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You'll forgive me for harbouring some pessimism about current world leaders' climate strategy.

This website has been trying to gain a veneer of legitimacy for months now. Half of its contents aren't even published by any real standards body, it's just AI-centric "best practi…

The environment's already lost. We've passed the 1.5ºC deviation mark from the pre-industrial global average, and we're on track to hit 3ºC in a few more decades. The excess deaths…

It probably comes from the recognition that energy access being a common good, a tax-collecting government should work for its constituents in helping provide energy at a reasonabl…

Could that possibly be shielding? I can't say I've seen it on USB-C-esque cables (except maybe a thunderbolt cable a while back?) but I've seen some cables use a type of aluminum o…

Nah. They're all rotten to the core, just in different ways. The key difference between xAI and Anthropic/OAI/Google is that xAI has the least-likely path to existing as viable bus…

Oh, you mean, when are we going to achieve AGI?

Importantly, webrings are not known to allow their users to live unnaturally long lives, and webring-wraiths have never been observed hunting them.

I always felt similarly about webrings as I did about demoscene. It's less about being strictly practical and more about just a fun little thing you made with your friends. I'd arg…

I'm not sure about the other three, but Bun's rewrite from Zig to Rust was a bit of a joke. `unsafe`s in the thousands, a quarter-million lines of diff, and merged inside a week wi…

GP may have been commenting that they don't find this development particularly glib.

I will say that a good solution to this starts before a line of code is written, and does require a PM or scrum master with a deft touch (ideally one who's been involved with the e…

It's easier to justify in a fast-moving greenfield code base with a verbose language... but I won't defend it. I've gotten better and I'm still getting better at breaking these thi…

I've seen the Bun Zig->Rust MR a few weeks ago when it was current. Now I'm seeing this, and I have to ask, since you're here: Is there no way to make this changeset smaller? At wo…

The indicator light is very easily defeated on Meta glasses. I wonder if this will be, too.

I'm split on this. On the one hand, this solves the problem of smart glasses being too stealthy to tell when you're being filmed/broadcast in public by someone wearing them; where …

Hot take: the rich (especially the upper strata of the rich) are perfectly comfortable victimizing the non-rich in some material ways (from monopolistic practices, to lobbying agai…

I'm sorry, a billion full-body scans a month? For what possible reasons? Are people going to be doing these things recreationally? Cause otherwise you're talking about scanning the…

Right, but both of those examples are terrible ideas on their face. On migrant workers, much of the US economy is underpinned by the assumption that cheap manual labor is abundant,…

LOTR is easy to love. It's a classic story arc, well told, and well adapted for mass consumption. It's also a very thinly veiled metaphor for the ceaseless pursuit of industrializa…

Technically, it is described. It's described in the S-1. Trouble is that most (active) investors don't read the S-1. Fund managers and the like do, which covers a lot of passive in…

This should frankly be disqualifying for any company trying to go public. Super voting shares have their place but there's no scenario in which overall control of the company can b…

I need to understand what possible benefit there is to doing DCs in space. The cost would be, no pun intended, fucking astronomical. The cooling situation would make no sense at al…