denim_chicken

No, I'm suggesting that significantly reducing the world's energy consumption is intractable: at an individual level, our choices don't matter, because the slack created by a single person's efforts will eventually be picked up by someone else. At a national level, the slack created by one nation's efforts will eventually get picked up by another country. At the global level, well, good luck getting the entire world to agree to severe GHG emission reductions. We can't even get the highly developed nations to agree to that, let alone the developing nations. In short, I'm convinced that we're screwed.

How much money do you spend per year? The money you spend eventually goes into the hands of someone whose lifestyle is much less green than yours, and will get spent accordingly.

Yeah, we're screwed. No technofix is going to save us this time.

Go work as a package handler at UPS/Fedex/etc for a few weeks and then you'll understand.

They track us and then sell our data.

Being a carpenter also sucks

Some people just have too much money.

The current level of atmospheric CO2 is not unprecedented, but the current rate of change of atmospheric CO2 is. Couple that with massive ecological decimation and biodiversity due to human habitation and it is clear that our current predicament is geologically unprecedented.

It's only a matter of time before llvm/clang overshadows gcc in every aspect, if it hasn't already. clang probably has 10x more full-time developers than gcc does.

Easy there Nostradamus.

That's why you should be using Firefox.

Yet $1600 is still absurdly high for such a simple living space.

Collapse is near.

Here's a paper published just last week titled "Is Decoupling GDP Growth from Environmental Impact Possible?" (Their answer is "no.")

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/asset?id=10.1371/jo...

I hope they will be more useful than MPX.

Since it carries the Pixel name I assume it's gonna be overpriced.

Windows 10 is an absolute mess, and I would recommend a Linux distribution (Fedora in particular) over it even for the casual user. Nowadays Fedora just works.

This is gratuitous (and annoying) patronizing. If you don't like the tone of a post just press the downvote button and move on.

While raw "existence" is free, a sheltered existence is most certainly not. In many areas it is illegal to live in a tent or in a car, for example. It is also illegal to camp in a national forest for longer than 2 weeks.

What is your point???

Keep dreaming. If we cannot even understand or live in accordance with the life support systems of what is literally the most habitable and human-friendly planet in the Universe then there's no way in hell that we will be able to successfully colonize a lifeless planet.

Stop thinking about outer space when we are in the middle of an anthropogenic mass extinction here on planet Earth.

Read Plato's Revenge by William Ophuls

Not surprising, since c++11 std headers are generally much larger and more complex.

Your point sucks.

Well, I can't say much other than that I encourage everyone to try Haskell for themselves and form their own opinion -- if they can find the time to get over the language's extremely steep learning curve.

Haskell sucks because mutability and strictness are extremely important for writing large complex programs, and Haskell deliberately makes both of these things inconvenient.

Also, Haskell's ecosystem and tooling is still crappy, probably because writing complex programs in Haskell needlessly difficult (due to laziness and immutability).

And the "type-safety" guarantees are a red herring. They are not that useful in practice.

> Laws do have to take into account things like physics and economics

Economics is not even remotely similar to physics in any respect.

> Nature goes it cycles, on the order of maybe hundreds or thousands (or more) years. It's been way colder in the past than it is now, and it's also been way warmer in the past than it is now.

I'm pretty sure that climatologists are acutely aware of the nature of the climate.

> But have we definitely teased out our effect on the temperatures from what the earth is doing on its own anyway? I'm still skeptical. Who knows, maybe there's a pattern in the earth's cosmic orbit that accounts for 99% of the warming. Or maybe it's only 1% and we're the 99% cause and Al Gore was right. But until I see this definitive proof, I have to stay skeptical.

According to the IPCC AR 5 (which I'm sure a well-informed skeptic such as yourself have perused), there is a 95-100% probability that greenhouse gas emissions resulting from human activity are responsible for at least half of the warming observed from 1950-2010. Are you not satisfied with this certainty level?

Even then you can have a GC. It just has to be conservative and non-compacting. Even C/C++ have a GC via boehm-gc, a LIBRARY that implements garbage collection!

(This is why I love C. No other practical language can claim to be able to implement a full-fledged GC as a library.)

So I suppose the fact that the opponent is a computer program should not be factored into the reaction to Sedol's win at all.

I hope your reductionist explanation is not accurate because it would imply that we are already so highly conditioned to machines and to AI that this match is thought to be no different from a match between two humans.