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The abundance of digital storage and processing power has caused an explosion in wastefulness, which shows in things like ridiculous hardware requirements for computing even the most trivial tasks. Permacomputing aims at only using computing when it has a strengthening effect on ecosystems.
A Holistic Approach to Computing and Sustainability Inspired From Permaculture.
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Project-Specific Pattern Languages
Efficiency is not the problem (often what people try to solve with pattern languages) - correctly finding a form that fits the context is the real problem.
Pattern languages should be helpful in passing knowledge or preventing a re-solve of a solved problem.
Christopher Alexander: A Primer
Ryan Singer
Today, roughly 500 Americans are dying each day from COVID-19. At this rate, SARS-CoV-2 will be the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2023—about triple the threat of influenza.
Are We Still in a COVID-19 Emergency?
Katelyn Jetelina from Your Local Epidemiologist
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