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slowboring.com/p/the-investmen

This defense of #statusquo and #incrementalism as the ONLY way forward is jaw-dropping in its complete denial of the #urgency and #scale of #climatechange

#Influential people like this writer are simply unwilling to engage with the catastrophic impacts faced by folks in the #developing world where there is no recourse. For these folks - it is all a #game

Slow Boring · The investment-led approach to climate only works if you actually do itBy Matthew Yglesias

noahpinion.blog/p/developing-c

"#developing #countries should promote #productivity growth through #exports — use the financial system and other incentives to push companies to sell overseas, and to temporarily subsidize exporters in order to discover national champions."

Adjacent to #crony #capitalism and eventually #authoritarianism. This nation-specific approach ignore people. It is all about "who is the king of the castle."

Can we actually focus on real #development irrespective of #borders?

www.noahpinion.blogDeveloping countries: A follow-upChecking in on some countries I wrote about a few years back.

ft.com/content/70fc473d-79b4-4

Throwing the #poor from the #developing #world under the bus... episode umpteen

Then pulling the funding for organizations such as #USAID... episode umpteen+1

Canceling #student #immigration removing another opportunity to survive... episode umpteen+2

Deporting immigrants... ... episode umpteen+3

All in a day's work!

Exactly how #cruel is the #developed world?

#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #climateaction #adaptation #equality #justice #migration

Technical Excellence: Lost. Like Atlantis. But with more AI JavaScript.

Once upon a time, engineers knew things. Not Googled things. Crafted things. We automated builds, wrote real tests, treated code like it could explode if mishandled, which it did, and we were proud when it didn't. It was elegant. Precise. Shameful if the customer found a bug. Now? It's fashionable to push broken features into production and call it MVP.

Nowadays, we want to engineer. But we don't get the space for applying our knowledge. Every training is useless when you can't apply it.

"Senior Developers" parade around with 10 years of experience by repeating the same year 10 times. They chant Clean Architecture but build everything in main(). They talk about TDD, then mock their way into oblivion. They don’t refactor, as it's not in the ticket. They don’t simplify, they just make it work. They wait for ticket assignments like robots awaiting firmware updates.
Worse: nobody creates anymore. They consume tools. No one understands the layers. No one asks why.

Agility? Without engineering excellence, it's just theatre. You can't move fast if you don't know how your engine works.

Want to be agile? Build engineers who:
* Understand architecture beyond drawing hexagons.
* Write tests that assert behaviour, not just lines executed.
* Know the cost of a dependency.
* Automate not for fun, but for resilience.
* Take responsibility before being told to.
* Stop chasing tools & Start understanding systems.
* Build things that work, not just compile.

Technical excellence is not a luxury. It's the foundation. And without it, you're not building software. You're just decorating the Titanic.

Agility without engineering is chaos in a hoodie.

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The biggest thing stopping the #mac from being a good source for #gaming is actually the difficulty it takes in developing games that can run on the mac and run well. #Apple likes to tote there capabilities,but what they don't say is that #developing for the mac takes twice as long as to develop the same for windows, not to mention that on an accessibility scale, it is not easy to use #XCode to directly code on the mac, trust me, I've tried and i found it way easier to use #VSCode to make even basic programs whereas for the mac, using XCode to do the exact same thing is like 10 times slower and harder to do for the same amount of work simply because of navigation alone with #VoiceOver.

Depict a realistic portrayal of human life in 2030. Keep in mind contemporary global issues such as climate change, social inequality, and the ongoing technological advancements. Include imagery of metropolises with eco-friendly architecture, electric vehicles and individuals utilizing advanced tech gadgets. People of diverse genders and descents should be included - an Asian woman operating a drone delivery system, a Middle Eastern man using a renewable energy device, a Hispanic woman working with AI technology, a Black man in a vertical garden urban farm, and a Caucasian male using virtual reality technology.

#aYearForArt #Generated #AI #future #humans #2030 #realistic #globalproblems #technology #developing