Seems to be the rule of thumb with climate apocalypse now.
There really is no precedence justifying a conservative/reactionary stance on climate change. This won't play itself out somehow. We need proactive Interventions now. It's like with SARS2: We got the second wave, the third wave... no matter how uncomfortable, shit happened exactly like predicted by science - people unnecessarily died. Climate crisis will be so much worse.
As a German, I am really happy about the recent constitutional court ruling extending political legislation's consequences to account for future generations' freedom, and voiding the last insufficient "climate law" by the corrupt CDU/obedient SPD. I hope this level of responsibility gets implement everywhere.
I think most of the world gets this in one way or another, but one political faction in the US refuses to. And since their preferred action is "nothing", our legal system is set up to favor them. It takes an overwhelming effort to change anything at all.
So it doesn't really matter how many articles we get telling us, again, that it's even worse than we thought. They can continue to deny it indefinitely, and the whole rest of the world will be forced to either live with that or shoulder the costs themselves.
Fish is awesome, but it lacks features and shortcuts of bash/zsh, and it's sometimes hard to translate things. It's also quite buggy IME. Great out of the box experience. Tho, I wouldn't recommend it to new CLI users.
I wish the wiki had a bit more redundancy and TL;DRs. Way too often you are "required" to understand some related issue completely to follow "the arch way". Problem is, this stacks indefinitely. IMO premises should be explained shortly. I want to understand the why, without understanding linux in every detail every time.
You liking Apple's ecosystem doesn't mean they aren't anticompetitive.
And really your point is kind of... weird. It's not like you don't have to go out of your way to get third-party apps on your Android phone. And you would lose nothing, if Apple did the same, maybe even more buried in hidden settings and behind disclaimers and warnings. Reads like the typical retrospective justification of any limitation Apple features.
"A single USB-C port? Yeah, I love it! Keeps you focused and mindful about peripheral devices!"
The new Siemens offshore turbines put out up to 16MW. This has blown me away. Tho, they are scary machines and I get uncomfortable looking at them (like single balcony on a huge wall kind of uncomfortable). Aesthetically the vertical ones are much, much better IMO. Especially if they can be placed in an symmetrical pattern, not this super optimized complex mess traditional ones show.
An estimate of 78,000 turbines is truly a thought experiment, not a realistic solution. There does not exist manufacturing capacity or installation capacity to achieve this (not even remotely close). The offshore wind pipeline, globally, is orders of magnitude fewer WTGs, and procurement & installation pressure is already expected to be very tight in the coming decade.
This is made more difficult in the US due to the complexities of offshore wind installation imposed by the Jones Act.
It’s a neat concept. But it will never be realized.
I think in Germany it fails, because reporting positive tests fails. Nobody doubts, if the app was promoted and reporting working flawlessly, it would hugely contribute to managing the spread.
> What’s driving this reassessment is a baffling observation about Covid-19: Many patients have blood oxygen levels so low they should be dead. But they’re not gasping for air, their hearts aren’t racing, and their brains show no signs of blinking off from lack of oxygen.
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> An oxygen saturation rate below 93% (normal is 95% to 100%) has long been taken as a sign of potential hypoxia and impending organ damage. Before Covid-19, when the oxygen level dropped below this threshold, physicians supported their patients’ breathing with noninvasive devices such as continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP, the sleep apnea device) and bilevel positive airway pressure ventilators (BiPAP). Both work via a tube into a face mask.
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> But because in some patients with Covid-19, blood-oxygen levels fall to hardly-ever-seen levels, into the 70s and even lower, physicians are intubating them sooner. “Data from China suggested that early intubation would keep Covid-19 patients’ heart, liver, and kidneys from failing due to hypoxia,” said a veteran emergency medicine physician. “This has been the whole thing driving decisions about breathing support: Knock them out and put them on a ventilator.”
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> To be “more nuanced about who we intubate,” as she suggests, starts with questioning the significance of oxygen saturation levels. Those levels often “look beyond awful,” said Scott Weingart, a critical care physician in New York and host of the “EMCrit” podcast. But many can speak in full sentences, don’t report shortness of breath, and have no signs of the heart or other organ abnormalities that hypoxia can cause.
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> One reason Covid-19 patients can have near-hypoxic levels of blood oxygen without the usual gasping and other signs of impairment is that their blood levels of carbon dioxide, which diffuses into air in the lungs and is then exhaled, remain low. That suggests the lungs are still accomplishing the critical job of removing carbon dioxide even if they’re struggling to absorb oxygen. That, too, is reminiscent of altitude sickness more than pneumonia.
You should look it up for yourself, there are tons of articles saying that respirators were being used too quickly when things like putting the patients facedown were a better solution in most cases. This is before much was known about the virus and doctors were using the tools they knew about. Obviously they are still being used but much more sparingly than initially.
Neither extrem weather events, nor pandemics are expected to be freak events in the coming years. SARS1 was a warning shot.
I don't think pandemic monitoring and response preparation are a that expensive, even if you use them just once a decade or two.
And lots of failings highlighted by the pandemic are of a general nature concerning infrastructure debt. If health care wasn't run at max human capacity for "cost effectiveness" we may not have to talk about triage. If broadband internet access and digital literacy were a thing, WFH would run more smoothly.
Nature has its ways of managing unsustainable population growth. Basically, starvation or disease. Maybe humanity is just at that point, and there's not a lot we can do absent some really breaking changes to how we live, work, and produce what we need.
I imagine for semi-criminal actors, injecting code or "accidentally" using systen data, are still two different scenarios. I mean, state actors could also just follow you around, or place agents as friends and family... so why bother about anything?
Seems to be the rule of thumb with climate apocalypse now.
There really is no precedence justifying a conservative/reactionary stance on climate change. This won't play itself out somehow. We need proactive Interventions now. It's like with SARS2: We got the second wave, the third wave... no matter how uncomfortable, shit happened exactly like predicted by science - people unnecessarily died. Climate crisis will be so much worse.
As a German, I am really happy about the recent constitutional court ruling extending political legislation's consequences to account for future generations' freedom, and voiding the last insufficient "climate law" by the corrupt CDU/obedient SPD. I hope this level of responsibility gets implement everywhere.