Consider also the missed market opportunity: my personal devices are 13yo laptop and 9yo phone. If an app isn’t compatible or makes it lag, I delete it and download a competing one. I’m not alone, and yes: I have money to spend on your app. I just don’t want/need to upgrade hardware that often.
Kudos for keeping your devices for so long, I also try to have mine last as long as it's practical, but so far i didn't manage to have them last so long. Unfortunately, you're in a minority. Most people would change their phone once the apps they're using aren't compatible with it anymore. So devs don't consider this aspect much.
> The water resources of Palestine are de facto fully controlled by Israel […] The airstrikes led to a 95% reduction of water resources […] Gazans were limited to 3 litres per day, litres under the UN emergency limit.
> genocide which require both intent and follow through […] are present among anti-zionists and all of Israel's enemies
Hum, there’s many people that have "anti" zionism or Israel ideas but at the same time don’t want death, destruction let alone a genocide. Let’s say someone is anti trump party or anti USA (for good or bad reasons), they doesn’t necessarily are anti Americans (_the people_) and for sure most don’t want a genocide!!! For sure some of them does, but you can’t blame or reject any ideas because some of their members views. Listening calmly the moderate part is always better that pointing out the extremists.
Not sure for all cork material but the one for wine bottle are saturated with glue (I’m taking about the « natural » one, not the fake plastic).
You can do the experiment at home but there’s many videos online: place the cork plug on a plate and put in inside your microwave for a couple of seconds. The glue melt.
You're talking about those ones made of glued-together cork chips, right? They're only vaguely natural, and it wouldn't surprise me to find out they're shedding all sorts of who-knows-what. I've not tried melting one in the microwave, but ewww. I think I'd rather buy wine with a metal cap - the supposed "breathability" of a cork only matters (to the extent it does matter) for wine that will age a long time, which isn't anything I do.
It would surprise me to find out that the traditional, straight-from-the-tree kind need adhesive to stay in the bottles. I mean corks have been used to stop bottles for hundreds (thousands?) of years; surely they didn't use glue all that long ago?
I suppose - to supply a speculative counter-argument myself - it may be more profitable to cut the natural corks X% smaller, and counteract the mechanical deficit with glue. (That's, uh, kinda typical of the world we live in.)
I’m French and never saw the metal cap but surely it seems perfect for the non aging one. However tradition plays a big role - even if there’s better modern caps.
Regarding the pre modern chemical techniques: not an expert but it seems people used to drink younger wine back then, and used wooden barrels or clay amphora for the older times. For in between times (and the amphora) solid cork as you mentioned seem very plausible.
Considering the material deficit: consider that when you do the microwave cam cooking, the cap double in size and don’t fall down in many small parts. It’s so big it’s basically impossible to put it back inside the bootle. My 2 cents hypothesis is they use glue to use more cork and have a better sealing, enhancing the conservation.
> the company [microsoft] plans to be water positive by 2030 which means that they “put more water into the local basins where we operate than we withdraw”
> AWS has the same target, while Google has pledged to “replenish 120 percent of the freshwater volume we consume, on average, across our offices and data centers by 2030.”
How is that supposed to work?
The cynic in me can’t help thinking of an high-energy or production-externalities-imported system, but I’d be glad to ear about a sustainable local water creation.
If we would really have a chance to ask an official, whomever that may be, either from government or the tech companies, the (scripted) answer would probably go like this:
By 2030, AI will make revolutionary advancements in water management which will reduce our total water consumption, reduce waste, improve the wastewater treatment efficiency by 15x, so that, overall, the industry is not consuming but producing water.
The articles mention agriculture (farmers in opposition of data center for water usage), it seems fair to consider local food production as an important asset for your children.
Yes, but thats is not what the article advocates for (allocation of water between farming/residential/industry).
It wants to keep industrial water use away without even having a discussion about water allocation/price. This is because farmers (all around the world tbh) are getting an insanely good deal right now (on water), and any public discussion of water price is only ever gonna make things worse for them.
> journalists are interested in stories about journalists
> it has no implication on most of the population
Journalistic content is still one of my main source of information that most of the population use to get informed, so my bet is many people do feel implicated somehow.
Coding with an AI can be whatever one can achieve, however I don’t see how vibe coding would be related to an autocomplete: with an autocomplete you type a bit of code that a program (AI or not) complete. In VC you almost doesn’t interact with the editor, perhaps only for copy/paste or some corrections. I’m not even sure for the manual "corrections" parts if we take Simon Willinson definition [0], which you’re not forced to obviously, however if there’s contradictory views I’ll be glad to read them.
0 > If an LLM wrote every line of your code, but you've reviewed, tested, and understood it all, that's not vibe coding in my book—that's using an LLM as a typing assistant
(Your may also consider rethinking your first paragraph up to HN standards because while the content is pertinent, the form sounds like a youngster trying to demo iKungFu on his iPad to Jackie Chan)
> Vibe coding (or vibecoding) is an approach to producing software by using artificial intelligence (AI), where a person describes a problem in a few natural language sentences as a prompt to a large language model (LLM) tuned for coding. The LLM generates software based on the description, shifting the programmer's role from manual coding to guiding, testing, and refining the AI-generated source code.[1][2][3]
not much: meats lacks A. fibers and B. carbohydrate. Some can argue removing B isn't a bad idea, it certainly is quire restrictive. Removing A. have many short and long terms effects that are not very desirable.
Therefore most meat eaters also eat thinks like vegetables, beans, grains etc... which "unbalance" the "right proportions" (if that exist) of meat. It's very hard to achieve near perfect macro and micro nutriments if not with an artificial and perfectly calculated meals taking into account daily physical activity, psychological state, temperature, infections exposure etc... I'm not even sure ISS guys get such a calculation.
> sufficient micronutrients
This is easily done by eating plenty of plants -which is exactly what non meat eaters do- and a pill of B12. One can count but it's not more necessary than if they want a perfectly balanced meat diet, which also have its "problems" when not perfectly balanced.
