@drvolts @TheOtherJH some of them run to routes, but there’s also a lot more flexibility than government-run bus services. Wikipedia has a good article on the topic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_vans_in_the_New_York_metropolitan_area

@Transportist @drvolts also agricultural machinery and small boats. In all cases bio/synfuels likely the most viable option.

Can I tell you a fun story? It's a little braggy, but it's also about the power of journalism, so, indulge me.

In his latest (sadly subscriber-only) newsletter, @dwallacewells@twitter.com writes about @ClimateTRACE@twitter.com, the new system of satellites meant to track GHGs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/16/opinion/environment/surveillance-state-climate-change.html

@TheOtherJH @drvolts dollar vans are basically small buses, as I understand it.

@timhollo I’d read it. Not sure I’d agree with all of it. But I’m just a lowly code monkey so whether I read it or not is largely irrelevant 😜 by the way, I have feels about your book, hopefully by the weekend I’ll have finished writing some of them down.

@liamvhogan also works when dealing with heritage buildings, most of the time…

It’s still incredible to me how problems can go from intractable to straightforward on any number of dimensions, by what from the outside seem the subtlest reframings.

Not new or original, I know, but still an underappreciated point. #softwareengineering #engineering

@drmakimber @solar_chase for what it’s worth if I had a few million dollars to throw at climate activism at the moment I’d spend it on product placement for induction cooktops :)

If I had ten billion dollars to spend on combatting climate change, I'm honestly not sure what I'd do with it, and I rather think that if you are then you haven't really looked into the question.

(For obvious reasons this is not investment advice).

Coprolite may not be my favourite fossil. But it's a solid number two.

@drmakimber @solar_chase deploy existing tech or fund research that holds potential to abate hard to abate sectors? FWIW if I had 10 billion dollars to spend and didn’t care about getting any of it back I’d probably do the latter, but it’s not a straightforward call to say the least!

@Unixbigot @KathyReid reminds me of firewalls back in the day. Everything but port 80 gets blocked => everything ends up being mangled through port 80.

Nice to be writing something more elegant than a release note for once. Looking forward to sharing once I’ve finished.

@simon yeah, the (likely) lack of exportability is what bothers me about a service like this.

@simon suspect that once this service got its hooks in it would be very difficult to give up, no matter what they put the monthly subscription up to. Voluntary ransomware…

@gsuberland the “duplicate, concatenate and use a string matching algorithm” is elegant and probably close to fastest worst case complexity, but I wonder whether your data has properties that make much better average-case performance possible.