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No, insurance is against things that didn't happen yet that are out of your control.

You can't just buy fire insurance when your house is burning down, so you shouldn't be able to have "electricity insurance" when you buy a far away house

The postal service is necessary to do things like send you IRS communications, drivers licenses, jury duty, etc.

When the government no longer uses paper to communicate with people we can talk about privatizing the postal service
Very well said.

There is no consistent way environmentalists can argue their way out of this particular point you made:

> But if you care primarily about the humans, then how can the answer be to have less of them? And pick and choose who gets to reproduce?
The trains in the past two centuries: OH NOES.

Seriously, why it was not a problem for two centuries yet nowadays it's suddenly a new problem which requires a complex, electromechanical computer operated solution?
1. My e-bike. I've always cycled however having the e-bike has given that a boost. Routes I might have ridden occasionally because of a long hill have become routine. It eats up the miles so I ride much further. I can tow a trailer so shopping trips are reasonable.

2. A new bike saddle. I tried many different saddles over the years without much success. Then I read an article on measuring you're sit bones and discovered I need something much wide than the average.

3. iPhone. Camera, alarm clock, music player, banking interface, podcasts, payment tool, route planning and on and on. I don't use it for social media though.

4. 5K monitor. I spend too much time at the computer to suffer a low res monitor.

5. Walking shoes. I've been buying the same ones for years. They are a cheap brand but fit me perfectly.
Here’s some new data for you: Russia is flaring over 4 mil cubic meters of natural gas per day.
Correct. He also flew to the ISS in 2008.
As long as it works, it works. Interestingly the phone doesn't glitch. I wonder how many x-ray equivalent doses the lighter, the guy and his phone have picked up by now.

This is probably safe if you do it once but I'd definitely not do this regularly.
Sadly not. The Flynn effect appears to be obsolete. In many countries it stopped in the 90s and IQs have actually gone down a bit since then. Example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect#/media/File:Sunde...
Hmmm....this post has stayed on top on hackernews (while I didn't visit the link shared in this post) AND the video shared in this post also shows up on top on youtube.

Same has also happened with this hackernews post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39162856 (I didn't visit the link shared in this post either) and looks like this post didn't get 'as much' traction on HN as compared to the above one. However, the video shared in this post also came up on top on youtube.

Looks like HN is a good place to boost your content on YT, if it gets pushed to the top!
>It's really just a property of a list of checkboxes, how many you can select, not an entirely different class of UI component.

Not really at all.
Radio buttons are part of a group so 3 radio buttons are related and exclusive, there 3 check-boxes represent 3 different unrelated things. The typical example is selecting your gender/sex , you use a radio btn group and put 2 radio buttons or if you are less competent dev you recreate this with checkboxes, scripting and extra validation.
Yes, definitely. You will want to protect your camera sensor from a direct hit by a laser (or even an indirect one). Diffused is probably ok.
"It's incorrect to say that homeless are poorly integrated into society. I know one hobo from the central station who is a director of a dozen companies!"
What you are missing is that to you, "valuable" continued existence means continuing to produce pointless tech gadgets and indefinitely increasing global GDP or something.

To somebody else it means just living life.

There is no way to objectively argue superiority of one over the other except from a religious worldview.
Id recommend chatGPT plus unless you really want to use it purely within an ide. It's a little tedious copy-pasting code into chatGPT, but it gives more verbose responses and has wider breadth of functionality.

I have found myself using chatGPT more than Google now that I have pro. It's nice to just ask a question and get a thorough response without having to read the results myself.
> (cannot update it if you don't also have an iPhone)

Really? Can't the EU do anything about it?
I'm not sure it would even be fraud although obviously blowing up airplanes breaks some laws. But on the finance side if you buy calls on a company and then help it be successful in some way I don't think you have broken any laws.
> The escalation in targets is a gradual thing. The early war was intended to be a bloodless takeover. When that didn't work, Russia moved towards destruction of civilian infrastructure, demoralization and subjugation. Russia's fighting doctrine and equipment favors this - it is not precise like the NATO stuff.

