I'm glad this is out here, because right now everyone is focused on CO2. The reality is that there is are so many other forms of pollution that are destroying our planet that are much more devastating. We have lakes of sludge in China as a result of all our cellphones and laptops.
To stop general pollution, we need to consume less. Our cellphones need to last 10 years, not 2. Everything doesn't need to come in a cardboard box from Amazon. We generate so much waste in our day to day lives and consume sooooo much. To really fight pollution, we need products that last longer, fewer factories with workers that get paid more, more durable goods and a restructuring of how we value things. Companies should be praised for good products when people don't buy more stuff because their previous line has stood up so well (like CPUs and memory).
It's a tall order. It's not easy. It probably won't happen.
And it doesn't matter if you believe climate change is man made or not. If we reduce general pollution, consume lest, demand better public transport (which can be a reality now, unlike self driving cars that might be a reality ten years from now, and won't even touch 10% of the capacity of trains), we can reduce all kinds of pollution, including CO2.
I personally don't feel this will happen until America runs out of countries to bomb and manipulate, fuel prices hit $9/gal and the US collapses. The vote is a joke. Trump is the 2 minute hate (really 24/7 hate) and Americans have lost sight of the real enemies that are present, no matter which puppet is elected.
I don't buy into this "vaping is safer cause less tar" bullshit. There are numerous studies that show marijuana doesn't increase your risk of lung cancer over non-smokers. So it's not the tar/burning particulate matter that leads to cancer as people keep claiming. I mean you get mouth cancer from chewing tobacco, so nicotine is pretty bad in and of itself.
The trouble with smoking is that the effects aren't immediate. It takes decades of use to see the results. That's one of the reasons it was so difficult to show links between tobacco and health risks.
We won't really know if e-cigs are safer for a few decades, but I suspect they'll be just as bad as traditional cigarettes. It's not the smoke that kills, it's the nicotine itself.
People should watch "The Power of Nightmares" and learn about Team B, a set of Ronald Regan advisers who made up a bunch of shit about Russia and gave them capabilities they didn't have.
You remember the Caterpillar drive from Hunt From Red October? That came from a real Team B memo, where they couldn't identify all the Russian submarines, so they assumed they must have some super secret silent drive that makes them undetectable. Not the obvious answer of "We over estimated the number of Russian submarines."
I bet this is all bullshit too. No one can use a nuclear weapon today. We are still in a world of mutually assured destruction.
The comment from Ferrari makes me think of the motorcycle company in the game Full Throttle where the founder mentions the guy who wants to take over the company and sell minivans.
Maybe it's a lot of PC gamers not wanting to update their rigs since DDR4 prices are through the roof? So might as well just update your PS4 to the 4k version or get a Switch?
There is already plenty if spectrum for that. The big providers have already purchased up national LTE coverage, GSM/CDMA coverage, Wi-Max coverage and even fall-backs to EDGE coverage.
This is new spectrum space, which could be using by small municipalities to offer local wireless Internet coverage. They're most likely going to have to offer such coverage with better deals than the major carriers, with the trade-off being limited range.
I feel there are questionable elements to the current research on man induced climate change (not to mention there are sooo many other forms of pollution that are way worse that we really need to stop. There's a toxic lake in China where byproduced are dumped from manufacturing all of our cheap crap).
However, I'm for this if they use the god damn money to fix their crumbling rail infrastructure. Penn Station needs to be completely renovated, and the subways are in desperate need of maintenance. But knowing the city officials in terribly corrupt cities like NYC, I'm sure it will all go into the pockets of big money contractors and fat cats.
Yea and even with this phone, people will still be able to install gapps. I'd be more impressed with the service architecture they plan on making, and actually replacing Google/Amazon services. Right now a lot of people don't want to give up their core apps (Dropbox, Gmaps, FB Messenger, Hangouts). It'd be better if we saw more F-droid/OSS clients that support FB/Hangouts via the libpurple system and that avoid sending excess data to either.
Yea I think the guy is an idiot too, but don't stup to mentioning every little thing like this. I'm sure you can find plenty of examples where Obama did the same.
I call bullshit. There is no way you could stare at the sun and go blind. First, the pain would be immense. You'd have to be high on tons of morphine.
