> a woman who is prematurely broken by life
Is this painting of a girl with her head on her arms and knees [1] your understanding of being "prematurely broken by life"?
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Is this painting of a girl with her head on her arms and knees [1] your understanding of being "prematurely broken by life"?
They have a huge community and tools ecosystem.
You might also want to check the Awesome List "Quantified Self" [2] if you like these kind of tools.
It's not the regular change of logos that people notice and then think that that must mean that the project is active.
It's more that design trends change with times, and color gradients currently went out of fashion (but will come back, in a later design trend), so it's important to adapt to current design trends once in a while.
If you don't do that, people subconsciously dismiss the software without trying, assuming that it won't run, or won't be able to handle modern workflows.
No users -> no contributors -> project dies.
If you need older versions, they're available via AUR, called postgres-*-upgrade [2]
[0] https://archlinux.org/packages/?name=postgresql-old-upgrade
[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PostgreSQL#pg_upgrade
[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/postgresql-12-upgrade
Nuclear is the most expensive way you can think of to generate power, but the most expensive power plant unfortunately dictates the price on the energy market in the EU ("Merit-Order") [1]
Starting from 2025, each year, 7,8GW of wind and 22GW solar power will be added into the mix.
For reference, the nuclear plants we just shut down produced 4GW in total.
Germany is exporting excess energy each years to France and other neighbours. 2002 was the last year we had to import energy. [2]
[1] https://www.bmwk.de/Redaktion/DE/Dossier/erneuerbare-energie...
[2] https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/153533/umfrag...
Last month, Germany also closed down the last nuclear power plant [2]
[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohleverstromungsbeendigungsge...
[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomausstieg#2023:_Abschaltung...
What makes them have "NFT features"? (except some tags and the obvious "NFTish" art style)
That's the job of new inventions. Nothing to complain about, in my opinion.
Those however who think that radiologists (/lawyers/secretaries) will get automated away, don't really understand what a radiologist's job really is.
The boring bureaucratic part of a radiologist's job will get automated away, yes, but that's because automatable/auto-completeable tasks should get automated at some point.
Think of it as a healthy organism eating away the boring part of a dream job that you, as a kid, imagined doing when you'll grow up.
Here's [2] a slide deck by David Wheeler giving an introduction into how it works.
[2] https://www.slideshare.net/justatheory/unit-test-your-databa...
> not smaller pixels for which I have to increase scaling proportionally
I'll never understand this argument. You want to place windows and text on a single screen so that it's comfortable to read, not smaller, and not bigger.
Then, when you have the perfect reading font size for your viewing distance, there's no imaginable scenario where you would want a lower resolution. If you have a comfortable physical font size, the same font size at a higher resolution will always be better than at a lower resolution.
Especially if you don't have perfect vision.
All of them due too fossil energy. Hence the call to invest in already available renewable energy sources.
We don't need even more potential disasters.
> renewables are far more wasteful in terms of materials required
Nuclear energy needs uranium mines which by the way happen to be in countries that are, let's say, politically unstable.
The astronomical cost of nuclear waste management is killing any and all attempt to render the TCO of a nuclear plant in a good light, if done honestly.
> they inherently don't produce power constantly
Are you thinking of solar and wind? When we talk about renewable, we mean geothermal plants, biomass energy and what not. And of course water, wind and solar - the mixture is important so that we can smooth out spikes with those renewables which don't produce power constantly, just as you build multiple nuclear plants, because one plant doesn't produce power constantly.
The question is: Why should the money go into ramping up a very expensive technology with lots of risks, when we could invest in better, safer and cleaner tech?
Saying nuclear energy is 'clean' because it doesn't cause CO2 emissions is like saying arsenic is the only healthy food because it doesn't contain sugar.
You set up a false dichotomy between nuclear energy and "solar and wind", as if that's the only possible renewable energy source.
My point is: Nuclear is the most expensive form of energy you can produce, no other energy source has you paying for waste management for 20000+ years.
Let's instead invest in a mix of other, already available solutions so that we a) smooth out spikes b) have simple energy storage solutions c) don't have to pay the guy printing new signs saying 'caution, radiation, don't enter this cave and please don't hold this site hostage in case of civil war' for some 20000+ years.
So why should we invest money into nuclear, which has the downsides of clean-up costs that literally never end, with the burden of having to communicate the risk to every human generation as long as humanity exists?
Instead of untying our hand behind our back and simply invest massively in renewables, which have a lifecycle cost profile and risk profile that is much more predictable?
[1] https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you...
That will change with this law, finally. Or put them out of business. That's a good thing, don't you agree?
> so I can still pay for stuff even if the internet goes out regionally
If you having to pay transactions >10k frequently enough that network outages block you, I'd wager you're doing exactly the kind of something this law should prevent.
> there are plenty of ways around these laws.
Sure, but now there's an instrument in the toolbox which wasn't there before. Or are you arguing that outlaws gonna outlaw no matter what, so why even try?
The hard part is actually deciding and describing what the backend should do. How should it work? What decisions should it make? What's the business logic it has to follow?
You'd want to describe that in an unambiguous way, so you'd have to invent a very strict syntax so that ChatGPT has no way of misunderstanding your intentions. You'd end up with a programming language eventually - just adding more complexity on your way, but you'd end up with code.
Now if you feel that writing boilerplate backend code is tedious, repetitive and verbose and could be automated, I totally agree. Any tool that makes that easier is welcome. But then a language model is the wrong tool for the job, we need more tools like PostgREST, ReTool, and Zapier to not end up writing too much unnecessary boilerplate code.
They don't scale. No one wants to drag around logic elements visually.
Code is much more expressive, can be refactored and diffed easily.
Climate change can be obdserved and measured. (Nitpick, but the 80's term "global warming" is used less often these days since it's confusing for some people, because climate change can have vastly different effects in different areas, not just simply "warming")
We already know that heatwaves are killing people and droughts are affecting the entire food chain, again, killing people for years already. [1]
You might take the position that these very real deaths are not caused by climate change (disagreeing with scientific consensus), that they are merely a fluke in the climate history of our planet, but then you'd have to, at least for yourself, define an "evidence threshold" which, when presented, would make you go "ok, now it's undeniably man-made climate change that is killing these people", because the slow graduality of the process makes it hard to intuitively see cause and effect.
[1] https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/07-11-2022-statement---...
I'm a proficient CLI user, but the IDE's GUI really helps with diffs, partial commits, and is all around very convenient to use.
Again, the problem is that the hardware and the software are not optimized to work well with each other as much as Mac hardware and MacOS. Dell's fingerprint sensors do not work on Linux due to undocumented specs, and sleep/suspend doesn't work (the laptop will overheat in your backpack)
Could you elaborate on what definition of Web3 you believe in?
I was delighted to see that this level of love for detail has been upheld by other design studios:
Here is a documentary [0] of the development of the orchestral music done for "Creaks" by Amanita Design, famous for "Samorost" and "Machinarium".
They contracted musicians from the Hidden Orchestra who went on to create music that develops and progresses based on how you progress in the game. Watch the documentary, it's really worth it.