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hothead334··on Ocean Warming Study So Distressing, Some Scientists Didn't Want to Talk About It
The Hacker News consensus is that no one is doing anything. I used to believe this and despair. But that is _just not true_. I've subscribed to the Harvard C Change newsletter and it's really changed my perspective - past issues here: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/c-change/climateoptimist/

Just one highlight: the current has administration canceled three fossil fuel lease sales in 2022 due to a lack of industry interest In contrast, there are currently 18 active offshore wind leases with 14 new site assessment plans approved, including the scoping of the first wind energy areas in the Gulf of Mexico and Gulf of Maine.[0]

I also look at this daily, although it's more focussed on Europe: https://www.positive.news/

It's not all sunshine and roses. But the narrative should be: 'some humans, albeit perhaps the minority, are fighting save this planet, and are winning at least of their battles'. Maybe it will be too little too late. But the narrative is decidedly not 'existential threat to our species and others, and no one gives a shit'.

[0]https://www.americanprogress.org/article/offshore-wind-can-l...

hothead334··on CMU CS Academy: a free online computer science curriculum by Carnegie Mellon
Fantastic, the fundamentals of electrical engineering is exactly what I've been looking for.
hothead334··on Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?
You might enjoy Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane if you enjoyed the Isaacson biography. Fantastic writing and a very very interesting man as well as incredible artist.
hothead334··on Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?
One of my favourites of all time. The singing Cockney hedgehog is such a gem.
hothead334··on Ask HN: Do anyone get anxiety from following Hacker News?
>> The main trick I use to avoid feeling overwhelmed is for each technology that feels important in some way, do the minimal work required to learn the following questions:

These two simple questions seem like a great approach and one I will take in future, appreciate your sharing it.

hothead334··on Ask HN: Do anyone get anxiety from following Hacker News?
One thing I try to remember is that HN is a place where a lot of people from the same broad area hang out. There are math Phds here who know nothing about Bash, veteran sys admins who don't know anything about the Node event loop, regular old devs like myself who know nothing about quantum cryptography - but we're all coming over here, posting links and chatting away and tripping over each other's areas of expertise which were literally years in the making.
hothead334··on Low-code is not a cure for overworked IT departments
Could replace S3 with a self hosted Minio instance?
hothead334··on Ron's house: Minotaur head and lion discovered in rented Birkenhead flat
Just amazing. I wonder how he got that concrete mixed up for the lion's head, how he did all of this without once mentioning it to anyone.
hothead334··on Tell HN: I used the same computer since 2007 (with minor upgrades)
Very very cool. I'm writing this on a second-hand MacBook that was given to me by the very wealthy family I used to work for- it had stopped working completely and they said I should take it and see if I could get it fixed. I did, and I hope to have it for as long as I possibly can- I could never have afforded one otherwise.
hothead334··on The Linux cheat command
It was probably that in zsh, arrays start at 1.
hothead334··on GameShell: A game to learn or teach the Unix shell
Addictive. I'm been going for about 3 hours!