Posts by jankoekepan@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #9olS4HrWAgOQ0aSsU4 by jankoekepan@mastodon.social
2019-11-08T21:23:27Z
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@Mac_CZ That is disappointing - but I guess it's better than nothing.The stipulation about overriding it with other laws is a bit weird - then what is the point?
(DIR) Post #9p9878cE82TLGDHHRg by jankoekepan@mastodon.social
2019-11-20T07:32:21Z
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@clacke I'll just take a macro assembler.It's all ones and zeros at the bottom anyway.
(DIR) Post #9pGBTYoH4yQOqB12mm by jankoekepan@mastodon.social
2019-11-23T17:12:21Z
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@clacke This is true. But any layer between me and the metal needs to justify its existence. If I'm just banging out some automation quickly, awk, bash and python are OK. If I want to get serious control without ambiguity? A chip with a clearly documented ISA and good macro assembler is a good place to start.
(DIR) Post #9qWDvJ7sEKsJNskKrA by jankoekepan@mastodon.social
2019-12-31T08:34:32Z
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So, should I spend another six months trying to get the minibrute 2s to sound glorious, or should I trade it in?Like, for an electribe 2. Or maybe a Gaia.
(DIR) Post #9qX3Jm8p6BvJzBcCB6 by jankoekepan@mastodon.social
2019-12-31T18:02:59Z
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@dee It's a slightly confused message. He acknowledges that agriculture is more productive per acre in the last half-century, to the point of reducing net land use worldwide, but doesn't consider the reasons. He also has a way of confusing the difference between ongoing expenses and sunk expenses. He handwaves by reference to the Simon award, but doesn't acknowledge that that doesn't mean that, for example, fuel supplies aren't infinite.(contd.)
(DIR) Post #9qX3LtbkJFtfip9dwm by jankoekepan@mastodon.social
2019-12-31T18:05:43Z
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@dee He comes heartbreakingly close to some important truths when recognising that you're trading one thing off for another, for example in accepting that (per yield - the unspoken element) organic farming is less efficient use of land than conventional.He's not reflecting on the fact that we had a lucky break with the gas boom which reduced fuel prices temporarily, but that they're creeping back up. (contd)
(DIR) Post #9qX3LttTFM4ibnRnZg by jankoekepan@mastodon.social
2019-12-31T18:08:49Z
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@dee In summary, he's right that we've done better than before, but only because of pressures that pushed us that way.Analogy: after WWI in the UK, agriculture mechanised very quickly. Why? Because the dole paid more than swinging a mattock in the fields, so farmers had to mechanise, or go out of business. An optimist could have cheered that fewer people were pinned to the backbreaking labour of agriculture - correctly - while not acknowledging the cost in fuel and pollution. (contd)
(DIR) Post #9qX3Lu8MLzz7LyPgmW by jankoekepan@mastodon.social
2019-12-31T18:12:59Z
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@dee Better questions could have been: how long can we run on fossil fuels? Can fusion power supplant fossil fuels for our purposes, assuming it happens? What if the Green Revolution comes to an end because of resources drying up? How much land would we need then? What do net reserves look like, and what are prices likely to look like when we draw them down?(contd)
(DIR) Post #9qX3LuPNKjb0CkNHIu by jankoekepan@mastodon.social
2019-12-31T18:15:36Z
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@dee As I've pointed out before, nobody cares if you have an infinite supply of oil based on faerie farts and goblin dreams for $1million/bbl, because at that price it might as well be on the moon.Now consider the same with, say, phosphate mine output. Now consider farming without the P in NPK.With that in mind, take a fresh look at the acreage yield rates. Fusion will solve some problems - but not all of them. Not forever. That said, by the numbers it hasn't been a bad decade.
(DIR) Post #9qypMfbZ9yJ2ljOBuK by jankoekepan@mastodon.social
2020-01-14T03:59:52Z
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@clacke Good news (or bad news):I can specifically report that this has not been a solely american problem for as long as I can remember.
(DIR) Post #9r0ztOSBKwQQzNA6j2 by jankoekepan@mastodon.social
2020-01-15T05:07:19Z
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@clacke I see it as an outgrowth of people who perceive politics as a way to protect or construct ways of life that are dear to them, combined with strong distaste for the proposals of others. Again, not an american thing in particular. America didn't really have this going on a while back either.
(DIR) Post #9sDEnDfop9WmRSN9kG by jankoekepan@mastodon.social
2020-02-20T00:26:43Z
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@djsundog What nobody has been able to answer yet: why buy a tool to do something exciting and new when installations of the previous iteration haven't even ever lived up to their promise? What would I be paying for? A delusion?I'm sure it'll be great for people living in Manhattan, in central Chicago, in San Francisco. For those of us out in the countryside? Wake me when 2G becomes widely available.
(DIR) Post #9sHav2VrB6s5lggcue by jankoekepan@mastodon.social
2020-02-22T02:53:32Z
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@pnathan She does well on the coasts. She would do well to hit the interior of the country hard.If she isn't, it looks as if she's given up on it, which is not a good look for someone hoping to unseat Trump.
(DIR) Post #9sJf7rkRIiiQHMnagC by jankoekepan@mastodon.social
2020-02-23T03:06:09Z
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@clacke @hambibleibt Looks as if that link is javascrippled.What's wrong with the Hambacher Forest thing in Bild's view?
(DIR) Post #9sJiydyTXcDkltDprs by jankoekepan@mastodon.social
2020-02-23T03:49:18Z
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@clacke @hambibleibt Oh, I knew what the fuss was about, I just wasn't clear on why the Bild was unhappy about it.But really, she's travelling the world, spreading her reputation. I don't see why she wouldn't be there.
(DIR) Post #9sJj89fP4xX5fapw3M by jankoekepan@mastodon.social
2020-02-23T01:46:48Z
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@z Explain that if they don't, the DNC will consolidate on another candidate, arrange a contested convention and ditch Bernie like they did last time.
(DIR) Post #9sJj8HSE7pkJp2jWcq by jankoekepan@mastodon.social
2020-02-23T03:14:30Z
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@z Honestly though, it looks as if the dems are lining up for a brokered convention. Bernie will get kicked out in favourite of a moderate who's actually a party member. Tough call who, but my money's on Klobuchar over Buttigieg, on the grounds of experience. Bloomberg's entry is just raising the odds of no single majority candidate out of the gate. A sort of democratic Perot-equivalent, except that Perot stood as an independent.
(DIR) Post #9sJjk9QePbcrw63Q9Y by jankoekepan@mastodon.social
2020-02-23T03:57:59Z
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@clacke @hambibleibt I'm sure the loyal inhabitants of Kekistan are very excited about it.I'm somewhere between unsurprised and unimpressed, with a fair dose of uncaring. It's consistent with her earlier public conduct anyway.
(DIR) Post #9sqhRVot6MH5xlTuBE by jankoekepan@mastodon.social
2020-03-10T01:37:30Z
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@clacke It is a matter of historical inevitability that the procrastinariat will come together and overthrow the powers of structural impatience, bringing about a revolutionary reconstruction of slackitalism.
(DIR) Post #9sqix79mQw1mh0t1u4 by jankoekepan@mastodon.social
2020-03-10T01:54:07Z
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@clacke Ahh, my professors would be so proud ... I have been preparing for this moment all my life ... I'd like to thank the academy, and my parents, and ...Seriously, you grow up hearing that sort of rhetoric, and it just spills out automatically.