People will start to think like professional athletes: I have to earn a life's wage by the time I'm 35, because after that I won't have an income anymore.

So you better start paying me better.

Predicting something that's constantly changing isn't easy, I hope that's not too hard to grasp.

Going by what we can observe, what even I can say is that the outlook isn't that good. Then again, I hope the planet will last another 30 years. I don't have no kids and my remaining life expectancy is about that many years, so ... why the fuck should I care?

If you're younger and/or have kids... you should.

If it makes you feel better, call it a "weather crisis". Tomeeto, tomaato.

What matters is that the whole shit is getting out of hand as we're watching.

The idea that they could rebuild the torched code in working, available ram and then change the addresses in code to point to it is... just top notch. Hats way, way off to the designers.

My guess is that the bias is due to the first artifacts to be graded have no baseline, and so they are graded the most generously. The more you grade, the more you see what's better and what's worse. What was a good paper if you saw it first might descend to the middle of the pile when you read nuances that others have introduced.

So randomizing the order would help spread around who goes early. But hiding the names without randomization still means the first papers get graded easier - and the same people still get their papers read first.

Aren't the people who poop on climate science the same who usually lament that people care way, way too much about the fee-fees of people today and that they should just grow a pair and toughen up.

So toughen up, morons!

A month ago it was freezing. 2 weeks ago, we hit the 30s (Celsius, that's like the 90s in backwards units). We're now back to freezing temperatures. But don't you worry, we should be back in the 30s come May.

You want to call that normal?

Talking to yourself again, I see?

Melodrama much?

We have the technology to wane us from the habit of fossils now. Yes, it is indeed possible to have civilization AND a habitable planet.

Actually, considering how humans react when resources (especially stuff like food and water) get scarce, I dare say having a habitable planet is a prerequisite for retaining civilization.

It's like playing hide and seek with a three year old that covers his eyes and thinks if he can't see you, you can't see him.

I can see the appeal of apping appz.

It's nice to know that 3 years from now, your code will be considered hopelessly outdated and obsolete and you'll never have to maintain it...

As I've been one of those software engineers that got thrown into the slings and arrows of old, badly written, worse documented and worst supported code, I admire the coding (and working) standards of the NASA engineers of the 70s.

They still have people at hand who can make sense of that code. Even the junior programmers of the original crew are by now retired or dead.

Was going to post something silly, like, "Well, as the ruler of my detached single family home, I declare Putin to be a convicted felon, and if he sets foot in my home he'll be arrested.

But then it occurred to me that one of us has access to polonium, and possesses both the willingness to deploy it, and the people to make it happen in other nations... these circumstances are not equivalent!