As a rule, the coders liked to code and make computers do new stuff, and the sysadmins liked to make sure said computers worked smoothly. Coders would eagerly explain that with some easily acquired new kit, they could revolutionise things for the business, while sysadmins would roll their eyes and ask how this would affect user management, or interoperability, or stability, or account management, or some other boring subject no-one wanted to hear about anymore.
And for the past ten years coders have ruled the world and have broken it into ever smaller pieces for the marketers to be able to sell them to others.
Sysadmins still make sure to prevent coders from breaking organizations but we can only do so much.
Forget solidarity: the global south will not survive this century without climate justice. You in the west are talking about paper straws, we in the global south are talking about reparations.
A clear example of flooding in this scale has already happened in California, of all places: The Great Flood of 1862:
Heavy rains over the preceding months.
Record amount of rain in a short period of time.
Knowledge from Native people was ignored. Their lore had passed down knowledge of such events.
Sacramento was underwater for three entire months after the storms causing the flooding passed, forcing a move of the state capital from Sacramento to San Francisco.
This is just one instance. The lack of infrastructure maintenance in the US will prove very, very costly. Just look at New Orleans.
The US should be bracing for a very watery future.
i never realized cuneiform was made with the corner of a cuboid tool, i thought the wedge shapes were carved such that you would press straight down with the tool at a 90° angle to the clay
Instagram’s co-founders, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger created a mobile social network based on visual storytelling. The impetus provided by the early photography-centric approach turned it into a fast-growing phenomenon. For Facebook, it was an existential threat. And it was worth spending nearly a billion dollars to own, control, and eventually subsume. And that’s precisely what Facebook has done.
