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I wouldn't call it entirely unpredictable. I've had probably five successive years of my birthday (the 20tht of October) being unusually warm. Warm as in being closer to 20 degrees celcius; or in one case warmer than that. The previously expected temperatures would be closer to zero. Like it reliably was every year when I was younger. 5 degrees would be normal. 10 degrees would be warm. 20 degrees would be ridiculous and unthinkable. Except that has now happened or nearly happened more than five years in a row. 18 degrees last time. And it hit 23 degrees a few days after.

I actually walked outside in a t-shirt and a hoody in Berlin on the 31st of December. It was 17 degrees Celcius during the day. It never dipped below 14 degrees that day. That was only a few degrees warmer than the year before. This is the new normal for western Europe. It's long, cold winters that have become unusual.

We haven't had one of those for quite a few years. The couple of weeks of snow we had last year don't count. The two weeks of freezing temperatures we had a month ago don't count. That's actually what used to be normal and expected for months on end. The anomaly is that this only happens for very short periods of time now. And some winters it doesn't happen at all anymore.

I haven't actually had my heating on since December. The temperature in my apartment never dips below 18 degrees. In January. That's a first. That has never happened to me.

This is not luck but climate change. The real lucky event is that Putin is forcing our hands years before we were ready to do something about that. LNG and coal are the short term expensive solution that is obviously bad for the climate. But they are also an enormous financial incentive to switch to renewables. Energy bills have gone up by 200-300% for people. It sucks. People are switching off their heating systems and wearing multiple sweaters for financial reasons. People I know, like my sister and my parents. And they are not even poor. This sucks more for people that literally need to choose between feeding themselves, paying the rent, or staying warm. There are plenty of those people.

Everybody that has the option is now considering roof top solar, heat pumps, etc. Whatever they can do where the math adds up. And in some cases even when it doesn't add up. Demand for that stuff is simply enormous. Everybody is looking at ways to cut their energy bills whichever way they can and as fast as they can. There's a sense of urgency with people to fix their energy independence. We didn't have that before 2022. That's a really positive change from my point of view.
(a) just because you may fail to give a reasoned account of ethics, epistemology or aesthetics, what cause have you to believe some other rational being might not succeed? (cf the Parallel Postulate) (note also my goalpost-moving here: we already know that consistency and completeness are at odds, so it was folly to have included both in the original problem statement)

(b) the reason "nihilistic despair" is two words is because there are other endpoints to nihilism than despair. (stipulated, the "might" does imply this case analysis was supposed to be non-exhaustive, yet in that case the remainder of the argument fails to go through?)
There is only one point around the whole Oumuamua topic for me, that makes me a bit sad. Extraterrestrial or not is not it, but that we had no means to just fly there (with or without humans) and checkout what it is.

Even worse, it seems no one in the scientific community (please correct me if I'm wrong) stepped up and said "We need to change this!". And it seems we will not have those means in the coming years/decades.

Honestly, if we can't do this in our own neighbourhood, because we simply lack the will power and consensus to do it, it says a lot about the future of space exploration.
What's funny about this is that the FAA obviously knows what can go wrong with "yeah we have two of them" as they wrote ETOPS regulations to avoid some of the common pitfalls or amateur mistakes. They then failed to apply that to their software.

Obviously at a big government agency, the same person is not writing both aviation regulations and software procurement contracts, but the institutional knowledge is there. Nobody thought to be as paranoid about software as they are about planes flying over the ocean, but honestly, paranoia is good if you want reliability.
Native Americans urge Apache Software Foundation to ditch its name
> I guess this is the crux of the issue. I don't think this is true, or needs to be true. It certainly hasn't been my experience. I think assuming panics are normal will take you down some paths that make it basically impossible to write reliable software. But, to each their own.

I'd rather have the control to log the panic on a service rather than it forcibly dying and taking down any other connections with it. Kube will just spin up a new one anyway, which just introduces a downtime gap that doesn't need to exist.
Rick Beato uses the same song of Beck's that I listen to over and over: Cause We've Ended as Lovers at Ronnie Scott's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV9bnaqqfq8

As Rick says: at 78 years old, he was as good as he ever was. What a tragic loss.
San Diego as well...
I've worked in some toxic places but nothing that toxic. Time off has never come up in promotion discussions. I don't think people are really counting. I can barely remember last year, you think my manager remembers enough about other people to pit them against each other by a couple days of time off?
I love these types of hacks, it's super simple and easy to understand, yet it goes undiscovered for a long time because no one wondered "what if?". Great work!

On a slightly unrelated topic, I clicked through to the 'Type' page out of curiosity. The 36 second sales pitch is absolutely amazing, 0 filler content or sales speak. Makes me sad that I have absolutely no need for it.
~0.73 seems about right. 0.01 is about 1.26 MW.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale#:~:text=equiva...
Ask HN: Do we need sunblock if the ozone layer is healed?
With some of the recent news about the ozone layer get better, if it is 100% decades from now, do we no longer need sunblock?
> Little did I know, I was searching for an answer to a much larger question.

The artists/entrepreneurs directly dedicating their lives, sacrificing day-to-day, and taking real risks within the larger industry typically tend to be the ones with the best insights into recent changes. These are the voices you hear early on, then later on when smaller Big Cos fails or stocks drop after commiting to [old out-of-date but safe business model] you hear the same explanations (that were surely obvious 5-10yrs ago if people listened!).

These things are rarely all-bad. It's just different. Ultimately Amazon Prime and Netflix teams still want good content. Good always sells, even with shitty low-budget marketing. So they'll eventually adapt and develop models that select for quality, without sacrificing the new model of betting on 1000 creative people instead of 10 safe ones.