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> Soil restoration requires fallow acreage cycles that are unsupportable given the acreage of idle land required when compared against the total of available arable land at present.

Fallow doesn't mean idle. Notably, raising animals on land that isn't producing crops is actively conducive to soil restoration and speeds the process, requiring less fallow time. Animals are already being raised on arable land, so a lot of this could be done without any more arable land--it just requires that instead of crops and animals being farmed in separate monocultures, they be intermingled cyclically or otherwise.

Some schools of thought note that animals are a less-efficient way of producing calories, but I'll note that reducing nutrition needs to "calories" is a hopelessly insufficient measure. If we consider the protein needs of the population, which are likely higher than most people are consuming, animals are a much more efficient means of obtaining protein. Animal farming is also criticized for its greenhouse gas emissions, but different animals have very different greenhouse gas emissions (i.e. poultry emit far less than cattle) and healthy soil sequesters carbon. The reduction of fertilizer use would also significantly reduce carbon emissions.

> Permaculture is little more than a product of the instagram-homesteader industrial complex intended to sell books and land speaking engagements.

I won't deny that Instagram overhypes permaculture, but there's plenty of hard scientific research being done on it as well.

> It produces at absolute max a third of the calories per acre of industrialized monocrop agriculture.

I am not sure where you're getting that number, but even if it's right, "at absolute max" discounts the inevitability of continued innovation. I agree the numbers aren't currently equal, but as I said before, nobody is saying these changes happen overnight.

> Where to source 200% more arable acres to make that transition is conveniently left as an exercise by it's proponents

As noted above, a lot of arable land is used to raise animals, and intermingling those animals with crops means the land you're claiming is "idle" is not. Further, when soil becomes healthier both become more efficient.

Also notable is that for permaculture purposes, a lot more land can be considered arable than would be considered arable for monoculture crops. The traditional rows of crops are actually pretty terrible for certain very reliable crops, such as potatoes, which benefit from more water retention--which happens when rocks and roots of other plants block water flow. Blueberries benefit from acidic soil, such as soil with pine needles in it--from pine forest which can in turn be treated as timber land.

> as is how to handle the massive increase in labor required to harvest from permaculture lands.

I'm hearing you talk about job creation like it's a bad thing.
I love Discord's interface overall. It's really nice, and makes it easy to do all kinds of things. The feature set is excellent for a monolithic application like this.

> but thinking it's usable is beyond my capability to understand.

This is part of why UX is so often trash in FOSS projects: a lot of FOSS enthusiasts cannot even perceive the usability issues that exist in them. They're on a completely different wavelength compared to the average user. They are, in other words, UX-blind.
You can use this Ansible playbook. It worked well for me for bridging Discord and Telegram, among other things, running off a Hetzner box.

https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy

Personally I've never seen any significant amount of spam on Matrix.
For the primary effects, mostly.
Zulip doesn't look pretty, but it does a lot of things right. I don't get the appeal of Discord though, and find it a usability nightmare, so I'm probably not the right person to suggest alternatives to it.
My parents bought the house next door to their own. First thing I did was convince them to install panels and batteries and cut both gas connections and one electricity connection. Now theyre on heat pumps and saving tons because our gas utility keeps jacking up the fees.
Interesting I’d never even heard of this before. I was fairly certain I’d seen all the common open source solutions, but apparently not.
> You can't have closed enums without value constraints

Sum types and closed enums don't need to constrain existing sets of values, they define the set of values. Again, I think you might be confusing the type system with runtime representation.

> It's a neat parlour trick, don't get me wrong,

It's a step towards sum types which are the mathematical dual of product types. Not a parlour trick at all, every modern language should have algebraic data types.
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Possibly it can, but it is overly complicated and requires software upgrades; both the browser and the Discord software itself is; and apparently it uses up a lot of RAM, and has other problems.

IRC doen't have these problems; you can write your own (and make one which is much simpler than Discord, Firefox, and Chromium), or just use it directly.
What was his annual salary before the layoff? 250?
This is why we cannot have nice things, part #421. Perhaps we liberals think a bit too highly of our fellow citizens...
Well, we did consider that use case when we added the ability to make private or restricted Reddits. I think it's a great way to do it, except for one thing -- you have to make a reddit account to get help. That would probably be barrier for some.

Also given that the reddit sorts prioritize newness, it may not be the best resource for support since there is a good chance some old posts might cover a common problem.

Overall there are probably better support platforms.

But using a private reddit for an internal support forum would probably work really well!
> huge suffering

Wars cause more suffering than any drug yet here we are still having them in 2024.
>Google refused to come to the bargaining table.

