TheSmiddy

they may have updated the website since the numerous comments here but the about section acknowledges all the libraries they use

Libraries

A big thanks to FFmpeg (audio, video), libvips (images) and Pandoc (documents) for maintaining such excellent libraries for so many years. VERT relies on them to provide you with your conversions.

> I don't see any glue scripts to get VMs talking to each other

I'm confused by what you mean here? Don't they just use the network like any other computer?

I haven't had to do any special configuration to get my VMs to talk to each other.

it works in the terminal on a headless server

How so? They're in the same ballpark as digital ocean and linode who would be their primary competitors, each of which are roughly a 3rd of the cost of AWS/GC/Azure.

The population right now is 4x what it was 100 years ago which itself was 2x what it was 100 years before that. so even if our per capita emissions haven't grown (they have, drastically) the graph of total emissions would still be stacked towards the present.

Ford owns several single letter trademarks for the purpose of selling cars. This doesn't prevent people from using the letters for other purposes.

The elevator pitch does a pretty good job of explaining the use case imo.

It's a perfectly fine objective if you trust your drivers to meet a minimum standard of a good job. It won't work in an adversarial system like Uber where drivers are just numbers but if the drivers are also invested in the success of the platform it's fine.

Given that drivers are driving the shorted distance/time route at the speed limit, treating customers with respect, arriving on time to scheduled pickups, etc. The next thing to focus on is scheduling/filling orders such that drive time is maximised.

China is rapidly decarbonising their transport, faster than any other country.

They also produce the vast majority of the world's solar panels.

Yeah I am joking about the yearning as it's obviously not a thing people think or care about. The hallway shuffle happens while walking down a hallway when someone is coming at you so you move to the left to let them pass but they move to their right (your left) and then you do that stupid little dance as you both swap sides at the same time two or three times before you laugh and move past each other. In countries where people drive on the right this happens far less frequently, almost everybody consistently moves to the right and it's not an issue.

An an Australian who's travelled a little I can tell you that in their hearts of hearts people yearn to drive on the right. In no other country do I find myself doing the hallway shuffle more than this one. If we drove on the right that would at least eliminate the conflict between what people want to do and what the rules say we should.

I don't think it will happen anywhere major without buy in from a few countries at once. Australia might swap if Japan ever decides to swap as they currently do supply a large number of our vehicles. Having said that I see a pretty rapid switch over to Chinese cars over the next 10-15 years as they leapfrog Japan in regards to EV powertrains so we might be willing to switch independent of that to gain access to newer models faster.

The most reliable grids in the world are made up of a large number of small generators rather than a single source which when taken down takes down the entire grid.

If you were to start a new city disconnected from the rest of society then a combination of wind, solar, hydro, and batteries is the cheapest and most reliable system to power that city.