I've read somewhere that the point of Russia's war crime-driven war doctrine is to basically torture and genocide the nations they attack and invade so that they serve as a cautionary tale for any prospective breakaway regions and countries they feel should be their vassal states. This is in line with all the civilian massacres Russia committed in Ukraine, systematic rape and torture of civilians, as well as their intentional targeting of critical civilian infrastructure.
This also proves that we are not the mirror universe.
Really? Does everything run? Even AI stuff?
Do you have any links where I can read more about that?
There are many regions/nations that are either hostile to the current international order or ungoverned. There is no chance of such a global conspiracy working for many decades to cover this up. Besides, just think what hostile countries would do to get access to alien technology or just prevent their enemies from it. That would be very, very noticeable.

We would have tons of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian all over the world.
As if they weren't brutally violent enough already..
It came from the 1990s, but it overstayed its welcome. I remember seeing proposals to remove the vector<bool> special case, what is the situation?
I have heard it referred that way, I didn't use zoomer as a slur.

I can't think of any example off my head, but I remember mention of a striking online clothing store with bold colours, thick black borders and large fonts that's very popular in that age range.

From a quick search on google: https://thedigitalmaze.com/blog/three-awesome-ui-design-tren...

See also the design for Gumroad: https://gumroad.com/
> Jevon's Paradox

This looks to support my argument as its indeed what is happening and what is causing emissions to go up (less developed nations industrialising) due to technology trickling down. Please correct me if i'm wrong.

> My own view is that the paradox makes the idea of population reduction moot

Lets use math and assume all pollution comes from end users who can afford/drive cars (~20%) and ignore the rest of modern civilisation and set current efficiency of 1x.

8 000 000 000 * 0.2 * 1 = 1 600 000 000

Lets call the 1.6Bil a hard line that we want to sustain aka the perpetual enviormental doomsday in the current year+x.

Over the next 80 years with strict population control and current technology we can make that:

4 000 000 000 * 0.4 * 1 = 1 600 000 000 and bring 20% more people into the top percentile bringing the misery, disease, war and resource shortage down or keep it to its current form.

Or if we wanted to bring same 20% of population to the same mark with efficiency (11.2 bil is expected population by 2100) we would need to achieve efficiency of:

11 200 000 000 * 0.4 * x = 1 600 000 000

x = 1600000000/(11200000000*0.4) = 0.357

Thats an efficiency increase of ~2.8x

So it boils down to you claiming that in the next 80 years we can increase efficiency 2.8 times across the board. This does not only include energy but materials too 2.8x less materials used to build cars, houses, roads etc. And on top of that we will do it with a completely new source of energy since fossil fuels are going dry in the coming decades.

Furthermore you calling population growth moot suggest thinking that this can be repeated again ad infinitum in 2180 and 2260 and so on.

I'll put it mildly - don't think its feasible.

Edit: fixed the last calculation for clarity/typos
I really like the cheap usb-c charged pocket hand-warmers that are available all over amazon/alibaba/whatever. I keep it in the front pocket of my sweater, it lasts for 12+ hours, and it helps my ailing arthritic hands stay warm during the idle time where my hands don't need to be on a keyboard.
"It'd not true that newcomers have hard time in Moscow. Jusy lose your ID on the railway terminal and you will become a director of a dozen companies real quick"
Unfortunately you’ve done very little to refute the claims yourself.
If you suck at statistics sure, I didn't fail high school. I left voluntarily for a better opportunity.

If someone interprets that as the same as someone who tries to complete high school and fails they are the ones we should worry about.

If you use something that people didn't do as a signal you run into all sorts of problems.
What ?

You learn IPv4 using dot-decimal ? What a noob !