Second, you can't go blind. If you started at an eclipse, you'd burn a pinprick hole and get a permanent black spot in your rods and cones. It's a very focused beam (really what happened to this girl if you look at the photographs).
I'm a huge Linux user. It's my primary dev box and media centre. I love it and use it for everything.
That being said, no no no. Gimp does not compare to Photoshop, Inkscape is afar from Illustrator... the only things close is Darktable, which gets pretty close to Lightroom, but it still have some UI disasters (but also a lot of contributors so I think we'll see improvements)
There are more indie games on Linux now, but for the most part, I still use a Windows laptop for photos, video and games. Oh and video editing on Linux is shit. Everything other than blender crashes all the damn time. I also prefer Resolve on Windows for video.
I log into both my undergrand and graduate libraries every few months to keep my account active. Most universities let graduated alumni have access for life.
I doubt that anything will come of that either. Is anyone from the 2008 financial collapse in jail? No, of course not. There is a different standard of justice for the 1%, because they control everything.
Captchas have been broken for a long time, for both machines and humans. That's why Google is constantly working and changing their reCaptcah implementation. My thesis was on Captcha, and even back then, several companies had white papers on breaking various forms of Captcha. It's a cat and mouse game and it will never really end.
I prefer the on screen buttons actually. You get more screen real estate because the buttons disappear when you don't need then. I had to disable the physical buttons on my Samsung tablet cause I kept hitting back in portrait mode while reading comic books (that required some heavy modding too; something so basic shouldn't be so difficult!)
America didn't get as spread out as it is overnight. You start laying down rail, you will see businesses start to pop up around each station. We can get back to a sustainable city-scape again. America use to be walkable. It can be again.
Self driving cars in Europe might be neat where they don't have transportation shortages. In America, our mass-transportation infrastructure is non-existent. Except for a handful of cities, you have to own a car in order to simply function in society, or you have to find a job that lets you work from home or live in a very limited area of town.
Basically even if you had Interstates which only allowed self-driving cars and all of them could travel at over 120kph bumper-to-bumper and all of them were filled with four people each, you still wouldn't even get to 10% of the capacity of a traditional rail system, running on a single track, with trains arriving at 5 minute intervals (and most cities with rail systems have them arriving at 2 min intervals during rush hour. London has several automated trains. Singapore is fully automated).
Before we start dumping billions into subsidizing self driving cars, how about we build up our self-driving train tech; a known technology which currently exists and transports millions of people every day.
Btrfs is still in development and has quite a while to go. Filesystems are very difficult and are something you cannot fuck up on! You needs years of testing and verifiability before you push a new fs to market.
I hope Apple at least fixed all the Unicode bugs in this APFS release. I think I'll stick with ext4.
This could be crucial in fixing a lot of the drivers/userspace/abi development issues by creating stable interfaces for manufacture hardware (instead of each vendor patching the fuck out of the kernel with their shitty drivers and tons of binary blobs). It could bring us closer to easily being able to put ASOP right on any phone, just like installing Windows fresh on a new laptop...but more than likely Google and the vendors will still fuck this up somehow and we'll end up with this mess:
I don't understand why this is modded down. It's a pretty good comprehensive summary of the gnome project. I remember back in 2012 when I was using Linux at work (used a hackintosh/Mac for years) and installed openSUSE with gnome3. Dear god.. took me a few hours to get everything semi-working to the way it was in gnome2. That's when I took the plunge and switched to i3.
Tiling window managers are the way to go. I've tried xnomad, i3 and a few others. I've settled on i3 for years, but whichever one you use, once you go tiling you won't go back.
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I'm glad this is out here, because right now everyone is focused on CO2. The reality is that there is are so many other forms of pollution that are destroying our planet that are much more devastating. We have lakes of sludge in China as a result of all our cellphones and laptops.
To stop general pollution, we need to consume less. Our cellphones need to last 10 years, not 2. Everything doesn't need to come in a cardboard box from Amazon. We generate so much waste in our day to day lives and consume sooooo much. To really fight pollution, we need products that last longer, fewer factories with workers that get paid more, more durable goods and a restructuring of how we value things. Companies should be praised for good products when people don't buy more stuff because their previous line has stood up so well (like CPUs and memory).
It's a tall order. It's not easy. It probably won't happen.
