I just experienced an interesting exFAT issue yesterday. Apparently it has a 2 second resolution on mtime. Got a bug report and just formatted a new partition with exFAT in windows 11 and it was unable to set modified timestamp to an odd number. Or rather i got no error when setting it, but it did get rounded up if it was odd. The wiki entry for exfat says it has 10ms resolution up from 2s in FAT, but that didn't seem to be the case for me. I thought about it being FAT and windows just lying to me but i couldn't confirm that was the case.
Plants. I didn't have many before covid/wfh, but they really make the place more liveable/ejoyable by just being there and this became increasingly important as i spent so much more time at home
Its not all about cash vs non-cash. It can also be about privacy. You might not want some embarrasing item on your bank statement for a number of reasons.
I would love a reloadable prepaid anonymous card i could use instead of my own in my everyday life. I would probably use only that if i could find one. There is no such option afaik where i live though. And we are transitioning very fast to cashless. ( Norway )
Well its not an impossible argument to understand from a game theory perspective of civilization.
I don't agree with it. Much as i don't agree with the Dark Forest premise set forward in the Three Body Problem series, I thought it was very interesting nontheless and worth spending quite a bit of time musing over. As with Nick Bostroms thoughts.
Just because we disagree with a concept on ethical or practical or whatever reason doesn't mean we should be discussing it or that we can gain something from discussing it.
At least he can argue his side, unlike the politicians constantly pushing for a more and more draconian state.
Do they really though? I don't know any numbers, but i would imagine that the airports at least make up some if not all of the cost of equivalent railroads? I get that the airport can service a lot more destinations than a trainstation( overseas etc ), but i'm not totally convinced that rail infrastructure is that much more expensive than for air.
The cost of airport security etc should probably also be thought of as infrastructure costs.
~20 years ago my parents bought us(me) a new computer. A Pentium 2. For almost the exact same price(not adjusted) as the fairly well specced gaming computer i bought last year.
Prices drop for a lot of stuff. Thinking youtube for $15/month is expensive doesn't seem wierd to me. But i think its worth it just to avoid ads.
Its not that they have to be hard choices. Its rather that we are only commiting to try the easy ones.
And i do agree that what matters is the outcome. I just don't think we are changing the outcome as much as we should be doing given our beneficial position in the world. There are only so many easy "things", for lack of a better word, we can do. The rest are hard. And it seems to me that we are stopping short of committing to doing anything "hard".
I could be wrong about what produces the best outcome with regards the environment considering wether to stopping or continue drilling(edit: in norway). But our carbon emmisions are still climbing while most of the europe that we should be comparing ourselves to has either stopped or reduced their emmisions. We are still not contributing to a carbon negative world other than not being as bad as we could have been.
Changing their name is not really changing what they do. I realize they are diversifying into other areas(which is only sensible), but they are still also doing what they have always been doing. Push for more drilling. And i'm not sure i buy their argument that since someone else will just pick up the slack we should keep doing it. I realize that oil is what has brought us our wealth, but this is what i meant by hard choices.
> Taking the biggest sovereign wealth fund in the world's money out of FF stocks is a good way to start, and doesn't jeopardize much, if anything.
This is also what i mean by hard choices. In this case it wasn't really that hard.
Norway is in the middle of trying to figure this out. Or we are where we have always been: Pretending to do everything we can to protect the climate while actually doing almost nothing that would impact our standard of living. Its hard to tell if we are actually moving the discussion forward or not.
We are happy to spend billions funding rainforrests around the world, but we won't make any hard choices that affect us at home.
Stopping the national subsidies for oil exploration is something that would probably stop it dead in its tracks. But we are not doing that. We are instead in the process of opening new areas for explorative drilling. There might be some truth to the "clean oil technology" talk, but it doesn't change the fact that oil == carbon.
The only reason we havn't started drilling in "Lofoton"( our famous fishing grounds and home of a lot of magnificent scenery constantly posted on reddit ) is that a few small swing parties are putting their foot down. All the larger parties want to drill. As they always have. Its depressing.
We do have the fairly new(in terms of actually being voted for) "Green" party which is basically a single-issue party. I'm hoping they can steer the conversation to a point where will be able to make hard choices.
Not to derail too much, but this also applies to everything else we do or dont do. Like not cutting arm sales to the saudies etc. Its money talks all the way.
Edit: and don't get me starte on wolves. Even while the majority of norwegians seemingly wants wolves in our forests, we seem to be dead set on limiting their numbers to a population which is not going to sustain itself genetically. Rip wolves.
Can't remember either, but your recollection is close to what mine is.
But given that Moff knows who/what Darth Vader is it is not supprising that he takes a subservient stance when talking to him. Kind of the same way i'm very careful around american cops. I would never address a norwegian cop by sir, but i don't even think twice before using sir/mam when talking to a us cop.
But in these cases its fear. It has nothing to do with pleasentries. It's the gun in the holster or the knowledge that he can forcechoke you if he wants to. ( at least thats my interpretation of that encounter in rotj ).
So no. I don't think they would say that in any normal encounter. I know i wouldn't other than in jest.
> Massive wood walls and structural beams and columns comprised of engineered panels have demonstrated fire performance equal to concrete and, in some cases, superior to steel
Subsidizing personal vehicles sounds completely insane and irresponsible to me.
The problem is that everyone ends up with their own vehicle and this gridlocks any road in/out of a city. Which ~big city in the world does not have trafic problems? And what is the average passenger count in those cars. One bus can replace MANY cars. But for some reason i cannot comprehend taking the bus or train seems oppressive to some people. I get this is not an option everywhere but where i live it most definatly is and people still complain about the tolls drivers have to pay to commute into the city and refuse to take the bus/train.
> Many people who program in PHP learned it as a first language, hacked together programs in it, and probably used hack together libraries and tooling.
This describes me very well, and i don't think i'm alone. When i look back at my(very early, first language) PHP code it looks horrible. A lot of it is just copy pasted code from random websites telling me that that it does what i wanted it to. Which is a pretty good description of me at a young age trying/learning to program by internet. I don't use PHP today, and i really don't want to, but i suspect that is in some part due to me struggling with stuff i never understood when i was doing it and developing a distaste for it looking back at my bad code from that time without realizing it could be done differently/in a way fairly close to what i do in my current work-language. I just wanted to make my WoW dkp page work and searched the internet when wondering how to and ended up writing really bad code. It still worked pretty good and i had fun doing it but i never considered writing PHP again once i moved on.