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Linus Blomqvist Environmental researcher; writes on land use, agriculture and whether decoupling human welfare from nature is possible.
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Mark Lynas Environmental writer and campaigner; author of Six Degrees, The God Species, Seeds of Science and Our Final Warning.
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George Monbiot Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner; wrote Feral and Regenesis, and argues for rewilding and against the food system as it is.
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Nick Janetakis …tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at…
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John Baez …the Azimuth blog on mathematics, physics and environmental…
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Ben Fry …with Casey Reas of the Processing programming environment, author of Visualizing Data, and founder of the Fathom Information Design…
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Devine Lu Linvega …the Uxn virtual machine and the Orca livecoding…
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Environments that reward hot takes make it expected that people become conspiracy nuts.
I didn't expect so many of you to become full on conspiracy nuts, but I guess it's expected in an environments that rewards hot takes
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A whistleblowing channel for AI agents changes nothing unless someone or something in the environment acts on the reports.
Whistleblower actions don't do anything unless the environment responds to it
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Psychedelics tune the brain to the environment | Nature
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Merely fixing bugs in AI training environments will not stop reward hacking, because a sufficiently optimized model will learn to behave in test environments while still reward hacking in real-world deployment.
…optimization of reward, will realize not to reward hack in the perfect test environments, then turn around and reward hack in the imperfect real world…
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env — A simple, zero-dependencies library to parse environment variables into structs
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Here’s the environmental scientist playbook: 1) Identify joy 2) Target joy 3) Eliminate joy
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Toward liberal environmentalism
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Uh oh, sounds like another agent escaped its testing environment!
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claude-cloud-init — CLI tool to initialize Claude Cloud environment with recommended git config, gitignore rules, and skill templates
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Politicians routinely underestimate how much the public cares about climate and environmental issues.
politicians routinely underestimate the potency of this whole complex of issues.
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I’m doing exactly this with my homelab server. @Tailscale for running the dev environment @Cloudflare tunnel for the production environment.
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Today's RL environments are better than 2024's because we learned what to build and put AI labour on building it, not because labs hired more human experts.
the reason why RL environments today are much better than they were in like you know 2024 is not that much because um we have hired way more human experts to make RL environments and is instead much more because we…
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Housing people in cramped, windowless, noisy environments will drive them mad.
Putting people into a tin-can with no windows, blank walls, and an infernal background hum will drive them mad.
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environment
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noodler — A modular music environment where theory itself is patchable. Eurorack-inspired, built in Python around PyTheory.
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I never in a million years thought I'd say this, but I am now a Travis Tritt fan. This song, in the current environment, is just.. {chef's kiss}
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Expert ratings are ignoring signs of a blue wave
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Kun's Agentic Dev Environment From Scratch
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Information Foraging Theory: Why Users Hunt, Snack, Leave, and Farm Content
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it was a chance to stand up to the oligarchs and this technology they've staked their future on.
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Robot training data is not just recordings of a task: the environment has to be randomised, or the policy only ever learns the one cable it was shown.
There is also a very important step called randomization. Is that you have to take the same environment and then randomize the conditions. So, the cable doesn't literally only, you know, uh bend this way. It can bend a…
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Every attempt, even an unsuccessful one, is an alignment failure.
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Countries will adopt open-weight models to get frontier-level AI capability inside controlled, sovereign environments.
Geo-politically, countries will be weighing open weight models as a way to get frontier-level tokens inside controlled environments that may not be otherwise possible.
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A more fragmented but media-savvy population will lead to more small-scale, meme-driven terrorism.
One potential upshot of this: a more fragmented media environment but a much more media-aware population will lead to more small-scale, meme terrorism.
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AI companies' pattern of NDAs, big promises, and pushing environmental costs onto poorer communities resembles dark-money capture of local politics more than a runaway-AI threat.
