Indeed I checked one of his references where he says that it is cars that are the primary reason that CO2 emissions haven’t reduced in the transport sector. The linked article says that it is airlines (increase of 2%) not cars (decrease of 1%).
“Demand for oil was also largely unchanged in 2018 (-0.3%). Within that total, demand for diesel and petrol both saw annual declines of around 1%, whereas aviation fuel was up 2%.“
Even with a tiny change in relative proportions within transport, road vehicles still use vastly more fuel than aviation in the UK. Without absolute tonnage of emissions, and relative proportion of commercial and private, I can't see a way to invalidate his claim or prefer aviation as culprit. It sounds perfectly reasonable and the least controversial assumption from data available: cars are the big majority of the largest fuel user, though commercial traffic may get low enough mpg to emit disproportionally large amounts.
> George Monbiot is seen as a climate change denier in many circles
Which circles? He has been on the side of science and an outspoken critic of denialists for the last 15 years, both in his columns and other avenues (letters to Nature etc).
Apart from that and in general terms, both sides of a debate thinking you are a lunatic usually doesn't mean you are a visionary - but a lunatic.
Sorry, I can't find the criticism I'm thinking of right now, but I'm sure you'll probably agree that George Monbiot says lots of controversial stuff and has definitely ruffled feathers on both side of the aisle on a number of issues. Almost always I've agreed with George Monbiot.
That being said, you're right that he definitely falls squarely in the anti-climate change denier column.
The side of science? It would help if you defined terms before using them. What is a denialist and who are they? I'm not aware of a single scientist or informed layperson who thinks that human emissions have no effect whatsoever on the climate. The intelligent question is: how much of an effect do they have on the earth's energy balance? Less than x% you're a denialist and greater than x% you're not? Is that how it works? Meanwhile debates about the magnitude of the climate sensitivity roll on with no clear answer.
Great article! It certainly supports the idea that Apple switching to ARM processors for their laptops isn’t crazy talk. Perhaps retaining an intel-compatible CPU for a few generations to execute intel binaries until the shift is complete.
BTW, the article uses the acronym IPC without explaining it. It stands for Instructions Per Cycle. CPUs can and do execute multiple instructions per clock cycle so this is just a measure of how many.
Apple are more likely to choose "fat binaries" again. They're possibly the only company who could announce an architecture switch, OS revision bump, and corresponding changes to development tools all at once.
Also, they're known for having pulled this off successfully, twice (68000 to PPC, PPC to Intel), which certainly would lend them credibility if they decided to go for it.
I would buy such a laptop with zero qualms about them bungling the migration. If it had a decent keyboard and got rid of the touch bar. I'm much more concerned about having my experience ruined by those.
Aside from missing the escape key when I'm in VIM, the Touch Bar hasn't "ruined" my experience with a Macbook Pro.
I'll readily admit the thing is more cool than genuinely useful. It's just not such a gimmick as to actually "ruin" an experience. And the gain from TouchID offsets my pain from not having a physical escape key.
In this respect, the Macbook Air gets things right.
WRT the keyboard... your mileage will vary. I hated it at first. Pretty used to it now.
I don't hate the keyboard. I tried it in a store and after getting over the surprise of the extremely short key travel distance, it is quite usable - but the failure rate, the annoyances, the potential out-of-warranty cost turn it into a complete dealbreaker. It is simply not reliable enough, despite the redesign. Maybe now at the second redesign it's finally OK but no way I'm paying for one until we're certain, and that certainty will take a couple years of real world usage to materialize.
Regarding the touch bar: Indeed the Escape key is what breaks the deal. Honestly if it began after ESC I'd tolerate it - expensive, close to useless, but tolerable.
Ironically you chose one of the examples that's already been over a porting barrier from a RISC architecture: Photoshop up to (I think) CS4 ran on PowerPC.
“Fourteen examples of dreams are presented, including seven examples of interpretation, three examples of successful dream content prediction (a first for an interpretive theory of dreams), and four examples of dreams which demonstrate how in-dream behaviour changes during successful therapy, three of which are my own”
The study includes a total of 14 dreams of which 3 are the author’s.
This paper should not be viewed as an attempt to prove beyond doubt that the function of dreams is to highlight anxieties, but to provide food for thought for future research. There is a neurological basis for the argument put forward and using dreams in this way has been beneficial in my own therapy and in directing my guidance of others. Please play with your own dreams and those of your friends using the methods of interpretation and prediction outlined above and, if you are in the position to do so, consider testing the ideas presented using established research methods. If we do have an inbuilt method of anxiety diagnosis, which means we are not forced into taking such drastic maladaptive actions while awake in order to communicate our anxieties to others, then a great deal of mental pain may be able to be avoided.
My personal experience with the theory has been extensive and I am quite confident, but yes - from a broader point of view I think anyone with academic perspective should read it as food for thought for potential future investigations.
I'm aware of openssh on NT being a thing now, but last I saw I thought powershell's "curl" was just an alias to their equivalent, which means that ex. options don't actually match for anything non-trivial. (IIRC, they did this with lots of commands; `ls` gets mapped to a local equivalent, but `ls -lahr *.foo` would not do what you think it should)
It's the real curl[0]. I actually like the aliases and they've even added ctrl-shift paste in the options. Maybe they should be the default.
The windows filesystem still makes no sense but that's an NT issue (dropbox cant sync con.sh???). SSH has a surprisingly native feel but graphical apps (vim, screen) still have rendering problems, and the ssh-agent daemon isn't set up right by default.
Until they make Windows LTSC unusable, it's not _too_ horrible right now. But for a serious programming project there's still no question for me (but fix your damnable sound drivers Ubuntu).
Another Con: In the not-too-distant future, a sequence can be recreated from the digital record[s].
Another Con: Assuming that you can copy the database out, all you need is one instance of the Y-Chromosome's owner name and you can find their children and children's children and...
