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by crispinb 7y ago
Human navigation is cultural. Urban culture (for better or worse) tends to cut people off from physical reality. Spend a few days with a Cape York indigenous person and find out how amazingly good people can get at this. John Huth's Th
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by crispinb 7y ago
The word 'precipitous' is a direct quote from the author, and is also in the PNAS article abstract. Whatever your problems with the original paper (if you've read it), you can hardly fault The Graun quoting their source verba
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by crispinb 7y ago
Well yes I'll accept 'everyone' is an over-generalisation. It's broadly true though, and outside of a couple of backward recalcitrants (the US & Australia come to mind), levels of outright denialism are low enough th
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by crispinb 7y ago
The neurotic attachment is to the political/economic status quo. As they know this is incompatible with dealing with climate collapse, motivated cognition leads them to climate change denialism. This is not remotely 'skepticism&#x
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by crispinb 7y ago
It's not a non-starter (indeed most demographic projections are that populations will decrease after a late 21st century peak). But it's too slow to be relevant to the climate collapse issue.
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by crispinb 7y ago
Actually yes - climate breakdown is just one of literally thousands of causes of ecosystem collapse. It's the most dramatic, and in many cases (eg. the Great Barrier Reef) it's the coup de grace, but it's 'economic growt
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by crispinb 7y ago
> Talk to people who are misinformed. Don't shun them out of your life. At this stage everyone who doesn't accept the seriousness of climate collapse is either a liar (self-interested billionaires who want to make a shitload o
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by crispinb 7y ago
It keeps getting worse regardless. It's only a matter now of how much worse, and how quickly. Many of the leading lights involved with XR are very clear on this, and indeed are working in parallel on 'deep adaptation' (ie. h
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by crispinb 7y ago
They've already won. The driving idea behind denialism was always to delay action for a few decades. Well that worked perfectly. Now they will move on to saying it's all too late for gradual mitigation, and they can swoop in with
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by crispinb 7y ago
Well they won (power, not the argument) and have moved on to stages 4 and 5 ( https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97... )
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by crispinb 7y ago
That's a pretty nice idea for the net paths issue. I'll borrow it, thanks. I'd guess all significant Windows developer tools will add support for the wsl paths over time. VS Code obviously leads the pack with its remote exten
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by crispinb 7y ago
On the streets this may be so, but I'm convinced many rich high-profile deniers are simply liars. They're making hay while the sun shines (manageably). They'll have read their Tainter et al, and know the wealthy are likely to
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by crispinb 7y ago
Fair enough. I honestly suspect your signal there is more than lost amongst the noise of readers reflexively voting for what they happen to agree with. Anyway that's probably enough of this particular dead horse.
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by crispinb 7y ago
> all stolen by squirrels except for the dragon fruit It's flying foxes & possums in my neck of the woods ;)
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by crispinb 7y ago
Thank you (I think?) for making me aware of that ;)
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by crispinb 7y ago
Sure, I know what it does, I'm just not sure why anyone would use it. I never do normally want a comment to go up or down (other than the odd egregiously abusive or aggressive item). I may disagree with a comment, but that doesn't
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by crispinb 7y ago
I'd like to push back a bit on the 'hobby' terminology. It seems to rest, or at least lends fuel to, an assumption that work is of primary value. That may be true for some, and probably more in a field like tech than many, bu
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by crispinb 7y ago
This is a total aside, but I really don't understand voting on comments. I've no idea what it could mean - levels of agreement, interest, offensiveness (or scores of other possibilities)? It seems entirely meaningless, therefore p
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by crispinb 7y ago
I'll add the separate filesystems problem. I generally need to access files from both windows & linux. WSL 2 may have made file access faster within the vhd, but it seems to be slower to use those files from Windows, or impossible
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by crispinb 7y ago
> I strongly disagree with the contingent of detractors who claim that Evernote's downfall was having the audacity to raise their prices, or limit the scope of their free version ... > it misses the point. Good products are entit
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by crispinb 7y ago
I'm doing both. I don't want to be spied on, and there is no room in any sector of my life for corporate propaganda.
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by crispinb 7y ago
It kind of sounds like using curiosity as a gatekeeping mechanism I don't know about 'using'. I think it just is one - learning is possible but terribly inefficient in its absence. There's also nothing to suggest that
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by crispinb 7y ago
Not necessarily. Most governments of wealthy nations are determined to prop up fossil fuel use regardless of so-called 'economic' or environmental fundamentals. This is very well-established in research but for a recent newsy repo
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by crispinb 7y ago
It's a complicated (and somewhat regional) story. But at the root of it is something our politicians have known for a long time, which has made (for example) constitutional alterations almost impossible to achieve: Australians are very
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by crispinb 7y ago
> you're actively hurting the adoption of Haskell by posting stuff like this in the wrong places/context If someone's put off learning Haskell because they are (terrifyingly!) exposed to a single obviously non-beginner&#x2
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by crispinb 7y ago
> It's statements like this, which are completely absurd, which are hindering our progress of making meaningful change. Only the degree of certainty of the statement is exaggerated. The content is well within any reasonable scenario
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by crispinb 7y ago
Yes no doubt unfamiliarity (beyond the syntax trivia) is of course a barrier. How much of one it is depends on many things. The closer someone is to the 'curious' end of the pragmatic <-> curious learning spectrum, the less
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by crispinb 7y ago
> I wish more people looked past the unfamiliar syntax I truly doubt many professional devs are put off by the syntax. This is the least of the hurdles facing any (post-beginner) programmer learning a new language. It wouldn't even
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by crispinb 7y ago
> I pine for something like that in the mobile or web worlds A recentish episode of a python podcast ( https://www.pythonpodcast.com/anvil-web-application-developm... ) had an interview with one of the founders of Anvil
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by crispinb 7y ago
I keep giving it a chance, and will continue to do so, for the reasons stated in this article, along with the goodness that is multi-account containers. I wish it wouldn't keep driving me away with its reliability problems.

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