I often hear science-adjacent folks stating that a tree needs to be 30 years old before it starts absorbing CO₂, usually paired with the statement that it’s therefore pointless to start planting tons of trees now for slowing climate change....
Yeah, last time I heard it, it was in this German video: piped.video/watch?v=ThqfNX8EMe4
(I did not note down the timestamp, sorry.)
As I understand, the guy has a PhD in forensics. Obviously, not quite his field of expertise, but I’d expect a biologist to know how a tree works at a basic level.
I have watched other, similar videos of the guy before and since people here seem to not have heard this number before, I’m now consider that it was maybe always this guy who said it. I’m sure, he has some source for it, but it was an offhand, somewhat cynical comment, so maybe he oversimplified…
IMO the STL is a lot easier to get a grasp on as a newer developer than Rust’s borrow checker or lifetime system.
I actually feel like Rust’s borrow checker is more difficult to learn for experienced devs. We’ve got a trainee in Rust and for her, it’s just a normal thing that variable slots hold ownership and can lend it and get it back. She does sometimes still struggle with when to clone and when to borrow, but she’s getting there.
As for the lifetime system, no one on our team really gets that one. 🙃
But (that’s because) you rarely need it.
Gotta love these kind of news. There’s always these hypothetical discussions of clouds being insecure and companies generally just ignore that, because clouds are theoretically, sometimes cheaper.
And then every now and then, half the internet leaks out of one of these clouds and everyone’s like, holy crap, and then companies go back to generally just ignoring that, because clouds are theoretically, sometimes cheaper.
Yeah, with the GDPR, you could theoretically get sued for using inappropriate technologies, but unless a proper expert committee officially declares Azure et al unsalvagable, you can always say, you thought you were using safe technologies.
Potentially a somewhat unsatisfying response, but it doesn’t really matter.
Most Linux distros are similarly excellent when it comes to privacy and similarly not-necessarily-excellent for gaming.
Obviously, they do have their nuances, but you’ll only start caring about that, as you understand more of the details.
What’s kind of more important, is the choice of desktop environment. It determines the look and feel of the whole OS.
Distros generally come with a default desktop environment, so your choice of desktop may ultimately play into that.
You can just look at a few videos to determine what desktop environment you like. Popular desktop environments (along with a reasonable distro shipping them):
KDE: very feature-rich, very customizable, rather Windows-like out of the box (Distro: Kubuntu)
Cinnamon: reasonably feature-rich, reasonably customizable, quite Windows-like (Distro: Linux Mint)
GNOME: rather feature-rich, not as customizable, more macOS-like (Distro: Ubuntu)
[Solved] Trees supposedly take 30 years *before* they absorb CO₂. Why?
I often hear science-adjacent folks stating that a tree needs to be 30 years old before it starts absorbing CO₂, usually paired with the statement that it’s therefore pointless to start planting tons of trees now for slowing climate change....
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