Profile pic is from Jason Box, depicting a projection of Arctic warming to the year 2100 based on current trends.
I guess. Global air travel contributes about 2.5% of total CO2 emissions. This is 10% reduction of US aircraft, so multiply whatever percentage that is of global to the other two and that’s how much less there is. It doesn’t include any adjustments, like more car travel.
Won’t make much of a dent in things like the increase of power use emissions thanks to AI.
Challenge Rainbolt and zi8gzag to find where you are and send a plane.
I would question if it’s fast anymore either. In my days of working fast food long ago we had parameters of customer quality and speed we had to meet. I do not see any evidence that any of the chains care about any of that anymore. Why would they? They give shit for shit prices and shit speed, and people keep coming back for more. Capitalism rule, why do better when it’s not needed or required?
Then why is 15/hr still such a hot topic of resistance when that number was a living wage minimum amount decades ago? And what is the federal minimum wage still at? Then there’s the issue of underemployment in both lowered expectations of what’s available for a person’s skill set, and also how many hours are actually available at whatever the rate is offered (i.e., if you give an employee a job at 20/hr but only give them 15 hours a week, that’s not a living wage).
There’s a lot of problems beyond just wage growth, and I would suggest that even if wages did start increasing faster than inflation for a while now, that just means they’re “only” too low a little less. People wouldn’t be working multiple jobs for each household member to make ends meet if wages were close to appropriate for cost of living needs.
As a side topic, that’s something that’s always fascinated me. Looking around at the various vehicles and shops that most people just see as background noise, there are so many industries that we take for granted unless we need that particular product or service. Lots of things done in the middle of the supply chain that the average consumer never sees. Commerce is an enormous machine with billions of hidden parts to it, and it’s amazing it functions like it does even in times of crisis.
And I presume popped up when opened. Then that suggests contamination prior to sealing, which is a little worse problem than damage during shipping or a bad sealing.
Might have had one of those pop up buttons to show the seal is broken. Ideally a stocker would see it, or the customer when selecting it, but I wonder how many people look that closely.
I’ve only found success in LLM code (local) with smaller, more direct sections. Probably because it’s pulling from its training data the most repeated solutions to such queries. So for that it’s like a much better Google lookup filter that usually gets to the point faster. But for longer code (and it always wants to give you full code) it will start to drift and pull things out of the void, much like in creative text hallucination but in code it’s obvious.
Because it doesn’t understand what it’s telling you. Again, it’s a great way to mass filter Stack Overflow and Reddit answers, but remember in the past when searching through those, that can work well or be a nightmare. Just like then, don’t take any answer and just plug it in, understand why that might or might be a working solution.
It’s funny, I’ve learned a lot of my programming knowledge through the decades by piecing things together and in the debugging of my own or other’s coding, figured out what works. Not the greatest way to do it, but I learn best through necessity than without a purpose. But with LLM coding that goes wild, debugging has its limits, and there have been minor things that I’ve just thrown out and started over because the garbage I was handed was total BS wrapped up in colorful paper.
Yes, but there are far easier and cheaper ways to go. Dude must have just read about using things from space to control sunlight input and thought he’s such a genius surely he can figure it out. I guess he skipped over all the debunking that such ideas get.
And crucially, once we jump on the geoengineering train, we better not stop. It will only slow things and buy more time, but if we stop after beginning, the spike will be catastrophic (probably, there’s still so much we learn, but it won’t be a solution). But we will go that route, because economic health is far more important than anything else, and never plateaus by its very nature. There must be growth, or it all crashes down.
Some of us are old enough to remember how cats and other creatures would get killed by old car engine designs with the large open fan driven by a belt. They would sleep on that fan housing and not realize the danger when the car was started. So there have been improvements that have helped, maybe not necessarily for that reason. For what it’s worth, I’m on the side of minimizing cars for so many reasons, but it has been worse for animals in the past.
And agents who don’t do this, or do other illegal acts should be dealt with. Right? Hello?
It means 42. Life, universe, all that…
Kids don’t even know they’re referencing a great author.
Shorting isn’t the problem as much as metal against metal bending things. Those contacts are fragile. Plastic or wood and being gentle won’t hurt anything.
C-64 -> DOS (at school) -> Unix (at uni) -> Every Windows from 3.1 to Win10 including some NT -> Linux/Win10
That pretty much dates me, with that huge stretch of time.
Messed around with Linux a few times on and off (Mandrake was first), never took the plunge until recently where it’s now my primary. And it’s not Arch.
Meanwhile that little block at the bottom is still doing its best to keep it all together. For now.
Whole milk will go bad very quickly, especially once opened and if not kept below a certain temperature. 2% lasts a lot longer. Also changing the location in the refrigerator makes a huge difference, the door area is the warmest part. If you haven’t had an issue before, then it could be that at some point in handling from the store or you the milk was allowed to warm a bit too much. Again, for whole milk it doesn’t take a lot, and any perishables from Walmart is taking a risk vs. other groceries. Find a store that gets local farm stuff if possible, and try 2%, it’s possible to wean off that sweet whole and buy some time and health.
Maybe not. Any idea when it became a thing online? It seemed to coincide with when AI images started to get a lot better (and thus used a lot more), and that could have been a few years ago, or this year, depending on your standard of “better”.
“Slop” ought to be another word that’s gained popularity in use. I’m still having trouble with it, mainly because I think it’s overused a lot in short insults and dismissals of things. Not aimed at you here, at least you define WHY you consider it in that category. I’m talking more the “AI slop” that mirrors the “fake news” or “git gud” or any other reply that avoids actual discussion and screams “I hate this, but have nothing more to contribute”.
The glass contents are at the halfway mark, and we’re being told it’s full. Call it pessimism, call it realism, whatever.
The kicker is, what is in the glass is also diluted. Yes, I’m fun at parties.