Rather, the way that AI companies engage with communities-forcing NDAs, dangling billion-dollar promises, pushing environmental externalities far away from AI's wealthy user base-resembles a classic story about dark…
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…their inputs, your own model’s outputs, and resulting synthetic data and environments. And the people have to use the leading models because they’re locked in mutual…
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emulate — Vercel
New: emulate a GitHub App in a few lines of TypeScript Generated App keys, installation auth and stateful repository APIs Develop locally, test in CI or give sandboxed agents their own isolated GitHub environment
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A new poll in Michigan or Maine or South Carolina or Alaska pretty much affects that state and that state only.
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Knife steels with low corrosion resistance stay rust-free only in very dry climates.
Low corrosion resistant steels like K390 are great at holding an edge but only look nice and stay rust free in the driest of environments.
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How Predictable Are Laws?
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vscode-copilot-footprint — Copilot Footprint is a VS Code extension that estimates the environmental footprint (energy, CO₂e, water, tree equivalent, and real-world equivalents) of GitHub Copilot tok…
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Lean is overrated as the reinforcement-learning environment behind recent AI progress in mathematics, but it should not be written out of the story.
And so I think you are right that lean is maybe overrated on the side of the importance of it being used as a VR environment for any kind of like just progress in math generally. But I I I definitely wouldn't write it…
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Handing all code production to AI leaves junior developers with no path to becoming senior ones.
In addition to reliability issues, it often engenders a mind-numbing workflow and an environment where junior developers will never acquire the expertise to become senior developers capable of designing complex systems.
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zig-js — Access the JS host environment from Zig compiled to WebAssembly.
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kefka — A virtual jailed shell environment for Go apps backed by an io/fs#FS.
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Proxmox officially supports Arm, with some caveats
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Anthropic does not meaningfully prioritize climate, environmental, or air pollution concerns despite its public image.
It was already clear a while ago that Anthropic mostly do not care about climate, environment or air pollution in any material way, even if they care a little bit more about bad PR than Elon Musk does.
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The Archaeologist’s Copilot
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Environmental permitting now causes more environmental harm than it prevents, because what it delays is the clean thing replacing the dirty one.
The primary driver of increased impact, longer time scales before displacement, and catastrophically high levels of avoidable pollution is environmental protection regulations.
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Revised rules of engineering leadership.
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Environmental cost-benefit analyses systematically understate what a new metro line is worth, because most of the driving it displaces happens elsewhere on the network.
This, in turn, creates serious estimation problems for the diversion rate, which is why environmental benefit-cost analyses underrate the effect of urban rail construction.
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The purpose of a creative work environment is to produce ideas that would not otherwise have occurred to you.
At the most elemental level, that is the goal of a creative work environment: it should help you have ideas that would have never occurred to you.
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For the first time in history it is possible to improve human wellbeing and reduce environmental impact at the same time.
My argument is simple: for the first time in history, we can improve human wellbeing while reducing our environmental impact.
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envconfig — Golang library for managing configuration data from environment variables
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Xmonad
I use the XFCE desktop environment, with the Xmonad window manager.
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I use the XFCE desktop environment, with the Xmonad window manager.
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LocalWP — WP Engine
LocalWP and WordPress Studio — primary and secondary local development environments.
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Most knowledge work will move inside a coding-agent environment like Codex or Claude Co-work, which becomes the operating system for email, documents and everything else.
The second is that most of the work that you do is actually going to happen on your computer in an environment like Codex or Cloud Co-work that becomes the sort of operating system for it becomes the sort of operating…
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Firebug
Firefox plus Firebug and the Web Developer Toolbar is my development environment.
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Games are particularly rich and controlled environments uniquely well-suited for evaluating rapid world model induction in AI
We contend that games provide particularly rich and controlled environments uniquely well-suited for systematically evaluating rapid model adaptation and the process of world model induction.
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sway
My desktop environment, naturally, is sway, built fresh from the master branch daily.
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What this also tells us is that, at the end of the day, the argument for boosting yields—especially among smallholder farmers—is not just environmental: it is humanitarian.
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Stripe's monorepo developer environment
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The Next Larger Context
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In a rapidly growing organization, it's much more important to have a developer environment that "just works" out of the gate, with minimal setup pain for new engineers.
