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Even if we did develop fusion, how long would it take to switch to it and would it even be economical? A ton of places still use coal and other fossil fuels simply because they're cheap or were already built. It's hard to make assumptions about how much fusion would cost when we still don't have it. Nuclear fission's fuel is cheap (cause so little is needed), yet nuclear is still insanely expensive because building the plants is a difficult task mired in red tape and the general public is afraid of it (on that note, I'm not sure how many people even have a concept of fusion beyond perhaps what Spiderman 2 made them believe).
There's also the divide in the world. Even if the rich western countries got fusion, would everyone? The west also got covid vaccines early while much of the rest of the world had to wait. And further drawing on the covid analogy, some countries pretended there wasn't an issue, which already is going on with climate change.
I'm sorry, but 99.99% is a laughable hyperbole. A huuuuge number of people have disabilities and disabilities are extremely diverse. A simple example is colour blindness. Google says 8% of men and 0.5% of women are colour blind. Video games frequently do use colour in a way that makes colour blindness a problem and colour blind modes are an accessibility option.
Google also says 15% of the world has some degree of hearing impairment. That's admittedly biased towards seniors, but I can find numbers that say 9% of 20-39 year old Canadians have detectable hearing losses. Captions are an accessibility option.
And those are just two examples. There's tons of disabilities out there. Even when an individual disability might only be 0.1% of the population, add them all together and there's a substantial number of people who are left out by lack of one accessibility option or another. Aside from obvious disabilities, there's also just general worsening of reaction times as people age.
Yeah, I'm hearing impaired and need captions. I've never seen a major game without them for many years now, and recent games have gone above and beyond with things like captioning sounds (not just dialogue) and directional indicators.
I kinda hope someday they'll remaster the original Assassin's Creed. It's the only non-spin off in the series that I haven't played. I own a copy, but gave up on it because it has no captions and I couldn't understand what anyone was saying.
I also love how difficulty settings are much more common now. I'm never gonna buy a Dark Souls game. Fuck those. I tried the first game and learned my lesson. Thankfully, most games these days don't take such an elitist stance with difficulty. It's really common that games these days will let you change difficulty on the fly. Some games have split puzzle vs combat difficulty. I've seen some games have specific settings just for reaction timing. And also love those settings that highlight interactive objects so I don't waste so much time looking for subtle hints that something is interactive.
Quite frankly, I don't get wishing death on billionaires. Most people I see saying this are against the death penalty. So why are they seemingly for it when it's billionaires? I want billionaires to not exist anymore, but the medium through which I want that to be achieved is by taking the vast, vast majority of their money and throwing them in jail for any wrongdoing they did to gain said money.
It's often the only one where the shipping costs won't be 30% of the item's price. I've had lots of times where I was gonna buy something somewhere only to find the shipping would double the price. Etsy is the worst for this. Lots of stuff where the price tag is just barely what I can justify paying, but the shipping (and often duties) would make it comically expensive. Those things I would buy locally for sure, but finding them locally is hard.
The car is hot because we turned the AC off. And while some of us want to turn it back on, there's a bunch of people ardently insisting we should do nothing cause god will be back any minute to turn to the car back on.
Some of these I get, but I don't get the T9 thing. T9 was so bad! It took ages to type many words. Today's predictive keyboards are miles better.
Also, no software updates? Sure, every now and then there's a shitty update, but most updates are great. New features and especially bug fixes are amazing. Used to be that if something had a bug, you just had to deal with it. There's no guarantees it'll be fixed today, but many companies do fix their bugs at least eventually. The ability to iteratively develop is huge for software quality. These days, unless you're developing something that absolutely cannot fail (like a mars prober or radiation therapy machine), it's widely agreed upon that iterative design is superior to "waterfall" design of trying to plan it out all ahead of time. Part of why is so you can get feedback continuously instead of only after you've committed to months of tech debt.
Bash is so bad. I literally use it every day and have written many Bash scripts, yet I'm constantly having to search for how to do things in it because syntax is so bizarre and difficult to remember. Need to do a for loop over lines in a file? You can bet I'm googling the syntax for it. I have a general idea for what it looks like and know what to search for, but no way in hell can I write it correctly in the first few tries.
