David HoIt's not fashionable to talk about consuming less as a climate solution because our economy is based on selling us crap that no one needs.
Trammell Hudson@davidho @cstross this reminds me of the classic joke about the difference between EE and CS majors when asked to design a toaster: https://web.cs.wpi.edu/~gogo/humor/hum_toast.html
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@th @davidho @cstross As someone who works in a CS field, I can unfortunately confirm the accuracy of this anecdote. Several of my coworkers have the same tendency to massively overengineer solutions to potential future problems and inflate the scope of a project to a ridiculous degree.
I used to, but I've gotten pretty good at asking myself, "Is this really necessary?" whenever it feels like a project is growing too big.