I work in the UK energy sector, and that's definitely not true! About 1/3 of our energy comes from wind which is somewhat but mostly not stored.

Fossil fuels end up doing the work of balancing the grid during times when wind and solar are low. That's not ideal, but a world where fossil fuels are used to balance renewable provision is much better than a world where they're the primary energy source.

We're running out of time to prevent the worst effects of global warming, and any increase in renewables provides some mitigation to the impact. Very few, if any, countries are at the point where current battery tech should stop them increasing their renewables.

Would be really interesting to look at foodwaste as a percentage of food consumption. Anyone know whether that kind of data is available anywhere?

So, putting aside the questionable morals of this person. I'm not sure alt right reddit threads are the election swing spot they seem to think.

Yazi sounds ideal! Does river involve as much set up as dwm? I really love the ideas behind suckless tools but they normally involve a lot or set up to configure hoe I like.

I read 'Computer Science Distilled' early on and it really helped me. It's a very shallow summary of some CS fundamentals, but that's kind of what you want when you're starting out- just enough knowledge to know what exists to learn later.

Here's a link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34189798-computer-science-distilled

Never heard of river but looks really cool! Come to think of it, I haven't heard or a bunch of this stuff- yazi looks really neat

Good to see that Saudi Arabia and Indonesia are doing such a fantastic job meeting their target of unlimited planet melting!

Egypt and Morocco are a little under target though which is a shame.

This is such a good attitude! I cut all meat out of my diet a long time ago, and when I mention it, people often say something like "I'd love to but I couldn't commit to never having meat again".

You don't have to! It's amazing if you do, but you're still gonna make a sizable impact on the cause you care about if you reduce your intake.

It's odd that people don't have this with other issues, the idea of "reducing purchases of disposable plastic" or "buying fairtrade more" make total sense to people, but food is still often cashed out in these "all or nothing" terms.

This is a cool diagram, but I think it makes it look like you can't combine stuff. Obviously solar and wind in a lot of cases just plugged straight into batteries for storage.

On the flippy floppy, hydropower can do both, but in completely different ways. If you build a dam, you can't generate electricity, and if you build a turbine, you can't store it.

I don't know what my point overall is. I guess just that energy is complicated, and there probably isn't a "one size fits all" fix.

Well not for the people taking them, but you can make heaps of cash doling then out! (sarcasm)

I'm a data engineer, and have seen an ungodly ammount of 200-but-actually-no-stuff-is-broken errors and it's the bane of my life!

We have generic code to handle pulling in api data, and transforming it. It's obviously check the status code, but any time an API implements this we have to choose between:

• having code fail wierdly further down the line because can't parse the status
• adding in some kind of insane if not response.ok or "actually no there's an error really" in response.content logic

Every time you ignore protocols and invent your own, you are making everyone sad.

Will take recommendations of support groups I can join for victims of terrible apis.

I've heard this argument a lot, and honestly in scares me for a bunch of reasons. It feels like flirting with climate facism, but more than that, it feels like giving up on the world as a whole, and I don't think that helps.

If you care about climate change, get involved in activism, vote for policies that will make a difference, do whatever you can to make the future a place that isn't a burden to inhabit.