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Maybe the future generations will need to pay otherwise.

I have the feeling that the author is really onto something: the explicit boundary between symbolic intent and real-world execution.

Type systems don’t cut it always, you sometimes need something in-between imperative code - which is hard to test all edge cases - and pure type system chasing. The sweet spot maybe lies in having a DSL (in this case "building business mutations") and have good building blocks.

(and The Netherlands)

If your air purifier sucks from and dumps into the same room it will do nothing for CO2 levels. Only for dust particulates.

Is it also self-hosting as a sort of meta-quine?

Nice setup although I remember that the efficiency of air tools is very low like around 1%. That’s also why they get replaced a lot.

What if the plant grows?

Does anyone know something similar for Europeans (I live in The Netherlands)? Common units used here are all metric; for heating I've seen Natural Gas Usage (in m3) used and GigaJoules. Also almost no-one here seems to use air conditioning.

In the Amsterdam area there is ftth available. I have 500/500 for € 55.

> a slug-hunting robot powered by fermented slugs

Isn’t that called a duck?

Can you recommend a book or course for improving ones ability to write good technical documentation?

Yo mama's so fat, we had to set her column type to BLOB.

I had one here in The Netherlands on my Volvo. I also remember setting it off accidentally many times.

For a very good writeup by the organization Bellona, which is also in the video see https://bellona.org/news/nuclear-issues/radioactive-waste-an...

We're not talking about sterilizing earth but a runaway greenhouse effect. For example Venus seems not to have survived: https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2475/nasa-climate-modeling-sug...

How do you know nature will survive? Records of previous climate changes indicate the change occurred more gradually in tens of thousands of years, not within 200 years. So nature may not have time to adapt. Also the living earth may have just been lucky the last time drastic climate change occurred; it's not that we have thousands of earths to exclude survivorship bias.

Most Smalltalk IDE's use a variable width font by default.

Quick summary: Gilad Bracha introduces a new programming language called ShapeRank. It seems to be based on APL but introduces the concept of streams which are [vectors | tensors | arrays] of unbounded length.

Why will it again? I suspect survivorship bias here.

Check out our (web based) product at https://ag5.com . We’ve built it with VisualWorks Smalltalk among other tools.

Every year we ask ourselves if we should be using such an niche tool but somehow almost every new employee at our company gets hooked on smalltalk. So it now has become our secret superpower.

Something like this will do the job in PostgreSQL:

  CREATE TABLE reservations (
    item_id uuid,
    duration tsrange,
    EXCLUDE USING GIST (item_id WITH =, duration WITH &&)
  );

> Lots of people don't go to ICUs - only 10% of the deaths happened in an ICU. Do you perhaps have a citation for this?

I recognize your situation. Reading the book Factfulness nu Hans Rosling helped me somewhat.

Also, https://www.trilliontreecampaign.org/donate-trees quotes several projects with a low price of EUR 0.10 per tree.