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by roryisok 8y ago
I agree there's a lot of waste but with the population expected to go up by 3-4 billion in the next decade that urban sprawl is not going to stop, and we're going to need 2x more land for food, especially as we're overfishing
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by roryisok 8y ago
> Even the absolute worst case scenarios for climate change are not species ending events with current technology. And we have many decades ahead of us yet where can solve the problem with future technology yielding a negligible overall
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by roryisok 8y ago
I read some encouraging recent reports that a Sahara PV project would not only generate about 5 times the energy requirements of civilization, it would also increase rainfall in the Sahara and probably lead to greening. Meanwhile offshore w
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by roryisok 8y ago
Reduced emissions are not enough. Even if we got to zero emissions worldwide in the next 20 years (impossible), the excess carbon in the atmosphere already needs to be dealt with. There are greenhouses gases coming from the permafrost. The
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by roryisok 8y ago
I did not know that and I'm glad to hear it
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by roryisok 8y ago
The only country actively ignoring this is the US, as the only (only!) country in the world not signed up to the Paris climate accords. However, that's not to say the citizens, industries and local governments are aligned with this ins
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by roryisok 8y ago
Seveneves is a great read!
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by roryisok 8y ago
I think about this every day. It's terrifying. Especially in that it will get hotter going forward. We can only hope that visualisations like this and increasing heatwaves and wildfires will stir world governments into faster, more dra
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by roryisok 8y ago
I don't know what to tell you. I love my kids, and i would absolutely make the same decision over again, but a lot of what you said rings true. Kids are a burden. Of course they are. They're not self sufficient. You literally have
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by roryisok 8y ago
As a father of 6 month old twins and two toddlers it's nice to see there's light at the end of the tunnel :)
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by roryisok 8y ago
Try four :*( I sleep five hours a night and get up at 4 to start work so that i can spend the day with my family and not feel guilty about spending a measly one hour hobby coding or writing (and it kills me to choose) For the record, love m
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by roryisok 8y ago
Same, thought it was a Windows phone issue but i guess not
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by roryisok 8y ago
I've definitely felt like I'm in the stages of grief. This feels accurate. We're collectively facing our own mortality, in the way that everyone who lives long enough must eventually. And just like that personal mortality, th
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by roryisok 8y ago
This is how I cope. 1. Do what you can. Reduce, reuse, recycle. Vote green with your wallet and your ballot card. Eat less meat. Drive less. Work remote. Buy second hand. Grow your own veg. Buy carbon offsets. Plant trees. 2. Accept that th
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by roryisok 8y ago
Loving the LRU cache IRL posts :) I'm constantly tweaking my laundry sort algorithms to try and find the fastest. My latest is to have bins for the two youngest, two oldest and myself and my wife. I grab and chuck dry clothes into each
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by roryisok 8y ago
Is carbon offset by afforestation effective though? I had read that we can't counter the emissions by planting trees alone. I'm definitely interested in doing this and covering more than double of my footprint
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by roryisok 8y ago
I'm learning a lot today
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by roryisok 8y ago
Nanowrimo, I love trying to write 50k words in 30 days every November. I usually fail but there's great camaraderie and a year long build up
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by roryisok 8y ago
I did not know that. Makes perfect sense now. Maybe not the knots though :)
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by roryisok 8y ago
Last car I owned had all the trip counters in Mph and the fuel efficiency in Mpg. New one is km and lpk, I'm totally lost
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by roryisok 8y ago
Only if they claim to offer a free service but then attempt to charge for it. Which they don't. Feedly is fully usable for free
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by roryisok 8y ago
I live just next door in Ireland. We're officially metric but people still talk in miles, feet (and yards), acres, stone, pints, etc
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by roryisok 8y ago
Took me a while to figure that out until I remembered that our zeroes are not the same. -40 is the same in both though, as far as I recall
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by roryisok 8y ago
The UK still uses imperial for road signs I think
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by roryisok 8y ago
The one I always find odd is that we all still use knots and nautical miles at sea. And nautical miles are not the same as imperial miles. And aircraft speeds are still measured in knots sometimes.
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by roryisok 8y ago
Interesting! I might try that
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by roryisok 8y ago
Nope. I'd rather use windows than worry that I'll break my OS by installing a third party app
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by roryisok 8y ago
I think I've met you at a conference. Were you the guy blinking U-S-E-V-I-M on Morse code during conversations
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by roryisok 8y ago
It really is amazing. To be able to mouseover a line of code and see who committed it, link to the commit and see what it was before... It saves so much time
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by roryisok 8y ago
I have similar ones set up. 'Pull' and 'push'. Though some days I'm tempted to map all the old SCUMM keyboard shortcuts here. 'y' (yank) = git pull 's' (shove) = git push 'g' (give) = g

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