> We're literally growing food to feed to animals that we bred ourselves, while losing ~90% of the calories in the process instead of eating crops directly when meat isn't required to be healthy.
Most animal feed is the byproduct of things we are not eating[1]. This same study also address the land use concern. Most of it is not fit to grow crops with. I agree that people should reduce meat consumption but I find the general framing around this topic to be dishonest.
How does this contradict the 75% land reduction link where they take into account land used for animal crops? They cite this study too so they're aware of it and cover that "Less than half – only 48% – of the world’s cereals are eaten by humans. 41% is used for animal feed, and 11% for biofuels".
If I recall this is written by 1 guy in Japan. Tried it a while back and it was very nice although I wouldn't subscribe at that price I tried it at and would rather just buy Sublime. Seems it went down from $10ish to $5 which is more reasonable. The dev also maintains a blog that I find pretty neat https://blog.inkdrop.app/
Anyone who knows anything about Casey Muratori knows that nice and humble are not usually words associated with him. That is not to say the devs he is calling out are in the right. Frankly, I just see a bunch of combative assholes arguing with each other.
Yeah, DHowett's and LHeckler's responses were kind of dickish, but Casey's own words, tone, and attitude aren't doing him any favors either.
Casey happens to be right on the technical issue in this case and people are just glossing over all the ways in which he was also wrong.
Now, personally, I believe it was the WT Team's responsibility to let it go as they're representatives of a larger organization and as such how they interact with people reflects back on the organization they work for.
"Happens to be right" is kind of misleading here. It's not like he "happened" to call tails on a coin flip or something.
Microsoft has a history of writing unreasonably shitty software, abstracting it to all fuck with ten thousand layers of manufactured complexity, and then claiming the problem itself is hard. Casey was like, no, the problem is actually trivial, and if you just write code in a straightforward way without pessimizing your own code, you can easily get something 100x faster than Windows Terminal. He even wrote refterm to prove it: https://github.com/cmuratori/refterm
No one wants to be told that something they're working super hard on is actually trivial, and that all of their problems are basically self-created. There's no nice way to say that. It's basically saying, "stop doing 90% of the crap you're doing, and the problem solves itself." But it's true and it should be said.
and casey seemed very reasonable to me, possibly except maybe the last message. Apart from that, i don't really see an issue with the tone or attitude tbh.
The salt was primarily reserved for a series of followup videos he made, and twitter. You're right that his conduct on the issue itself was mostly fine.
Just because you don't think he was polite to some arbitrary standard does not make him wrong.
If people are this sensitive to "tone" and "tact" about technical matters, then we (as a community I guess) have much deeper issues then the technical matters themselves.
If you are looking for someone to do something for you, it's best to approach them in a way that won't make them upset with you. He didn't do that. His approach was obviously wrong as evidenced by the dust cloud it kicked up.
And your criticism of people who are "this sensitive to "tone" and "tact"" are equally applicable to Casey. He apparently didn't like the way the WT team talked to him. And it seems a lot of people in this very thread don't like the way the WT team is talking to everyone.
But you're not chastising Casey or everyone in this thread for being sensitive to tone and tact.
This is quite literally not true. Source: I have a film degree, took classes on documentary film.
I posted this elsewhere but here’s a nice video with a ton of documentary recommendations.
https://youtu.be/0nisJRrsNmc
Both the “look at cool shit” and the “here’s how this simple looking thing actually is really complex and how it works” type of documentaries seem to mainly be on YouTube now.
YouTube is perfect for 10 minutes of content without having to try to stretch it to an hour.
> YouTube is perfect for 10 minutes of content without having to try to stretch it to an hour.
10 minutes has no relation to the complexity of the subject matter; 10 minutes is derived from the attention span of youtube viewers (and it varies a bit, but sub-15 seems to be the most common). An hour of content may be pruned until only 10 minutes are left, or two minutes of content may be stretched to 10.
Example chosen from the videos they're recommending to me now: Two documentaries from the same channel. One is about the Bob Semple tank, a wacky prototype from New Zealand designed by an amateur and never mass produced and never used. The other is about the 1960 U-2 spyplane shootdown over the Soviet Union, a serious diplomatic incident. One is 9:08 long, the other is 9:20 seconds long. What are the odds that both subjects just happen to have almost exactly the same amount of content to say about them?