Could not you learn all the IP as numbers, like a real man ?
There is a housing estate near me that has these lines going right through it. I often wonder what the impact of that is on the people that live there.
I'm sure there are many exceptions but a decent amount I've seen is portfolio-driven design, where the goal is more to have something eye-catching, unique and interesting that will look good in a portfolio and to show other designers, more than building something well considered and reliable/predictable. There can be a sense, especially amongst more junior designers, that the job of design is to add some style, and that design should be fun and much more like creating abstract art than making sure door handles are in a reasonable place and turn in the expected direction. The end result is, as you say, more fashion than function.
Or just keep your intestine working actively

If the sea is fertile the soil can be hacked to be fertile. Any seabird could tell us how

But this is not the problem. The sea level will raise
Indeed! I've been using the same setup for 20 years - FreeBSD + XFCE, and I love it. I toyed around with different window managers and desktop environments, but I think the developers of XFCE and I have the same philosophy.
If it's not broken, don't fix it.

Not much has changed how I use my computer network over the last two decades, only small improvements, and the introduction of ZFS(a game changer).

While in my corporate job I am forced to use Windows, and for every year that passes, somehow it has gotten worse. The start menu was replaced by some horror show. The settings I used to easily change in the control panel in the Windows NT/2000/XP era are now all over the place, and always changing.
And now recently, I have to go through the Microsoft app store to download software for my HP printer??

I've had similar experiences with Linux, where things are changing for no good reason. One day, ifconfig was replaced with ip????

While in FreeBSD, it's the same old configuration files as it always was.
There is one thing I miss though, and that is functioning bluetooth.
The wifi is not the best, but I get by using wifibox, a tiny virtual linux machine with pci passthrough for my wifi network interface.

Despite this, I still prefer FreeBSD over any other operating system.
OpenBSD is great, too.

With the BSDs, I am in control of my hardware, not some profit driven mega corporation.

end rant
Because in the past people did not care about people with disabilities. It's like saying why we need wheel chair ramps when we didn't in the past.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending the current implementation, but it makes sense to me to try and improve the world to make it more disability friendly.
> Government money printing has created a huge number of bullshit jobs.

I dont know if there is a causal relation, but both are rampant.

For me the worst is how hollow the word "science" has become. I refer to the old law-based science as "natural or hard science" nowadays. And all climate models (on a highly complex open system that is the earth) are not hard science. Also virology side-stepped Koch's postulate on isolation and transmittability.

So according to "science" a treatment is "safe and effective" and in a few months turns out to be neither safe nor effective: but barely anyone can reflect on that because all are too invested in their own story. That's not science (nor hard nor soft), that's a cargo cult.
I don’t go to conferences very often. I went to TechNet this year in Augusta, GA and it made me wish I were an independent consultant. I am still getting calls and sales opportunities from all these big companies. This was all technology players and the defense industry so it’s a lot of businesses that are either super successful or struggling for establishment in a very small pond. Consider what’s in Augusta: NSA and Army technology.
"Standards of living" are not some kind of homogeneous global state.

The true hard pill to swallow is that YOUR (and a few others') standard of living is unsustainable.
I'll admit, the last time I tried copperheadOS or cyanogenMod was like a decade ago, and I should not be prejudiced. I'll see if I can play with a pixel device and grapheneOS and give it a chance to change my mind.

The other part of my argument still stands...
Do you use WhatsApp, Instagram etc for communication with friends?

What Google services do you use on your phone? Google Maps, Youtube?

Is there a way to use GrapheneOS on a Pixel device without sacrificing modern life social needs too much?

Update:
I thought about my need from phone a little more. I drive a VW Golf. The default infotainment stuff in the car is useless. I use Google Maps via Apple CarPlay to get driving directions in my car. Is there any way to satisfy this need with GrapheneOS without downloading the Playstore (which I consider as Game over and a submission stand to Google) given all the permissions the Playstore needs from the OS.
1. Beats by Dre - Beats Studio Pro Wireless Noise Cancelling Headphones are my #1 favourite thing. I hate residual background noise and I’m quite obsessed with music just generally so these just bring me a lot of happiness.

