We face so many issues because when it comes down to it, humans spend most of their time in very cold, disconnected working environments that are designed to break your soul and turn you into a drone.
I think what should be remembered is that swdev is a high demand job, and you should have high demands and standards of yourself and your needs.
The author admits to hiding away her flaws as to not show weakness, this is the wrong approach. Admit your weaknesses, be honest with yourself, your colleagues and your boss. If they don't understand or reciprocate, tell them to go get fucked.
I think that archlinuxs advantage is that it's minimalistic, the philosophy is simple, you know what is running on your computer and generally why.
Tinkering with arch itself isn't that time consuming because the package management is so incredibly good, along with the AUR and wiki. These are invaluable.
I really do think the difficulty is overhyped though, it's really not hard at all.
God, as an Australian it irritates me so much to continually see Australia screw itself over for short-term gain, rather than long term vision, time and time again.
This mentality shows that Australia is not ready to be leaders, or competitive in many of tomorrow's industries.
Not sure why this is downvoted. He is absolutely right.
Whilst rich people on hacker News get to eat quality
produce, most people aren't as fortunate.
They are exposed to higher levels of pollution. I mean, the west basically dumps their trash in South East Asia now with little care or regard. Do you think this doesn't pollute the land, animals and people?
If you want to buy a drink, bring a reusable bottle to the shop and fill it up from a dispensery or use glass bottles.
The culture simply needs to change - its a habitual problem, not a technical one. We have the technology.
I think Germany has their Pfand (plastic/glass deposit) system working really really well, although admittingly the plastic gets incinerated.
I don't know why more countries don't adopt these methods or similar.
Homeless people pick them up, and get 25c for it, then the bottles are washed and reused. Fantastic.
We should invest in optimising these ideas so they become more ubiquitous and cheaper than plastic.
From Germany here: I disagree! The 'Single use plastic bottle deposit' you probably refer to doesn't really have the effect it was supposed to have.
There are three types of bottle deposits: glass bottles 8c 29.2% market share (ms) (probably almost entirely beer), reusable plastic bottles 25c 13.6% ms, single use plastic bottles 52.2% ms and aluminum cans 25c 3.2% ms (2016, numbers are up now). [0]
The single use plastic bottle deposit was introduced as a measure to REDUCE market share and support use of glass, but instead people got used to paying more for their water bottles and returning them or "donating" them to poor retired or just plain poor people and might even feel good about themselfes which is not a great incentive. Reusable plastic bottles got more and more replaced by single use and glass bottles water vanished almost entirely. Every grocery store in Germany had to install huge sorting-and-compressing machines for all the different bottle deposits. For some years (long before plastics deposit I believe) a deposit for aluminum soda cans worked quite well but I get the impression products are increasing (I guess bcs people got used to pay the extra 25c.).
This all boils down to one solution in my opinion: Regulation.
The 'free' market is not willing and/or able to factor in environmental variables but is forced to ramp down prices no matter what to nuture their shareholders and growth.
There is literally no need to buy bottled water. There is probably not a single town in Germany where you are not able to drink tap water. So yes, a change in mentality would be necessary. But banning single use plastic bottles (as a start) instead of "taxing them properly" wouldn't change our lifestyle one bit.
This troubles me because I am pretty certain we all have to change our lifestyles drastically if we want to somehow limit the environmental impact.
I see the same. Shocks me how many ads there are. On the other hand, the ads tend to be really good. I have to close the app to prevent myself pissing away money on stuff.
It really depends on his theology. I'd agree if he succumbed to a prescribed framework of dogma. But for those freethinkers seeking inner truth there are no shortcuts.
I think it's invalid to say he casts it in the "too hard basket" because he chooses theology. On the contrary, I think you cast it into the too hard basket because you're so steadfast on believing in the rational.
It is after all the unifying question all Humans have pondered for possibly hundreds of thousands of years now. We still have no answers, maybe that's why we have religion? In any case, humans can't answer this fundamental question no matter how good our science has gotten so in my book, he's okay to give up on that. Life is too short. If theism works for someone, especially after such a great effort to find answers, he sounds like an ideal human to me. Probably a really level headed individual, but I'm just guessing like everybody else.
On the contrary, it’s a problem that I would like to work on but lack the bandwidth to do so at the time being. Just because I don’t have the bandwidth to work on it doesn’t make it unsolvable.
Theology lacks proof. I’m happy to believe in God if there’s proof. It should be easy to prove the existence of a singular being with unlimited power, no?
We face so many issues because when it comes down to it, humans spend most of their time in very cold, disconnected working environments that are designed to break your soul and turn you into a drone.
I think what should be remembered is that swdev is a high demand job, and you should have high demands and standards of yourself and your needs.
The author admits to hiding away her flaws as to not show weakness, this is the wrong approach. Admit your weaknesses, be honest with yourself, your colleagues and your boss. If they don't understand or reciprocate, tell them to go get fucked.
Become a freelancer or consultant.