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by gmuslera 4y ago
There is a 5-volume anthology of his short stories by publication order. You can see how is themes evolved or changed with time, and it should be a good reading along his books (also, in publication or writing order) for that reason. Not al
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by gmuslera 4y ago
Don't be afraid of the degrowth, but of what makes more than necessary, essential. Not enough is being done regarding what is causing the climate change, and we are affecting most areas in a very complex and interconnected system. And
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by gmuslera 4y ago
For a moment I thought that the article was about using phonetic language when writing in English, that may have some sense noticing sound alike words that may not be always obvious for the speaker. But regarding using a different way to ex
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by gmuslera 4y ago
It is not so simple. I've seen abuse complaints to the abuse contacts of the RIRs (that, in the end, are in the top of the chain of "owners" of those IP blocks) or intermediate owners that lease those ranges or distribute the
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by gmuslera 4y ago
This is for short term weather prediction or long term climate modelling? The 2.5 simulated days per day points into the short term direction.
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There is an opinionated vision of logs, for a particular use case and available resources. For simple enough logs (like the nginx/apache example shown) having so simple format enables a quick and dirty search and information extraction
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by gmuslera 4y ago
Farming: The Good Parts. And some of those games include also the good parts of social interaction, fishing, foraging and more, in a simple enough way, not the complex, messy and tiresome reality. Probably some farmers enjoy those games, bu
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by gmuslera 4y ago
How locally is locally? Your country, your city or your house? And how much extended, hours, days, months? If it is just your home. You can have a mirror for your Linux distribution at home. There are plenty of self-hosted software ( https:
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When people were not travelling because COVID, airlines were still doing regular empty plane trips to keep the routes. And it was one of the main industries bailed out in the pandemic. Leisure travel does far more damage than private travel
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The truck in the room are cars, not phones. And cities built over the idea that you must have them. Walking even in a more or less urban scenario should be something usual, enjoyable, part of our everyday life. Instead most people must have
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by gmuslera 4y ago
Half of the "Linux" books are about BSDs, or open source applications that are not specific for Linux. They seem to be scraping the bottom of the barrel there.
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Solutions without degrowth are not solutions. Even if we somewhat move to renewables for cars and transport in general, if we keep growing our need of cars, plane/leisure trips, industries and so on we will hit another bump pretty soon
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by gmuslera 4y ago
Working with diverse and complex infrastructures the system that you administer becomes less the individual machine operating system and more the whole interconnected companywide system. You still have to go down one particular server and t
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by gmuslera 4y ago
Our current civilization is fragile. There are a lot of connections, a lot of interdependence, a lot of points of failure. Think what happened with COVID, both in spreading speed and the immediate consequences that could had been far worse,
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by gmuslera 4y ago
We are running past safe conditions, for civilization, human life or maybe most of (complex enough) life on Earth. We are already past some of those tipping points, even before reaching an average of 1.5C globally (specially when there are
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by gmuslera 4y ago
Fossil fuels are not just used for energy generation, and there are more players that must cooperate for some global space based energy generation solution. Current governments are helping the big oil and coal lobbies more than trying to mo
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Forgetting details of the beginning works for good and bad content.
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by gmuslera 4y ago
LOTR - By the time I finished it I already forgot details of the beginning, probably have read it 4 or 5 times over 3 decades. Hyperion series. I got it in an uneven way, first the 3rd Book (Endymion), many years later Hyperion (I still thi
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by gmuslera 4y ago
Those that promote the idea of having Digital Selves are making a typo there. The right term is Digital Slaves.
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by gmuslera 4y ago
Not just permafrost. Due to increased temperatures wetlands are emitting more methane ( https://cires.colorado.edu/news/new-analysis-wetlands-other-... ). That is another positive feedback loop, besides the permafrost on
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by gmuslera 4y ago
The opposite view is shortterminism, live for today and don't worry if there will be a future (any future, at least for mankind, not those in particular that he describes), nor take action against anything that may be a threat for our
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This is a La Niña year, and we still had record breaking heatwaves all across the north hemisphere. I'm not sure how much worse things will be during El Niño years, that are supposed to be hotter.
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If the next big things doesn't include how we generate and use energy, probably the really big next thing may be runaway climate change.
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Net-zero is a compromise by most countries that by 2050 they will somewhat "compensate" what they will keep emitting. That doesn't mean reducing the excess of GHG from the atmosphere, doesn't deal with positive reinforce
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It doesn't sequester carbon, doesn't lower the net amount of CO2 in the atmosphere if done in big scale, even if in the long run could lower the demand for extracting new oil. We are in a red queen's race, carbon neutral is n
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Would you consider funding a denialism campaing to stop action against climate change for decades a crime against humanity? Has been done anything against them? Murder is worse than abuse.
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The referred short story, Lena ( https://qntm.org/mmacevedo ) is amazing. It did a better work than did severel Black Mirror episodes (specially a section in the Christmas one) warning us about what would happen if we ever ma
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Burning fossil fuels for energy is not something that happens everywhere. There has been important investments on clean energy all around the world, there are many countries and regions that don't rely on fossil fuels for energy. If yo
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The eco-harm it causes is more related to its energy use and how it is typically generated. But there are eco-friendly ways to generate (and store) energy, not burning fossil fuels in general, or even burning at all. You can't separate
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Then it will be that we need to stop pretending that we can limit global warming to 1.8ºC, then 2.0ºC, 2.5ºC, 4ºC, that we can avoid billions to die and that we had since the start clear that the survivors will have to live in this bunkers.

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