out, pylons and roads are non-negligible land use).

Another interesting observation is:

> Trillionsof dollars were spent on wind and solar projects over the last 20 years, yet the world’s dependence on fossil fuels declined only 3 percentage points, from 87% to 84%.

which suggests that either solar and wind didn't take off, or they did take off but increased our hunger for energy. The author fails to consider the latter by later advocating that energy must be affordable. In fact, making energy affordable is likely to exacerbate the problem, as it drives demand high.
> And yet you say it can't overlay a round camera cutout over the screen, which is just wrong.

How do you change the radius of the circle in realtime? You can do that in Keynote, but you can't in OBS, because that would mean uploading a new mask image for every new radius. Also if you switch to another camera resolution you have to recreate your mask, because your new camera has a new resolution. So technically you can overlay a round cutout, but from a users point of view this feature is not very usable. Keynote allows to do the same much, much simpler.
Even if he did use them, there have been cases of authors being able to pump out books at very rapid rates, especially if they're all of a certain "type".
> Nuclear plants can operate for over 80 years and run for 100 years if they are well-maintained. By contrast, solar panels and wind turbines last only about 20 years.

This is theorized. There doesn't exist a nuclear power plant that is even nearly that old.

The oldest still functioning reactor is the Benzau nuclear power plant in Switzerland. It started operating 53 years ago.

Meanwhile the oldest operating(IIRC), grid-connected array is the TISO-10 (also in Switzerland), which started operations in 1982.

Solar panels usually don't just fail catastrophically, but lose efficiency gradually. In the 35-year assessment of the mentioned plant it was noted that the rate of degradation was around 0.38%/year.

20 years is just the warranty period for a certain performance level.
It sounds to me that you put a negative empathis on 'dehumanizing' but you only talk about an ad id.

I disagree on this sentiment, I don't care if there is an dehumanizing number for me in a ad context. I would prefer it over a personal id.

Anyway I still care much more for having a cure for my chronic pain.

Good for you if you don't need this.
Yes, you are right. I didn't know that current tech is using 1550nm light. Wouldn't want to imagine the heat coming off the optical CPU using 2nm light. Yikes.
Sounds too good to be true! Is geothermal truly renewable? Or is it just abundant enough that it would last us for thousands of years? I wonder if there are other long term side effects of releasing heat from the core.
Look up iron flow batteries and other developing solutions. Assuming no one has been working on this problem and that you know more than them is usually a poor choice.

The other countries know that if they hard stop energy flow their economies will suffer, and these projects take a decade to plan, a decade to sell, and a decade to implement. Anything Germany is building now was probably developed or announced in the 00s.
not wanting your neighborhood to be turned into a profit center for real estate investors makes you a NIMBY? Give me your address so I can build a loud night club next to it, otherwise you are a NIMBY. Don't be a hypocrite, think about my bank account
Sounds like anybody who goes to work for the fossil fuel industry.

"Trillions spent on solar and wind" but apparently what we spent annually on Fossil Fuels is not significant enough to mention and Nuclear power can't cost too much because government money pays to build the plants.
What? It is a choice how much you eat.

You might be bedbound and not in control of your own food. But, the staff could just give you less food.

There is no medical condition that will cause someone in a locked room given a calorie restricted diet to gain weight. That is against the laws of physics.

It's fine to say "losing weight is very very very hard". But it's incorrect to say "being overweight is not a choice".
And how many times did oracle java have regressions for timezone changes?

I hate them for my 2am(1am?) emergency daylight savings calls.

Oracle java flourished, but part of that has been suing everyone under the sun for using it.

Look at android/google...

More scam, more or the same from oracle.
I don't think they're losing the battle. Many of the spam emails that Gmail misses don't require a fancy AI to detect. What I've noticed is that even simple heuristics could automatically catch them. As best I can tell, Google are simply insistent on trying to use fancy AI to catch what a simple heuristic won't miss.
Helium atoms are smaller than hydrogen atoms. Hydrogen ions are just protons so are smaller still.
As far as I can tell his definition of transphobia is being phobic of trans. That seems like the definition to me. You are the one expanding it to mean more than that.

