Oh, so that was fungi? TIL!

What kind of climate shift are you referring to? Like when fungi produce organic acids and aromatic compounds etc, how is that related to shifting the climate in any way?

That’s only a mild annoyance. More serious thought viruses change your behavior by making you buy stuff, join a cult, vote a billionaire or whatever. Those viruses have real consequences.

There’s an entire page for it.

Now I’m really curious to find out how Kevduit, GreyStillPlays and The Spiffing Brit would play it.

It depends on which kind of climate disaster we’re facing. If it’s reversible over the next million years, humanity as a species should be fine. The population would be cut down to just a tiny fraction, and the survivors might have to start from pre-industrial tech level.

If it’s irreversible, and the Earth becomes a Venus like hellscape, the whole planet should be pretty much sterilized. Good luck surviving that.

Ooh, just remembered one: Always on display. Android has had this feature for years, but it was always black and white. However, Apple did it with colors, which looks nicer. Is it more efficient though? Probably not, but I guess apple uses prioritize looks over practicality.

Yeah, that refinement thing is definitely a part of it. To me it seems that in most cases of the delayed features, there wasn’t really that much refinement. I guess some of them were refined, but I can’t think of a good example right now.

On average, Apple catches up 4 years after something has become a widespread standard feature.

Even Excel has a function called “average”, whereas R uses the “mean” function for the same thing. Interestingly, R doesn’t have a function called “average”, because that term is far too ambiguous to statisticians. I think that summarizes pretty well who these tools were made for.

You’re fortunate that your field happens to be reasonably accessible to common people. For example, if you’re a production engineer in a company that manufactures network infrastructure, it suddenly gets very hard to even explain what you do for a living. Normal people may have seen a router, but they’ve never even heard of switches. Regardless, they never paid much attention to network hardware, because they didn’t have to.

Climate is a lot harder to ignore. Everyone has thought about these things at some level. Everyone has heard about climate change at school, on TV, news articles etc. People also experience these things on a very personal level. Only very few people can say the same about network switches, let alone submarine line terminal equipment.

There are even more obscure fields out there. The relatives of those professionals just know that their nephew does something technical and hard to understand. I guess those dinner table conversations might gravitate towards some easier topics.

And it’s also so much faster than full disk encryption. Cool little trick the admins don’t want you to know.

Climate is something people already understand to some extent. If you start talking about different climate models and their assumptions, you should get those confused looks straight away.

Oh, but you gotta drop a chmod nuke at least once to feel the terror having done something irreversible. As a bonus, you’ll also gain a brand new appreciation for snapshots.

You’ve never seen what’s at the bottom of a lake? Could be dinosaurs. You’ve never seen what’s on the other side of the moon. Could be space nazis.

It’s because I’m always wrong. Just don’t think about the implications of this conversation.

Have you considered the possibility that nobody agrees with you because you’re always right and everyone else is always wrong.