Also a fantastic series! The first book had an awful lot of new words and concepts to get on board with, but once it got going I was hooked. The Essiel were a super fascinating species, I wish we had learnt more about them but what we do know only makes the mystery grander. Ahab was also amazing. Every scene with him in had me chuckling with his complete one sighted obsession.
The dogs of war series is also good. Still sticks with me. Bees is another fascinating sentience as well.
The third book is definitely slow in the middle, but overall I think it's another strong addition to the series. At first I was quite lost with the characters and setting constantly changing, but once I started seeing what was really going on I was hooked.
The partners are brilliant too. Very relevant to current questions about sentience with all the AI discussions going on at the moment.
I completely agree that more countries should be following France's lead in simultaneously building lots of renewables and nuclear plants. Unfortunately the anti nuclear crowd are very vocal in a lot of countries so everyone spends all their time arguing about whether to invest in nuclear or not instead of just getting on with it.
Yeah it going down, or not updating PRs with new changes on branches are infrequent but annoying problems. I actually preferred the review UI on bitbucket vs the GitHub one, but GitHub have finally made a nicer looking UI so I might give it a go again.
Energy needs are only going to keep rising. Just build both FFS. Wind and solar is often built by private companies on their own initiative so with the right incentives the market can just go and build them. Government's can put money towards nuclear so that we don't need to have this same stupid tired argument in 20 years that we've been having for the last 20. It's completely different industries and technical skills so it's not as if doing one detracts from the other. Just start fucking building them.
I did it a few years ago. Haven't looked back. Once you embrace and get used to using the workspaces and window tiling and you won't be able to go back to Windows clunky window management.
Salaries on the whole are far too low in the UK. It's not far off poverty wages for at least half the country. Anywhere outside of London and that ratio gets even worse. The conservative party are primarily responsible for this. They aren't the solution.
I think the default activity sort is part of the problem. Sorting by activity means everyone is just looking at and engaging with the same topics for 24 hours or so. There needs to be some "hot" category or something so that new stuff gets churned through a bit more regularly. New is too new, top is even more stale, activity causes things with high activity to stay high. It makes for very samey content.
I think it's a reasonable take. Skyrim was the last good game they put out, but I even preferred Oblivion to Skyrim - it captured my imagination more and there was more depth to the role playing - so I think it's a fair view to be cautious.
I'm hoping it's great, but with the size and scale of the procedurally generated content I'm kind of expecting it to be mostly soulless cookie cutter shooty shooty content with four times the detail but little actual role playing. It's Bethesda so we know it's going to be buggy, that's nothing new.
75% of the current Tory MPs are about to lose their seats in the next election so they don't give a fuck. The strategy they seem to be adopting to save their jobs is to swing further to the authoritarian right to try and convince boomers to vote for them.
They won't win by taking the sensible approach to policies like this, so that only leaves incentives to do as much harm as they can in the next year or so in hopes of getting the fascist votes out.
Yeah that's a big flaw with the US system. I don't think senators should exist in their current role. Blocks of representatives should serve the state's interests, land shouldn't get a vote - people should.
Limiting the size of Congress was a terrible decision. Ideally you should have a representative for something like every 50k or 100k people. That way it's still a diverse group you're representing, but it's manageable to actually be available for a decent number of them.
Nonsense. If the value output of an employee is equivalent then they should be paid the same. It's a net negative to employers if employees work in expensive offices, so if anything your argument says that in office workers should be paid less because they cost the company more.
I think extrapolating from poor US environmental regulations to say that no where in the world is it sensible to produce dairy or beef is a bit of a false equivalence. We also don't have lead pollution in our water, but saying no one should drink tap water because it has lead in it in a certain part of the US is also silly.
I'm all for alternative protein sources and sustainable agriculture, but eliminating meat consumption likely isn't the best approach. The US, Brazil, and a bunch of other countries using stupid practices like slash and burn agriculture really need to develop and enforce more sustainable practices via regulations and enforcement.
Same here. I could log in, but I couldn't switch away from the anonymous user. I wrote out a few detailed comments and found that they couldn't be sent, tracking down the thread on the browser version to paste the comment I wrote in was a terrible UX, so I stopped bothering.
They've made some incredible solid state battery leaps recently. For Japan hydrogen actually makes way more sense than a pure EV play too due to the way their grid(s) is set up and their power generation capacity. It's their home market too so they are going to prioritise that.
They also are working on alternative fuels in a big way. Japan have made some incredible leaps with hydrogen/ammonia based production and fuels, and solid state batteries are looking to be pretty game changing. The EU also included a huge budget to invest in green fuels research (likely because of automotive companies lobbying for it) so plenty is being done. Even if EVs aren't the best currently, increasing the size of the market for them will continue to create investments in serving those markets more efficiently, so we absolutely should keep investing in both.
I like the idea of proportional representation, but I feel like there's a lot of value in having a "local" representative who's job is to be your representative. In pure PR systems it's hard to know who you actually voted for, and it's much harder to figure out who's representing you specifically. You're voting purely for the party and no one representative is your point of contact.
For some reason I could no longer post replies to comments. I could log in, but it kept me stuck on anonymous for some reason. It also had pretty crap sorting ui so I just ended up seeing the same posts for days at a time, and when clicking on links it insisted on opening them in an external browser.
Compared to RiF it wasn't a smooth UX for me. Sync I can tweak and it looks and feels very nice with no issues so far. I'll probably try other options as things mature, but for now this is definitely "good enough" whereas other options weren't for me.
The only thing I'd change about sync UI wise currently is the indentation of the comment actions. When I tap on a comment to upvote I expect it to be aligned with the comment, instead it's always at full width. I keep bookmarking things by mistake.
Yeah anyone who looks at lifetime bills in America Vs Europe and thinks the American system is better because it's "not actually free in Europe" is completely delusional imo.
It's free at the point of delivery. The whole of society pays for the whole of societies health care. As you mention it can mean young people paying more than they currently cost (although let's not ignore the young people who do have serious issues and likely wouldn't have a big employer funded healthcare plan), but when you're older you're paying way less than you cost, and don't have all the anxiety about whether you can afford a preventative treatment, or if your medical bills will bankrupt you and make you homeless at age 70. That's well worth the up front minor expenditure that comes out of your taxes and isn't noticiable to me.
American salaries are higher, but they tend to spend (what looks to me at least) as a similar amount on taxes and healthcare as people in Europe do, but have much less to show for it.
Also a fantastic series! The first book had an awful lot of new words and concepts to get on board with, but once it got going I was hooked. The Essiel were a super fascinating species, I wish we had learnt more about them but what we do know only makes the mystery grander. Ahab was also amazing. Every scene with him in had me chuckling with his complete one sighted obsession.
The dogs of war series is also good. Still sticks with me. Bees is another fascinating sentience as well.