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- bigato parentThere's a big overlap. Recent research shows that 80% of people on the autism spectrum also have adhd, and 50% of people with adhd also are on the autism spectrum.
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- and do you find powershell to be a simpler alternative? i recently had to look into a 100 or so lines powershell script and it felt crazily hard to read. Good thing I had access to the guy who wrote it so that he just told me what it was supposed to do (he gave up explaining the script)
- In the unix-compatible world, you could take a look at openbsd as an example of OS that is not growing exponentially. Yet, the web browsers are the same two beasts that you find elsewhere in linuxes. For a more radical approach to what you ask, look at plan9. There are some modern forks that run on modern hardware.
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- Scratch my post above, I made a better example:
- Unfortunately I didn't find an example that was simple enough on the web, and the work I did is not open source, so here is the best link I found, which was by the way what I used to derive my implementation:
https://codepen.io/dsheiko/pen/MvEpXm
This is a bit fancier than necessary and that makes it not so good as an example for learning, but hopefully it will be enough to give you the idea.
edit: this one is a little bit better to understand the basics: https://medium.com/metaphorical-web/javascript-treeview-cont...
In short, summary/detail has the native hability to collapse the details and you can explore that to implement a tree by nesting them.
- if parts of the web browser start being shipped as wasm code, we will eventually reach the point where the web browser shipped to the user is only a wasm vm, and all the rest will be shipped as optional libraries or even downloaded on the fly. Even stuff like the html engine, the css, and the javascript. In that world, using the messy web standards evolved over time would be optional. The web browser would then become the universal virtual machine that the world seems to want it to be, instead of a browser. The web would be the app distribution system. One could for example, decide to write their site using tcl/tk.
Implementing the wasm vm and its basic apis would be simpler in a new operating system. Because the way it is now, the web browser itself is more complex that writing a simple operating system. That hinders innovation in the Operating System space.
- In my experience, reality is unpredictable enough that no one actually know what the requirements will be two versions down the road. In practice you end up with code that is more complex than what the current problem needs, trying to solve a future need that you presume will happen but you don’t really know what it is and when it will happen.
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- Well, I don't work remotely but I am waiting on a task to be completed by another team for about a week now. It's something that can't possibly take more than one hour or so to be completed, and I even talked to them in person before submitting the task. That didn't change a thing about their deadlines.
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- Given the extreme we are in yes, going to the other extreme would be a good thing. And even then, not enough. This is just one of the multiple changes that humanity need to bring about. I don't think people should be prohibited from eating animal products, but those who have the will to remove it completely from their diets would definitely be having a much higher positive impact on the environment.
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- You are ignoring the concept of EROEI - Energy Return Over Energy Investment. Basically, how much energy you need to use to produce additional energy. Or, as the comics put it, how many slaves you need to produce additional slaves. The solar farms also require maintenance and ongoing replacement. Their EROEI will never be as high as fossil fuels were when we started mining them, which allowed us to bootstrap the industrial era. We will never have such easy energy from solar alone due to physical limits on the technology. Our economy will be fundamentally affected by this change in paradigm. Even if we use the remaining fossil fuels to bootstrap solar farms, over time the EROEI will revert to solar’s, because fossil is increasingly costlier to extract.
Another way to understand EROEI is, given a solar panel system (including batteries, circuits, etc) typical lifespan of say, thirty years, how many other systems equal to this would you be able to build with the resulting e energy during those 30 years? It’s improving, but if you also account for the maintenance and required labor to keep it working, it’s still looking really bad when compared to the output we had from fossil until a few decades ago.
For more detailed information on EROEI: https://forum.earlyretirementextreme.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t...
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