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New comment by jshen in "40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal"

jshen — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:03:39 +0000

It's the leading cause of deforestation which is a major factor in climate change. It also is a major contributor to climate change for other reasons. Since you mentioned energy, it's also much less energy efficient.

Isn't this something to care about?

New comment by jshen in "MacBook Neo"

jshen — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:55:47 +0000

If you're trying to link clang, this laptop is not for you. It's for people that would consider a chromebook for their use case.

New comment by jshen in "MacBook Neo"

jshen — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:53:47 +0000

Gifs. I'm only half joking.

New comment by jshen in "Web Components: The Framework-Free Renaissance"

jshen — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:51:02 +0000

What model did you use? Curious if something like Opus 4.6 does a better job.

New comment by jshen in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

jshen — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 07:24:09 +0000

Then why aren't Europeans using them?

New comment by jshen in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

jshen — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 07:22:53 +0000

Good call out, India is likely the most viable option.

New comment by jshen in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

jshen — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:41:25 +0000

It's not clear that anything will be kneecapped. You need more than a desire to not use these products, you also need a viable alternative. Using products from China or Russia probably isn't deemed viable if the concern is politics, which leads to a need for Europe or Canada to build alternatives. They have not been good at this for a long time, maybe that will change, but it's not clear that it will.

New comment by jshen in "Golang's big miss on memory arenas"

jshen — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:49:42 +0000

Which dynamically typed languages perform like a statically typed language?

New comment by jshen in "I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon"

jshen — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:09:52 +0000

Thanks for clarifying. I wasn't sure that's what that role was intended to do.

New comment by jshen in "I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon"

jshen — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:43:10 +0000

yes, but they typically hire a singular CEO to drive a cohesive vision and strategy with the check that they can fire the CEO at anytime.

New comment by jshen in "I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon"

jshen — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:38:08 +0000

Right, and it's TBD if that will turn out to be more or less effective. I'm hopeful, but more voices isn't always better.

New comment by jshen in "I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon"

jshen — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:06:10 +0000

It depends what the alternative is. A vacuum is worse for example.

New comment by jshen in "Google Antigravity"

jshen — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 20:14:38 +0000

It's been winning for a while

New comment by jshen in "Micro.blog launches new 'Studio' tier with video hosting"

jshen — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 03:14:09 +0000

If we want the fediverse to take off we need a solution to the "LOT of traffic" issue.

New comment by jshen in "Micro.blog launches new 'Studio' tier with video hosting"

jshen — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 03:12:36 +0000

You're showing it's expensive to get a lot of views on a video, or as you say, it's not expensive if you get a small amount of views.

I want the fediverse and open web to be viable, and we need a solution to hosting high view count videos.

New comment by jshen in "Micro.blog launches new 'Studio' tier with video hosting"

jshen — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:03:17 +0000

The other issue is that it's expensive. You can put a video on youtube for free and they carry the cost and cover it with advertising. If you self-host and your videos get a LOT of traffic it gets expensive quickly.

New comment by jshen in "Tough truths about climate"

jshen — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 23:12:47 +0000

I hope you're right, but I'm not optimistic. The demands for power by AI is immediate and extremely large. We can't bring nuclear online fast enough so it will likely keep co2 output high.

Assuming you are right, when would you expect the rate of atmospheric co2 increases to start to decline?

New comment by jshen in "Tough truths about climate"

jshen — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 21:27:52 +0000

Co2 levels are the best metric for progress, and progress would be a steady lowering of the rate of increase. We are not seeing that, and AI's power hunger is likely to make it worse despite all of the positive things you mentioned.

New comment by jshen in "Tough truths about climate"

jshen — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 06:08:59 +0000

I don't see any progress in terms of the rate of increase in atmospheric co2 over time.

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...

New comment by jshen in "Tough truths about climate"

jshen — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 05:51:10 +0000

Your example is infinitesimally small, climate change is not. But you didn't answer the question either, what probability of societal collapse do you think is acceptable?