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People on average just have very bad physic knowledge. No understanding of basic science at all. I actually think that we cannot solve climate change without fixing those knowledge holes - otherwise we just get more pointless activism (like the ones you mention) and ignorance.
There are huge local differences. In my youth and hometown, it was definitely binge drinking - and we just followed tradition. But what I learned of other areas, was actually quite similar. Healthy alcohol consumption was rather the exception, but there is a trend towards it.
And I have not been to the US to directly compare, but I cannot really say that I experienced "intergenerational knowledge transfer about responsible alcohol usage" in germany. That is, my father does not drink, because my grandfather drank too much. Does this count? Otherwise I just know too many families with at least one alcoholic and some on the way. And teenage drinking is just something teens are expected to do and the parents just try to limit the extremes. But many would be actually worried if their children never drank, because it might mean, they are isolated oddballs.
The confusion already starts with the name. Historically shading languages had the purpose once to calculate shades - but otherwise there are no shades and more correct and helpful would be just "GPU language". As yes, it is very different than writing something for a CPU.
You must have lived in a different german reality then.
For us it was always easy to get someone else to buy your booze, if it was not already given to you somehow by the older guys. Or if you looked slightly older(I was NEVER asked for ID while buying drinks). Many people in my age group developed a drinking habit - and big surprise, quite some of them turned into alcoholics later. Also no surprise, with so many adult role models being drinkers as well.
The general principle of gradually allowing more, might help a tiny little bit preventing early access for some people, but it absolutely did not help prevent alcohol abuse. There is just a general culture of alcohol abuse (Oktoberfest and co). So yeah, we had also fun, but I strongly reject the idea, that alcohol could help preventing smartphone addicts or is somehow better. Rather the contrary as teens still drink today and can just get addicted to both.
And they also should feel ashamed for what they get and consume, as it has a CO2 impact and their future is doomed if they use too much. But in my experience, climate change is a minor factor, compared to the always comparing yourself not to your local group anymore, but the whole world.
I do not see a problem here. The idea is not to replace js (not realistic anyway), but to have a full working alternative to not have to use js anymore, so in the end you can really choose how to build for the web.
I also invested heavily into js ... but I am really looking forward to the day, I can use something sane again.
Between death threats and insults directed at real people - and a fictionary book, there is usually a difference, even though books can be bad as well, if they are directed against certain people (e.g. Mein Kampf).
It really depends what you do. Usually yes, after you just start, more ideas are coming in faster than you can implement them - but you also have to know when to stop, when you are going into a dead end.
And some backpacks actually have working bottle holders on the outside ...
Ahhh ... that's likely a Stilbruch (break of style) my design professor would have exclaimed. Designers hate those and I came to understand why and try to avoid it wherever possible. It is something that can be irritating and bringing in confusion, if suddenly there is a element out of place.
But you can have "highly-recognizable simple fundamental widget types" without breaking the style. It is just harder and of course, a functional ugly design is in my opinion still way better than a good looking broken design. But the goal should be something consistent - in terms of functionality and style.
Are you intentionally missreading me? I never claimed that the author of the article is a scientist. I said the article is quite ok compared to the average pop science article, which is indeed often clickbait. But here there were no promises, just the very correct claim, that there is great potential.
And the scientist the article is talking about, John Eichelberger, for sure has publications:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=XtohsgUAAAAJ
So, I am asking again, can you point out one single lie or exaggeration in this concrete article? Because I cannot find one, but like I said, I am not an expert. So if you know more, please share that knowledge.
I rather think, the main thing stopping PWA are that browsers still can not decide how to treat them. In some ways you can just do anything unrestricted and in other areas your PWA gets treated and limited like a random untrusted website, with no way to get needed rights. At least that was my experience last time I messed with it.
It is of course a problem to do it right, as prompts for confirmation just gets clicked away, but there should be a way to get real user consent for a proper app, that people trust.
But Apple for example wants to keep their app store under their control, so they surely won't provide an easy way to bypass the normal app store by giving developers a way to ship full apps just through the browser.
Burning some coal?
Not a problem. But allmost every human burning coal on a massive scale? That is bad. Same principle could apply with taking energy from the crust. There are forces at play, we simply do not understand yet.