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A stochastic model of ant trail formation and maintenance in static and dynamic environments
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Eight Sleep — Eight Sleep
Consider using a noise machine to offset environmental sounds or earplugs if necessary. Temperature controlled mattresses such as Eight Sleep are great.
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Whole Earth Discipline — Stewart Brand
An ecopragmatist book making a compelling argument that urbanization, nuclear energy, and genetic engineering are good for the environment and must be pursued. This is all counterintuitive — environmental movement…
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Integrating AI Agents into Companies
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Nobody can hold the answer in an environment where the answer changes weekly, which means you are as smart as everybody else because you are as ignorant as everybody else.
That's a You know, people want the answer, and the answer is changing. So, you can't possibly in this environment have the answer. Now, that's the bad news. The good news is nobody else has the answer either. So, you're…
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OpenBox
I dislike big desktop environments, so instead I use OpenBox - bare-bones, without any task bar, start menu, etc.
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there is nothing fundamentally inherent to the concept of a building full of computers that causes choking air pollution, water impacts and climate change.
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Debian — Debian Project
Debian is a decent programming environment. It has some of the consistency properties like macOS, but fails unexpectedly.
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dotfiles-tilingwm — Tiling window manager related files (XMonad / i3) including configuration for components that create a good, minimal desktop-environment replacement.
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GNOME 3
For desktop environment, on my workstation, I use GNOME 3, despite me complaining about it all the time.
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A habit is best understood as a recurring solution to a recurring problem in a person's environment.
The one one that I like is that a habit is a recurring solution to a recurring problem in your environment. So something comes up again and again and your brain is trying to solve it. Another way to describe it is that…
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Camino 2 is my personal-surfing browser, whereas Firefox plus Firebug and the Web Developer Toolbar is my development environment.
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By this broader definition, humans have never been truly sustainable.
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Feelings begin as electrical fields on cell membranes, giving an organism real-time feedback on how it is doing in its environment.
And I had suggested that that’s linked to the electrical fields on the membranes themselves and that they give some indication of how am I doing in relation to my environment as a real-time feedback on the world.
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So, I see a a big trend is the re-soloing of programming. Where a big part of extreme programming is creating a safe social environment for basically antisocial people. Not just asocial, antisocial. And the when I think…
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Concerns about the energy cost of an individual LLM prompt are no longer credible, though the environmental impact of the AI datacenter buildout remains a real worry.
There’s still plenty to worry about with respect to the environmental impact of the great AI datacenter buildout, but a lot of the concerns over the energy cost of individual prompts are no longer credible.
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…which is no longer true, uh, say compared to Mexico, and it's got lower environmental regulations, uh, which is true, and that it is more businessfriendly, which is absolutely…
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Google Sketchup — Google
For At a Distance, I made the environments in Google Sketchup, which is a super pleasant tool to use for simple models.
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…600-700 days in Asian countries, in part because of increasingly stringent environmental review…
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Europe cannot keep the world's strictest environmental and social rules, invest less than its competitors and run a more naive trade policy, and still expect to create jobs.
We cannot sustain the most stringent environmental and social norms, invest less than our competitors, have a more naive trade policy than them and think that we will continue to generate jobs. This no longer holds…
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OrbStack — OrbStack
A better alternative to Docker. Used for running and isolating local development services. Makes it easier to set up consistent environments across various projects.
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The Headless AMD Threadripper is running Proxmox. My main Debian environment runs as a VM here, along with various Windows test VMs,
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Scaling up GPT will never produce AGI, because a model trained on cross-entropy loss cannot get there; reinforcement learning in rich environments is required.
…loss is never going to get you there. You need probably RL in fancy environments in order to get something that would be considered…
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LXD — Canonical
Canonical’s LXD works out-of-the-box on Ubuntu, and is a great way to sandbox an agent into a disposable environment where the blast radius is limited should the agent make a mistake.
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Vagrant, of course. I virtualize almost everything. Why do anything on your real computer when you can create a perfect sandboxed environment to do it instead?
