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I wonder, is axial flux motor as cool sci-fi sounding in German as it is in english?

Ie. a political problem as the grandparent said.

Corporations generally follow a narrow somewhat predictable pattern towards some local maxima of their own value extraction. Since world is not zero sum, it produces value for others too.

Where politics (should) enter the picture is where we somehow can see a more global maxima (for all citizens) and try to drive towards it through some political, hopefully democratic means. (Laws, standards, education, investment, infra etc)

Fair points and I accept the minus votes. I just feel a bit desperate at the monent.

And I live in a place likely to be the best places to have civilization to survive.

Trying a random thing to shake the discussion on some relatively influential forum onto some novel tracks is one thing to try.

Last time my post was a bit longer and ellicited some interesting information.

One positive thing was this one claim that by some projection climate enissions might start finally going down in 2025

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40415541

Do you have a reference for that?

One thing that seems obvious, but hasn't been repeated enough IMHO is that injecting more energy (heat) into a chaotic system (climate), won't simply make the average energy (temperature) higher BUT will also proportionally strenghten the chaotic fluctuations (disasters).

But economy, china, developing nations, my personal right to consumption, factor x is making this metric seem worse than it should be, another political thing is more important, technological solution Y will save us, technological solution Z won't help or has flaws... endless list of arguments that derail discussion and end up in effective inaction.

Humanity's capacity to handle an slow creeping existential threat appears to be very bad. Especially when preventing it requires simply stopping / doing less some of the things we are doing.

Apparently the production of greenhouse gasses has gone up in past years regardless of the negotiations aimed at reducing them.

I suspect geoengineering is where this will end up when things start to get really bad.

Question, what are the most viable / cost effective / low risk geoengineering tools?

I can find Beej.us with DDG, but not daverupert.com. Maybe Beej got the problem resolved somehow.

I'd say anything beyond level 3 is likely already unsustainable for longer periods if you want to avoid stress related ilnesses. Depends on other factors of course.

IANAB, but large animal bodies correlate with large brain size. Huge animals like elephants and whales have much bigger brains than humans, but are not considered cognitively equivalent to humans.

Maybe moving and maintaining a body requires body size proportional "raw" computational power and maybe human brains have mostly just qualitative differences not related to mass when compared to animals (ok, and a bit of extra proportional brain mass too).

If this is the case the connection between excercise and cognitive capacity could seem natural. Excercise requires massive neural resources and thus physical excercises also excercise the brain to a large degree and the whatever qualitative bit that humans have "on top" simply rides the wave to some improvement.

And like in any game of minds, it goes into a guessing game: ”Are they thinking of X? They would never admit, but perhaps this and that can be interpreted as signal for X.”

This is fine for some situations, like games, and can even be fun.

It is not ”fun” if you are a paying customer and and X is ”Suddenly kill the service I’m using.”

The only remedy to this is trust. (Which a simple short term zero sum game theoretic analysis does not account for.)

At least not every engineer. I love using older machines and any chance to make things work in a hardware friendly way.

I have to say, I appreciate the insane expertise browser engine developers have in making JS and layouting run fast.

The way I read it, he is starting from the "cogs" premise (which may appeal to some people in some situations), and ends up defending rather humane sounding "local" principles.

One possible tl;dr is:

Objective analysis and queuing theory leads to _rejecting of_ all kinds of Talylorian cogs-and-factory-lines style organizational models and hypotheses in software work.

Here is btw. a book with empirical results about software work perhaps pointing a bit in the same direction: https://www.amazon.com/Accelerate-Software-Performing-Techno...

The studies referred in this book

https://www.amazon.com/Accelerate-Software-Performing-Techno...

Nicole Forsgren PhD and 2 more Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

At the end of this comment there is what I believe is a single grapheme cluster. On disk this single "letter" occupies 73 bytes. Surprisingly large number of tools and editors know how to work with things like these and render them at least somehow

I think I once created one that was about a kilobyte. Is there an upper limit?

I created it using this page https://glitchtextgenerator.com/

The 73 byte X:

x̧̡̬̘͓̖̲̻̻̲̠̪̻͓͙̜̂̓̊̔̀̀͗̑̀̅̀̂̚͘̕̚͘͢͜͠

This! Often (actually almost always) time it self is valuable for multiple reasons. Spending precious time in the "meeting room" instead of progressing towards (almost any) implementation can decrease the overall value and increase the risks.

Also some people strongly prefer action over deliberation, especially by a committee so there is also a psychological cost to the team to consider.

With software and a capable team, there can still be an illusion that decisions are cast in stone and can't be changed later, while the opposite is true.

