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arcanonon It is easier to educate a Do-er than to motivate the educated

But then they become educated and you are back to the initial problem: the motivation!

arcanonon Ask HN: What do engineers never talk to their bosses about, but should?

“Who is your favorite Scientist?”

arcanonon DEA Still Insists Marijuana Has No ‘Accepted Medical Use'

The bureaucracy kills a lot of idiotic ideas from the popularity contests that promise the world but break the bank, though.

arcanonon 'They' are controlling you. 'They' are silencing you. – Washington Times

Reading about things isn’t doing your own research. Thats not what research is. Research should involve an experiment of some kind or getting new data. You are not doing anything close to science.

arcanonon World on 'catastrophic' path to 2.7C warming, warns UN chief

If you work for the oil industry, by all means give up.

arcanonon Building apps in minutes, not months

Hierarchies dont like to be turned upside down on the scale of competence. Managers hate when their managing cant be attributed to a success. The lesson here is if you do something out of band, if you want it to work, find a way to fake the participation of the powers at be.

This sucks, but it is the only option when you only improve one facet of something. If on the otherhand you could do the whole business then it is time for you to found.

arcanonon Will Xi Move on Taiwan?

TSMC guarantees global intervention if China attempts to take Taiwan. The US is not alone.

arcanonon Why Don't Rich People Just Stop Working?

And Eberhard and Tarpenning just copied Coconni and Gage’s tzero from AC propulsion.

arcanonon North Korean missiles land in Japanese waters

Heh, NK exists because the CCP pushed the USA back from the Chosin reservoir.

arcanonon North Korean missiles land in Japanese waters

I don’t think it makes sense to go to Taiwan or Israel for analogy; The Average American didnt bleed for either of those places like they did in Korea.

But, I think the Canada invasion analogy is also even too weak; Canada doesn’t exist because of the USA like NK does because of the CCP.

arcanonon North Korean missiles land in Japanese waters

Germany as portrayed doesnt exist anymore. The CCP and USA does.

Also, have you noticed how in the US there arent really any “Saving Private Ryan”s about the Korean War?

arcanonon North Korean missiles land in Japanese waters

Here is a movie from 2020 in China that did equivalent of $173 million in RMB: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sacrifice_(2020_film)

It is not stale in their psyche.

arcanonon North Korean missiles land in Japanese waters

Nope.

See Korean War.

arcanonon North Korean missiles land in Japanese waters

The Korean War:

USA afraid of communisms spread. Sends MacArthur to Korea. He crushes the Korean communists. USA believes it to be a clean sweep. Mao surprise s USA with massive army encirclement of USA forces. USA forced to flee south and hold the line that became demarcation between north and south.

There is a 0% chance China would allow the USA to take NK.

They also love provoking Japan. Their entire origin story is about fighting against the Japanese in the 30s.

arcanonon Young People Are Anxious About Climate Change, Say Governments Are Failing Them

Swap it out for electric. I like how the “other” category of renewables is an exponential. The question is does that exponential get us to where we need to be in 10 years. If the answer is no, then we need to think about what minimizes overall damage the most.

I wonder what nation will be in last place for who is the cleanest. If theyre stubborn about burning gas I dont care about their sovereignty. I dont think I will be alone on that.

arcanonon Young People Are Anxious About Climate Change, Say Governments Are Failing Them

Oh and i forgot the most important one: high resolution satellite pollution maps.

A close second is military grade electric flight research.

arcanonon Young People Are Anxious About Climate Change, Say Governments Are Failing Them

Am serious. Brevity is my style I guess.

arcanonon Young People Are Anxious About Climate Change, Say Governments Are Failing Them

Destroy oil/gas infra.

Deploy more solar.

Fund fusion research.

Deploy indoor vertical farms.

Build structures underground.

arcanonon Young People Are Anxious About Climate Change, Say Governments Are Failing Them

We are not scared because of “the news” we are scared because of the graphs of temperature over time. Look at the plot. Find the +1.5C on the y axis. Now find where the plot crosses that on the x axis.

We have like 15 years. Perhaps you dont think +1.5C does anything to farming?

The sea levels rising is not the issue.

arcanonon Young People Are Anxious About Climate Change, Say Governments Are Failing Them

This guy gets it.

Global warming is scary because of nukes.

The timeline till we get widespread crop problems is 15-20 years.

arcanonon Unity patents ECS

To be fair the lawyers are mad at us engineers for automating away many of their jobs. I think they’re jealous their profession isn’t top tier anymore.

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Yeah, we need to collect more taxes from private enterprise in order to level the playingfield. That way we can fund gov contractors more, who are known to be highly efficient.

arcanonon Big oil coined ‘carbon footprints’ to blame us for their greed

Step 1: electric aircraft Step 2: airstrike refineries

arcanonon Show HN: Imba – I have spent 7 years creating a programming language for the web

Just tried a switch statement, didnt desugar into functions. Maybe you haven’t been keeping up with the latest.

arcanonon Show HN: Imba – I have spent 7 years creating a programming language for the web

Yes. Which gives you more control over how you make the code look. DSLs.

arcanonon Show HN: Imba – I have spent 7 years creating a programming language for the web

We need a Coffeescript Renaissance!

arcanonon React Renderer for Three.js

And a gltf2/glb loader! Web frameworks will become game engines now.

arcanonon React Renderer for Three.js

The age of WebGPU is almost upon us. Chrome 94 comes out this quarter. I doubt React will be the major player in this next epoch. It will be something new that can pull off an instant load shared world game.

arcanonon Show HN: Lona – Framework for responsive web apps in full Python without JS

Weird that you’re talking in English without injecting a bunch of literal “noun” “adjective” “adverb” in your sentences. I mean why not really commit to it, ya know? Are programming languages for the human or the computer anyways? Typescript is definitely popular right now. So is McDonalds.

Of course for many advanced things you are forced to use types. Like shader languages. But thats not because the advancement there is in the domain of programming languages.

And your boos mean nothing. I’ve seen what makes you cheer.