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Smalltalk's workspaces go back to 1980

that's my point: many news sources are framing it as a good thing by not calling it what it is: a deadly heat wave

There's no universal law that declares it has to be reported as such

Climate Crisis

Any news source that reports "record-breaking temperatures" is, deliberately or not, making these dangerously increasing temperatures sound like a good thing.

This extreme heat is costing us $$$

that's pronounced "mee-sheer"

they mean that since _everything_ is awesome these days, awesome now means "ordinary"

exactly. What other features of our faces will software "correct" next ?

Highly recommended is the interview on Econtalk with him. What an erudite man.

the denial is strong today

Divides a big number by a huge number and now it doesn't seem so bad

I think the lack of social interaction from the office is a good thing because it's healthier for our friends to be outside of our work

regardless of meeting size in any company where people don't trust each other there will be more gossip and backstabbing

bad implementation of a good idea

yeast

you don't realize it until it's already happening

your reply made me question myself so I got Skin in the Game off the shelf and whadddayknow he _does_ give a definition:

"Perfect ergodicity means that each one of us, should he live forever, would spend a proportion of the time in the economic conditions of the entire cross-section[of the U.S. population]: out of, say, a century, an average of sixty years in the lower middle class, twenty years in the blue-collar class, and perhaps one single year in the one percent"

I'd love for it not to be true and it's not like I have any proof

Everyone of his generation loves nuclear. It was the hottest thing back then. Makes me wonder what todays generations will be advocating which their children will have to deal with

Sadly it's because manufacturers deliberately make them loud to make it seem like they're doing their job more. It's the same with many garden tools. Lawnmowers, leaf blowers and hedge trimmers can be made very quiet but they're deliberately made loud to make it feel like they're doing their job more.

Taleb uses his own definition of ergodicity which he's yet to state

Wouldn't it be more efficient to charge cars from electricity gathered from solar urban roofs ? Car parks would make ideal areas to cover with solar roofs in the style of gas-station roofs. They'd be generating electricity and keeping the cars beneath cool

Actually solving problems at the roots like that won't show results for 1 generation which is too long for human political memories

they should provide an option where they send you a new battery and you replace it yourself

button is on the side and inaccessible while bulb is in socket

why not a tiny recessed button you push with an inserted paperclip ?

Ragtime is classical music

Good on him

Every cell contains the entire genome which, informed by chemical messages from cells nearby, has a subset of genes activated which encode the information needed to know what to do.

Even the simplest cells on Earth are extremely advanced and intelligent, the latest in 4 billion years of evolution