Programming in the Apocalypse
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Programming in the Apocalypse
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Re: Programming in the Apocalypse
#2Ctrl+F geoengineering: 0 hits
Come on, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_geoengineering it entered mainstream just recently:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/opinion/climate-change-ge...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/26/planet...
https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/08/09/615/what-is-geoe...
By now one question should remain: why was the very idea of geoengineering silenced for decades behind sneers and activism and bad press, when we could implement it half a century ago and avert much of the climate change?
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#3Ctrl+F geoengineering: 0 hits Come on, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_geoengineering it entered mainstream just recently: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/opinion/climate-change-ge... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/26/planet... https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/08/09/615/what-is-geoe... By now one question should remain: why was the very idea of geoengineering silenced for decades behin…
OP sort of addresses this in the end:
> a startup isn't going to fix everything and capture all the carbon
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#4Ctrl+F geoengineering: 0 hits Come on, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_geoengineering it entered mainstream just recently: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/opinion/climate-change-ge... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/26/planet... https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/08/09/615/what-is-geoe... By now one question should remain: why was the very idea of geoengineering silenced for decades behin…
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#5Ctrl+F geoengineering: 0 hits Come on, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_geoengineering it entered mainstream just recently: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/opinion/climate-change-ge... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/26/planet... https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/08/09/615/what-is-geoe... By now one question should remain: why was the very idea of geoengineering silenced for decades behin…
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#6I doubt global warming will negatively affect amount of time spent on open source/programming language design.
Currently we're wasting a lot of time on social media, Netflix, games, etc. There's lots of fat to cut. Also historically bad conditions were when people wrote books and focused on studies. If OS is important - it will develop.
On the other hand x as a service and cloud based stuff will likely die off. Good riddance.
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#7Ctrl+F geoengineering: 0 hits Come on, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_geoengineering it entered mainstream just recently: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/opinion/climate-change-ge... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/26/planet... https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/08/09/615/what-is-geoe... By now one question should remain: why was the very idea of geoengineering silenced for decades behin…
I think the general consensus is that we've proven to be complete and absolute rubbish when it comes to predicting how vast complex real-world systems that we can't read worth a damn behave when we put them under major stresses, and the vast majority of attempts to hack ecosystems have been disasters, meaning that we're just as likely to make things even worse if we try to apply our crude means and models to make planet-scale modifications to climate and biosphere.
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#8Ctrl+F geoengineering: 0 hits Come on, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_geoengineering it entered mainstream just recently: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/opinion/climate-change-ge... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/26/planet... https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/08/09/615/what-is-geoe... By now one question should remain: why was the very idea of geoengineering silenced for decades behin…
There's no profit incentive to geoengineer or clean up anything so nothing will get fixed - at least not if the future will be a continuation of how capitalism, industry and geopolitics have worked literally forever - probably also biological and even physical systems if we extrapolate.
It's always boom then bust, everywhere in space and time.
That said i still hope we'll manage in some obscure way because we have no other choice!
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#9So... anyone else having doubts that with all the apocalyptic things going on around the world people will keep their appetite for mindless distraction and will still be able/willing to one-click buy random stuff on a whim? When they might have to expect waiting weeks for the delivery, and/or pay humongous transport fees?
Asking because that seems to be what much of modern IT is angling for and why there's so much money in it.
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#10'Bit sad innit, but what can I do about it except globally irrelevant feel-goods that we're conditioned into doing on the individual basis?
Cheap, clean energy solves a lot of the problems described, and until we get people to understand that the only energy that can be produced on a low budget, with little impact to the environment is either hydro or atomic, we are going to be a long way from a long-term solution or even remediation. Wind and solar are also extremely promising, but the load put on network balancing, storage and conversion makes me sceptical of their performance under unreliable conditions.