benjhm

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[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Africa is huge- many people underestimate it, although in this case it is a bit too large compared to India in the middle. Also the colorscale makes Sahara and other low desert areas too green - the habitable part is not so great.

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

sounds nice, but can you elaborate what does 'embrace' really mean - accept ? some people should keep trying to tackle what's hard to change

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Although not an expert on that specific country, I can be sure that ' almost all ' is very misleading, even if it gets a lot upvotes because people find it convenient to blame some big bad other. Even if you have specific data for electricity, don't forget a lot of CO2 is emitted by cars, and also by fuel to heat homes (including some peat in special case of ireland - and in that country a large fraction of GHG emissions is also methane from agriculture).

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 month ago

And did they consult the mushrooms ? Seems in medium term, may help feed a lot of bugs and birds, which is good for biodiversity, but to store carbon, needs to be fungi-proof.

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Been waiting for this for 20 years ... (was shocked how much those emissions rose post 2004)
What's important now, is that India and Africa don't follow the same type of concrete path

'China’s in-use cement stock – a measure of all the material in buildings, roads and structures – was about the same in 2013 as the roughly 15 tonnes per person in the US'

Where can i get data for each country's in-use cement stock ? Seems like useful metric (I think incorp in my model)

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

and no insects ?

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

Wonder whether the popularity of the president will follow a similar pattern as in France, trying similar idea ... ?

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I built personal webpages in the 1990s, and still do it now, I included javascript then, and still do now - to make calculations, show interactive graphics, quantitative stuff about climate change - see for example this model.
I get your concept, that more websites should be written and hosted by individuals not big tech - but javascript is not the essence of the problem - js is just calculating stuff client-side for efficiency. In theory big tech could still serve up personalised algorithm-driven feeds and targeted advertising, just with server-side page generation (like php) and a few cookies, would waste more bandwidth but no stress to them. Whereas disabling client side calculations would kill what i do, as I can't as an individual afford to host big calculations on cloud servers (which is also technically harder).

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I use vscode as I develop this model in Scala3, whose language-server 'metals' integrates well with vscode, and when scala3 was new in mid-21 this was the platform they first targeted. But the scala command-line tools do the clever analysis, vscode provides the layout, colours, git integration, search/regex, web-preview etc.. Now considering other options (eg zed) as vscode too dependent on potentially unsafe extensions (of which too much choice), also don't want M$ scraping my code. Long ago when same model was in java I used netbeans, then eclipse. Would prefer a pure-scala toolset.

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Mais - j'essais comprendre n'étant pas français ... - si les ministres auraient été remplacés par leurs suppléants, le résultat aurait été ± la même, n'est-ce pas ?

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks, fixed! As you can see parts of the science code are already accessible via the 'cogs', but not yet the structural code - anyway keeps evolving, update soon.

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Note that Knesset has 120 seats (not obvious from the article). (also, of course, a large fraction of people between the river and the sea don't get to vote for any of its seats)

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