Archives January 2020

So having finally written down the thoughts on a carbon tax, that kept distracting me from actually working on Open Source, I finally got a bit of work done on Open Source on the last night of the vacation.

What I started work on was getting a sampling profiler format supported, and for that ...

So if we (Canada) were to set flat carbon cost at a reasonable $.6/kg ($600/ton) instead of our current $.02 rising to $.05 in two years with the big polluters excluded, what would happen? Would it be effective at changing people's behaviour?

Fuel

• Crude would go up by $258/barrel (currently $60)
• Oil Sands crude up ...

I've pushed out the PyOpenGL 3.1.5 release. It has some (relatively minor) fixes for wgl and egl operations, and one for what looks like a change in numpy scalar handling in the latest numpy. Available on PyPI now.

So it has been a long time since I forced myself to boot into Windows to get support/development work done for the platform. Other than one hard-freeze where the machine updated its drivers, rebooted, and just stopped recognising the keyboard or trackpad, it pretty much just worked (turning it off and on again did, as ...