ethanpailes (u/ethanpailes)

ethanpailes commented on Meet the real screen addicts: the elderly economist.com/internation... · Posted by u/johntfella

lapcat · 2 months ago

> Much like obesity is primarily driven by abundance of calories, another fight we won with our natural environment. The highly processed foods and marketing are just barely making a dent at the edge, and are largely a zero-sum game between food manufacturers.

Who is getting obese from fresh fruit and vegetables, whole grains, and the like?

People will eat a whole bag of salted potato chips or a whole container of ice cream in a sitting, but who eats a whole bag of oranges in a sitting?

ethanpailes · 2 months ago

I will absolutely eat a whole bag of oranges in a sitting.

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foresterre · 2 months ago

In his book Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari called the farming of animals by humans "Nature's biggest fraud", which I always found to be an apt description.

It makes me wonder if humans are the only animals who "farm" other animals in some way (not on the same scale as humans do of course).

At the same time, it makes me wonder, "is being a parasitic animal socially better or worse than animals who farm fellow animals" ;).

ethanpailes · 2 months ago

Sperm whales arguably farm by always dedicating at the top of the water column and measurably increasing the fertility of the seas they swim in. It seems possible that is deliberate given how much of their time they spend in the depths.

ethanpailes commented on Why you can’t grow cool-climate plants in hot climates crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

Arainach · 4 months ago

We could start by banning things that explicitly waste resources such as proof of work cryptocurrency and adjust tax incentives to punish huge energy consumers for things like AI. Make the energy cost factor in the long-term externalities and maybe companies will hesitate before burning the world for things that aren't necessary.

Things don't have to be perfect - you start with the biggest polluters/consumers and use trade incentives to convince other nations to join. We've seen this work under Democratic administrations (China's outputs are dropping) before Trump etc. threw it all away.

ethanpailes · 4 months ago

China turning the corner on emissions has far more to do with their desire to get out from under the possibility of an oil blockade locking up their economy than green pressure from the west. They also organically have an environmental movement, though not one that they are willing to kowtow to at the cost of growth.

ethanpailes commented on The End of Moore's Law for AI? Gemini Flash Offers a Warning sutro.sh/blog/the-end-of-... · Posted by u/sethkim

guluarte · 5 months ago

they are doing the we work approach, gain customers at all costs even if that means losing money.

ethanpailes · 5 months ago

TPUs do give Google a unique structural advantage on inference cost though.

ethanpailes commented on Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU? mikegalsworthy.substack.c... · Posted by u/mariuz

mmooss · a year ago

The overwhelming counterpoint that I'm making is that it's not a disaster and hasn't been one, now for 25 years. It's been an overwhelming success by any measure.

Where's the evidence of disaster?

ethanpailes · a year ago

Since the financial crisis the US economy has kept on trucking, while the EU has stagnated. This isn’t all because of the euro, but it’s definitely a disaster and I think it is reasonable to hold the euro at least partially responsible.

ethanpailes commented on Is population density the reason Americans can't discuss politics? georgesaines.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/gsaines

bruce511 · a year ago

In absolute numbers, your statement is true. But the deaths are not equivalent because of agency.

Road deaths are "random". Obviously each one has a specific cause, but we're all equally at risk. We're all in agreement that they should be avoided, and we have significant legislation to improve safety (no one is advocating for drunk driving.)

The issue either abortions is not the death part, but the agency part. Those lives -could- be saved, but aren't, because the law provides reasons for not saving them.

To make things worse, only one half of the population is subject to this risk. So it can feel kinda targeted.

Fundamentally death is not an issue. We have plenty of people. We could lower the speed limit, we could ban alcohol, or guns. All that would drive up life expectancy. We don't do that because there would be consequences and effects from those changes. And life expectancy is not the primary metric.

Abortion is a complex topic, with some people holding very strong opinions. The pendulum has swung to the point where simple medical interventions to save lives are being denied. That's what makes the topic newsworthy.

It's not the death part that matters, it's the preventable part.

ethanpailes · a year ago

Since the pandemic, enforcement of traffic laws has fallen off a cliff, with a corresponding increase in traffic deaths. That is the result of a specific policy choice. Women who get pregnant experience potentially fatal complications somewhat randomly, just like victims of driving accidents are killed somewhat randomly. You probably can’t eliminate either category of death entirely with policy, but it is clear that there are policy levers that could reduce deaths in both categories. They actually seem almost exactly equivalent.

ethanpailes commented on Show HN: Shpool, a Lightweight Tmux Alternative github.com/shell-pool/shp... · Posted by u/ethanpailes

themk · 2 years ago

This seems to suffer the same problem as abduco, which is, you better be reconnecting from the same terminal (don't change your termcap). Fine if working from a single machine.

I did notice they have a vt100 emulator, but it's only used for screen restore?

It seems the focus of the tool is for reconnecting from the same machine.

ethanpailes · 2 years ago

Yeah reconnecting from different terminals is a pretty tricky problem to solve (and in fact can't be solved in general because of potential skew between the terminfo db on the client machine and the remote machine). The big problem is that once you launch a shell, there is no great way to change environment variables from outside that shell, so you can't change the value of TERM for a running shell. I have thought about trying some LD_PRELOAD tricks to try to be able to call setenv() from within the shell process itself, but this always struck me as something that would require a pretty big hack.

ethanpailes commented on Show HN: Shpool, a Lightweight Tmux Alternative github.com/shell-pool/shp... · Posted by u/ethanpailes

beryilma · 2 years ago

I think there is a whole group of vim + tmux people out there and their primary use case may not be session persistence, but to construct an IDE like environment, which is also my use case.

ethanpailes · 2 years ago

Yeah I was expecting a lot of that, which is why I found that survey data so surprising.

ethanpailes commented on Show HN: Shpool, a Lightweight Tmux Alternative github.com/shell-pool/shp... · Posted by u/ethanpailes

feel-ix-343 · 2 years ago

Will this one not try to be a window manager?

ethanpailes · 2 years ago

Not trying to be a window manager is pretty much the reason it exists!

ethanpailes commented on Show HN: Shpool, a Lightweight Tmux Alternative github.com/shell-pool/shp... · Posted by u/ethanpailes

mkhnews · 2 years ago

Hi. Nice kit. > I couldn't use my normal `i3`/`sway` bindings to switch between terminals inside a tmux session Just curious, what are your normal 'i3'/'sway' bindings that you cannot get to work with tmux ? And what actual terminal program do you use ? Perhaps tmux wants more config than most people care to bother with, but scrollback and copy-paste can be configured just as you like.

ethanpailes · 2 years ago

If you’re using a tiling window manager your window switch keybindings necessarily conflict between the manager and tmux, since if you configure the same one and then press it while focused on a tmux window, the tiling window manager will override tmux and claim the event.

Scrollback and copy paste cannot always be configured as you want. I’ve shared some specifics elsewhere in this thread.