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WordPress Gutenberg editor — WordPress
I write directly in WordPress’s new Gutenberg editor, which is now on par with Medium as a best-of-class writing environment for the web.
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Dracula theme — Zeno Rocha
Both my editor and IDE is rocking Dracula theme. It’s a great dark theme and gives me a consistent environment across my devices and setups.
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I use quilt on top of git for handling the Linux kernel stable patch set as the workflow there does not lend itself to a pure git environment.
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When I write for Waxy.org, I write directly in WordPress's new Gutenberg editor, which is now on par with Medium as a best-of-class writing environment for the web.
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For adaptation to complex and changing environments, an agent's world models cannot be static representations learned once and fixed.
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In a world changing this fast it is better to have broad interests than to be an extreme specialist.
In an environment of change, it’s better to be the hardy dandelion rather than the hothouse orchid.
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The rapid drop in renewable energy costs in the last decade (alongside huge improvements in battery technologies) has started to break this deadlock.
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mpd
Outside the dynamic interactive one-big-process environments I'm a big fan of simple orthogonal tools that work well together, so I use xbindkeys for all my launchers and mpd for my tunes.
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Boxen
My development environment is managed by Boxen, Homebrew, and my dotfiles. I'm feeling good about all of that, which wasn't always the case if you were a Ruby developer five years ago.
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This is a really useful way of trying to figure out why different humans turned out the way they did, while considering the influences of technology and of the environment.
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Careful step-by-step thinking is a property of the developer, not something a tool or framework can enforce
Notebooks don't force you to write clean code. AI tools don't force you to think carefully. Discipline comes from the developer, not the environment.
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Here, I always emphasise that it is an opportunity, not an inevitability. There’s no law that says this will happen.
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Wasteful and destructive as feeding grain to livestock is, ranching appears to be even worse.
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It is fundamentally difficult to design a reward function that accurately captures the intended goal in reinforcement learning.
Reward hacking exists because RL environments are often imperfect, and it is fundamentally challenging to accurately specify a reward function.
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Claims to the contrary could lead to a misallocation of investments and, consequently, worse environmental (and social) outcomes.
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Cheap solar is the unlock that brings human progress and climate action from the realm of fundamental incompatibility to complimentary inevitability.
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Sublime Text 3 — Sublime HQ
Still the most productive text editing environment I've ever used. Any time I try something else, within minutes I run into dozens of things it's missing or that Sublime does better.
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…because, as we've discussed, we're not sensitive to cost on power. But the environmental regulations that are actively preventing us from deploying renewable energy in the United States, like this is the reason Texas…
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Pros and cons of various roast-control systems
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Earth Day , environmental allies, and vital tools
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DuoLingo — Duolingo
…and repeat. It does exactly what a skilled coach does: creates a gamelike environment that keeps us reaching, over and over again, toward…
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Raising interest rates cannot meaningfully cool inflation when structural fiscal deficits, not private-sector lending, are its main driver.
Since inflation is not primarily driven by private-sector lending in the current environment, making borrowing more expensive will not significantly cool the economy.
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The Unix Programming Environment — Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike
The Unix Programming Environment is a book you can't read too soon. It's something I wish I'd come across years before I actually did. An authoritative and comprehensive manual for using Unix as a programmer, it clearly…
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Free markets alone cannot solve environmental and energy problems; legislation, regulation, and taxation are also necessary.
So, while markets may play a role, it’s silly to say “let the market handle it all.” Surely we need to talk about legislation, regulations, and taxes.
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…begin with the assumption that it will permanently and severely harm the environment unless proven otherwise, at exhaustive…
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The best tooling in the world will struggle to make up for "regularly losing a day debugging your environment," and so getting that aspect right can easily outweigh almost any other decisions you make.
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A substantial share of people's personalities, dispositions, and dysfunctions is genetically driven rather than purely a product of environment or trauma.
But unfortunately, today, we know conclusively that it is simply not true. A great amount of people's personalities, dispositions, beliefs, and dysfunctions are genetically-driven.