Notices by Svante (ardubal@mastodon.xyz)

@GottaLaff Starting in a few years, there will be phantasies of people travelling back in time to this point to prevent it by force.

@screwtape I am not sure, but all the use cases that I can think of here could probably be handled by macrolet and symbol-macrolet.

@Radical_EgoCom @osmani You keep stating the same thing, when there are no examples for that mechanism working, but counterexamples where decarbonization was achieved without social upheaval.

I think you can (and must) limit capitalist incentives, but I don't think you have to go all the way to absolute socialism or communism. I don't think that the latter are harmful per se, but I am sure that poverty is an absolute obstacle for any way forward.

@Radical_EgoCom @osmani I think that illustrates my point: abolishing capitalism has little to do with stopping climate change. People claiming you need to abolish capitalism in order to stop climate change are more interested in the former than in the latter.

That is not to say that unchecked capitalism works, of course. See the other branch of this conversation at https://mastodon.xyz/@Ardubal/113715494783050941

@Radical_EgoCom @osmani Let's not over-simplify here, but however you define the current status of Cuba, it definitely is not in any position to decarbonize in any forseeable timeframe.

If you claim to need A to be able to do B, i. e. (not (and (not A) B)), then you would need to have NO instances of (and (not A) B), and it would help to have a demonstration instance of (and A B). But instead, you do have instances of (and (not A) B), and an instance of (and A (not B)).

@Radical_EgoCom Given how incredibly hard it seems to be to replace capitalism (no country has done it and survived), and how it seems in comparison to be much easier to decarbonize, it appears like a very effective delaying tactic.

The idea that it were impossible to stop #ClimateChange without massive social upheaval (e. g. »ending #capitalism«) is in my view already disproved: there are big industrial grids that have mostly decarbonized almost accidentally without such a revolution, e. g. France, Sweden, Ontario.

The question is why it's still being brought up.

@hisham_hm @civodul @hipsterelectron @juliobiason Regarding »the success of Docker is the developer world’s tacit acknowledgement that package management has failed«:

I think it's not package management, but dependency management that's failing. I believe it's crushing itself under its own weight. I can't yet put the finger on the most relevant causes for this, but I think that one of them is dynamic linking (or the analogous concepts in different ecosystems).

@elmo @nilz @digitalcourage

Die einfachste und billigste Lösung wäre: #fahrscheinfrei

@elmo @nilz @digitalcourage

Die Prepaid-Karte ist nur halt so umständlich wie möglich in der Verwaltung. Wenn man nicht ständig 100e von € drauf haben will, muß man dauernd nachladen. Man sieht den Dingern auch nicht an, wieviel noch drauf ist, und an der Supermarktkasse können sie es einem auch nicht sagen. Im Zweifel merkt man erst im Bus, daß man leider doch nicht mehr genug drauf hat, oder die falsche eingesteckt.