side note: feyerabend is a variation of the german word „feierabend“ which consists of the two nouns „feier“ and „abend“, „party“ and „evening“ respectively. we use that word for „home time“ after the work day. i.e. „feierabend! i’ll call it a day and go home“.
panama papers was a joke. while there was some meat in there that nobody pursued — not even the laughable conglomerate of teethless establishment journalism — its sole purpose was to focus the electorate on the most populist election topic: tax evasion. so, the boundary pendle-swings within the bounds of political correctness.
guess what. all other climate changes in earth‘s history happened w/o humans. plants need at least 150ppm co2. they flourish with more. we‘re pumping co2 into green houses to make shit grow.
we are at around 400ppm and had 1200ppm in the past, no problem. now these folks run around headless wanting to lower it further. complete mindlessness.
global average temperature is a joke. the earth‘s climate consists of many, many little subclimates making it so that everywhere you need a different weather forecast that often doesn‘t even hold up.
it‘s a system nobody can actually simulate.
the other question is how do you deal with measurement errors today — and back in the day when they used quicksilver? quicksilver deviates by at least 1 degree. have the scales been correct? was the person reading the temperature looking at the thermometer correctly?
it‘s all bullcrap based on error prone data, nicely „normalized“ and „corrected“ every year because their whishful predictions don‘t work out.
climate „scientists“ are gonna tell you they cannot explain the entire climate system, yet they give you nice animations scaring the heck out of you. and that‘s all there is: scare. you‘ll happily pay ridiculous prices for ridiculous co2 certificates and that revenue goes into private pockets.
i whish everybody would scale back and throw themselves into the topic. but everybody i talk to just shuts down and elects to follow their church.
water and co2 are the most important ingredients for life. nobody is going to die because of it. don‘t let yourselves be fooled.
disclaimer: yeah, i‘m receiving millions from the oil and coal industries. BILLIONS even!
xkcd. what a great and representative resource... for the sheepish alarmist hn crowd.
it‘s the same hockey stick bull crap that gore used to make you cry.
all the models normalize the raw data into oblivion and all the models are not properly adjusted to preindustrialization fluctuation of the climate.
also, the models being used have been developed to understand current data and co2-influences — not to extrapulate predictions.
i have this weird theory in my head that tim is allocating financials internally to either
A: save money and try to let a product die (mac mini, mbp, ipod)
B: invest to signal hope that a product is in fact not dead (mac pro, also mbp)
both approaches will eventually lead to an iphone-ipad-only apple because in case A things just fade away with the occasional life sign as to not lose too many customers.
case B, on the other hand, gives people what they were yearning for for years and keeps „professionals“ and press stimulated but at a ridiculous price point so that, b/c of low sales, the product line can finally be killed.
The new Mac Pro price points don't seem ridiculous compared to comparable workstations from Dell and HP, though, as as in the past, Apple's configuration options are comparatively limited.
The (wholly understandable) frustration with Mac Pro pricing seems mostly due (1) to the continuing lack of lower-cost, non-Xeon modular systems in Apple's lineup, and (2) sporadic upgrades leading to eventually overpriced systems (e.g., the 2013 Mac Pro ca. 2019).
> Usually, the image hosts starts being like ^ while then slowly transitioning to more and more user-hostile patterns.
Hilariously, Imgur itself followed this trajectory: it started out as a super-simple image hosting site whose creator was fed up with all the nonsense that other image-hosting sites did[1]. Now, though, Imgur has become the website everyone complains about!
obviously. got my own server as well. but i‘d like to know some side-project kind of thing. those are hard to find for me - in the age of seo-ridden search results trying to sell you everything and their mother.
Somebody should set up a service that links with a GitHub account, makes you a repo, and publishes the images you upload as a Github page. This could even be easy enough to work for non-devs. That would mean absolutely no lock in, no pages, redirects, ads or other marketing campaigns. You would literally download the image, nothing else.
Nowadays, using Keybases cloud might work, as it lets you set up direct links with no intervening pages.
Would you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? We ban accounts that break the site guidelines like this, and you've done it elsewhere recently too.
I think you are saying 2 different things, in your definition of constructive feedback
1.) The feedback should be nice/not brash/not toxic.
2.) The work needs to be done by the person to give more detailed feedback.
While 2.) is a not a reasonable expectation it is pretty simple to achieve 1.), by keeping emotions out of your feedback. For example I would just go with "The webservice is slow, could you take a look? It is affecting xyz".
