drewm1980

Public service announcement from the vegan community: Cutting out meat doesn't mean you have to eat bugs, or any other gross animal byproducts. Plants are plenty nutritious.

I'm vegan, but our numbers are so vanishingly small, we're a distraction in this conversation. Essentially the ~entire market for these products is meat eaters, and I don't believe meat eaters care about what they're eating even if they pay lip service to their health, the environment, or animal rights. Meat substitutes will win in the market because the food labs will (and I believe already have) succeeded in making them cheaper and tastier. You can't add extra salt, sugar, and MSG (not there is anything wrong with it) to a 100% beef patty.

I am 100% rooting for Impossible to win regulatory approval here in the EU, even though it's an uphill legal battle. The USA leads the world in junk food technology, and we need better junk food to get us through the energy transition.

People would notice. There needs to be meat in there so customers can worry about food poisoning and complain that it isn't cooked exactly the right amount, regardless of how it is cooked. It is part of the burger tradition.

"I started out coding in the mid-90s and refocused my career on Bitcoin and crypto in 2016 after leaving a very large software company in Seattle."

You're embarrassed to have worked at Microsoft but not on crypto pyramid schemes?

Unsustainable prosperity fueled by fossil fuels.

I would posit that the climate and the season matter enough to be a solid moral distinction in this case. Civilian lives depend on gas and electricity in all scenarios, but they depend on them ~much more in a Ukrainian winter.

I have had reflexes learned from contact improvisation kick in during a couple random low speed falls from standing or walking/tripping. I had a feeling of "ah I have been here before" as I fell. Maybe not relevant to oneboard speeds, but relevant if you trip on a toy or kid in your house, or slip on some ice outside.

There is a documentary called "Duty of Care" about lawsuits along these lines. Governments are getting sued for endangering their own citizens through inaction on climate change. Similar lawsuits are being brought directly against oil companies.

TLDR; they reprocess natural silk from silkworms to produce silk fibers with better tensile strength. This is partly achieved by doing a better job of washing out non-strong compounds from the fiber, so the yield is strictly lower than that for natural silk. This process still involves boiling silkworms alive.

This contrasts from biotech based fibers, e.g. https://boltthreads.com/technology/microsilk/ , which is produced by genetically modified yeast.

This is also starting from the assumption that calculus is not fun. It's where a lot of seemingly disconnected mathematical ideas suddenly come together like a beautiful puzzle.

I switched to wireless charging pads because USB connectors keep failing on me. Now the USB connectors on my wireless charging pads are dying!

Environmental conservation laws should be considered a matter of national security. We need to mobilize the military industrial complex on the side of the environment before everything dies.

We need a state of climate emergency to just ban some needlessly destructive practices, ideally globally. Mowing lawns is something we can just decide not to do. Meat and dairy we can just decide not to do.

Or our entire civilization will collapse into famine and war because we refused to transition off of fossil fuels in time. That methane needs to stay in the ground.

How would the Russians react? Would they launch extra nukes just to be "safe"? Maybe we should build a weapon that ~enhances the yield of their nukes, so that they figure sending one is enough!

Besides giving a block of code a name, functions also reduce the scope of the data the code can possibly be acting on. They also introduce a namespace that lets symbol names focus on locally relevant information. How did this huge refactoring patch you are describing hold up in code review?

Some of those things do exist. The future doesn't arrive everywhere simultaneously.

415 Bungholiomarks ought to be good enough for anyone.

Oil companies are printing their own money now? God I hope you made that up.

Do they have an API for refusing to accept ETH mined via proof of work? This is a start, but personally I'm still never going to accept BTC or ETH as payment; their history taints them forever. The real value burned in the mining of these currencies is lost forever, and the people who did the burning should absolutely not be rewarded.

Thank you for the term "Equity Theatre"!

Depending on your perspective, the airplane is not successful until we figure out how to do it sustainably. We may yet have to go back to lighter than air flight, which arguably has precedent if you count aquatic life, i.e. swim bladders.

Unless we start making the sustainability of our technology a success criteria, we'll never achieve it. Many biological systems are different precisely because they are constrained to run within an overall sustainable system.

Maybe human tech ~is cyclically sustainable on a long enough timescale, but I certainly ~hope we're not going mostly to die off and live without technology until the forests grow back and microorganisms in the oceans turn into oil.

Below a certain size, propellers are less efficient. It's a fluid dynamics thing. I learned about this from a colleague flying robots inspired by insects. If you find an article about bee flight dynamics that's not BS (creationists still sometimes try to use bumblebees as an example of divine magic), it may also explain it. The short version is that with a small propeller all the air around it just starts spinning.

On my first skim through the article it seemed like objects were getting copied between regions, i.e. when they change color. I guess the key is one of the first sentences "all objects in the heap are organised in a cyclic double-linked list", so there is a layer of indirection, and the circle you see is not the actual address space as I initially assumed, but the linked list. Did I understand correctly?

Lol, you should see how they hacked the watch's winding wheel!

These things have become symbols of wealth inequality, and sports cars in particular have become symbols of wilful environmental degradation. Many commenters would hate on a non-technical piece of art that symbolized/promoted the same things.

I was hoping this would be about the entire business model imploding since golf has no place in the modern era. We need to be using land for important things like food and re-wilding to preventing climate collapse and mass species extinctions.

We could feed people instead of cows, chickens, and pigs.

This is not at all true for the USA. Farm subsidies there are famously massive:

https://liberalarts.tamu.edu/blog/2021/11/03/farm-subsidies-...

Is there really a "Recommended daily allowance of meat and dairy protein"? Sounds like propaganda from the meat and dairy industry like the food pyramid. I once met someone who studied to be a professional nutritionist, but left the field entirely because it is corrupted by special interests. IIRC to get certified she had to tow the party line that nutritionists should promote animal products as part of a healthy diet, and she decided to change fields instead.