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I think it's 100% ok for a big utility library like boost or std to have complicated internals to support a variety of use cases. The go standard library likewise is big and complicated (although perhaps not quite as). My main concern is that user code can be written simply. And to be clear, I'm not holding up C++ as an example of a great language. In fact, I'm kind of looking at it as a worst-case scenario. I'm only saying that most C++ programs I've been exposed to are relatively free of creeping genericity.

> "Processor", "Context", "Box", "Request"

There are a lot of interfaces in the existing library that one could consider quite abstract as well. Reader? Writer? error? Another thing worth noting is that many/most C++ codebases manage to avoid the type of generic proliferation you're talking about.

I tend to agree w/ the FB security team here. Don't list email addresses owned by an adversary in your account. :-/

> If our greatest environmental efforts can at best end in failure, then those efforts are wasted and we're better off taking no action.

??? "I'm going to die someday, so I might as well subsist on nothing but sugar and alcohol 'til then?"

Anyway, characterizing our efforts as "greatest" is far too generous. They were the efforts we gave. Not the greatest possible efforts that could be given. If biodiversity were the priority, we would have solved this problem.

Well, you buy title insurance so that even if the process wasn't thorough enough you don't lose a whole bunch of money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_insurance

They can store (not generate) 20 MWh at, according to the article, a cost of $2M. The article does not discuss how much power they can produce using one unit. That means it would cost roughly a trillion dollars to build enough storage to power the entire US for a day [1]. That's a lot, but you wouldn't need nearly that much, since daily consumption is still roughly balanced to production. You could think of that as an upper bound on the cost of backing the entire grid with this tech, assuming their numbers scale perfectly and are entirely accurate.

Almost everywhere has a lot of unused land, even in densely packed countries like Japan. If it's not good for farming, forestry, or leisure, it would be suitable for this sort of use.

[1]

- 3.8e12 kWh/y electrical use in the US.

- 1e10 kWh/d

- 1e10kWh / 2e4 kWh/unit = 5e5 units

- $2e6 / unit * 5e5 units = $1e12

"Would you want Kingsley doing these things?"

Depends on how mission critical <thing> is and how accurate Kingsley is?

> My greatest fear is that I will emotionally injure my kids despite my unconditional love for them.

You will. We all scar our children in different ways. The best we can do is make those scars as shallow as possible.

What happened to Katie is super sad, but hundreds of thousands of people get dumped and cheated on every year without shooting themselves. I totally understand your feelings, because I also worry for my children.

But I also try to do a few things:

1. Try to help my kids keep things in perspective. Don't hide the risk of pain and failure from them. Instead, warn them that such things will happen, and try to teach resilience.

2. Watch out for signs of depression in my kids. If I ever see them, I'll treat it seriously and get them help as soon as possible.

3. That said, I also try to keep things in perspective myself. There are so many big risks. The best I can do is care for my little ones as best I can.