Do you have a solution for the "necessary change" that does not involve governments? Or are you in the "we're all going to die anyway so it doesn't matter what we do at this point" camp?
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Last night, the Republicans held a primary debate in which none would acknowledge human-caused climate change. Last year, the Democratic party passed the inflation reduction act which puts a bunch of resources into addressing climate change: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_Reduction_Act
"Recycle our plastic" may be worthless, but voting and acting while also developing technical solutions really does matter.
He's a _grandson_ of John Tyler, who was President from 1841-1845 (born in 1790). Kind of remarkable when you combine longevity with having children in old age.
THAT said, I'm not sure I personally would take the gamble!
I definitely wouldn't recommend that folks try to run their own mail servers, so it's true that email is more consolidated than the web.
Woah there. I don't agree with this. The web is certainly not centralized (this is on Hacker News and not Facebook, right?) It follows a power law distribution where you have some players getting lots of traffic and then there are lots and lots of small traffic sites. But it's definitely decentralized.
_Google_ is something of a monopoly providing some of the features you list for the web at large, but there are others (Duck Duck Go, Bing) that are just a click away.
Gmail took a huge share of the email market by being a better product for the first several years of its existence (and being free also helped). That doesn't mean email is centralized: I've been using Fastmail for the last several years and it works _just fine_. I don't have the problems you list.
Anyhow, I agree with your point that a decentralized _social network_ needs to solve the problems you're listing. I just think the web and email are actually examples of technologies that remain decentralized.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/exporter/id1099120373?mt=12
(I haven't had a need yet, so I haven't tried it)
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IIRC, we did one program in C at the end of the class but the rest were Pascal.
Does seem like an odd choice to use two different languages in that class.
It limits the choices, and they tend to be a bit pricier, but the tradeoff seemed reasonable.
It ties into the whole suburban experiment. Lots of single family detached homes on their own pieces of land spread things out, raising the need for cars to get anywhere. Those homes were sold as "the American Dream". Of course, once people are in those homes, they not only need to drive to stores to buy stuff but also to work or to other activities happening in the city proper, thus requiring more roads to build up to get there. Plus the whole stroad thing rose up as well to meet the demands of people in suburbia.
Not Just Bikes also covers interesting bits about how this whole thing is also on financially shaky footing given how much the infrastructure costs to get services out to spread out hoomes.
At the top, it talks about "long term use", so it may be okay under acute circumstances.
Yeah, good point that text is a potentially fragile approach when combined with git. I think the Squeak Smalltalk folks figured out a way to retrofit git support, so maybe it's possible to go all-in on the representation you want and work out git support later if it seems useful enough.
FWIW, I'm totally on board with the idea of focusing on the interactive experience, but history has shown it to be very difficult for language environments not based on files to cross the chasm into more common use. (If you don't care about lots of users, then ignore this entire comment! Plus, it's always _possible_ that something will cross over, but we've got decades of people trying...)
Anyhow, I'm really excited to see where you go with this!
So it's true that there's still a "typesetting engine from the 80s" in there, but there's also a powerful layer of app functionality built-in as well. It's reasonable to question whether all of this belongs together, but all of this evolution _has_ allowed for whole new classes of applications to be delivered securely and quickly to all sorts of devices in the browser.
Each credit allows a month of use. Seems pretty straightforward, but I agree with you that because these aren't an auto-renewing subscription you could find yourself needing to pay at an unexpected time.