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lofi_lory
·5 anni fa·discuss
>Seriously underestimated

Seems to be the rule of thumb with climate apocalypse now.

There really is no precedence justifying a conservative/reactionary stance on climate change. This won't play itself out somehow. We need proactive Interventions now. It's like with SARS2: We got the second wave, the third wave... no matter how uncomfortable, shit happened exactly like predicted by science - people unnecessarily died. Climate crisis will be so much worse.

As a German, I am really happy about the recent constitutional court ruling extending political legislation's consequences to account for future generations' freedom, and voiding the last insufficient "climate law" by the corrupt CDU/obedient SPD. I hope this level of responsibility gets implement everywhere.
lofi_lory
·5 anni fa·discuss
Fish is awesome, but it lacks features and shortcuts of bash/zsh, and it's sometimes hard to translate things. It's also quite buggy IME. Great out of the box experience. Tho, I wouldn't recommend it to new CLI users.
lofi_lory
·5 anni fa·discuss
I wish the wiki had a bit more redundancy and TL;DRs. Way too often you are "required" to understand some related issue completely to follow "the arch way". Problem is, this stacks indefinitely. IMO premises should be explained shortly. I want to understand the why, without understanding linux in every detail every time.
lofi_lory
·5 anni fa·discuss
https://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/february/hurricane-winds...
lofi_lory
·5 anni fa·discuss
I don't know... This year I lost all hope for Germany's future. This goes beyond VW. Until now, I kinda thought everything is going to be alright, Germany is a rich country and all. I wasn't aware of the extend of moral corruption in the CDU. They really eroded the whole country for personal gains. I've never been this disappointed and disillusioned by politics and society as I am for the last few month.
lofi_lory
·5 anni fa·discuss
That's not the argument tho.

You liking Apple's ecosystem doesn't mean they aren't anticompetitive.

And really your point is kind of... weird. It's not like you don't have to go out of your way to get third-party apps on your Android phone. And you would lose nothing, if Apple did the same, maybe even more buried in hidden settings and behind disclaimers and warnings. Reads like the typical retrospective justification of any limitation Apple features.

"A single USB-C port? Yeah, I love it! Keeps you focused and mindful about peripheral devices!"

Every god damn time. Beyond bizarre.
lofi_lory
·5 anni fa·discuss
The new Siemens offshore turbines put out up to 16MW. This has blown me away. Tho, they are scary machines and I get uncomfortable looking at them (like single balcony on a huge wall kind of uncomfortable). Aesthetically the vertical ones are much, much better IMO. Especially if they can be placed in an symmetrical pattern, not this super optimized complex mess traditional ones show.
lofi_lory
·5 anni fa·discuss
I think offshore wind farms have been proposed to protect the US from hurricanes. So apparently they substantially decrease wind energy.
lofi_lory
·5 anni fa·discuss
I think in Germany it fails, because reporting positive tests fails. Nobody doubts, if the app was promoted and reporting working flawlessly, it would hugely contribute to managing the spread.
lofi_lory
·5 anni fa·discuss
Could you elaborate or link a source. I have a hard time believing acting on lethal blood oxygen levels somehow does not apply if infected with SARS2.
lofi_lory
·5 anni fa·discuss
Neither extrem weather events, nor pandemics are expected to be freak events in the coming years. SARS1 was a warning shot.

I don't think pandemic monitoring and response preparation are a that expensive, even if you use them just once a decade or two.

And lots of failings highlighted by the pandemic are of a general nature concerning infrastructure debt. If health care wasn't run at max human capacity for "cost effectiveness" we may not have to talk about triage. If broadband internet access and digital literacy were a thing, WFH would run more smoothly.
lofi_lory
·5 anni fa·discuss
I imagine for semi-criminal actors, injecting code or "accidentally" using systen data, are still two different scenarios. I mean, state actors could also just follow you around, or place agents as friends and family... so why bother about anything?
lofi_lory
·5 anni fa·discuss
Also, isn't x86 ISA just a translation layer today? I thought on the metal, there is a RISC like architecture these days anyway.
lofi_lory
·5 anni fa·discuss
Because with Linux excitement can change things. What are you gonna do if you miss something in iOS/macOS? The right people can in principle make anything work in Linux but with macOS you are left praying Apple decides your use case is their business case.

Imagine what would happen if the compute/$ M1 laptops would perform in some respect better with Linux than macOS. Things may get out of hand, when huge chunks of the Linux community gets involved.
lofi_lory
·5 anni fa·discuss
Something like this... but a lot cheaper please. Like <500€ please.
lofi_lory
·5 anni fa·discuss
Thanks for jumping in with way more info than I could provide.

I love how the DNA language, much unlike spoke words, is in close relation to physical properties of the world.

There really is some exciting magic in the interception of biology and computation.
lofi_lory
·5 anni fa·discuss
I was actually about to write the net benefit bit, but decided against for avoiding some knee jerk reaction of the HN crowd, drowning the argument XD
lofi_lory
·5 anni fa·discuss
I don't think your comment your comment is a fitting response as I clearly stated this is about the general, theoretical stance, where you can't make assumptions about either the alphabet, nor the text.

As I recognized, introducing assumptions of course opens possibilities for doing things differently.

I was using the DNA example, because bioinformatics is where a lot of people learn about BMA, because the math is easy there and we are not tempted to make assumptions about the text, even tho it's not random. For most bioinfo applications the alphabet is not four letters, but e.g. the amino acid alphabet, or having additional sequence information included.

In bioinfo practice the naive algorithm often performs competitive against BMA if you optimize for hardware assumptions. Branch prediction is a bitch for BMA.
lofi_lory
·5 anni fa·discuss
As a German, I don't see VW getting it together rapidly.

Germany doesn't get life in #Neuland. VW and most of the German industry are respective leaders in some niche by being good at through mechanical engineering IP. Electrical cars are simple. Innovation is in software, DRM business models and battery tech which is all completely foreign to the German industry. People here get Teslas for the charging infrastructure alone, as the alternative is a huge mess. Don't forget, VW is still trying hard to lobby for their known turf, pushing for hybrids and hydrogen combustion mechanical marvels...

Germany doesn't get it. The pandemic has shown, the era of old white me... industrialist has forced the country between a rock and a hard place.

While Musk is shooting consumer internet into space, our leaders had long, exhausting talks, recognizing Germany's need to modernize and embrace technical progression and they fearlessly concluded: It's time to let go of fax by 2030.
lofi_lory
·5 anni fa·discuss
Yes, for the looks, but this was based on old Intel.