I thought I heard recently about signal allowing a different ID system, but I think that’s about not having to share your phone number, as against them IDing you with a phone number which I expect they will keep doing

My friends have been describing America now as cyberpunk without the cybernetics. We have no neuromancers

I was fortunate that my partner never used Facebook, so I got to hold “communication with their sibling/child” over their heads and get the family chat onto signal. That was my last thing I had to do before I could delete my account

The most fun was sending a message to each of the Facebook friends: hi (name) I’m deleting my Facebook account, if you want to contact me online I can be reached on signal at (signal ID)

It was genuine, in my workplace the only optimisation is for run time

Isn’t that what you’re optimising? Trying to reduce runtime by increasing CPU load

It’s a fake teapot, you can’t brew tea in it

Some people use the RGB to indicate system loads by colour, so they can have a visual indicator for when a long process finishes

Yes, but a fan of so much that I may have heard of that before Vsauce covered it. Vsauce is much good though, all of them have some credit

See also ghoti (fish). English orthography only works by agreement, not rules

Idiot. Using English letters to try to represent sounds they don’t normally make. It didn’t work for gif (pronounced commonly as gif instead of jif), why would they think it would work for them?

I work in government IT, and AWS is used there too. I prefer working with a team delivering a COBOL data cruncher service, though the build people have it easier when the job is just connecting a source to a sink in AWS

At least you can accurately point the finger at who’s responsible

I feel like this name addresses the problem of services claiming to be microservices when they’re not.

Does that even happen? cat is micro, sed is micro, systemd isn’t and doesn’t claim to be

I think Federation makes it hard

I often sort all by new comments and it shows posts with zero comments on the first page, with something posted yesterday with 50 comments below it. Sort is probably difficult

Is that showing no negative anomaly years since about 1990?

Expensive or not, the cheapest option is renewables. Coal plants in Australia have closed down, unable to compete with solar and wind. We now export our coal to China

Renewable energy being the cheapest energy really, really helps

Carbon capture being expensive is unfortunate. It would be nice if we could cheaply use fossil fuels and keep the carbon out of the biosphere, but we can’t, so we should just use renewable energy, and big countries can also use nuclear until we run out of fissile material

But you need to cut those trees down and place them somewhere they won’t rot

Sink them to the bottom of the deep ocean, but trees famously float

Leave them in deserts where the dryness will suppress rot, but damage the desert habitat

Dump them in peat bogs, but there aren’t enough

Perhaps it would be best to cook them to charcoal, it releases some carbon into the atmosphere, but it would leave some solid, inedible to anything carbon that can be dumped in any old mine, but that’s expensive

Also if you dump the whole trees in whatever way, you also dump whatever nutrients are in it

Our previous progressive government lost its next election over a price on carbon

It’s too easy for right wing politics to cast it as “your electricity prices will go up; fuel will get more expensive; you won’t be able to afford to use your gas heater in winter”

It’s a difficult policy to get, you need a party brave enough to implement it in their first weeks in power so people see it doesn’t hurt by the next election