If you want a gut understanding of what we need to do about climate change, play the boardgame Daybreak. Also, every card has a qrcode that links to educational material on the real-world topic. (Predictable, specious critiques: reductionist or biased modeling)
I also love Clean Code and think it unfairly gets a bad rap, but here's a great, sometimes hostile, conversation with the author that touches on the issues:
Other conspiracy theory stuff in the ticker: thermite conspiracy & something about ELTs going off before explosions. Surprised the creator didn't cram a remote control box mention in the ticker.
I hadn't seen the ELT stuff before, and a quick and lazy google didn't turn up a good debunking. Anyone have anything about ELTs being picked up @ 8:44 AM and ~8:59 AM?
I don't buy any of the conspiracies, just curious. The site is really awesome, regardless.
I get your point, but putting these 2 thoughts together:
> we are just squandering our advances in hardware by making comparably more inefficient software
> we're able to build things that would not have been possible to build before
We get that not only are we able to build things that weren't possible before, but we can build things that are more inefficient than was possible before.
We can expect in the future to see new levels of inefficiencies as hardware developments give us more to waste.
Without something to balance this out, we should expect to see our text editors get more and more bloated in cool and innovative ways in the future.
It makes me think of fuel efficiency standards in cars.