Yeah, it sure shounds like a CityPlace
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Is it possible that warming temperatures in the oceans weren't considered to be an issue when we first started seeing arctic air being blown further south by the jetstream due to a changing climate from anthropogenic carbon sources? Possibly. There are certainly mitigation mechanisms they could have invested in. If the public heard their taxpayer dollars or utility fees were being wasted on winterizing efforts in notoroiously hot Texas, even if there were responsible decision-makers, their hands were tied at risk of being shamed for wasteful spending in the court of public opinion.
It is still a shame that they're left out in the cold, so to speak. Hopefully they can come up with more sensible remedies, if not out of a change of ideology, perhaps a sense of practicality?
That said, YCH is a more traditional auction over a single piece, not a Vickrey auction over a specific supply. According to this model, a Vickrey model would be:
- Scope the work to a specific standard that the artist specifies, in terms of colors, quality, characters, background, etc. That way, the bid is on a roughly equivalent amount of labor per piece.
- People put in (blind) what they're willing to pay
- When demand is exceeded, the nth+1 highest is what everyone pays.
Very fair!
I'd be curious if there'd be a way to price something more custom; for example, putting a price on the number of hours required for each feature (more color or shading, more characters, etc.), how would that affect such a pricing dynamic?
For example, I know many furry artists who open their commissions and within an hour get 20 solid offers to pay them. They can't possibly do all the work, so they just lose business.
That's, uh, not how capitalism works! Companies like Amazon know, all you have to do is charge 10x more to capture all of that value. Sure, it sucks for 18 other potential customers, but these furry artists have tens of thousands of fans who will enjoy the work regardless.
Of course the environmental cost should be factored in. I'm still curious if hydroponics (or geoponics, in this article's case) actually winds up having a better carbon footprint than traditional agriculture.
That was a thoughtful response, though, and I'm grateful.
Ah. Maybe it's because I explained stuff that's basically newtypes using language that might make it seem they're different? Ugh. HN comments always make me so neurotic. But the content is usually more interesting than dev.to. I just wish they'd get rid of the downvote feature.
For those who don't know, Traits are like a sort of "class interface" that can be automatically applied to things that have implementations for those traits, and conversion between, once that code is pulled in scope via `use`.
Rust doesn't have classes or inheritance, instead, it has more powerful tools, ones that aren't as limited.
Also, much of the tooling I used to add to projects in other languages is either built-in and commonly used (test, fmt), or easily added to cargo (edit, bench, web, mobile).
I've seen people learn Rust as their first programming language, and it fills me with joy that the next generation of programmers won't have to build up this vault of apocryphal knowledge I've had to over the years. Or, at least, not the same one. And hopefully not as large.
I've also found Rust to be a very pleasant application development language. As a former NodeJS developer, I've been able to replace Express with Warp and Electron and React with Iced. It's not ready for all things, but it's ready for a heck of a lot. And the question of "what's possible" has broadened so much due to work by the community in even just the past year, I really think the majority of all other applications, including web frontend (cargo web), servers, desktop apps (iced), and mobile apps (cargo mobile), can be reasonably implemented in most part entirely in Rust within only a few years.
But then, I realized: 1). I'd be integrating further into Google because of a problem they created (racketeering), and 2). They seem to really dislike having paying customers (even if they made it, they'd kill it before long).
In fact, the latest versions of Proton are so good, the only games I haven't been able to get to work with regularity are the ones that require EA Origin, and honestly, I've had similar problems on Windows. In fact, sometimes the Proton version of the game works better than the Linux binary. So, if gaming is holding people up from switching (which is a common excuse), that's not as much an obstacle these days.
2. Any time there is an update, it's an opportunity for something to break. If a user has no choice when a computer updates, they risk interrupting important, time-sensitive work. So, a user must ask themselves, are they more worried about their machine possibly used in a botnet, or are they more worried about it rebooting right in the middle of a meeting or video call? Or taking 20-30 minutes to update after an unexpected reboot, such as a power failure? I would rather have the choice, and deal with problems caused by updates only I want to, when I have the time. Also, many zero-days are for software that's over a year old. As long as a user has done an update in the past year, which is a reasonable expectation, the risk of compromised security is much lower.
3. Facebook downtime and the incapability to launch any third-party application at all are two very different problems. Further, Gatekeeper is not the only source is potential problems. Windows Defender has been known to quarantine DLLs and executables that are perfectly harmless, but fixing problems caused by an overzealous update to (and application of) Windows Defender definitions is often beyond the capabilities of the average user.
4. The Linux kernel absolutely supports non-free drivers. Inclusion of non-free driver "blobs" is a common argument.
In fact, I would like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as "ideological Linux", is, in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux...
And, as others here have said, yeah, hindsight is 20/20, given that the SLS will almost certainly be a boondoggle, and barring any major failures on South Padre or something... inconceivable... its utility will likely be obviated before it even launches.
But, even as an avid newspace fan for the past 10+ years, I still have to say, it wasn't terribly obvious Starship would launch on "Elon Time"... or "Elon Time 2.0.", even only two years ago when Elon unveiled "Dear Moon", he hadn't even announced he'd be building Starship out of stainless steel. Yeah, and he builds them like water towers are built, in ring sections, not advanced composites. I shudder to think back even 10 years...
Like, since it's pretty much fully reusable, yes, both stages, it could cost less than a million dollars to launch 150 metric tons to low earth orbit, which is pretty handy, because they're using it to launch a network of thousands of communications satellites in ridiculously low orbits that'll probably decay in only a few years and it's looking like that's actually gonna work really well. Yeah, way better than the one time Motorola tried it.
Oh, and if you wanted to get 150 metric tons to GTO, you just need a single orbital refueling launch. The moon, mars, just a couple more orbital pitstops.
Oh, and it uses a rocket engine design that's never even gotten off the test stand the handful times it was looked into before.
Yeah, hindsight's a... cough
Oh, did I mention there's a global pandemic? And President Trump got voted out of office. And Apple replaced all their Intel chips with the one they have in their iPads and smart phones, and it wound up being way better. Yeah, Intel's in a pretty tough spot, actually. Oh, and try to find as many Pokemon cards as you can, some people have paid their mortgages off that way.
Yeah... Time travel's gonna be hard to explain. Especially since nobody has DVD burners anymore.
That's how you make the small things, just, unforgettable.