Is there any known/public system that use ReactOS? Is there a goal for this OS? a use-case? Any dev-story I can read?
I'm not criticizing their work or passion, au contraire, it's a spectacular effort the developers are doing, developing an OS with the same API than Windows 2000 from scratch. For me they are giants.
There is no consensus I can think of. Reducing emissions seems obvious, but most industries and transport vehicles depend on burning fossil fuels. Governments should push for reduction of emission limits in industries and taxing at the border to foreign companies or countries that do not comply with some "enviromental care level", "waste per capita threshold" or "polution prevent level" or something like that [1][2].
What I'd also advice all "normal" citizens is to take their part in slowing the global warming by doing simple actions like:
- Recycling cardboard/crystal/plastics/metal.
- Buying local produce.
- Buying second hand stuff: books, clothes, etc.
- Buying hybrid cars, and when there was enough electric-stations, electric cars.
Through my career only twice side projects have been brought up during the interview:
- When starting in a startup after I lost many years working for a small no-name company.
- When interviewing for an American company in Madrid (I was not offered a position).
Side question: how do you all come up with ideas for side projects? I don't know if my life is dull (or I'm dull), but I have no creative power in my mind to give birth to great ideas, only small libraries, that well, interest few people.
I don't know, but for anarchists and for POUM [1], Franco could be part of "the baddies" (things are never so simple like good and bad), but "Republican" (with support for the URSS) members were the ones that killed them.
They failed and the next two years were a sequence of minor scale violent events that ended in a war in 1936. Of course, the coup by the military forces is not justified, but the caotic situation made them choose what they thought was the "lesser of two evils".
The Second Spanish Republic was a failed try to make a modern country whithoug having some kind of agreement between different political parties. All political parties were extremely polarized, the first coup failed (1934), and the second one (1936) succeeded.
The civil war started 40 years of iron-fist totalitarian right-leaning regime (allied to USA). Fortunately it's been 50 years since that ended, although some politicians (soem in PSOE and almost all in Podemos) like to bring the topic up again, and again, and again... Only for divisive reasons and electoral motives.
Edit: However, fighting because of what faction was worse in a conflict that ended more than 80 years ago is nonsense. This comment was made only to remind all that both factions made war crimes.
Franco supporters' oppression aginst the losers side ("Republicans" and Communists) was worse after the war, from what I know.
My grandmother was almost raped and killed by Italian comunist/partisans in the Spanish Civil war.
Both sides reached out for allies and got resources, men and machineary from them. National military front got in bed with Nacional-Socialsm and Fascism, and Republican with URSS.
Would the communist central price-fixing have benefited from AI? I mean, could the fixing of consumer prices have been automated by an AI system? Maybe using machine learning?
How this compares to pi-top laptop [1]? Both products seem a bit overpriced to me (I'm sure there are reasons). But I think for children, a 100$ (or 100€) laptop will be a best-seller product. Even I would buy one to have a distraction-free device.
Stealing a comment I saw the other day in a thread where a open source ventilator was shown, if you need a ventilator you'd need intensive care as well.
According to Encyclopaedia Britannica [1] that's false:
> The city came into existence after the discovery of silver there in 1545 and quickly became famous for its wealth. Within three decades its population surpassed 150,000, making it the largest city in the New World. The population declined from a peak of 160,000 about 1650 as silver production waned, and a typhus epidemic in 1719 claimed the lives of some 22,000 residents. By the early 19th century, Potosí had fewer than 20,000 inhabitants, but the subsequent rise of tin mining again spurred growth.
I'm not criticizing their work or passion, au contraire, it's a spectacular effort the developers are doing, developing an OS with the same API than Windows 2000 from scratch. For me they are giants.