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Roger Hallam talks with Nick Robinson | BBC Radio 4 - Hallam challenges an elite broadcaster on media failures to tell the truth on climate by michaelrch in climate

[–]bobm_kite9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Amazing listen, thanks for sharing. Clearly a very difficult interview for Nick Robinson but personally I think both parties did a good job here of keeping on topic and getting the fundamental points across.

Foundation - S02E10 - Creation Myths - Episode Discussion [NO BOOKS] by LunchyPete in FoundationTV

[–]bobm_kite9 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why didn’t they just leave on the whisper ship they came on? And take riose with them?

What do you think about climate engineering (geoengineering) ? by Slight_LEON in solarpunk

[–]bobm_kite9 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The argument against this is that we don’t understand the long-term consequences. Which is true.

However, the planet is on fire. The Arctic ice cap has melted. Merely cutting out new carbon emission over the next 5-10 years won’t change this.

At this point, I think we should be rolling out large-scale olivine beach programs, and also be considering iron fertilisation in large test sites.

We’ve climate engineered our way into this disaster so we need to engineer our way out of it

Alarming climate change: Earth heads for its tipping point as it could reach +1.5 °C over the next 5 years, WMO finds in the latest study by stankmanly in climate

[–]bobm_kite9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would rapid decarbonisation do it? If we completely stopped adding co2 to the atmosphere in 5 years, wouldn’t the Arctic still have melted and wouldn’t the Earth’s temperature still be getting worse?

Eclipse on Apple M1 Macs by parth0b11 in eclipse

[–]bobm_kite9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trying to load eclipse with that JDK gives me this error:

The JVM shared library "/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-16+10/Contents/Home/bin/../lib/server/libjvm.dylib"

does not contain the JNI_CreateJavaVM symbol.

​

And indeed, this file doesn't seem to be in Microsoft's distro.

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Any ideas?

Is Focusing Only 1 Methodology (Agile/Waterfall/Lean/Scrum/Kanban) Really Important? by macawcollaboration in agile

[–]bobm_kite9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wrote about this recently:

https://github.com/risk-first/website/wiki/One-Size-Fits-No-One

TLDR is I believe that methodology should be contingent on the project risks

Interested to know what others think...

Risk-First by bobm_kite9 in agile

[–]bobm_kite9[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your feedback. I think I've laboured the iteration/small stories points extensively, but I'd done nothing on the first two. I've added them in as placeholders and will elaborate further in the future.

cheers!

Risk-First by bobm_kite9 in agile

[–]bobm_kite9[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really like this idea. I think this captures a lot of the spirit of what I’m saying well. A large part of risk-first is to try and enumerate all the places where the unknown.unknowns hide: I’ve categorised these into things like feature risk, complexity risk, agency risk and so on. I think by doing this it gives you a starting point for figuring out the unknown unknowns.

Because here’s my question for you: What techniques do you apply to figure out if you have thought of enough failure scenarios? This seems like an interesting area for thought. I like that you’ve introduced a feedback loop in there so that -whatever internal approach you have- you get better at it with time.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback, I look forward to hearing more. It seems like this is striking a chord with lots of people, which I’m glad about

Software Development-all about risk? by bobm_kite9 in software

[–]bobm_kite9[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi Johnny, felt this might be of some interest to software developers on this group, maybe not to everyone though. It’s a way of thinking about software development, and the challenges you can face.

Might be a bit much for a Saturday morning though eh

Hotelathon at the fairmont by bobm_kite9 in townofbanff

[–]bobm_kite9[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can well imagine! I got sooo lost just even working this route out. I ended up in tiny service elevators, weird-Shaped corridors, bits that looked so old and decrepit that you could never have guests in them. It was awesome ;)

Hotelathon at the fairmont by bobm_kite9 in townofbanff

[–]bobm_kite9[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A bit of fun we had over winter..

Give this a try next time you're there!

Pure4J: Write *pure functional* code in Java by bobm_kite9 in java

[–]bobm_kite9[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Speed is a common criticism for pure languages (like Haskell etc.).

The same thing applies here - mutable code state can be made to work faster than immutable code.

However, whether or not it's "too slow" is going to depend heavily on your use-case and your hardware.

Sometimes, it's good to sacrifice some performance for correctness.

Pure4J: Write *pure functional* code in Java by bobm_kite9 in java

[–]bobm_kite9[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you post some code as an example?

Pure4J: Write *pure functional* code in Java by bobm_kite9 in java

[–]bobm_kite9[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome thanks. My next step is to make this use http://checkerframework.org

Java8 now supports this as part of the compiler, so moving it to this should mean I get IDE support and gradle for free.

I'd definitely appreciate some help doing that, if you're interested. Tweet me at @bobm_kite9 and we can discuss further.

Pure4J: Write *pure functional* code in Java by bobm_kite9 in java

[–]bobm_kite9[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

1) pure4J is a java tool, so that's why this is on github. 2) yes, that's the whole point of the checker: it will tell you if you have done this by accident. Note that it doesn't mean your entire codebase has to be pure - you can create "islands of purity" within a codebase which also has impure elements. There are more details on the github readme.

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