1/ I have mentioned stranded assets before; however, it is difficult to convey just how much chaos the green transition is going to cause to the world. From a purely technological angle, it is no different from any other "disruption" we've experienced in the past...

https://twitter.com/chigrl/status/1470732036830863364

2/ ... were it not for the fact that oil has been a tool of realpolitik ever since it took over from coal. As I said when talking about stranded assets, it is incorrect to think that we can "transition" from a carbon economy to a renewable economy. It is not a "transition"...

1/ uma coisa que me começou a interessar bué recentemente é a relação da geração que nasceu depois da Dipanda com a história pre-Dipanda. Até recentemente nunca tinha pensado nisso mas acho que temos uma espécie de "blind spot". 2/ Lembro-me vivamente de ter conversas em casa em que a minha mãe dizia que o "saudosismo é muito perigoso". Claro que como kandengue não fazia ideia do que ela estava a falar, mas o resultado foi que sempre que visse coisas do pré-independencia tinha tendência para ignorar.

1/ One of the most peculiar things about Emacs is how you can spend ages (literally years) not using a feature - sometimes not even knowing about its existence - and then suddenly having your life change when you find it. org-mode agenda is one of those features. 2/ I've been using Emacs for time management for maybe a decade now, and I can honestly say I would not have made it through the PhD without it. Its such a long winded, uncertain effort over a long period of time that without some form of organisation I would have just got lost.

1/ Another Friday, another Emacs thread. So, you've seen me ranting and raving about Emacs, and by now you may be asking: "So, are you telling me I should abandon X and use Emacs?" Sadly, the answer is almost always... "no, don't do that". But let me try to explain why. 2/ If you are a new-ish dev, you should try to optimise for two things simultaneously: a) things you find interesting *and* b) things that will make you employable. Therefore, you should use whatever environment and languages employers want. Sadly, that won't be Emacs (or Vim).

1/ Yet another thread on Emacs. One of the most important points in the life of an Emacs "user" (the quotes will become clear in a moment) is the moment where you realise that Emacs is not an editor but a framework to build editors, which happens to have a sample for you to try. 2/ I mean, most of us know this, but even then, its difficult to appreciate its logical consequences. Anyway, lets do a simple example for those not in the know. Say I start a project in VS Code, and create a new class. It prompts me to install extensions, and stuff happens...

1/ Bem, sextou, e já à muito tempo que não faço um daqueles rants, de modo que tá na hora né. Hoje queria falar um pouco de energia, realpolitik e o futuro desse nosso laboratório de sobrevivência chamado Angola. Quem tá interessado, melhor pegar aquela cuca... 2/ Acho que até o mais desatento entre nós reparou nas várias e diversas notícias que têm aparecido sobre projectos de energias não renováveis em Angola. De repente, depois de muito tempo com tudo parado, agora parece está tudo em movimento.

1/ Devo de começar por dizer que eu não sou um "saudosista" e que pouco - ou melhor, nada - conheci da Angola colonial. A independência para mim foi uma das nossas maiores vitórias alcançadas. Mas este post no Facebook mostra um lado interessante da nossa capacidade productiva. 2/ É importante comparar laranjas com laranjas: a economia colonial não era uma economia de mercado, o que significa que a viabilidade de muitos destes negocios não é fácil de aferir; seriam estas fábricas e fazendas produtivas apenas por usarem trabalhadores mal remunerados?

1/ After many years of thinking that hydrogen was a waste of time, it suddenly hit me: in the absence of a *major* breakthrough to allows us to create cheap batteries at will, hydrogen is going to be _the battery_. 2/ The growth of the solar and wind capacity will be much, much faster than the battery capacity and soon - as it always happens with capitalism - it will overshoot demand. Then it'll overshoot battery capacity. At that point you need to store energy by any means - even if lossy.