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Over2Charson Earth breaches 1.5 °C climate limit for the first time: what does it mean?

Yes, China's 1.4 billion citizens divided by their number 1 status as a carbon emitter, means that they produce less co2 than the USAs 345 million divided by it's (relatively) lower total emissions.

But as I pointed out, there is likely misleading: the US (and other nations) buy lots of goods from China effectively shifting coal emissions from the US to China by having them made there.

If the US were purchasing 100% US made goods, per capita co2 in the US might be much much higher

Over2Charson WH Executive Order Affecting Chips and AI Models

It appears that Chinese merchants don't seem to be as confident that Trump won't do anything:

https://www.newsweek.com/trade-surplus-china-economy-exports...

Apparently Trump can't do this because Biden cut off his options..?

https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/trump-unleash-nearly-40...

Trump can't cancel MFN because Biden already cancelled MFN?

https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/12/04/trump-pntr-status-china...

I think you're taking Trump too lightly.

Over2Charson GitHub Git Operations Are Down

Self hosting as an alternative (excluding the 3rd party) or self-hosting as a method of redundancy (in addition to the third party)?

If you self host as an ALTERNATIVE to the 3rd party you have all of the same problems - more because you know about them, and the 3rd party can make all these claims you can't verify until they fall over with a "load balancer misconfig" story you also can't verify.

If you self-host redundantly to a 3rd party you have no special benefit (it does the same thing) AND the additional cost of a redundant infrastructure.

Why not just have redundant 3rd parties (so-called "multi-cloud") if you can't or won't trust your 3rd party.

Over2Charson GitHub Git Operations Are Down

If Jeff is using DataCenter XYZ, and then letting me use his API to manage my VMs on his "cloud", and I decide to rent a cage at the exact same DataCenter XYZ on my own servers, I'm now "self-hosting".

Same Datacenter. Same reliability infrastructure wise - power, earthquakes, tsunami, typhoons, black plague, monkey pox, etc.

Over2Charson GitHub Git Operations Are Down

I believe he found the open source tools being used (CVS?) weren't good enough, and he started using a commercial closed source tool called "bitkeeper", which rankled the ire of the FOSS community who wanted to eat their own dogfood.

So Torvald's opted to "clone" the features of bitkeeper into an open source version he named 'git'.

That's the story I heard, no idea if it's true.

Over2Charson GitHub Git Operations Are Down

four 9's uptime https://uptime.is/99.99

Daily: 8.6s

Weekly: 1m 0.48s

Monthly: 4m 21s

Quarterly: 13m 2.4s

Yearly: 52m 9.8s

If you assume that "uptime" means all tools are available

https://statusgator.com/services/github

this appears to be 45 minutes in just one day

Incident with Git Operations 30m Jan 14, 2025 9:01 AM Down

Incident with Git Operations 10m Jan 14, 2025 8:51 AM Down

Incident with Git Operations 5m Jan 14, 2025 8:46 AM Down

Not much margin to hit four 9's left for the rest of the year.

Over2Charson GitHub Git Operations Are Down

You're quite a Mary Poppins for someone with the heavy handle of @bastardoperator.

AFAICT the internet was built on negativity.

Here's the 2nd post from a random USENET group I found:

https://www.usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=comp&mid=PDQ5ajZp...

Over2Charson GitHub Git Operations Are Down

You're just using your own data center instead of Jeff's bit barn.

I mean seriously people, a "cloud" is just someone elses' data center.

Am I missing something?

Over2Charson GitHub Git Operations Are Down

I don't see how self-hosting solves the problem of 3rd party vendors unless you're standing up a self-hosting solution as a hot/cold backup to your 3rd party vendor "in the event of an extended outage".

Kinda eliminates all those pennies saved (in theory) for outsourcing to "the cloud" if you have to duplicate your infra.

Hybrid has always seemed the most optimal approach, but there's always someone in charge who thinks spending money on safety nets is just wasted money.

Over2Charson The truth behind £10 dresses: Inside Shein's factories

I provided a link to the first quack because it showed the nature of what I was talking about: a "positive" education on quality, namely what to look for.

One can digress into arguments about Levi's or nit pick any particular website/video all day.

But quality is just one factor, and if locally produced goods were of inferior quality to imported goods, it might be still be preferable to buy domestically produced goods.

Over2Charson JPMorgan Workers Ponder Union in Wake of Return-to-Office Mandate

Higher wages? Nope.

Collective bargaining? Nope.

