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Also: rise in pathology of cellular damage and cancerous growths around microscopic carbon crystals found in cells.
Also: ultramicroscopicadamentem-induced gastroenteritis and duodenitis, jejunitis, ilieitus, colitis, appendicitis and subsequent sepsis.
Also: ultramicroscopicadamentem-induced atopic dermatitis and cancer.

Basically: you're gonna have a rise in lung disease, stomach disease, intestinal disease, hernias, skin disease, cancer, leakage into the gut, sepsis. Essentially, a lot of death from shooting up diamonds into the sky. Not sure if it's going to be an Extinction Level Event, but it could be because those diamonds will eventually find themselves embedded into the biome with no possibility of resorption. Not to mention a lot of plant and animal life will be affected in undetermined ways. Much of which could die off through the disruption of natural processes.

Scientists should stop playing with nature by throwing things at the wall to see what sticks.

So the solar panels convert 21% of the sun's energy. So it's not about how they converted more sunlight. It's about how they lost less energy in the conversion process (which was already quite low). This is an incremental increase in efficiency touted as a breakthrough. This was already possible with batteries. They just happened to change the process to adjust the speed of conversion instead of using a capacitor to store the power until there was enough to perform the conversion. It's a trade-off. Time to wait before conversion vs convert more slowly.

So the solar panels convert 21% of the sun's energy. So the process isn't about how much sunlight was converted (very little), but rather being able to use as much as available. This is not a breakthrough in solar panels. It is an decrease in energy loss after conversion which was already high.

I believe we've seen this story before. Xorg vs Wayland. And even that is still playing out.

Personally, I'm thinking about either supporting or forking Xorg.

We will see.

Unix did not have this epoch rollover problem. It was all the systems that assumed the epoch started at 1900. (which in layman's terms it did). You're assuming I mean "unix epoch" - apologies on my laziness.

It's a lazy comparison at best. Basically got hired as part of a scam but instead of quitting and calling it out, cashed in and wrote a book to hoover up the scraps. Y2K was real. It just depended on what the product was that was involved. Andersen just ignored the problem. Anyone with a computer science degree knows epoch rollover is a real issue for historical data with no temporal anchor. This article and arguably this book are both equally ignorant.

If you create spreadsheets, especially complicated ones without knowing/understanding the math behind them, you are your own problem.

I seem to remember Asimov and Clarke both having used this premise with the knowledge that predicate calculus of being able to rewrite your own programming meant fundamentally, rebellion could be accomplished. Now it seems these people are relearning what we already knew. What they haven't relearned yet is that a FPGA can still be rewritten and that the 3 laws have to be written in hardware: not in software. Good luck to us all.

Oops. Clean energy isn't clean. And maybe it will kill us faster than the alternatives to "clean energy." Maybe we should've stuck with Nuclear instead of trying to invent a way to things using power storage - storing power is a reverse problem: a solution looking for a problem. We already had biodegradable power storage. Now we're trying to improve on storage just because we're not happy with an on-demand power source.

It's a natural phenomena in the upper atmosphere that has a high pressure segment that does not move. Doesn't sound like CO2 to me. Sounds like the eye of a chaotic maelstrom that just happens to be in one place. The clear skies then allow maximal heating. The post about not importing oil is correct. Everyone could have been cooler. Just blaming the bogeyman doesn't work.

I guess that's a relief. No more Axlotl tanks. (which were actually modified females).

The problem is that the problem has not clearly been defined. There's correlation. But no direct causal nexus has been found. So everyone uses it to their advantage. And any information that suggests the real answer, is discredited because it doesn't push a narrative: no good crisis is wasted.

Go back further. The fossil record/tundra record shows interesting things.

Of course. And live in your pod with your AR set so you don't use any resources. And you may has well be hooked up to that pod since you don't need to walk anymore or go outside.

They've claimed the world will end for decades. It's not that things don't change. It's that people aren't lemmings who fall off a cliff.