"The team will also measure the temperature gradient as the solid rock transitions into magma. One of the big surprises of the earlier, unexpected encounter between drill and magma chamber at the site was how rapidly that occurs. “The theory was that you would go through solid rock and into what is called the brittle-ductile boundary, where the rock would be starting to get a little bit softer and more elastic because of the heat,” says Ingólfsson. That was expected to occur over hundreds of metres, but, with Krafla, it was just a few."
Never claimed I did. But you apparently claim you know more and that this article and the scientists are BS, but I just read a generic rant from you and nothing concrete.
"it's like writing an article about how scientists plan to go to Mars in two years"
I am not aware of any scientists who did that. If you are talking about Mars One and co., there were no scientists involved.
And this is what I read in the article about what they are planning - and yes to me it sounds like solid basic research. No promise about clean and easy energy in 5 years for everyone, but reason to do basic research that has not been done before:
"“I and some other scientists who deal with volcanoes were just amazed that somebody had actually drilled in the magma, and got samples of magma,” says Eichelberger. It later transpired that similar accidental encounters had happened twice before, once in the Menengai caldera in Kenya and also at a volcano called Kīlauea in Hawaii. This was proof that it was both possible and safe to drill into magma without causing an eruption."
"The first goal of KMT is to drill into the magma and make scientific discoveries. Starting in 2026, the project will break ground close to the original borehole and drill towards the chamber. It will take around two months to get there, progressing laboriously through the volcanic rocks until the drill hits pay dirt. First and foremost, the researchers want to build their fundamental understanding of magma and the chambers that hold it. “We don’t have any direct knowledge of what magma chambers look like, which is crucial in understanding volcanoes of course,” says Paolo Papale at Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Pisa. The little we do know largely comes from studying lava. But lava and magma aren’t the same. A lot of gas is released as molten rock comes to the surface and is then exposed to the atmosphere as lava, both of which change its chemical composition. “Being able to go into the crust and sample magma would give us huge knowledge,” says Ingólfsson."
They say they don't know much, but that they want to find out.
"and thus never realize how many lies and exaggerations they're being fed."
So where are the "lies and exaggerations"?
"I am neither left, nor right, nor US and don't have any horse in this race."
But most of this just smells like classical strawman debates to me:
"They think X and this is stupid" "no we don't think this, we think Y and you think Z" "no we don't we .."
So my point with my question actually was: I don't think there is a coherent group calling themself "leftist" (nor "rightists"). So I don't think those debates lumping them all together are that productive, except for letting go off some personal steam.
There are of course people who call themself "left" and want their ideology to rule the world. And there are of course people who call themself right, who wants to do the same.
But to my knowledge, there are also lots of people left and right, who do not want this.
Or is the definition of a leftist to you, someone who does not define a word?
Also if you can send BTC to some wallet, why couldn't you send it to another wallet where you indeed have access?
So no one meant literally indefinite energy here, it was meant, "potentially way more energy, than we currently need". And this is correct.
"They tried their best. They called me every name in the book. They cut off my health insurance. They deleted all of my fucking stories, which like, what the fuck? And then they still lost. People keep asking, ‘Is it going to be weird going back?’ I’m like, yeah, for them.”"
I rather think it will be super weird for everyone.
Also the original joke, that was likely the one triggering the firing, was about his workplace:
“I work at one of these places that’s so woke it’s kinda racist,” the joke reads in part. “Like this lady asked my boss, she’s like ‘Yo, does Jad consider himself a person of color?’ because she was making a list of us. Fucking hell? Sick, alright. I get to be in this lady’s brown dude Pokédex.”
And by all practical means, savely tapping into the earths heat, would indeed mean unlimited energy for our needs (there is a LOT of heat down there). We also say solar is renewable, even though the sun does not last forever. But within our frame of reference - it does.
I am just sceptical, that we can indeed use that energy savely on a global scale, without causing massive side effects like earth quakes, as the core of the earth is hardly understood. But this is, what this research is about, so I think it is exciting and about time, someone makes that experiment.
Well, since this story is from 1995, so allmost 30 years ago, I think people are still as uptight today, when you compare it to this easter egg.