The lobbyists working against it use the term 'could cause', implying you could put the stuff in a crusher or something and turn it into fibers, which is true enough I suppose.
If it's in brake linings, it WILL be turned into a fine, airborne dust. That's how brakes work.
+1 on The Economist. The reporting is great and I'm happy to pay money for it. They do a great job of covering global issues. They do have bias, but it's not really "political." You just need to filter out that they will always consider economic growth to be "good." But then again, the magazine is called the "Economist" not "we live on a finite planet and this shit isn't sustainable."
Yes and no. The hype cycle is slowing, but practical applications of machine learning and GPT are permeating more specialties. There are some cool practical applications out there which don't need someone who can visualize vast amounts of data to identify patterns and act on them.
True. But your UID is low enough that you would remember the first dot-com bubble. There were lots of decent products and services that came out of it, but there were plenty of over-hyped, derivative ideas that went bust (and rightly so). In a parallel with today's story, there were also plenty of dotcom businesses in the late 1990s that blatantly lied about what "the internet" would do to make their products and services the best in the world and you should totally invest right now.
It is my understanding that starlink is not nearly as fast as standard internet. Starlink is only for cases when there is no other option.
So, large parts of impoverished third-world shitholes like the USA and Australia, then?
And now for reasons âoeunknownâ the cloud pattern has changed. Couldn't be the thermal updraft from the panelsâ¦..I support renewables. I also support extensive thermal impact modeling for the natural airflow of these places. Placement needs to be in conjunction with natural thermal flows. Balanced as to minimize impact of weather patterns.
If you're worried about "thermal updraft" I worry about what you will think when you learn about urban heat islands: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And a bunch of normal black roofs don't even make electricity! If you're worried about thermal effects, you would support the installation of rooftop solar on every existing roof.
THis was a major down draft at an airport KNOWN for these and yet, they did not order belts on. The mistake was the pilots.
You have made the same comment multiple times for this story. What point are you trying to make? It's worth adding something like "as I said above" or something to subsequent comments, otherwise it looks like you are trying to hide something.
They were trying to get out of having to deal with building Firefox and GNOME along with the rest of the system. They largely succeeded, except that Firefox didn't integrate with the system well for several minor versions of the OS after they went to making it a snap. This irritated me enough to start looking at other options, and I went to vanilla Debian for a while, then I removed systemd, and then I went to Devuan as a way of avoiding having to tweak a whole bunch of things as a result of doing that.
Today Firefox offers its own apt repo, so none of this effort is needed to avoid building it. Just use their repo!
Thanks for the info.
But then they got worse, forcing things on users. Then snap, fucking snap. Something that sucks up resources even when you're not using it. It doesn't even do what it's suppose to because it runs mostly as root anyway, they already had a package manager! (flatpak is no better) Now it's installed by default and can't really be turned off.
I was very happy when Linux Mint said they wouldn't include Snap. I'm far from a "power user" but even I don't see why we need Snap. It's easy to update by clicking on the "update" button. Surely that isn't too much to ask of a user?
There is a solution to this. Build long distance distribution lines.
Being able to sell power over long distances smooths out the demand curve, and makes traditional generators that can't ramp up and down quickly more viable.
Solar can also be improved to reduce the changes in supply at sunrise and sunset, but placing some of the panels vertically, to catch light when the sun is low in the sky.
This would be particularly useful in the USA. Solar generation in the western part of the continent could contribute to the evening demand in the east.
that has been thoroughly debunked by virtue of every place that tried it turning into a drug infested shithole.
Have you ever been to the Netherlands? Portugal? The Czech Republic? Beautiful countries, friendly people, good health care, and very permissive drug laws. Much lower per-capita incarceration rates too, which saves taxpayers money and increases GDP.
How else should people stay in touch with older family members and IRL, though distant, friends? Telephone? Email, which they never set up on their new phone?
Yes. Telephone and email. Just like we have for 100+ years (phone) and 25+ years (email). Web-based email has been around since the 1990s. Still works, and no software to set up, unless you want IMAP or something.
Teslas also have the windscreen wiper controls on the touchscreen. They are supposed to be automatic, but the automatic system uses the front facing camera and doesn't work very well.
What the actual fuck. The car thinks it has a better idea whether the driver can see out of the car than the actual fucking driver? And peopple still buy these cars? Actual humans say "golly gee, I don't know if I can see through the front window, I'd better buy a car that decides for me." ?? Please tell me that shit can at least be turned off. Permanently, not something that gets disabled every time the car is driven.
These stupid automatic climate control systems are the worst offenders. My 2001 Toyota had a few big buttons to turn the A/C compressor, recirc, and defrost on and off, and temp, fan, and vent control were all giant chunky knobs that you could reach for without looking to adjust whatever was making you uncomfortable. The automatic ones have tiny buttons with half the functions buried in clumsy menus (and nothing you do will actually make it comfortable in the car).
Amen to that. The worst offenders are those systems where you get into a car on a hot sunny day. The interior is over 60C (whatever that is in fahrenheit) and the climate control goes "derp, the air is hot. Better cool it down fast." and turns all the fans to MAXIMUM. But the AC hasn't had time to get cold yet, so now the car is blowing 60C air around the cabin, all sound and fury and accomplishing nothing. Whereas a driver who's not an idiot can open a couple of windows, give the AC time to cool down etc.
Aside from that, automakers have been guilty for a long time of large arrays of barely indistinguishable buttons on the console.
Unfortunately, from a usability standpoint, the ideal would be something that looks like a Playskool child's toy.
I would buy that car
Google has responded quite a while ago, long before Gartner said this. They have their own LLM, Gartner's statements actually seem to lean heavily on Google's own assessments.
It's also a comment on the continuing enshittification of google's own search engine. Google search hallucinates results all the time, based on what it "thinks" I want, instead of what I typed into the fucking search box. OK, these may not be hallucinations but a sale of my search to the highest advertising bidder, but it's still shit, and less useful than just giving the user the results that they searched for.
Chrome OS is reported separately, but it's still a Linux-based desktop operating system (built on Gentoo, as I understand it). Reporting these results as only 4% minimizes the success of operating systems using the Linux kernel.
I dunno, I prefer it this way. ChromeOS is like Android, it's there because the manufacturer put it there. Proper desktop Linux is usually only there because the user (or their "techie friend) put it theere deliberately. Counting the latter tells us more about how cranky people are about the enshittification of Windows. Cranky enough to put in the effort to install and learn another OS.
Meaningless anecdote: I used Windows since 95. Moved to Linux Mint because one project required it. Dual-booted for a year or two, then realised that the Windows partition was just a waste of space. The handful of times per year that I NEED windows, it's far easier to use it in a VM. I'm using Linux on a range of systems, from Thinkpads to homebuilt desktops to 10+ year old netbooks. It Just Works, and you don't need an internet connection or microsoft account to get it up and running. Boot from USB, hit "install," select a time zone, done.
What good is a ticket to the good life, if you can't find the entrance?