2. Spotify 2nd - because there is so much to listen to ranging from music, to podcasts about anything, to rainstorms and pink noise.

3. It’s actually an activity, but swimming is a top favourite thing to do at the moment because I can swim for ages and still feel completely fine, but also I’ve noticed since I’ve been swimming my breathing (when not in water) feels different in a good way, perhaps more efficient.

4. My MacBook. It’s the only laptop I’ve ever had that lasted more than 2 years. It’s still going strong and is perfect for what I use it for (mainly research and writing).

5. My cat Timmy - because he’s just really cuddly and he meows a lot and I just think he’s really cute, even though I’m not really a cat person, I just really like that one particular cat a lot.
Brew update/upgrade is very cve aware.

You can be very CVE aware and still out of date, and brew is plenty out of date. It's managed to become significantly less useful as it becomes increasingly opinionated. At this point it feels downright systemd like with its own launchd wrapper.

BTW compiling ffmpeg with the current version of libx265 (well, current within a few years) doubles the encoding performance on my M2 Pro.

Zsh is in base. Unlearning bash-isms is good.

Zsh is in the base system due to licensing (not technical) issues, just like UW pico. Usable history search and text editing trump faffing about with colorful autocomplete nonsense. At best the macos command line is useful for boostrapping a useful command line environment.

I almost forgot… sqlite. The bundled version is out of date and/or buggy. No foreign key constraints, no extensions, no strict tables, no thanks.
Much to get through. So,

You've linked one of worlds worst nuclear disasters there. Nothing to do with nuclear power though, and it certainly didn't cause anywhere near a trillion dollars in damage.

> The problem is that the fuel and waste from any nuclear plant is very dangerous

It isn't that dangerous. We've been at this for 50 years. If anything interesting had happened regarding waste we'd have the regressives up in arms about it and never hear the end of it. I'm not saying no risk, but I am saying negligible. Plenty of nasty stuff out there, and one more heap doesn't need serious attention.

> If we ignored Chernobyl ...

(1) Ok, so put the fire out. That isn't a half-trillion dollars in costs though. Where is this trillion dollars coming from, and what is it protecting against?

(2) Everything causes cancer. Including, famously, a suit to have Starbucks coffee in California labelled as carcinogenic [0]. And coal dust causes cancer, which we've put up with for literal centuries. What are the actual risks are here? Carcinogens aren't a rare thing, a lot of people already die of cancer, because we're surrounded by them. A few more in exchange for the sort of upside nuclear promises is, observing the actual state of things, a good trade. So what are the real numbers you're talking?

At any time from 1970 to today, reducing standards to allow more nuclear development would cause a net reduction in carcinogens because coal dust is deadly. Probably nat gas too.

(3) Nobody is building plants like Chernobyl in this century. That design was from last century.

(4) Bonus points, where are you getting this from? Because a lot of the scary post-Chernobyl modelling was done on a Linear-No-Threshold model that is a good case study in people applying excessive safety to nuclear, assuming that it is much more hazardous than we have any evidence for.

> It will deliver as stable energy as nuclear but cheaper and with comparably no risk.

Nuclear would be cheaper if it was held to sane safety standards that are comparable to what we're putting up with literally right now. I've lived next to coal plants. That is worse for my health than if I had been living in Fukushima when the plant melted down. Nobody in my town was particularly worried about the risk though because that would be remarkably stupid.

[0] https://www.newsweek.com/heres-why-everything-gives-you-canc...
This doesn't need to be the case, though depending on context extra design elements (colour, descriptive text, …) may be needed to make the interpretation truly unambiguous.

