It's really a crime the way so much useful technology gets dumped as soon as one weak part fails. I had a microwave that stopped working, most people would immediately have dumped it but out of curiosity I opened it up (yeah i know, possibly unsafe, even when unplugged) and found there was just one slightly corroded connection, everything else worked fine.
This repairability movement needs to become mainstream, although of course vested interests from this disposable age will oppose it. Of the approximately "one credit card worth" of microplastic we all ingest every week, a lot of it is (and over time will be even more) down to plastic from ditched broken crap. Not to mention the animals that will be choking on all this stuff centuries after we're all gone.
I lose sleep over climate change all the time and I don't get this. Surely there are targets more worthy of these protesters' energy.
Losing forest isn't good, of course, but Tesla is what made the current EV revolution, and its associated positive potential for CO2 reductions, possible. Before that it was in the realm of science fiction. Not that it solves all our problems, of course, far from it, but it's a huge step.
Musk has the right of it in this case IMO. I know he can be abrasive, and his Twitter/X misadventure and right-wing conspiracy leanings are saddening but, for me, his positive contributions far outweigh those issues.
But the chosen 'computer language' should be simple enough to allow reasonable real life alternative implementations. The current C syntax is usually the less worse compromise. C syntax is already too complex, and ISO should simplify it instead of provoking feature creep on a cycle of 5-10 years cycle (this is sneaky planned obsolesence).
Python syntax is supposed to be simple, but some parts seems horrible expensive (syntax integrated custom regexp).
C should be simplified: no integer promotion, no implicit cast (except for literals like rust, void*), only explicit static or dynamic casts (without that horrible c++ syntax), hard compiler constants, one loop keyword, no switch, no enum, only sized types, etc.
The migration path would use C standard version switch of compilers.
I recommend you take this offline IMMEDIATELY until you get it in a safe form - I just saw images that can only be categorized as paedophilic in nature.. not exaggerating, i'm talking 5 year old here
I remember in Tim Ferriss's "The 24 Hour Body" he had a section about Michael Phelps, who was reported to have consumed 12000 calories a day when training - the explanation one of his subjects came up with was that (a lot of) the calories were used in maintaining body temperature in the relatively cold water of the pool.
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Absolutely, it always mystifies me that the cost-effectiveness of renewables and EVs doesn't appeal even to some sense of self-interest in people who dismiss climate change.
I often bring up the fact that, with the mechanical efficiency of combustion engines being ~25% (the rest being waste heat), for every 4 gallons of gas you buy, you're basically throwing away 3. Even from just an aesthetic point of view you'd think that'd bother people but it doesn't seem to.
Entrenched views from decades of marketing by the fossil industry, I guess.
> Entrenched views from decades of marketing by the fossil industry, I guess.
Not just regular marketing but specifically cultivating particular political parties and making it a tribal loyalty test. I think of my grandfather as an example: he switched to CFLs and LED bulbs earlier in the century because as a child of the Depression he’s totally on board with saving money, but last summer he made some anti-EV comments because as a long-time Republican voter people he trusted had claimed that they were a left-wing conspiracy (this is moot for him since he can’t drive any more). I doubt they ever mentioned oil directly but the money was there behind the scenes getting to that point.