A way to push back on being required to go to the office which has been a requirement since forever (before 2022): bring on the workers' power Revolution, comrade!

Over2Charson How hucksters are manipulating Google to promote shady Chrome extensions

If Advertising is the "highest tech problem" that can be tackled, I guess we're in for a rough ride.

I'd assume at least a dozen things are more important than advertising inexpensive Chinese made socks to Americans. But I could be wrong.

If by highest you mean, "most lucrative" then yes, I agree.

Over2Charson It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor

The rape charges were due to the women's testimony, not Cosby's confession of same as far as I can tell.

But my point is not the minutiae of Cosby's trial, but that he is "unconvicted" - and if you want to claim to not encourage rapists/murderers/the corrupt are we talking about:

1. THE CONVICTED: people who have been convicted of these felonious crimes (e.g. Stewart, Tyson, ),

2. THE UNCONVICTED: unconvicted people who have made statements relating to these crimes, which may not even be crimes in their country or era (Cosby, Ford, Gandhi), or

3. THE ACCUSED: people who have simply been accused of these crimes (i.e. #metoo or other public accusations with no conviction and public denials, Woody Allen, Sam Altman, etc)

Over2Charson WH Executive Order Affecting Chips and AI Models

It seems like Trump would only go harder on this kind of thing "as a negotiating tactic" or something.

He seems unlikely to make it easier for China, at least without something in return.

Over2Charson The Saga of Elon Musk's Path of Exile Account

I find this absolutely hilarious.

Over2Charson Grok App for Apple

I, for one, am excited to see what Mr. Musk and his 'hardcore' engineers have come up with.

Over2Charson The truth behind £10 dresses: Inside Shein's factories

Here's the first hit on a quick quack from the Duck:

https://www.wikihow.com/Spot-High-Quality-Clothing

Over2Charson How to turn off Apple Intelligence on your iPhone

Well, you're used to a mature stable UI, but this is a fairly new feature. It might be the next big thing, or it might be the next Clippy/Bob.

Hold on, because there's a ton of money riding on massive adoption, whether you want to adopt it or not.

Over2Charson Earth breaches 1.5 °C climate limit for the first time: what does it mean?

I would assume that anything done by people is geo-engineering.

Check out the big red band "China"

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions

But, as I noted in another comment, it's misleading since China has absorbed so much manufacturing for other countries, a lot of those products end up in your hands after you get it from Amazon Prime.

Over2Charson Earth breaches 1.5 °C climate limit for the first time: what does it mean?

If we've passed the point of no return, that's a relief. At least we can relax and enjoy our 18MPG 350HP sports cars now without guilt. Vroom!

Over2Charson Earth breaches 1.5 °C climate limit for the first time: what does it mean?

I don't know what country you live in, but new cars in the U.S. aren't necessarily any more ecological. The SUV has been king and now the CUV ("crossover" UV) which is also a huge beast of a car.

Even if we switch from gas to electric, this only shifts the pollution to electric generators, which are... coal/natural gas/nuclear

Although renewables are trending up (21% in this random hit, more than I expected) https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-...

So without solving the electricity generation problem, a shift to full electrics is only a part of the puzzle.

Over2Charson Earth breaches 1.5 °C climate limit for the first time: what does it mean?

An "irony" of this, is that China is a major consumer of "clean coal"

A random first hit on a search quack for "global coal consumption" on DDG:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/coal-consumption-by-count...

note China is dark red.

Now, there's a small problem. One reason that China is using so much coal is... to supply all of the exports to other countries!

It might be said that your Amazon/etc purchases are shifting the coal usage from your country to China.

Over2Charson Earth breaches 1.5 °C climate limit for the first time: what does it mean?

I think advanced climate models aren't the place of contention is this debate, but the interpretation of those models, and the conclusion as to who has to do what, and when.

Over2Charson Earth breaches 1.5 °C climate limit for the first time: what does it mean?

You mean stories like this?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/science/environmental-science/ship...

Over2Charson Earth breaches 1.5 °C climate limit for the first time: what does it mean?

What is the non-geo-engineered solution?

Over2Charson What other communities do you use apart from HN?

I'll check it out. Thanks!

Over2Charson It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor

Thank you, and I encourage you to enjoy the sweet science as well!

Over2Charson It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor

Without delving too deep, a quick search suggests he only confessed to providing drugs to women, but not to sexual assault:

https://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/07/us/bill-cosby-quaaludes-s...

So he appears to have confessed at least to be a drug dealer.