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We all start from somewhere and nobody was born starting from perfect.

First label your fundamental concerns. You cannot improve what you don't measure.

Error-prone code? First number the errors then classify the errors. Are your errors related to typos or do they come from not handling variable input gracefully? Now reduce your numbers by consciously finding typos, or by consciously mapping out just what inputs could possibly come in. Miss one? Write it down and never miss it again.

Meetings? How many times do you get "well actually'd"? What specific areas do you get asked questions about?

Coworkers? How many times do you get asked for help? How many times do you ask the same question -with or w/o a subtle variation- more than once? How often do you reach out to just shoot the shit? How often does someone approach you for water cooler talk?

Or (more likely) you just _feel like you aren't competent. Having hard numbers will go very far in getting a more objective viewpoint there.

I learned in training to trust your motorcycle to keep it's footing when you encounter quick losses of traction.

They had a bike that was equipped with a roll-cage, like an exoskeleton that prevented it from actually flipping but did allow it to lay over enough such that it would. Then they sent the bike through excessive lean angles across slippery surfaces.

The riders who adjusted for the slippage wrecked, the ones who just allowed the bike to fish a little didn't.

Of course that's assuming you aren't too close to the threshold, etc.

But it was eye opening to learn to just kind of hang on and trust the machine a bit.

good managers in a bad ecosystem. Sounds like you were lucky to have them.

Y'all should've written some automation to send random buzzword paragraphs and system diagrams at a regular, random cadence.

> new-ish small storefronts tend to be long and narrow ... not popular

Take a look at the picture of the boarded up storefronts in the article. Those storefronts share the widths almost exactly of the apartments directly above them, all of which seem to show signs of being occupied.

This would be an easy re-purpose and a good idea, but finance isn't incentivized to do so.

Imagine all the corn that gets subsidized in the United States.

> We could not cover even 1/1000th of the US in ~30 feet of carbon per year.

We wouldn't ... ?

Billions of gallons of crude oil are removed from the earth every year, millions upon millions of tons of stone are mined from the earth every year.

I'm misunderstanding how "covering Texas" is a meaningful measure in terms of carbon capture.

> It's not really worth considering solutions that are going to maybe move the needle by 0.001%

I'm unsure how you've come to this metric or conclusion honestly.

> Carbon capture is propaganda from the fossil fuel industry to pretend....

The oil industry seems to be interested in pivoting to CCS because it is dependent on pipelines and drilling infrastructure, which is comfortably inside their position at global-scale. The fact that they caused a large portion of the problem is tangential - practically speaking. Blame who you will, we have a problem and there is an army of geological engineers and pipeline experts, etc etc with decades of experience to draw from.

> The fossil fuel industry has already won as much as they could

This is myopic and honestly childish

> But, I'm also optimistic that a hotter planet is not going to spell disaster like most people think.

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Robot butlers, Ray guns, Laser swords and Aliens.

More than likely using the water source to generate electricity that then powers whatever modern machinery you'd ever need is going to be significantly more efficient.

Windmills were used to crush grain too, but wind turbines are orders of magnitude better in terms of a solution.

I'm reading this a single-use carbon sequestration solution, is that not correct?

As in - you pay the carbon to crush it, ship it and spread it. Then it captures carbon exactly once, and then what do you do with it?

Laughs in XUL

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

Are they not?

I believe they voting mccarthy out in the first place was only possible because of the dems' votes

I'm curious - can you give an example of a pain point?

Once you choose a path, the cost of switching compounds. And truthfully language makes much less of a difference than we engineers feel it does.

Can't say it better than Mr Jobs himself on this subject.

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In my view, you did call it tiring and were thereby stating that you had seen someone make that assumption.

I'd be interested in helping out as well, looking forward to it

Not even close to being a single-party problem. I know it's almost Halloween but you can do better than jumping out from around the corner yelling "Nancy Pelosi!"

> https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/13/us/politics/c...

Exactly. That's why I only play the `Skill Games` at the back of the gas station with my savings.

I believe his statement lies in the fact that wealth is not money, but productivity.

He's saying if every atom of the economy is n% more productive, that will grow the economy by n%.

Maybe, more likely an issue of incentives.

Manager is not incentivized to do X? Then forget it. Not my job, not my problem.

Absolutely - almost nauseated actually.

The actual content felt a bit tortured as well which didn't help anything.

Color me corrected. I did pull federal data.

Oh for sure, please don't read my comment in a demeaning tone - very much the opposite.

What an odd form of comparison, Military spending is almost entirely a function of tax, not Gross Domestic Product of a country.

But taking just one aspect of that graph – overall military spending - it's true that spending has decreased since we were involved in a full scale occupation of another country, assaulting several others, then whack-a-moling the downstream consequences of those wars. It is also (in my humble opinion) extremely disingenuous to not include the direct financing of another country's war (Ukraine) which at this time is something around 80 billion.

- Also something to note is underneath your gdp<>government-spending graph it states spending in 2022 was 746 billion, predicted to increase to 1.1 trillion next year.

While spending on education was 42.5 billion in 2022.

You are correct in that we need to educate people better, it is not accurate to say we could solve a plethora of societal issues with just a fraction of the financial fuel the military industrial complex requires.

Nothing about the story of this project suggests they are top-tier sound engineers, and when you don't really know what you're doing (said very respectfully) the proposition "we need to fill windows and this is what other people normally do when they fill windows" is a very positive data point.

They didn't even start with museum-grade glass for optimal filming, which to a absolute layman like me seems like they just hadn't bumped most of these problems before.

I believe something similar to this happened to me on a ~20 minute puddle jumper flight. Late at night, nothing unusual then out of nowhere we descend to what felt like just above the tree-line, as in low enough to make out the edges of license plates on cars below, even in the glow of the street lights. Very distressing, especially because the pilots didn't mention anything over the intercom before during or after. We stayed that low long enough for me to quickly call my close family members.

There wasn't any feeling of falling at all. Also absent of any feeling of revitalization after a near-death experience, if that is in fact what is was or could have been.

Then back up just under the cloud layer, landed fine and then that was that.

I have swollen nasal polyps (or something) which causes every single cold I get to eventually transform into a 2 week sinus infection + cough ordeal.

Netty pot with salty water and a pinch of baking soda, and an even saltier water gargle clears things up nicely. And is very budget friendly.

I lol'd

> Which in practice is never for anything remotely successful.

I have yet to see Time be easy. Anywhere. At all. From daylight savings being state-dependent, system times resetting to rand, right down to CPU monotonic timing.

Using Time handling as a criticism to JSON's architecture doesn't hold water.

I would generally pass this comment by, but it's just so distastefully hostile because you totally missed the point.

GP's comment was expressing sardonic disbelief that a modern jet wouldn't be able to receive remote software updates, considering it's so ubiquitous and reliable in other fields, even those with much, much lower costs. Not that developers don't release faults.

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