Sometimes (advert stalking preferences being the key example) the confusion is very deliberately not dealt with, and furthermore on occasion extra steps are actively taken to ensure the confusion.
Not so, they're quite short and feature-rich.
When I read the code of most other people's projects, I'm often shocked at how over-engineered they are. A lot of code merely wraps some other logic or there are unnecessary abstractions which add unnecessary layers of indirection.
You could disable the Fischer Price skin in XP. Many people did.
Religious predictions never come with data to support them. That’s an important difference.
Windows 7 was the last one that let you select the "classical" pre-XP theme. I was the only person I know who used it, and I miss it to this day.
> Yes, you were more subtle about it, calling him inexperienced rather than stupid. I see little difference between the two forms of ad hominem and that is what I wanted to point out.

I said that because that's how I see myself doing Forth a couple of decades ago. But there should not be any ambiguity here. Inexperience is the lack of knowledge, stupidity is a disappointing failure to use knowledge.

As for the ad homininem, that's a unfair because aside from that single remark, the subject of what I wrote is the feature, not the person who made it.

> The two versions are syntactically the same. You can take a piece of Forth code and do the substitution

True, but the if comes last and it is a significant ergonomic problem. For this to be not too unpleasant, you'll have to keep the quotations very short in practice, which is not a bad thing at all as "keep it short and simple" is a general good piece of advice which is specially true with "unfriendly" or "alien" languages, but one might be disappointed in terms of "usability": for instance nested quotes are something you will actively avoid because of that.

> The only exception I can think of is it being harder to compile, but as you said, that tiny bit of speed doesn't really matter on modern systems and additionally the code would likely be optimised to the same instructions in a JIT

You add complexity to the system in order to compensate for its deficiencies, exactly as I pointed out. Because it is more a glue language than a general purpose language as I understand it, a JIT shouldn't be needed.

BTW, the "modern systems" argument is a fallacy IMO, as many general purpose interpreted languages had to go the JIT route (JS, Python to make it viable for more demanding applications, Lua as well, Smalltalk, PLT Scheme/Racket to name a few). For glue languages, that's different because making up for the typical 10X slowdown of interpretation with the full speed native code libraries can go a long way.
> The issue is the global population. Obviously, that's the metric that matters for global issues like the climate and environment.

No. "Obviously", the metric that matters is emissions. Or, the integral sum(person * emission of that person). When the emission per capita varies by a factors of 1000x, the distinction matters.

Look, what if you could choose between:

Option A: The 50% lowest polluting part of the world's population never existed. Would this make a dent towards global warming? No. Perhaps slow the onset by a few years. The overall magnitude of the problem would be the same.

Option B: Through reduced consumption and technology, reduce emissions of the 50% highest polluters by 80%. This would have a quite massive impact towards global warming AND also help when the 50% poorest increase their living standards.

Given these -- how can you say that "population" overall, without further qualification, is the problem?

Another factor here is that population growth isn't something that will continue as/if people are lifted out of poverty -- when people become richer and more educated, the birth rates invariably drops.

There are many other good comments on this page now about why you are wrong citing statistics and research reports, I encourage you to read them.
Still no 3D renderer

TinyEngine is good, but doesn't build on windows yet
I guess the world has a way of finding its equilibrium.

Which might mean the end of complex life forms like humans.

The world does not equal civilisation.
I often wonder why they are there.
When I was a kid, I heard that the sun is going to eventually explode, destroying planet Earth and us all. This was deeply saddening for me on a deep level, I remember crying and all.
My parents tried explaining this will take 5 billion years, and we will all be long dead anyway but this wasn't really helping. Prior to that I had a major shock when I learned about death, and this was kind of a relapse.

Looking at it now, I think doomerism, preppers, apocalyptic religions and the guy that stands on the street shouting "it's the end of the world" are all a basic part of the human experience. It's not a coincidence every cult eventually reaches the narrative of the impending end of the world.

Death is suppressed and finds other avenues to pop out in