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Good? Giving the tiniest little shit about nature and not wiping out the entire biosphere to build super low density housing over everything is the least we can do.

Not good. There is a spectrum of choices between not having enough reservoirs and power generation on one end and paving over the entire country on the other. I would trade having bats confused at night in order to have more housing within 2 miles of a major city.

Why not have more housing in the city? There's lots of space in the UK town I come from that is very poorly utilized. As for power generation, solar panels can coexist with quite a lot of wildlife.

I might agree, if high-density housing in England wasn't coupled with laughable rights for the owners of flats/apartments. The current leasehold system needs to be replaced, but I doubt anything will change even with the new government.

The way you've phrased this comes across as a counterpoint, but both of these things can be true and need fixing. It doesn't have to be either / or.

> In 2010, renewables generated just 7% of the UK’s power. By the first half of 2024, this had grown to more than 50%

<In 2010, renewables generated just 7% of the UK’s power. By the first half of 2024, this had grown to more than 50%>

Electricity not power just to be pedantic. Most power is still from directly burning gas and oil.


Burying plastics results in leaching phthalates, estrogen mimics and assorted other crap into the ground, and groundwater, in the near term, not the far future.


How much of the decline in testosterone among young men may be attributed to the plastics?

https://www.urologytimes.com/view/testosterone-levels-show-s...


It's strange that the article makes no mention of the absolute abundance of pornography/porn addiction? I thought it was a fairly well established link.


It's not well established at all. I don't think a single study has conclusively and causatively linked pornography use to lower testosterone levels.


Nobody is telling you to bury them in your backyard, modern landfills take all this and much more into account.

Now of course an average 3rd world country doesn't have any of that, but if you would actually travel there you would see plastics everywhere, in the sea, on random land, in the mountains, in the rivers etc. While still leaking what you wrote but way more directly.


Not saying it is perfect, but modern landfills are sealed on the bottom.

> Modern landfills are completely sealed to reduce contamination of the nearby groundwater. First, the ground is lined with clay. A thin layer of flexible plastic is placed on top of the clay layer. That allows the collection of leachate, the liquid that passes through the landfill and may draw out toxins from the trash. The leachate is collected though a drainage system that passes this contaminated water through pipes to a pool where it can be treated to remove the toxins before being released back into the environment.

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/landfills/...


Using less of it and standardazing on what kinds of plastic can be used + burn the waste seems the only reasonable solution to me.


Another vote for self-hosted [miniflux](https://miniflux.app/) - and I use [focusreader](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=allen.town.foc...) on my phone to read from it.


Total Compensation


If only...

Every time I have to do any major work with CSVs, I re-lament this exact thing.

I think the only way this could ever become more widespread is to fix all the open source tooling so that it's eventually just supported everywhere - then keep evangelizing for... ~30 yrs.

Probably you should also register a new mime type and extension and make it a new thing - don't overload .CSV any further - but make the same tooling support it.


If time could be turned back, a good idea would be to make CSV mean CSV. Not semicolon separated values, not any other thing separated values, but only comma separated values. To not overload the name in the first place.


And I would rename the format to SSV and make semicolon the separator. Comma is a terrible choice, because it's used as the decimal separator in many countries around the world.


Yep. Also limit data that can be stored there. Absolutely no decimal values. Absolutely no text.

Ban those things and it starts to become reasonable enough for general use.


GitLabs pricing is hilariously, insanely, astronomically high. I'd love to move our org off BitBucket the GitLab, but it's just absolutely not possible, given their pricing.


FrameWork looks like they only go up to 64GB: https://frame.work/gb/en/products/laptop16-diy-amd-7040?tab=...


It would probably be much cheaper to buy a Framework without RAM and then install 96GB yourself anyway, even if they did offer a 96GB option. It looks like they charge roughly the same amount for 2x32GB as it costs to buy 2x48GB DDR5 SODIMMs at retail.


There are working 96 GB kits. Check the Framework forum and also reddit.


the CPU in framework 16" will happily run 2x48GB SODIMMs.


This also works on Windows, fwiw.


Yes, obviously, but timing is everything.


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