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      Loren Pechtel replied to the thread Climate Change(d)?.
      Exactly. Ignore the big changes, they can only happen with cooling. But humanity has a strong preference for living very close to sea...
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      Loren Pechtel replied to the thread Climate Change(d)?.
      It would be very unlikely if we don't. The air is already +1.5C. The depths are a source of heat (geothermal), surface temps are solar...
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      Loren Pechtel replied to the thread Climate Change(d)?.
      Yup, we are already seeing problems with ocean water warm enough that it just keeps feeding a hurricane parked on top.
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      Loren Pechtel reacted to Elixir's post in the thread Climate Change(d)? with Like Like.
      A significant factor. A 1 °C increase in the mean temperature of the entire ocean*, would raise global mean sea level by over thre...
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      Loren Pechtel replied to the thread News sucks.
      I've never run into 8badfood, but it's obviously the same idea--seed memory with an unusual, recognizable value (both are hexadecimal...
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      Loren Pechtel replied to the thread News sucks.
      In years past I would have loved a deadbeef allocator, but haven't used a language that would permit use of an uninitialized value in years.
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      Loren Pechtel replied to the thread News sucks.
      No. Programming is fundamentally a translation exercise between sloppy requirements and logical code.
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      Loren Pechtel reacted to bigfield's post in the thread News sucks with Like Like.
      No it's 100% LinkedIn bullshit. Maybe not worthy of r/LinkedInLunatics, but getting there. Mind you, I don't think you're completely...
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      Loren Pechtel replied to the thread News sucks.
      There's always something new that will make programmers obsolete. It never pans out because it never touches the fundamental job...
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      Loren Pechtel replied to the thread News sucks.
      Good programmers generally understand that they'll spend more time verifying the AI code than they would just doing it themselves.
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      Loren Pechtel reacted to Bomb#20's post in the thread Marxism with Like Like.
      That just isn't true. Income disparity does not cause poverty. The number of people who can't make ends meet is decreasing, and has...
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      Loren Pechtel replied to the thread Marxism.
      Unquestionably. Putting the people with their own assets in charge produces a better outcome that when you put people using other...
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      Loren Pechtel reacted to steve_bank's post in the thread Marxism with Like Like.
      I think that is why free market systems worked better than the Marxist - communist systems. Humans are naturally connective, free market...
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      Loren Pechtel replied to the thread News sucks.
      Most art is effectively a remix because life is mostly a remix. That's not theft. The mediocre crap part is the problem.
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      Loren Pechtel replied to the thread News sucks.
      A program that is mediocre crap is a detriment. Management has this insane view that AI can greatly increase output--but it doesn't...
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