cxtinac

joined 1 year ago
 

Villavicencio’s Build party, or Construye in Spanish, announced on social media that Andrea González was replacing the 59-year-old as its presidential candidate in the 20 August vote.

[–] cxtinac@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

It seems to me that the unfortunate reality is that hitting people with facts has either already succeeded (that's most of us reading this thread I would guess), or it will cause eyes to glaze over, and the cognitive dissonance to kick in to high gear; so we do need to do something different to persuade the rest to do something useful.

But, simply "making friends and telling stories" (to trivialise the article) is useless, there are very many resources on 'nonnormative non-violent' action and at least one study that confirm that it is statistically effective (dense scientific paper). Here's some resources:

[–] cxtinac@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Why the down votes on this? I had a quick look at the github repo and it looks pretty neat to me. I must be missing something...

Anyone care to enlighten me?

[–] cxtinac@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Fair enough, good point.

[–] cxtinac@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We have bifacial panels, cost was comparable, and rated at ~15% additional output. Now almost 2yrs old.

[–] cxtinac@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

“The carbon dioxide problem is the defining problem of our life, of our existence,” Varanasi says. “So clearly, we need all the help we can get.”

Indeed.

[–] cxtinac@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All $hit highly processed "foods" anyway. Better off without them.

[–] cxtinac@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Just this: echo 'Suella Braverman' | sed s/S/Cr/

Why I left there decades ago and have never gone back.

[–] cxtinac@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I remember bring so hopeful when they first landed it, and were getting it back to port. Remember Elon saying something like 'it feels like the dog that caught the bus'. Seems so long ago now!

[–] cxtinac@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I just finished The Deluge by Stephen Markley (all 900pp!)

It's basically a US-centric "narrative" of the 2030's, told from the PoV of about a dozen different characters, with the thread of climate change prominent throughout.

Really it's hard to describe it as good or bad, an enjoyable read etc. It is certainly well written, and characterisation is exceptionally good and detailed, but for me it was by turns scary, amusing, depressing, profoundly sad and wrenching in its humanity. I have no reason to doubt its accuracy based on the science.

It took me almost a month to read because I had to take breaks to get my "cognitive dissonance" recharged.

I would definitely recommend it.

It would make a good streaming series on Amazon Prime or Apple TV.

[–] cxtinac@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Good!

People run around with their hair on fire about the quality of LLMs and fake this and that, and take over the world etc, but IME ChatGPT is actually quite useful if you treat it like a search engine on steroids, and treat the "search" results with the same intelligent filtering.

[–] cxtinac@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I used to do a fair bit of Delphi (pascal) coding and really liked it. I agree with readable, type-safe and oop, I'm not so sure about modern and truly cross-platform. My .02$.

view more: next ›