Google is not their employer
I will vote for the party that has a believable plan.
So far, at least in Hamburg, Germany, I feel it is mostly a fight amongst many for the same, very scarce resources.
How would you describe the drug problem? I think people tend to talk past each other on this topic. Parent's proposal is that we stop automatically calling drug usage a problem.

The part about dealing with education, etc., are ways of treating the _addiction_ problem. Perhaps that's what you meant?
What drug doesn’t have any potential side effects? The solution is criminalizing public disorder, ideally with a rehabilitative bent. Not wasting public time and money on criminalizing drugs and pursuing possession charges.
I am all for more open marketplaces for software, and I agree that Apple doesn’t seem to be respecting the intent of this legislation…

But these complaints, from these specific companies, read a bit like: Apple’s walled garden is problematic because it won’t let me build my own walled garden on their platform >:(
lol excel isn't the only data analysis tool
May I invite you over to Medellin (a huge digital nomad spot right now) where you can get anything very cheaply yet society hasn't collapsed, in fact it has improved recently?
> Why should anyone use it, anyway?

Why do people drink or eat edibles? Because it’s fun, it’s novel and possibly also because it’s risky.
its yet another tradeoff, it adds more security for the apps too, now your apps dont need to have tls stuff, you let the sidecar envoy-proxy handle that ect
Say goodbye to anesthesia, I guess.
> Now, what if you could coordinate with a couple of neighbours and run a "merged" system that does some accounting to to cover imbalances?

This is called electrical grid. What you are trying to ask is whether community-owned non-profit electrical utility operators that only minimally buy energy from the main grid will begin to appear in appreciable numbers.
I still don’t understand how the electricity infrastructure will be maintained if there is mass on premise battery adoption. Large scale infrastructure will still be required for commercial industry and things like ev charging, but loss of the consumer sector to batteries must have a fairly substantial financial effect on on grid maintenance?
Ah - love you guys, been using your for years now :) If you remember Brian Switchkow, I was one of the engineers helping out make SpiritualBro. Your iframes (elegantly used, btw!) caused me quite and headache :)

I notice you don't have any engineering roles open, tho...?
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If you read the article, the problem is explained quite well:

> In my simple mind, the Finnish Sauna is just a type of Heat Treat Furnace or Oven that you load humans into and try to provide them with three characteristics. (1) not oversaturate their lungs with their own Carbon Dioxide waste products from being enclosed in a sauna with poor ventilation and limited fresh air volume changes (called Air Mixing in the study), (2) create an enjoyable Temperature distribution within the sauna environment (called Temperatures in the study) and lastly (3) provide a well distributed Ladled Steam Humidity cloud throughout the Sauna (called Air Condition in the study). Basically, everything you would expect for a good Finnish Sauna experience.

The rest of the article explains the ventilation needed for this.
This is not false. I wish Discord just allowed alternative clients, it would nicely fix the problem without affecting the boring part of their users.

Since they fight against it so much, I guess they're doing their data mining in the client.
Don’t forget about the wars caused by drugs.
The `trap DEBUG` thing is pretty interesting; I almost always write POSIX code, so I don't get to play with such tricks. Does anybody know of some wizardry that could mimic this in arbitrary POSIX compliant shells?
Sorry I didn't mean to be rude. RTFA is just an internet slang term, no offence intended.

Yes its one side, but you need to start with at least one of the sides, right?

I read all 46 pages. Now waiting for Sam Altman and Microsoft to respond, so I will read theirs.

Ideological? Well I don't like Microsoft, that's for sure. And I don't like the fact that we went from GPT3 being open (in accordance with OpenAI's mission statement) and now GPT4 and subsequent models are fully closed, proprietary to Microsoft, the most powerful ruthless sociopath piece of shit trash tech company on the planet. So yes I am ideological in that sense. Microsoft are not the good guys. I am biased against Microsoft controlling AGI.
The Invisible $1.52T Problem: Clunky Old Software
How would that solve anything? In San Francisco drugs are practically already legalized, and filled with junkies openly doing fentanyl on the sidewalks.
Global comparison between Google searches from 2004 to today
That would be fine. There are also many that do not like swimming.
Narcan should just be everywhere. Hell, stick it next to every fire alarm. You'd save so, so so many lives for very little cost. Narcan is absolutely safe. If you're not high it does nothing.
I think it's just different people having different preferences.
For me, Discord is the best group chat app I have ever used. The UI is fantastic.
It is true that highest quality FOSS is found at the level of libraries and frameworks, not on the end-user app level. There's still a lot to win by improving the practices on this level, which require more than pure technical focus. And other people than devs getting involved with their skills. Requires better FOSS tools and practices to make that happen. That is a challenge for the future of FOSS. It's also one tackled by people using the FOSS apps, prepared to bear with inconveniences, give their feedback, and not ditching them on a whim for the first proprietary competitor that is better. Yes, that is not for everyone to be involved with. I am quite happy to see more people who do.
AI boom makes Nvidia third US stock to close above $2T valuation
https://archive.ph/DwGhJ
Lawyers who had Elon Musk's pay dismissed as excessive seek $6B in Tesla shares
Opiates have their place, but care is quite warranted. I had an issue that has caused me some grief a couple years back. In the Bay Area, opioids were prescribed. Honestly, they were the only thing that worked, and I have no problem taking as needed - there is no other effect beyond pain relief for me.

