I remember learning Prolog, it was tricky to wrap my mind around it, it wasn’t like any other language. The day I finally “got it” I was very happy, until I realized all the other languages I had previously learned, no longer made any sense.
I remember taking a PL class in undergrad, learning Prolog as one of a handful of languages. During that section my brain started to want to "bind" variables to things as I was going about my day, it was very weird.
I remember searching my library for every book I could find on computers and hacking, there weren’t many, but I somehow stumbled upon The Cuckoos Egg while flipping through the ancient wooden drawers of the card catalog in my local library. It really was one of the most magical books I’ve ever read. Since then I’ve had many exciting experiences of my own in the digital world, and I owe that in part to Clifford Stoll for painting such a vivid an exciting view of his own experiences that helped shape my own imagination.
To me, it seems like people writing these articles should be careful to avoid inaccuracies and overstatements in their writing. The very first sentence of the article includes the phrase “on track to be”.
My grandmother had a plum bush about 12 feet high that would produce thousands of plums every year. We would eat a few hundred, but about 90% would be “wasted”. Of course, they rotted back into the soil and provided nourishment for other living things.
Luckily, the bush is dead now, and all that food is no longer being wasted.
How much fertilizer, pesticide, labor and water from underground was applied to this bush? Were the fruits diverted to landfill after or composted? How much fossil fuel was used to transport the plums from her back yard to a sort facility, to a grocery store, to someone’s house and then back to the landfill? Landfills btw emit significant quantities of methane that are not present in aerobic composting.
This is a silly response that misses the forest for the trees if you will.
It beggars belief that the difference between industrial agriculture and ornamental plants is lost on you. Especially since my focus was on animals not plants - with a particular focus on water use.
Your average grandmother by the way (in the 70s), wasted 50% as much food as the average American wastes today so it might be worth a follow-up conversation with gammy about why that was.
They can always go to web. Android browsers supports push notifications what’s magical about an app?
Trump supporters: we are being treated unfairly and we can’t get our message out because of Twitter and Facebook, how will we ever Make America Great Again? Life is so unfair.
The civil rights movement: we are being beaten, we are being lynched, attacked by police, jailed, spit on just for trying to send our children to school, etc. Let’s start a grass roots organization.
There are definitely more MAGAs in proportion to the population and they are better funded than there were people working toward civil rights during the 60s. Maybe it’s not a matter of being persecuted it’s just incompetence when it comes to leadership?
Trump supporters overwhelmingly consider themselves Christians. If they really want to organize, they can do the same thing MLK did - go into the churches.