Enjoyed this conversation between Hannah Ritchie and Bill Gates. Their optimism is infectious.
I think this part is especially true: "We fund a lot of amazing carbon removal companies. How much that ends up being part of the solution, that will be up to governments."
2/2 I want to build a #custom#cargobike suitable for these conditions, probably based on a #bullitt, #ginkgo or #bogbi#framekit and I'd like to ask you #bicycle people for advice regarding the choice of the least maintenance intensive #components for my circumstances. What would you choose?
I maintain that excel isn't the most used "programming language" because it's easy to learn or use, it's not, it's a convoluted piece of trash and way harder than "real" programming. No it's because excel makes it trivial to install, build, and distribute to end users
to install excel you install office, easy. No obscure package managers or building from source required
to build your "product" with excel you just... oh hey there isn't even a build step whereas if you try and build with most languages there's a million command line switches to throw if you wanna be successful
to distribute you just send someone your spreadsheet file
@eniko “In the olden days, #Excel had a very awkward #programming language without a name. “Excel Macros,” we called it. It was a severely dysfunctional programming language without variables (you had to store values in cells on a worksheet), without locals, without subroutine calls: in short it was almost completely unmaintainable. It had advanced features like “Goto” but the labels were actually physically invisible.” — Joel Spolsky, 2006
"Yes, #Isaacson spoke to “adversaries” like Jeff #Bezos and Bill #Gates, but not (at least per the list) to line workers, not to #Jenna, not to anyone whose family member died in an #Autopilot crash, nor anyone who tried to organize a #Tesla plant.
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It’s the book Musk would have written himself.""