I split time between the bay and remote north eastern (rural) ca. Up there, a friend had a similar issue, the hospital said take Advil/tylenol and tough it out. He spent most of a week in the shower suffering. Said county had previously been investigated for more prescriptions than people in the county.

When I have an episode, I try Tylenol/advil and that usually works. Sometime a bit more is necessary.

My pain threshold is incredibly high, so that plus no mental effect may be why they are a last resort, but not something I worry about.
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I’d be interested in reports from people who have used or are using Ente for self-hosting.
They already sell it. It's just behind the pharmacy counter.

Heroin is just opium, just like morphine, oxycodone, etc.

Methamphetamine is sold as adderal, and closely related forms as ritalin, etc.

Grocerie stores already sell many many things with no age restriction that can kill you in seconds. Half the cleaning aisle for a start.
It seems there are plenty that don’t - although that may also be for practical reasons.

But yes, I do think that free software ideals discourage supporting those platforms - however some may support them to give their users at least some freedom, eg when they are forced to use the platforms due to some work policy.
Article from which TedX guy copied.[1]

Actual news story with sources in the South China Morning Post.[2]

"Capacity utilisation is a major headache for producers in mainland China. The industry produced 747 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of battery power last year, while only 387GWh was installed into products, according to the China Automotive Battery Innovation Alliance. Prices of Chinese battery cells could further decline by 10 to 15 per cent in 2024, dragged down by slowing demand in China’s EV market, according to a report by Haitong International this month."

Somewhere, there is a really big pile of unsold batteries. Fortunately they are lithium-iron-phosphate, which doesn't go into thermal runaway and catch fire.

[1] https://cnevpost.com/2024/01/17/battery-price-war-catl-byd-c...

[2] https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3253116/chinas-lithium...
I disagree.

Making drugs readily available in grocery stores, even with regulations, could lead to increased accessibility, potentially attracting more users, including those who might not otherwise consider trying them. The act of selling drugs in stores could normalize drug use, leading some to underestimate the inherent dangers. Full legalization does not guarantee a decrease in addiction rates. Addiction is a complex issue with various contributing factors, and readily available drugs could easily lead to increased dependence and associated health problems. Sampling programs, especially for highly addictive drugs, raise ethical concerns and could introduce individuals to substances they wouldn't have tried otherwise.

Even with legalization, a black market might still exist, offering unregulated and potentially more dangerous substances at lower prices, especially for those unable to afford legal options.

Increased drug use could have broader societal and economic consequences. It might lead to decreased productivity, increased crime rates, and strained family structures.
I am hoping LLMs make radical BBS-like graphical interfaces for themselves. My tests with PaLM2 showed that it has digested a bunch of ASCII art and it can reproduce it, but it didn’t get creative with the ability.
The whole concept of collective bargaining kinda evaporates when the collective is small enough, and the company large enough, that the company is be able to not give a duck about the entire collective and their collective actions. In this case they can just fire them all on the spot ("can" as in are able to, not as in have a legal right to) and it evidently doesn't cause any large enough issues for them.

I sympathize with the workers, but they clearly overplayed their hand.
No mode alcohol or tobacco then.
You own Apple stock?

I could probably code a web browser by myself in 4 years, how does a 2 trillion company not have world-leading PWA support listen to yourself.
Agreed!

Expanded type guards can replace a huge amount of unit tests in a way that is more concise and provides a better promise to more of the code.

It's about orientation. Orienting around the data makes so much more sense. Why test every function's email address param when you can instead guard via an email address type?

Typescript is the most popular language to try and their type system is a lot of fun. However, the compiler messages remind me of working with Boost libs in C++. It's also unfortunate that typescript actually provides no guarantee about runtime so I never have complete confidence like I do with real static typed languages.

You can also get to a point in typescript where you go down a type system rabbit hole and find yourself a code philosopher. It's been a personal black hole for time wasting on a project for me.

Libs like Zod go a long way in JS and they accomplish the same but better for me. They leverage typescript and you get compile time and runtime support.

Vogan in C# provides compile time warnings but uses generated code to achieve it. It is impressive what the new code generation support in C# can do now.