String manipulation is the absolute worst. Have fun getting to learn the unreadable syntax of most sed and awk programs (the only thing most people have memorized is find and replace). Stuff like "split a string of comma separated ints and add them up" are way harder in Bash than in Python, despite the fact I often need to do stuff like that in Bash. Well, in the terminal anyway. Sometimes I'll just use Python, but Python's weakness is executing programs and getting their output, which is nowhere near as convenient as it is in Bash.
Side note, isn't it weird that for a language where flags like
--foo barare so commonly used, there's no built in or standard tools for accessing flags?The most recent C++ thing I worked on (not that recent, like 5 years or so ago) was a fairly new project and the people working on it were really passionate about C++. But it was C++ code that ran as a Python library and was using the official Python C bindings. Not sure why we didn't use one of the unofficial C++ libraries, but the usage of that C library (and such a fundamental one) held things back. We wrote was was modern C++ (at the time), but big chunks would be a completely different style.
I hate writing code in either language. But at least what C has going for it is that it's waaaay simpler than C++. Simple can be a really good thing. Sure, all those cool features can save you time, but they can also be gotchas that will cause bugs.
Though it is a balancing act. Too simple and you'll make mistakes due to how much you have to repeat yourself or using unsafe equivalents (like using preprocessor directives to mimic features that C++ natively supports).
Regular people thinking they know more than experts + internet forums. Name a more iconic duo.
Same thing happened up here in Canada
And look at all the crime he's committed. Oops, wait, he hasn't.
By nature of successfully being considered legally insane (which is not easy to do), he doesn't have malicious intent, though. Not in the eyes of the law. By being not in the right mind, it's as if it wasn't actually him that committed the crime.
We should be making decisions based on facts, not emotions. It's easy for a horrible crime to make us feel "what the fuck, he should rot in prison". But ask yourself why the insanity defense even exists if not to allow seriously ill people to be helped.
I remember wondering this when I was first trying to self learn. It's because I needed a map (or list + struct or something) and was such a noob I didn't know what maps were. Whatever material I was learning from wasn't good enough, especially for winging things. Plus I was trying to learn C++ and maps aren't quite so built into the language as they are with a better first language like Python.
You don't need the ban to be perfect. Especially if you go after manufacturers, not users. Make it harder for people to do uncouth things. Accessibility is a huge driver of people using things. You might not be able to stop everyone, but you can stop the majority of people.
Honestly, dishwashers are amazing. I've rented a bunch of different and when I rented a place without a dishwasher, I thought it'd be no big deal. No way. Dishwasher is so worth it. I refuse to rent a place that doesn't have a dishwasher (and in-suite laundry -- shared laundry is also a pain).
No need to scrub them most of the time. Technology Connections's tip of putting some detergent outside of the dispenser seems to help a little.
I have one thing that I've found needs to be scrubbed (a cup shaped thing that will have cake on egg), but almost everything else seems to get cleaned perfectly.
To be honest, pretty much all my files that actually matter are under my Dropbox folder. Everything else is ephemeral. I mostly depend on Steam or the likes to backup game saves. Not much else I care about. I've upgraded my PC a few times (with no full backups) and never missed a single thing that got lost in the upgrade.
Absolutely, some people need in patient medical care or rehab. But not everyone. And those often aren't permanent things. Usually in patient care is only temporarily needed and a group home is a better and more scalable long term solution.
But the key is some people. Not everyone needs medical help. For one thing, there's a huge number of homeless people who aren't the stereotypical on the streets type, but rather living in shelters, friends' sofas, or their cars. Some homeless people do just need a little help and way to support themselves or a safety net.
Some people are probably also using drugs to cope with being homeless. It certainly won't be the case for every person, but I'm sure some number can absolutely turn things around after they're no longer homeless (but not before). I mean, things are pretty bleak if you don't have a safe place to live and sustain yourself. Can you really fault people for not wanting to give up drugs that make that shitty situation slightly less shitty?