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jabjoe
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Optimistic/feel good left wing book recommendations

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  • Anything by Becky Chambers.

    Cory Doctorow's Walkaway

    Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future

    The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

    • ‘I am starting to panic about my child’s future’: climate scientists wary of starting families

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    • 77% of Top Climate Scientists Think 2.5°C of Warming Is Coming—And They're Horrified

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  • What we need is a Ministry for the Future without a killer heatwave killing millions.

    • 77% of Top Climate Scientists Think 2.5°C of Warming Is Coming—And They're Horrified

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  • What worries me is that combined with anti immigrants sentiment. I fear beaches of dead as people are prevented from fleeing. I read a SciFi with that and it chilled me as I can see it happening.

    • Russia threatens Britain with retaliation if involvement in Ukraine war deepens

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  • They believed their own misinformation that it was all western lies. Bet that misinformation is still being pushed.

    • UK's O2 network is blocking duckdns.org domains

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  • Just a follow up to this.

    So I never ended up contacting O2 to say "please stop this", I just used Wireguard to home and ignored it. Until the local Morrison's wifi started doing the same thing but worse and I couldn't event Wireguard round it.

    So I finally just bought a domain and setup my Apache to redirect the old duckdns to the new domain.

    So far this all seams to be working great.

    • Yes, it is all Unix

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  • That is a low bar for duckdom.

    • Yes, it is all Unix

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  • More like file descriptor. File path is like address system, but it's not how you get all file descriptors. For example: sockets (there is bash's fake /dev/{tcp,udp}), epoll, timer, event, inotify.

    In UNIX systems event systems have a list of filedescriptors with a callback for each. You could have your event loop an epoll fd itself and nest it in another.

    • Yes, it is all Unix

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  • That is Windows NT personalities. It was originally able to run OS/2 stuff too. Doesn't really make NT a UNIX. Note: They used this stuff for WSLv1, but it was slow and had same issue as WINE. Swapping underlying implementation brings out bugs of the software above.

    • Canadian photographer Francois Brunell searches and photographs similar people, but who are not related to each other. He has currently done about 200 couple portraits.

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  • News flash, none of us are as unique as we think.

    • #justgradschoolthings

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  • You can do it, but you also need to test it all.

    • A wild orangutan used a medicinal plant to treat a wound, scientists say

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  • Enjoy! 😃

    • A wild orangutan used a medicinal plant to treat a wound, scientists say

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  • shudder

    • A wild orangutan used a medicinal plant to treat a wound, scientists say

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  • I'm reading "Lords of uncreation". I recommend Dogs of War too. Rex is a good boy.

    • #justgradschoolthings

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  • Not just ADHD folk. I've had programmers like that, swinging from "I can't do it" to "I don't need to test that".

    • A wild orangutan used a medicinal plant to treat a wound, scientists say

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  • Read Children of Time first, but the whole series is good. Basically anything he writes is good.

    • A wild orangutan used a medicinal plant to treat a wound, scientists say

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  • You may want to read Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Ruin (after Children of Time). If you haven't already...

    • Lawsuits test Tesla claim that drivers are solely responsible for crashes

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  • Even modern cars don't all have self drive and collision avoidance. I've driven a few new cars recently and none do more than flash messages and beep when they forsee a crash.

    • Lawsuits test Tesla claim that drivers are solely responsible for crashes

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  • What? No, I want people to be responsible because that is what works.

    Search "car slams breaks in false positive collision detection". There are loads of stories. Mine beeps sometimes, but thankfully doesn't apply the breaks itself.

    • Lawsuits test Tesla claim that drivers are solely responsible for crashes

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  • Even those are riddled with proprietary devices. Cars have had a CAN bus network of devices for decades. These closed smarts alone have caused things like the emissions scandal. These alone interfere with right to repair and competition. What is new is the spying and direct control, but the problem is older than that.