Readit NewsWhat I would like from these things is to be able to opt-in to a recommendation. Just a two-minute way to opt-in. They can do the work and we all can have the least possible hassle trying it out.[1]
[1] I’m not up to date on the state of the art of limiting your own smartphone time
That and the ever-trailing "especially now with AI".
Many people have the idea they can make things simpler. Which is really easy because the basic problems are not that hard. Them someone needs "just one more small feature" which seems easy enough and it is - but the combination of everyone's small feature is complex.
Both systems end up having full programming languages because someone really needs that complexity for something weird - likely someone in your project. However don't abuse that power. 99% of what you need from both should be done in a declarative style that lets the system work and is simple. Just because you can do CI in the build system, or the build system's job with the CI system doesn't mean you should. Make sure you separate them.
You CI system should be a small set of entry points. "./do everything" should be your default. But maybe you need a "build", then "test part-a" and "test part-b" as separate. However those are all entry points that your CI system calls to your build system and they are things you can do locally. Can do locally doesn't mean you do - most of the time locally you should be an incremental build. Nothing should be allowed past CI without doing a full build from scratch just to make sure that works (this isn't saying your CI shouldn't do incremental builds for speed - just that it needs to do full rebuilds as well, and if full rebuild breaks you stop everyone until the full rebuild is fixed).
This is becoming the standard refrain for all software.
no self awareness, no reflection. just impulse. me, me, me.
blasting music in public, talking at max volume, slamming doors. taking 20 mins to use an ATM when it takes me 30 seconds. and so on.
I don’t really get the significance of this No Inner Dialogue meme.
Be right back. I just have to look for a completely quiet treadmill for the open office where I spend my life.
There really is no free lunch!
Be right back. I just have to look for a completely quiet treadmill for the open office where I spend my life.
However, you might be too pessimistic here. Fossil fuel usage is actually widely expected to peak in the next few years and then enter a steady decline.
Michael Liebreich of Bloomberg NEF did a pretty interesting editorial on this decline a few weeks ago: https://about.bnef.com/insights/clean-energy/liebreich-the-p...
He uses a simple model with some very basic assumptions (conservative ones) where he shows how short term fossil fuel usage still increases. Mostly this is just market inertia. But then it will start decreasing and then some decades later, it declines all the way to zero with some long tail of hard to shift use cases.
He uses some very basic assumptions about economic growth continuing to grow by an average of 3%, a base assumption of renewables outgrowing energy demand increases by 3%, etc. You get to a modest fossil fuel decline by 2040, majority renewables powered economy by the 2050s. And virtually no fossil fuel left in the economy by 2065. The years change but the outcome stays the same as long as renewables outgrow demand increase.
There are lots of buts and ifs here but he's explicitly addressing the kind of pessimism you are voicing here.
Thanks. This mindset is not always made this explicit.
That it is an individual-choice is just as true as the claim that it is a choice made by governments, corporations, non-profits, executives, etc. But this atomized fiction is the only one that is given focus. Why?
You said it yourself: the perspective is not even conducive to making any change! (“not a realistic...”) We can’t expect 8 billion to make atomized decisions for the betterment of the planet.
But that’s not what people with this mindset want. They want a scapegoat that (conveniently) cannot change. Or they want an excuse to keep doing what they are already doing. Because hey the entities “that are doing it” cannot change in the aggregate.