Malthus thesis was that populations grow exponentially, whereas resources grow linearly, thus population will relatively soon overshoot the available resources. Malthus was also an optimist. We are in a situation where…
Speaking of US and China, obvious candidates are immigration policy and one-child policy. Other levers: female education, child mortality reduction, shift in cultural norms towards small nuclear families, access to…
We are comparing energy / sqmi. US and China have similar landmass. 3.8M sqmi vs 3.7M sqmi. Comparing their total energy consumption is, up to a constant factor, the same as comparing their energy / sqmi consumption.…
US and China have relatively similar land masses, thus arguably similar levels of available resources. China happens to have a population 4.2 larger than US, thus 4.2 lower per capita resources. If US resource…
The author needs to familiarize himself with the concept of MTBF. It's surprisingly short for high order artifacts. Entropy will introduce errors and break down every single high order system out there. I am aware of…
The solution to climate change requires indeed keeping large numbers of people poor and making existing people poorer. And it will fail indeed because of populist backlash. We should plan indeed for climate change,…
To a first, second and third approximation: poor = small energy footprint rich = large energy footprint Assuming the problem is that the global energy consumption is too large, the last thing we want is to increase the…
The Amazon rainforest is being destroyed to grow more money. Money is fungible, if beef were banned they's cut the forest to do something else with the land.
While the SUV-driving crowd is stomach churning, it is also small in the big picture. The huge elephant in the room is global population size, moving apace toward 10 billions and possibly beyond. Industrializing 10…
A. The per capita approximation means the whole world has to be brought at third world status. At projected 2050 population levels of 10b, and 25GT/year emissions, per capita emissions allowance is 2.5t/year. There is…
The vast majority of companies ask for a 'we own everything you breathe' agreement as a prerequisite for employment. The vast majority of employed software engineers don't have the luxury to work on side projects,…
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event. > Such negative values occurring shortly after the GOE require a rapid reduction in primary productivity of >80%, although even larger reductions are…
Your suggestion is probably the correct solution technically speaking, as it funnels the screen reader I/O stream through browser APIs. The immediate objection is that most popular screen readers (JAWS, NVDA) are native…
> For blind people, TTS settings are very personal. Is there a whitepaper that articulates concrete solutions to reconcile the myriad flavors of screen reader configurations with Browser Isolation technology?
1000 sqmi of rewilded land: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_Exclusion_Zone
Subsistence agriculture? Slums? Manhattan hyper density? Cuba (2.68), Tunisia (2.60), Ecuador (2.43), Egypt (2.32), Brazil (2.25), Vietnam (2.20)?
Under climate emission targets & global equity assumptions, western (#) lifestyle must end. In political terms, the western middle class lifestyle must end, the global elites will still ride their jets 'for the common…
In the old days errors came with error codes. This helped searchability using an index in a printed manual, but also Google. Unfortunately people are not good at pattern matching random many digits numbers, so this is…
Ambiguity. 95% of the cases you forgot the semicolon, the other 5% you forgot something else.
No, developers don't read compiler error messages, unless absolutely necessary. The economics doesn't work out: the compiler creates hundreds of error messages in a few milliseconds, whereas developers only have a very…
Inflation with a chance of hyper.
Interesting. Just saw this headline in the local newspaper the other day: "New president of business operations Catie Griggs wants Mariners to be ‘most progressive team’ in MLB".…
It just so happens that employees are more divided than ever on "social justice" / identity issues. We are on a wild wild ride.
Even if we become a space faring species, land will still be a zero sum game. * Within the Solar System the amount of land available on bodies with not-crushing-gravity is limited to a few times the Earth surface. This…
Fauci holds enormous power on how research money is granted or withheld. You're going to hear very few professional scientists, which desperately need grant money, speak against Fauci. That is until Fauci is removed…
Malthus thesis was that populations grow exponentially, whereas resources grow linearly, thus population will relatively soon overshoot the available resources. Malthus was also an optimist. We are in a situation where…
Speaking of US and China, obvious candidates are immigration policy and one-child policy. Other levers: female education, child mortality reduction, shift in cultural norms towards small nuclear families, access to…
We are comparing energy / sqmi. US and China have similar landmass. 3.8M sqmi vs 3.7M sqmi. Comparing their total energy consumption is, up to a constant factor, the same as comparing their energy / sqmi consumption.…
US and China have relatively similar land masses, thus arguably similar levels of available resources. China happens to have a population 4.2 larger than US, thus 4.2 lower per capita resources. If US resource…
The author needs to familiarize himself with the concept of MTBF. It's surprisingly short for high order artifacts. Entropy will introduce errors and break down every single high order system out there. I am aware of…
The solution to climate change requires indeed keeping large numbers of people poor and making existing people poorer. And it will fail indeed because of populist backlash. We should plan indeed for climate change,…
To a first, second and third approximation: poor = small energy footprint rich = large energy footprint Assuming the problem is that the global energy consumption is too large, the last thing we want is to increase the…
The Amazon rainforest is being destroyed to grow more money. Money is fungible, if beef were banned they's cut the forest to do something else with the land.
While the SUV-driving crowd is stomach churning, it is also small in the big picture. The huge elephant in the room is global population size, moving apace toward 10 billions and possibly beyond. Industrializing 10…
A. The per capita approximation means the whole world has to be brought at third world status. At projected 2050 population levels of 10b, and 25GT/year emissions, per capita emissions allowance is 2.5t/year. There is…
The vast majority of companies ask for a 'we own everything you breathe' agreement as a prerequisite for employment. The vast majority of employed software engineers don't have the luxury to work on side projects,…
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event. > Such negative values occurring shortly after the GOE require a rapid reduction in primary productivity of >80%, although even larger reductions are…
Your suggestion is probably the correct solution technically speaking, as it funnels the screen reader I/O stream through browser APIs. The immediate objection is that most popular screen readers (JAWS, NVDA) are native…
> For blind people, TTS settings are very personal. Is there a whitepaper that articulates concrete solutions to reconcile the myriad flavors of screen reader configurations with Browser Isolation technology?
1000 sqmi of rewilded land: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_Exclusion_Zone
Subsistence agriculture? Slums? Manhattan hyper density? Cuba (2.68), Tunisia (2.60), Ecuador (2.43), Egypt (2.32), Brazil (2.25), Vietnam (2.20)?
Under climate emission targets & global equity assumptions, western (#) lifestyle must end. In political terms, the western middle class lifestyle must end, the global elites will still ride their jets 'for the common…
In the old days errors came with error codes. This helped searchability using an index in a printed manual, but also Google. Unfortunately people are not good at pattern matching random many digits numbers, so this is…
Ambiguity. 95% of the cases you forgot the semicolon, the other 5% you forgot something else.
No, developers don't read compiler error messages, unless absolutely necessary. The economics doesn't work out: the compiler creates hundreds of error messages in a few milliseconds, whereas developers only have a very…
Inflation with a chance of hyper.
Interesting. Just saw this headline in the local newspaper the other day: "New president of business operations Catie Griggs wants Mariners to be ‘most progressive team’ in MLB".…
It just so happens that employees are more divided than ever on "social justice" / identity issues. We are on a wild wild ride.
Even if we become a space faring species, land will still be a zero sum game. * Within the Solar System the amount of land available on bodies with not-crushing-gravity is limited to a few times the Earth surface. This…
Fauci holds enormous power on how research money is granted or withheld. You're going to hear very few professional scientists, which desperately need grant money, speak against Fauci. That is until Fauci is removed…