And it doesn't matter if you believe climate change is man made or not. If we reduce general pollution, consume lest, demand better public transport (which can be a reality now, unlike self driving cars that might be a reality ten years from now, and won't even touch 10% of the capacity of trains), we can reduce all kinds of pollution, including CO2.
I personally don't feel this will happen until America runs out of countries to bomb and manipulate, fuel prices hit $9/gal and the US collapses. The vote is a joke. Trump is the 2 minute hate (really 24/7 hate) and Americans have lost sight of the real enemies that are present, no matter which puppet is elected.
I don't buy into this "vaping is safer cause less tar" bullshit. There are numerous studies that show marijuana doesn't increase your risk of lung cancer over non-smokers. So it's not the tar/burning particulate matter that leads to cancer as people keep claiming. I mean you get mouth cancer from chewing tobacco, so nicotine is pretty bad in and of itself.
The trouble with smoking is that the effects aren't immediate. It takes decades of use to see the results. That's one of the reasons it was so difficult to show links between tobacco and health risks.
We won't really know if e-cigs are safer for a few decades, but I suspect they'll be just as bad as traditional cigarettes. It's not the smoke that kills, it's the nicotine itself.
People should watch "The Power of Nightmares" and learn about Team B, a set of Ronald Regan advisers who made up a bunch of shit about Russia and gave them capabilities they didn't have.
You remember the Caterpillar drive from Hunt From Red October? That came from a real Team B memo, where they couldn't identify all the Russian submarines, so they assumed they must have some super secret silent drive that makes them undetectable. Not the obvious answer of "We over estimated the number of Russian submarines."
I bet this is all bullshit too. No one can use a nuclear weapon today. We are still in a world of mutually assured destruction.
The comment from Ferrari makes me think of the motorcycle company in the game Full Throttle where the founder mentions the guy who wants to take over the company and sell minivans.
But look at the kitty kat! Dawww it's soo cute!!
Maybe it's a lot of PC gamers not wanting to update their rigs since DDR4 prices are through the roof? So might as well just update your PS4 to the 4k version or get a Switch?
There is already plenty if spectrum for that. The big providers have already purchased up national LTE coverage, GSM/CDMA coverage, Wi-Max coverage and even fall-backs to EDGE coverage.
This is new spectrum space, which could be using by small municipalities to offer local wireless Internet coverage. They're most likely going to have to offer such coverage with better deals than the major carriers, with the trade-off being limited range.
I feel there are questionable elements to the current research on man induced climate change (not to mention there are sooo many other forms of pollution that are way worse that we really need to stop. There's a toxic lake in China where byproduced are dumped from manufacturing all of our cheap crap).
However, I'm for this if they use the god damn money to fix their crumbling rail infrastructure. Penn Station needs to be completely renovated, and the subways are in desperate need of maintenance. But knowing the city officials in terribly corrupt cities like NYC, I'm sure it will all go into the pockets of big money contractors and fat cats.
I knew someone in high school who took Ibuprofen all the time. I think she took it for headaches and then didn't realize just how much she was taking.
No over the counter drug is probably safe for extended long term use. If you're seriously using it that long, you need to find out what else is wrong.
Yea and even with this phone, people will still be able to install gapps. I'd be more impressed with the service architecture they plan on making, and actually replacing Google/Amazon services. Right now a lot of people don't want to give up their core apps (Dropbox, Gmaps, FB Messenger, Hangouts). It'd be better if we saw more F-droid/OSS clients that support FB/Hangouts via the libpurple system and that avoid sending excess data to either.
For like 2 seconds.
Yea I think the guy is an idiot too, but don't stup to mentioning every little thing like this. I'm sure you can find plenty of examples where Obama did the same.
I call bullshit. There is no way you could stare at the sun and go blind. First, the pain would be immense. You'd have to be high on tons of morphine.
Second, you can't go blind. If you started at an eclipse, you'd burn a pinprick hole and get a permanent black spot in your rods and cones. It's a very focused beam (really what happened to this girl if you look at the photographs).
I'm a huge Linux user. It's my primary dev box and media centre. I love it and use it for everything.
