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How does this compare to rotating a regular monitor 90 degrees?

Gangi þér vel!

Well hardly surprising that a large manufacturer of "commuting devices" is against remote work.

Yes thank you for this clarification. Apologies for my being imprecise. Most of the reading I have done has been related to plants and the use of pesticides to intervene.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1149643 https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111... https://naisma.org/naisma-resources/government-relations/the... https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-potential-conserva...

I 100% agree with you. You absolutely "can't resolve this kind of debate by simply saying "foreign bad" or "foreign good"

Imagine we discover an alien planet with no predators. Should we allow ecological merging, with reasonable expectation of large biodiversity loss. The problem is, the alien planet doesn't have a pesticides industry propped up around saying "foreign bad"

But I have no idea, and am not qualified to answer that hypothetical.

"Someone in the field"?

I'm sorry but an anonymous comment on good reads, should not hold the same weight as a book that references academic papers.

In any case it isn't as black and white as "Invasive = Bad" one doesn't need to look far for that evidence.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-potential-conserva...

https://spartina.org/project_documents/revegetation_program/...

I've referenced articles and books in my other comments, and you're calling it myth. Care to cite something that supports what you claim?

The book referenced actually provides numbers on this. Invasives out competing local species is a rarity according to the studies referenced in the book.

Here is another perspective too: https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/22796160/invasive-species-...

Kind of, the idea is that no species would be invasive if we didn't create the ideal place for it to thrive. Invasives mostly thrive in disturbed areas and don't actually displace natives. The book I referenced goes into way more details, but in most cases invasives actually help repair damaged ecosystems. They are often pioneer species in the disturbed areas.

The bugs are not at fault here. The people who created the environment for them to thrive are.

Edit After Downvote: I get it - They were a major nuisance to you. Lanternflys weren't a one time thing. This has happened before - remember stink bugs? This has happened many times and it is going to get worse. Please don't shoot the messenger.

When I see this article and the state announcement, I think of the Robert Pirsig Quote: "If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves in the succeeding government. There’s so much talk about the system. And so little understanding."

As someone originally from Pennsylvania - PA seems especially excited about invasive species. The spotted lantern fly was a big nuisance. Everyone talked about it. The spotted lantern fly and even this pear tree are not the enemy.

Invasive species thrive in ecosystems that we create. You don't want spotted lantern flys? You don't want thorny pear trees? Maybe ask who is defining the term "invasive species" and why they are defining them as such? Anyone thinking about cutting down your pear tree. Read "Beyond the War on Invasive Species: A Permaculture Approach to Ecosystem Restoration" [0]

0: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/25782048-beyond-the-w...

Does this have anything to do with GraphQL or developers just not understanding security and role/authorization?

Totally. But not in software.

Take a look at Code Complete: Chapter 25. Does a way better job explaining this than I could in a comment box.

P.S. Thoughts: This might be the case for software engineering, but might break down in other domains and should be applied carefully elsewhere.

For example recycling plastic is your responsibility - but what if your city burns plastic recycling? What do you do? Do you continue to buy plastic blame the companies for using it and the city for burning it? Why should the individual be penalized?

This seems more gray to me, like yeah okay I'm going to reduce the amount of plastic I buy in that case. And there are alternative like paper. In programming it feels more black and white. There is map and it serves a single purpose.

They are 100% doing it. A lot of really bright people work on the engines/compilers.

The problem is telling individuals to focus on optimization.

Let's use javascript as an example. Say you need to transform an array. You can use `.map` or a `for` loop in javascript.

You see a lot of articles like this https://dev.to/henryjw/array-map-much-slower-than-for-loop-5... that say a `for` loop is faster. And sometimes it's true.

By the logic of the original article, you should hyperoptimize your code. The problem is. If everyone writes `for` loops instead of using `map`. When map eventually becomes more efficient there's all that garbage code out there that has to be refactored.

Ignoring the problems associated with benchmarking - this for example claims map now being faster than for loops. https://leanylabs.com/blog/js-forEach-map-reduce-vs-for-for_...

It comes down to return on effort. We only have so much effort to put at solving this problem. You maximize your return on effort by having a clear separation of responsibility. In this case the individual's responsibility is to write code to the latest spec. The institution's responsibility is to make the code written as efficient as possible.

A single website saving .000000001 ppm of carbon (exaggerating) is just never going to be worth the effort. But a compiler improvement on all websites running javascript. Now that's totally worth it.

Further reading behind this logic: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3828902-thinking-in-syst...

https://stackify.com/premature-optimization-evil/

Code Complete (chapter 25.2) https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/code-complete-second/07...

I'm sure this is really well intended, but the individualization of environmental guilt is a major problem. [0]

Where I agree with the article is to use tools like lighthouse and write code that uses the language properly. It is absolutely individual's responsibility to do this. The responsibility of making code efficient (dare I say "green") lies in those writing the browser engines/compilers.

0: https://medium.com/@mitpress/individualization-plant-a-tree-...

You don't need to go that far to see fragile splendor. The fragile splendor is here all around us. Svalbard is the canary in the coal mine.

Really great read. Long but worth it.

This is a good critique of low-code/no-code in general. The root problem I see of "Unfortunately, when we frame the problem space that way, we have allowed our tools to think for us." is that in reality there are just not enough qualified software engineers out there.

Suzuki Jimny or Toyota Tacoma/Hilux Work Trim

Yes report the transactions real-time and make them available via publicly accessible api.

The US and Britain aren't saying no to a clean environment - BP, Chevron, and Exxon are.

Doesn't this further centralize something that's supposed to be decentralized?

You answered my question, thank you! I meant irresponsibly. I assumed these are super safe considering a ton of farms have access wells to hot water in Iceland.

I don't know why this isn't done more in the US. At least with thermal water, my understanding is that you don't need huge temperature differentials and this is cost effective on a pretty small scale.

Is there a way to access the heat potential irresponsibly?

Clarification: I mean of course if you create a volcano in the wrong spot that would be bad, but like if you're drilling for thermally heated ground water can stuff go wrong?

“ When it comes to climate change everyone here knows how to fix it: stop eating cows, use solar batteries, build you own windmill, grow your own food, jog... and other simple things.”

I couldn’t disagree more. This is one of the biggest failures of the modern environmental movement. The individualization of environmental guilt. See https://medium.com/@mitpress/individualization-plant-a-tree-...

We need systemic change. Not pressing the eco button on your solar powered dishwasher.

Great timing before the Apple event today.

What does transatlantic have anything to do with it? A flight from NYC to SFO is bad too.

You should reach out to this permaculture community! When I was working with them there was talk about opensourcing some of the work they did to help other similar communities.

https://twitter.com/PhillyYardens

WE didn't make everything else illegal. Companies did. And they get to sell alot of weed killer because of it.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25782048-beyond-the-war-...