Zero chance of that. Compare the articles on wikipedia, the U-2 shootdown article is 5x longer than the article for the tank. The two documentaries are the same length because this guy always makes his documentaries roughly this length because this is what the system rewards.
The problem with making cities green, like the problem with everything else, is terrible city design. There is quite a bit of greenery where I live and it is all anxiety inducing because it is planted near intersections and cutting off line of sight so you can't see pedestrians well or oncoming traffic. There are certain areas that have these wonderful bushes, too bad they opted for those bushes instead of sidewalks but hey, who cares about pedestrians am I right?
I guess its wonderful if you like killing people. Reducing visibility around corners is unsafe in the US, far too many people will drive the same and just take a chance that its all clear, I know of a couple people who died that way.
I’ve seen this sort of thing work in London, so my theory is that traffic calming only works if you don’t treat vehicular manslaughter as akin to petty theft or even less as we do in the US. Good luck changing that, way too many people operate a vehicle everyday for them to want to take on that liability. Also young men are going to continue to drive with a devil may care attitude. Traffic calming measures in a motorist society like the US, in my observation, ironically cause much more aggressiveness on the road, and to me are the transportation equivalent of hostile architecture.
Not only is the product better, manga scanlators have a "code of honor." If a manga is licensed in English they will typically drop the manga no longer scanlating because there is now a provider in English. Of course, not all of them do this but more often than not it is adhered to.
Yes, this means that some clever folks realized they could have a legit manga website that removes the unlicensed translations the moment an official release is available. And they never allow uploads in the original copyrighted language. See mangadex.org
Idk who the founders are, or if it was a bunch of scanlation groups that combined their efforts, but it's a pretty smart way to get around the copyright problem.
And until there is a company who has the license to publish in English, there's a benefit to the Japanese rightsholders - free and extensive market research.
> NOTE: I do use an Android phone --- but only after it has been thoroughly de-Googled --- starting from a stripped down, bare metal device that won't even power up.
You're going to have to explain to me. Particularly the "starting from a stripped down, bare metal device that won't even power up. Because this sounds excessive and a bit over the top.
It probably means something like, "buy a phone, unlock its bootloader, and wipe its data and system partition(s), after which you can flash a ROM of your choice onto the now mostly-blank machine". Depending on the device, you can probably even wipe the vendor partition. Any ways, the point is that in the middle there you have a device with no OS present (hence unable to boot) and probably no Google-ware, so if you flash a privacy-friendly ROM and don't re-add GApps it won't talk to Google.
Shellac is just a varnish/coating, so the implication is Google features are metaphorically painted on the phone hardware and software and you just need to scrape it off.
I agree with the general idea here but there are some opinions here I can't get behind.
> Individuals blessed with high degrees of industriousness and orderliness will build sophisticated media diets, note-taking systems, and automated archiving pipelines much more effectively than those less blessed with these traits.
I can tell you by nature I am not a smart organized person but implementing certain systems in my life has made this easier. I don't think what I'm saying necessarily contradicts this quote but this quote seems like it is reducing the argument to "the haves and have nots."
I think what the quote is saying is that naturally organized people are the ones who build all these management systems. For them, they work because they are naturally organized; pretty much any system will work. Because they lack this insight, they think they found the One True Way, but for people less naturally organized, every system will be a burden, including this One True Way.
I think everybody has a different sense of organization, and the prevalence of organization schemes and apps is in hopes that enough people can relate to a particular app-developer's preferences and patterns. At the end of the day though, I think productivity is such a chaotic and fragmented genre of tools because everybody is different and there are as many productivity methods as there are people. I've certainly never found one that I've been comfortable depending on, and it just so happens that I've had the idea (and the skills) to create The Best Todo for years, details of which are lurking on some note pages in this pile over here (and a few over there).
Naturally organized people built VisiCalc, and yet us mere mortals were still able to make use of electronic spreadsheets. The blog author is needlessly pigeonholing people because he thinks the knowledge graph is silly.
There are exceptions, and it doesn't invalidate the article's premise. Spreadsheets are a huge deal, agreed. At this point they are like a general purpose visual programming language, rather than an "organize my thoughts" tool.
Most animal feed is the byproduct of things we are not eating[1]. This same study also address the land use concern. Most of it is not fit to grow crops with. I agree that people should reduce meat consumption but I find the general framing around this topic to be dishonest.
[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S22119...