Craftsmen will have a resurgence, that's probably a 'leveling up' in terms of resilience against AI takeover. There's just no way of automating quite a few of the physically effective crafts.

So the rich who can afford craftsmen will get richer, spend more on their multiple houses, perhaps. But that's literal crumbs, one or two jobs out of tens of thousands. There's no significant "leveling up" there at the societal levels of job destruction we're talking about.

Love it when it circles around a minor issue that I clearly described as temporary hack instead of recognizing the tremendously large gaping hole in my implementation right next to it.

I was somewhat confused and irritated by the lack of a clear frontrunner crate for XML support in rust. I get that xml isn't sexy, but still.

For me, the shear length of uuids is annoying in payloads of tokens etc. I wish there was a common way to abbreviate those, similar to the git way.

It's a 128 bit number. If you express that number in base 62 (26 upper case letters + 26 downcase letters + 10 digits) you need only a bit more than 20 characters. You can compress it further by increasing the base and using other 8 bit ASCII characters.

Crockford base32 [0] is the best compromise, IMO. Reasonable length of 26 chars. Uses only alphanumeric characters and avoids issues with case sensitivity and confusing characters (0 vs O, etc.).

0: https://www.crockford.com/base32.html

If only one could construct a macro to solve the boilerplate of AsRef<str> etc ;)

To me, there’s not much difference between:

  fn foo(name: &str) {}

and*:

  fn foo(name: impl AsRef<str>) {}

Which confusingly are linked to on the 'prev' link at the bottom of each part...

Specifically not in the current case where almost all of that GDP growth lines the pockets of the already-wealthy.

Not to mention large chunks of it are from American companies cheating foreign tax systems. E.g. Amazon.

You're assuming that given the collection of simonw's publicly available blog posts, the creativity of those combinations can't be narrowed down. Simply reverse engineer his brain this way and you'll get your Xs and Ys ;)

I feel like that would over fit on various snakes like pythons.

Current examples would be drag racing cars that have motors that are designed and used in a way that they only survive for about 800 total revolutions.

'recyclable' is such a vague term. E.g. radiation-affected typically easily recycled materials are very hard to deal with (think e.g. pipe steel from power plants) and are effectively non-recyclable, instead of close to 100% recyclable, as their non-contaminated counterparts.

Opposed to that, battery recycling is mostly hard to deal with in terms of economics, and admittedly the chemistry involved is complex, but at least from a technical point of view, plenty of solutions are available - and the tech is coming in relatively quickly now that the demand is there (remember, first generation EVs are just now getting closer to EOL).

It's slightly amusing that recycling of a wind turbine is treated as if it was a big deal - yes the laminated rotor parts can't be part of circular economies, but the total material amount of this laughably small. All the metal components are very easily recycled.

I'm talking about wind turbine wings. A lot of stuff is fiberglass and have to be buried.

In many Western nations bury them is now forbidden. Most are burnt in cement kilns (producing useful heat).

In France, 95% of the mass of a wind turbine must be recycled (legal obligation), the concrete base is not spared and the law requires wind farm operators to lock (upfront) a financial guarantee (deposit).

Recyclable blades are appearing (RecyclableBlade, ZEBRA, PECAN...) and even existing ones are being considered: https://www.offshorewind.biz/2023/02/08/newly-discovered-che...

According to EDF (multinational electric utility company owned by the government of France, the giant in France, owning and operating all nuke plants) 94% of a solar panel is recyclable. In France most of it is already recycled.

Yea, I know. Their volume may look impressive, the actual amount of material is quite small and 'burying' that absolutely non-toxic stuff isn't any problem.