That being said, no no no. Gimp does not compare to Photoshop, Inkscape is afar from Illustrator ... the only things close is Darktable, which gets pretty close to Lightroom, but it still have some UI disasters (but also a lot of contributors so I think we'll see improvements)
There are more indie games on Linux now, but for the most part, I still use a Windows laptop for photos, video and games. Oh and video editing on Linux is shit. Everything other than blender crashes all the damn time. I also prefer Resolve on Windows for video.
I log into both my undergrand and graduate libraries every few months to keep my account active. Most universities let graduated alumni have access for life.
I doubt that anything will come of that either. Is anyone from the 2008 financial collapse in jail? No, of course not. There is a different standard of justice for the 1%, because they control everything.
No one executive from the 2008 financial collapse is in prison. 1% of Americans are in prison, more than any other country in the world.
This is why your vote doesn't matter in America. The people don't dictate policies. The top 1% do. Everything else is a puppet show.
Captchas have been broken for a long time, for both machines and humans. That's why Google is constantly working and changing their reCaptcah implementation. My thesis was on Captcha, and even back then, several companies had white papers on breaking various forms of Captcha. It's a cat and mouse game and it will never really end.
http://penguindreams.org/thesis/
I prefer the on screen buttons actually. You get more screen real estate because the buttons disappear when you don't need then. I had to disable the physical buttons on my Samsung tablet cause I kept hitting back in portrait mode while reading comic books (that required some heavy modding too; something so basic shouldn't be so difficult!)
America didn't get as spread out as it is overnight. You start laying down rail, you will see businesses start to pop up around each station. We can get back to a sustainable city-scape again. America use to be walkable. It can be again.
Self driving cars in Europe might be neat where they don't have transportation shortages. In America, our mass-transportation infrastructure is non-existent. Except for a handful of cities, you have to own a car in order to simply function in society, or you have to find a job that lets you work from home or live in a very limited area of town.
I wrote a post about this a while back:
http://penguindreams.org/blog/self-driving-cars-will-not-solve-the-transportation-problem/
Basically even if you had Interstates which only allowed self-driving cars and all of them could travel at over 120kph bumper-to-bumper and all of them were filled with four people each, you still wouldn't even get to 10% of the capacity of a traditional rail system, running on a single track, with trains arriving at 5 minute intervals (and most cities with rail systems have them arriving at 2 min intervals during rush hour. London has several automated trains. Singapore is fully automated).
Before we start dumping billions into subsidizing self driving cars, how about we build up our self-driving train tech; a known technology which currently exists and transports millions of people every day.
HFS+ is shit and is dangerous. It's based on very old standards and is a total mess under the hood, not so different than NTFS.
https://www.cio.com/article/2868393/linus-torvalds-apples-hfs-is-probably-the-worst-file-system-ever.html
APFS also has huge Unicode issues:
https://eclecticlight.co/2017/04/06/apfs-is-currently-unusable-with-most-non-english-languages/
Btrfs is still in development and has quite a while to go. Filesystems are very difficult and are something you cannot fuck up on! You needs years of testing and verifiability before you push a new fs to market.
I hope Apple at least fixed all the Unicode bugs in this APFS release. I think I'll stick with ext4.
The most important feature doesn't seem to be mentioned: Treble.
https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/treble
This could be crucial in fixing a lot of the drivers/userspace/abi development issues by creating stable interfaces for manufacture hardware (instead of each vendor patching the fuck out of the kernel with their shitty drivers and tons of binary blobs). It could bring us closer to easily being able to put ASOP right on any phone, just like installing Windows fresh on a new laptop. ..but more than likely Google and the vendors will still fuck this up somehow and we'll end up with this mess:
http://penguindreams.org/blog/android-fragmentation/
I don't understand why this is modded down. It's a pretty good comprehensive summary of the gnome project. I remember back in 2012 when I was using Linux at work (used a hackintosh/Mac for years) and installed openSUSE with gnome3. Dear god .. took me a few hours to get everything semi-working to the way it was in gnome2. That's when I took the plunge and switched to i3.
Tiling window managers are the way to go. I've tried xnomad, i3 and a few others. I've settled on i3 for years, but whichever one you use, once you go tiling you won't go back.
I thought even in the official Python documentation, you should never make /usr/bin/python -> python3? python3 should always be called explicitly.
Exactly. Has he even been to the US? It's the same as the Kim Dotcom bullshit.