I really liked the book 'Sophies world' it was a nice overview of western philosophy, written from the perspective of a teenager that is learning about the topic.
A long time ago I implemented something like it (the stack part, not the tile part) in Awesome/Lua, so that floating windows could be tabbed together. Code is lost though. It was a bit too buggy anyway, pushing Awesome to its limits.
I think one of the old X11 window managers could mimic that behavior as well, when using the BeOS skin... It might've been KWin around KDE3 series, but my memory might be failing me.
I've used some third party tool on Windows, too. I've even tried disabling tabs in Firefox so that I could mix and match the “native” ones, but it didn't really work out.
I'm not sure that anything like this would ever be suitable for a daily driver due to a lack of graphics drivers and the like. It would be amazing if there was an OS agnostic driver layer, or if we could somehow reuse the driver stack from Linux or Windows. As far as I'm aware nothing like that actually exists though.
It depends what you want to do for a "daily driver".
Basic things like writing documents, viewing images, and (limited) web browsing using a text-based browser would probably be perfectly fine with an unaccelerated framebuffer.
It would be amazing if there was an OS agnostic driver layer
Used this and Github Copilot. I turned code whisperer off even though it's free because it was causing extra mental load to look through all these bad recommendations.
You can attack the management, but also you should look at the people doing the action. If medical doctors participate in such a scheme I feel that the medical schools should strongly consider revocation of degrees as an option. Clearly these doctors are violating their oaths.
You could have the advantages of both worlds by having one json object per line. You could stream process, and you could structure more complex objects and have consistent escaping.
You could do that, you could also have a json that is not streamable. You can't guarantee how large a json object will be but you can guess that the csv will probable be.
I would love to see these numbers correlated with the number of large pickups that are driving on the roads. These types of cars offer no pedestrian safety and are more and more common in the US.
There are some countries for which it might conceivably work (presuming you also pay a lot extra to cover the costs of the project), many for which it might nearly work, and several for which it absolutely won't.
Thank you for this, I always knew that if I had to restart civilization from scratch I would have to go without anything digital because I understand the way thing work abstractly, but I could never make it happen. At least now I can think back on this video and wonder what magical tricks he did during those moments when the scene fast forwarded and magically progress was made.
Probably easier to just scavenge stuff, if you're fortunate enough to survive the initial fallout/disruption from say a nuclear war there's going to be a lot of stuff and not so many people.
David Gingery's book "Build your own metalworking shop from scrap" is a very fun read though
There will be lots of stuff, but what are the odds that exactly the thing you need will be available and in working condition? If you can make something entirely from scratch, you can make any subset of it from scratch. More generally, developing the means to do something yourself gives you a much deeper understanding than simply utilizing someone else's solution.
In the description of the video on youtube he often explains how long the full project took, and clarifying what took longest, it's always much longer than I expect (in the trebuchet video I think the problem was that collecting bark to make the rope took a very long time)
His blog will usually tell you how long he actually worked on things. Some of them are surprisingly fast. But he is also probably not posting all of his failures.
sure, notice how he says things like "3 double handfuls of charcoal, 3 single handfuls of iron-bearing sand", or "dry fire for one hour before trying to smelt", etc. Any time he mentions a number or a ratio, I guarantee it's hard-won knowledge that took ages to come up with (even if it was one of his ancestors that did it, and he just learned it from a book).
He shows all the processes in great detail, but he definitely cuts out the extremely long hours of repetitive hard work he puts in that would be boring for the viewer to watch. For instance, when he makes bricks, he'll show one trip to the creek for the water, all the mixing, shaping and drying, etc. for one batch, then he fast forwards through the dozen more batches he does.
I disagree, not installing solar and heatpumps will increase the energy consumption of the house, potentially for the entire lifetime of the building. Installing them makes it cheaper to live in the building, increases the home value and pays off in years, so really it should be a no brainer. Some countries offer special financing for the costs of energy efficient building, this would be a better option at addressing your concern than removing the requirement.
Think about it this way: we take on mortgages and car loans and other sorts of debt because we can't afford the full cost of something up front, and accept the tradeoff that, over time, we'll be spending more money than if we had that up-front money.
Same thing applies here. Requiring solar on new homes will just make homes cost more, and will put home ownership out of reach in cases where people were already stretching. Either that, or it'll just increase the problem of people being in too much debt.
If the government wants solar on all new homes, they should be paying for it. I believe in renewables, and in distributed power generation, but forcing people to spend another $20k or whatever to buy a new home is a heavy lift.
