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It's motivated by the ideology of wanting a meritocracy - the idea that if you work hard you can reap rewards. Having some people in society that can sit at home and watch the S&P increase while some have to work 50-hour weeks to make ends meet is seen as problematic.

Germany actually subsidises fossil fuels to the tune of €20bn/year, so in that context €3bn doesn't sound so bad. Some of the latest estimates of the true cost per ton of carbon put it around $1000 USD, so in purely economic terms it's still a win.

X is turning into a wasteland of angry people and bots. Bluesky is much more refreshing, similar to the old twitter.

Anything about 2C is extremely risky for civilised society. It’s likely that we’ve already surpassed the tipping point for the West Antarctic ice sheet which over time will lead to meters of sea level rise. Changing weather patterns and simultaneous breadbasket failures will mean food becomes a lot more expensive - if you’re lucky enough to have access to it at all. At 3.5C many places on the planet become uninhabitable. People aren’t able to work outside for much of the year due to wet bulb temperatures. Regular storm surge causes a large percentage of the planets population to migrate. Salination of ground water and water for crop irrigation becomes a serious problem. Mountain glaciers that provide clean drinking water for millions of people dry up. In all, it’s hard to see a situation where we’d be able to maintain a reasonable quality of life under the conditions of >2C of warming.

Did you know that tidal energy is actually not renewable? Harvesting tidal energy slightly slows the rotation of the planet over time. Here's a quote from the relevant paper by Liu:

> Based on the average pace of world energy consumption over the last 50 years, if we were to extract the rotational energy just to supply 1% of the world's energy consumption, the rotation of the Earth would lock to the Moon in about 1000 years.

Note that since about 2021 renewables have overtaken fossil-based sources of energy on price. New installations of utility scale wind and solar PV are now cheaper than their alternatives. Not to mention protection from price fluctuations in the cost of fuels needed to power fossil fuel plants.

I don't understand how this is sustainable. The fuel is still being combusted and releasing CO2 isn't it?

You need to ask him what accommodations he needs in order to be effective. Only he can really answer this question.

It could be small things like clearly indicating your intent - avoid sarcasm, figurative language and idioms. In a group chat this could mean adding "/joke" to messages. Autistic people generally like structure. Ensure your task tracker is clean and to-the-point. The benefit of this is it also help non-autistic colleagues.

I recently switched from Plex to Jellyfin. It's far more stable and hardware decoding works out of the box.

Capitalism naturally tends towards monopoly. The idea that it breeds competition is a nice fairy tale, but doesn’t reflect reality.

It’s a summary report of all of the climate science, research and conclusions that went into the sixth assessment reports. Available as a responsive html site (rather than hidden in a pdf).

Have a look at Qwik, it’s a new framework from the author of Angular. It does SSR without the need for client-side hydration. It’s fast and immediately interactive.

I’m really hoping it gains some momentum because I’d love to use it in some client projects.

Relationships between components and the app state are serialised along with the html. A small (~1kb) library is used to lazy load javascript as the user starts interacting. The key is that it's immediately usable, you don't require a client side re-render before any of the buttons work, for example. This means you can get great PageSpeed scores really easily and the apps feel super responsive.

I have no affiliation with Qwik, but I did try it out on a small project yesterday to see how it works. I'm really impressed so far.

The richest 10% of the global population are responsible for an estimated 47% of emissions. The problem has never been that there are too many people. The problem is that there is a small number of people that are destroying the planet for the rest of us.

Over time, the effects of covid19 on heart, brain, lungs, vascular system, sensory system, kidneys & more will become better understood.

Until then, any reassurance that massive levels of infection are ‘ok’ for society is a gamble—a gamble with unknown long-term costs.

(quote from stanford infectious disease doctor Abraar Karan)

The USA is the 2nd largest emitter of CO2, on a per-capita basis it's almost double that of China.

We already know that the US monitors internet traffic on a global scale, so it’s a bit rich of them trying to police the rest of the world on this.

They measured video quality subjectively. I don't think you can just take the researchers at their word that it "looked good enough". Any rigorous video quality test would use at least some kind of objective numeric measurement.

At what point do we draw the line between free software being beneficial and being overly ideological? If I buy a printer I'd like a copy of the driver source code so if the company goes bust I can still use my possibly expensive and still working hardware. But if I'm using a web app? Half of the source code is going to be sitting on someone else's machine anyway - making the client side free-software doesn't really change that.

The climate crisis is the defining issue of our lifetimes. Solutions to this problem are unlikely to come from technology. Start organising, start protesting and demand that governments begin to take this issue seriously.

Netflix is already testing AV1 in production. If you enable test participation you may receive AV1 streams right now. Youtube is also now sending AV1 streams, including to newer smart TVs.

I find a lot of go libraries are very well commented and very accessible, but the standard library and especially the crypto stuff is very sparsely commented.

I'm getting a ton of 503 Service Unavailable errors from the Google Drive API. I can't wait to see what caused such a large outage.

Miško Hevery's talks on writing testable code. Watching those videos immediately made me a better developer, lots of well explained, practical advice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcT4yYu_TTs&index=6&list=PLD...

Flutter is by far the best UI library I've dealt with. Its like React, but without the nasty JSX syntax. The APIs are sane and thoroughly documented. Its layout model is (by design) super simple, so it's really quick to prototype and iterate. The developer tools are top-notch: great support in IntelliJ, hot reload.

But the best thing about flutter is the rendering. It's completely consistent across platforms because it renders every pixel itself and because of this it's also really easy to draw exactly what a designer envisioned.

We've just gone live with a grpc-web based application. It's still early days and there are some rough edges, but it's an absolute joy to use and the amount of time we've saved is crazy.

It's also worth thinking about time to restore. If you have hundreds of GB worth of backups it could take a very long time to restore everything from the internet. Keeping an easily accessible backup around is really worth it.

NGI Systems | Embedded Android OS Engineer | London | REMOTE

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About You

You are a seasoned freelancer with extensive experience customizing OS builds for embedded solutions and IoT devices. You have advanced knowledge of Linux and are comfortable jumping in and getting your hands dirty. You have experience building Android from code and customizing the configuration, drivers and apps that are included in the image. You have created customized images for commercially available tablets and phones. You like tinkering with hardware and are familiar with low-level interfaces.

You are looking for a challenging project with real potential where you can make an impact. You have worked with global teams in different time-zones and geographical locations.

Nice-To-Have Experience:

* contributed to building payment acceptance devices

* worked on ePOS / mPOS solutions

* created SDKs and APIs for attached devices (NFC sensor, thermal printer)

* built over-the-air OS and firmware update delivery mechanisms

* customised OS for Smart TVs

* customised OS for Smart Watches

About the Role

You will work closely with our in-house team and external partners, currently split between London, Switzerland and Romania. You will work on porting customized versions of Android and embedded Linux to mobile phones and tablets, integrating the necessary drivers, libraries and daemons. You will automate the OS image build processes to help other developers ship functionality to end users. You will develop remote update subsystems for software, firmware and OS.

To apply send us a CV and a cover letter to hr@ngi.systems.

No - Linux runs great, it's macOS I'm having issues with!

It's great timing for elementary. I'm having a lot of software problems with the Mac, and since I develop exclusively for Linux it seems like it'd be a lot easier if I could build and run everything on my target platform.