Somebody who has arachnophobia is phobic of arachnids not entomologists.
I illustrated Postman’s API-First vision as a graphic novel
Let me introduce you to Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. Even the middle of the desert is not safe from NIMBYs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_r...
Then you just install a lightning arrestor on your comms circuit - I have a mast way up the hill to provide our connectivity here, and use one on the Ethernet line down to prevent issues (like a house fire) from a strike.
That's not the impression I have from the article. The overwhelming % of execs are pushing for positive change. At the end of the day, it's the "put your own mask on first" principle. Execs are humans just like everyone else, with their own job pressures and stresses, not robots that can automatically compartmentalise and supress their own feelings and emotions.
Vaccines causing autism seems like a good example. The original studies about this were fraudulent/wrong, and their effects have basically never been replicated since.

Also that of people only using 10% of their brain, since it's more accurate that people use different parts of their brains at different times. No, using 100% wouldn't give you psychic powers or make you superhuman or whatever else some works of fiction and new age mystics might posit.
I prefer to mock below the level of the 3rd party client library. In rubyland we use VCR to stub out the lower level network libraries to record the requests/responses. Then during the test runs your network libraries don't make real connections to the APIs - they just play back the recorded responses.

Python has ports of VCR (betamax and VCR.py).

The benefits of this are numerous. You don't need to manually build and verify mocks. You don't need to build a facade for every api client (the api client is already a facade). You exercise the as much of the 3rd party library code as possible on each test - this is very helpful during library upgrades. You can verify your recordings by switching your test to "live" mode every now and then (just configure your CI env do that every day or every week).
Good, one night stands are the abomination of (western) culture. This is just my feeling, I have no way to convince you. The state should not interfere with private affairs, this is the only reason why this unenforceable 'rule' should be purely symbolic.
He's a self-promotionist who seems to have built quite the profile marketing himself as providing energy "truth".

It's inevitably going to turn out he represents oil and gas in some way because boy does he just gloss over the subsidies those industries receive while uncritically spruiking the benefits.

EDIT: oh look, the very next story he has on this site is how fossil fuel companies can improve their image "to protect our prosperity" [1]

[1] https://briangitt.com/how-to-win-the-energy-war-tell-better-...
In Germany, fossil and nuclear received billions in subsidies over decades too. And still will, even when decomissioned. See:

-There would be social subsidies for layed off fossil workers, as there is a massive discussion, while the solar / wind industry almost completely broke down, massive layoffs, after subsidies where cut and china took over (with subsidies there too). It is estimated that more jobs where lost there than actually working in coal (which is the primary discussion about).
Forced moving of people / villages to make space for coal mining also holds a money-less cost to the people moved.

-Nuclear is a massive field of unknown money holes, as there is up of today still no final reasoning where to put the waste, and it has to be secured for 10k - 1000k years - of course opinions are different there - but there is no reasonable economic plan how to make sure the waste dump is financed for this time less then hundred years ago german society, and the soil to some extend was completely
turned over - how include that into risk calculations for 10k+ years to come?
So handling the waste will drop out of the private sector more earlier than later, and the state / people will keep it's finacial burden for generations. That is a massive subside, for sure.
Indeed, 1.8 million people over 55 die every year in the US.
Karl Popper, "The Paradox of Tolerance."
> "Everything you always wanted to know about the Unrelated Movie Reference (but were afraid to ask)"

Unfortunately I do not remember any relevant details, but I once came across an article that was titled "Everything you never wanted to know about $topic (and were smart enough not to ask)".
Very cool -- appreciate your contributions to the OSS community/maintaining this as open source project.
> Apache is a non profit foundation, not a for profit company. So fining them isn’t going to do a lot of good

Why?

I don't see why fining non-profits is any less effective than fining for-profits.
Nand2Tetris is another fun one IMO, you can do a chapter a week (an hour of reading and a couple of implementation sessions) and be done in a few months
* I have played kahoot, it's great...but it's very real-time, e.g. everyone has to be on the call at once from my understanding. I'm thinking of something much more asynchronous...the formation of a club, meaning, members would go and take time to think and search their soul a bit before submitting a much longer set of answers, essay, etc. within a time domain of weeks.

* Mentimeter - seems to be the same type of, "sector," e.g. real-time engagement as opposed to long-term, "time-capsuling" of documents.
This is the kind of book that really pays dividends into the future. Once you realize that lexing and parsing is not really that difficult, it makes a whole class of problems much easier.
You could make an argument that ecigs ARE seat-belts relative to cigarettes. Should we ban cars?