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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Yeah, let’s embed a MS Word window in the interface instead of the text box, for a full wysiwyg user friendly experience. It could check the user’s environment and log in to Office365 using their credentials, thus having access to their templates and onedrive too.

    Hey, hey, what about… Teams integration? That would be super user friendly. We could read, comment and post directly from our cosy familiar Microsoft friendliness, never ever needing to know, worry or care about any underlying technology.

    But wait! I clearly remember having to know, worry and care about how to use wysiwyg editors. Can’t we instead go back to using raw latex tags and vi as the post/comment interface?


  • Instead of going vegan or not having kids, I died when I was 5. Because living also creates more greenhouse gasses.

    In fact, having a small footprint is just a matter of choosing how miserable you’re willing to make your life.

    Unfortunately the Earth cannot sustainably support so many people living COMFORTABLY, and eating WHATEVER WE LIKE. The more people, the more miserable is the globally sustainable way of life.

    Curbing population growth - not Thanos-like, but through education and availability of contraceptive methods - is the only way we can all have the cake (and the meat) and eat it.

    Many wealthy countries have their population declining. Maybe if we get to the same level of wealthiness everywhere, less people would engage in procreation.

    In any case, if we just do nothing and the doomsday evangelists are even nearly right, extreme weather, plage and famine caused by climate change will indeed curb the population. Eventually it reaches equilibrium.

    In this case, the faster we get to the edge of the abyss, the quicker the situation will solve itself.