Still, it would be nice to have first class support from a language.

https://github.com/colinhacks/zod

https://github.com/SteveDunn/Vogen
Plenty of drugs are good for you when used appropriately. I use psilocybin to great personal benefit. I’d recommend trying it if you get a chance.
Drastic increases in standing charges. It's still infeasible for most people to go off-grid with solar in the winter. (Depending on latitude.)

I believe Spain has a tax for solar even if you are off grid. I think that's a stupid approach though.
It's interesting in the "spherical cow"[1] kind of way like many abstract ideas, but it quickly falls apart as soon as you try to use apply it to any real context. In particular it suffers from a problem similar to the one that plagues the Martingale betting strategy[2], where you might need an infinite[3] amount of resources to achieve a population large enough to make up for the loss in quality of life.

So ultimately there's not an actionable idea here, because the true morality of the situation ends up depending on physical constraints that are hard to predict in advance.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_(betting_system)

[3] Not literally infinite, but more than can be obtained by the civilization you're applying this to. As a trivial example, what if the population required is so large that there's not enough water in the earth's oceans to constitute their bodies?
It’s typical for attorneys to receive about a third of a settlement or verdict won for their clients, especially in cases where the cases proceeded through a trial to a final verdict. The fee requested in this case by the lawyers would amount to roughly 11% of the recovery.
I think it's more likely that they just make money off of their client via Nitro and other random features. Having other clients would let people get around that while still using Discord's servers/bandwidth.

And there's definitely technical issues with supporting other clients. Can make it hard to change things without breaking those other clients.
I’m looking exactly for something like that. But 2.99 Euro a month is too expensive, when even Apple only wants 99 cents.
Only the other two of the big 3. Firefox is not happy that they still have to build the fakebrowser for the rest of the world.
It seems to have been open sourced very recently.
True. When’s the last time a corporation had to go to prison.
Then why does a free-speech absolutionist constantly bow down to dictatorships to censor users [0]? And why did he repeatedly ban outspoken critics of his person?

If you truly believe that he believes in free speech being crucial to human thriving, those actions make no sense.

However, if they this stance is just a veneer for other motivations, serving to blind the gullible and win points with conservatives (a lot of overlap between the two groups nowadays in the US, as seen by the reception of recent news about the prominent court case), they do. You can decide for yourself what to believe. I think the facts speak for themselves.

[0] https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/5/2/twitter-fulfillin...
I email myself URLs of web pages I want to read later. I have a program that periodically checks my email and takes action on emails that I send to a specific alias. Actions include extracting the article/content of the page and converting it to an mp3 for me to listen to while I exercise or drive. If it’s a YouTube URL, it uses yt-dlp to download the video for later viewing. Etc.
The UI looks great. Couldn't find any info about self hosting but I did find a feature request in GitHub Issues [1].

I guess I'll stick with Immich [2] for now.

Edit: Found a Reddit AMA [3] from the CEO and I'm happy to know that self hosting is a goal in the long run.

[1] https://github.com/ente-io/ente/issues/141
[2] https://immich.app/
[3] https://old.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/116fx9v/ama_im_vi...
Yeah that's the one. Very interesting book.
There's a note on the server readme about self hosting:

https://github.com/ente-io/ente/tree/main/server#self-hostin...
I don't understand US laws nearly enough to form an informed opinion, but it just seems odd that a city council would or should play a role in an employment dispute.
People like this that don't bat an eye to dehumanize, shouldn't be anyone's elected representatives.
I tried Ente a while ago but decided I liked a self-hosted Photoprism instance better.
Am I reading this right? Is there no heat exchanger in the ventilation? That seems like an obvious improvement.
Same here.

I currently use photoprism, which is good, but i’m always on the look for a great self-hosted photo app.
Yeah I’m aware of how useful they can be, my comment was about for someone first introduction to K8s, they’re probably overkill.
I’m primarily a backend developer these days, because that’s just how it’s played out where I work. But we’ve made the choice to do most things with Typescript since it lets us share resources, libraries and cooperate better with code reuse/reviews and such. So I can fairly easily switch to working on our React frontend, what I can’t do, is to make quick frontends for the services which will sort of need an “excel” type frontend. We even have a fairly generic component for it, but it very rarely does the job because our business is… well demanding things they might not really need.

This looks like a good thing. In that regard. Maybe not for us, but definitely a very useful tool for all developers because it can potentially let you deliver business value rapid.

Which is what I read from the lines you quote. I see no backend vs frontend discussion here, I only see a useful tool.

Even if you want to eventually build it into your React frontend, a tool like this will offer immense value for internal testing by users who won’t be able to do it through something like Postman, which is basically 99% of the employees in non-tech enterprise.