Implementing a solution that is almost there and then making corrections can be both more satisfying and lead to very good results. This of course requires the psychological freedom an flexibility to quickly acknowledge errors in thinking and design and not holding on to "the plan" too tightly.

Try customizing the fan curves to spin up at lower temps. Not much more noise over all if at all, but much more responsiveness.

Or at least eat only few tens of grams of animal products per meal.

You get all the supposed benefits.

I wonder if it would be ok if the player age was verified to be above the ”gambling age limit”?

Yes please! I feel "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" doesn’t capture it in a meaningful way.

I think this is more of a mental and organizational phenomenon than one guy attacking a working machine with a spanner.

A simple lack of resourcing and time pressure may be part of it, but it may have componenents of a kind of willful ignorance of prior art and complexities of the world, even ego driven, self serving and arrogant attitudes.

Perhaps it is related to the famous NIH-syndrome in software, but clearly different too. In software I think this manifests as continuous churn of features and UI elements as well as negligence of usability and technical aspects.

”Fast Food Design”?

Yeah, I put the "anti democracy" in quotes bc I wasn't quite sure. I'm looking for a term for this sentiment. Any suggestions?

I'm not sure libertarianism, conservativity or "right wing" hit the mark either. It is a strong sentiment anyway.

Perhaps "anti democracy" fits better when the thinking in question gets exported and adapted to this side of the pond.

Here most governments are mostly relatively functional, representative and quite a bit more socialistic too. Here the thinking I'm referring to tends to manifest as distrust of government and media, skipping voting or giving "protest votes" to strange fringe parties all contributing to the erosion of the said strong and representative government.

I was also a little bit thinking about USA when I added the "at least it should be". I can see the point better in that situation, though I can't completely agree. I would add erosion of public education to the list of things to get rid of btw.

Some of this is valid concerns, but a strong vibe of ”anti democracy” in there too. Government is a direct extension of interests and will of the people (at least it should be.)

In this vein the EU privacy regulations at least reflect an opposing force to the worst concerns mentioned.

If collective regulation by elected officials is used to drive down society’s resource consumption or protect public health and it is implemented fairly and not invading _too much_ on other primary concerns (like privacy and protection from unfair litigation) I’m not sure we should be so alarmed about stuff like this (compared to Mad Max / Water World future threatening our children at least.)

I realized this too. I disabled search from address bar and started bookmarking everything even remotely sane I see. I often add a few personal keywords to the bookmark bar.

It is starting to pay dividends. Instead of weird stuff thrown up by google when I type in something, I get the "oh yeah, that was the page" from a short list of bookmarks shown to match the words.

Btw these small brushes regularly applied _as instructed by professionals_ fixed this problem for me. I understand it can get really bad and can actually require more drastic measures.

https://www.tepeusa.com/collections/tepe-interdental-brushes...

(The brush is basically applied to the space between teeth and touching the gums, but see a pro please first.)

Can’t wait for the corporate security industry to get hold of this. Yet another way to make corporate policy compliant workstations slower and less usable than a 10 year old linux box.

As with any established industry there is going to be massive inertia in everything between the contractor supply chains and the executive gray matter. This is understandble as it makes the efficient and comfortable value extraction possible.

Maybe the current events are the black swan that forces deep changes, innovation and rethinking in the energy sector that may save the humanity from the Mad Max future.

It will be very painful, but there could be a silver lining. (I admit I’m desperately looking for one.)

Why not microchip controlled locking bolts inside the frame that prevent pedals and or steering from turning?

Without the right key fob to unlock the bike is useless and resale value zero.

(Because the lock is inside the frame tubes and built to not come out in locked mode)

This is what car anti theft devices do AFAIK… why not bikes?

For a long lists of reasons; I don’t like DRMesque features like LHR and don’t like the crypto craze.

(And to be clear, cyber-extortion is clearly a criminal activity.)

BUT, I think the ”helping gamers” sounds a bit hollow.

Well said. Additionally and even more sadly, in this case the thug has a strapped on bomb belt powerful enough to kill everybody.

Aws WorkMail is ok.

Maybe add to the list some kind of long term campaign to have true multi party system (N > 2). Get rid of the first past the post etc. A separate green party is pretty universal in those.

It is probably hard to prove, but it would make sense that the calculated manipulation by commercial ”special interests” is harder and more expensive when it has to influence multiple parties (instead of 2).

I have set up several macs to spin up the fans more aggressively. Subjectively this seems to help a lot.

And the noise is not much worse, because eventually they spin at full blast anyway; just a bit too late when presumably thermal throttling is already hitting.