7b gemma nano models are... not terrible. I can see having a 30b model that uses 15gb on a phone that outperforms early (1H 2024 era) GPT 4 models by the end of the decade. Maybe in a year or two. Things are moving pretty fast. GPT4o mini was good enough for almost anyone already.

Agree, coral dying off is scary and makes big headlines, but coral will establish itself via polyps in cooler, or otherwise more appropriate waters, new species will form. Every 2 years or so there's a big media scare about the coral reefs bleaching but that's not actually a die-off, they run in low power mode until conditions change, then recolor

Sounds like the problem is the house and not the stove.

Also they enforced drink driving laws starting in the late 1950s. I don't know what alcohol consumption per capita was back then but I'm pretty sure it was more than double what it is today

You're forgetting the big one: that the system is designed to fail and create an uneducated unskilled worker class for the wealthy elite.

This is the correct take; coastal cities from georgia to virginia largely exist due to inertia at this point; they aren't growing, and if they are it's largely due to people fleeing rural areas, or HCOL situations. The central/south coast is largely unproductive which is one of the reasons it's so easy to buy huge plots of land for cheap and fill factories there with labor. That entire coastline is low-lying swamp already, anyone who visits the area understands the long term trajectory of the region. Land owners screamed bloody murder when FEMA finally corrected their half century old flood maps made with critically flawed methodology claiming the area was much drier than it actually was.
 
There's a reason why I-95 sits ~150 miles inland from the atlantic coast for most of it's length, and why so few coastal cities exist in that stretch. It's not an accident.

>death rate has declined since 1950
 
I mean, I've seen british rural roads in modern times, 1.25 lanes total, lined closely with 400 year old stone wall or hedges. I can only imagine how bad it was before this. Most of england's road network reflects their past, an impoverished rural island community surrounding metropolitan london, with proportional road funding. Roads built for horse and buggy, later driven on by motor vehicles with no upgrades was definitely going to be dicey. The bar to improve their roads was set very, very low.

As mentioned in the blurb, Panasonic makes the in-flight entertainment systems that go into the majority of all airplanes. I was surprised when an acquaintance of mine told me he worked for panasonic, but he indeed built those systems. So while they sell consumer products, they sell commercial/industrial products too. I don't know how much those in flight entertainment systems cost, but I can't imagine they're cheap.

Why does it matter if it's fake if it looks good? It's like mp3... If you can't hear the difference (and you can't, despite any claims you may make to the contrary - it's physically and biologically impossible), why does it matter if it's compressed?

Intel makes a lot more than CPUs. Intel makes them itself.

AMD only makes CPUs. AMD pays someone else to make them.

nVidia only makes GPUs. nVidia pays someone else to make them.

So of course Intel spends a lot more on R&D. They are developing a much wider portfolio and they are making it all themselves.

Sitting on the toilet doesn't give you hemorrhoids. Straining, having a poor diet, and trying to "hurry it up" gives you hemorrhoids.

If you're on the toilet for a long time because you have a low fiber diet and have to strain to eliminate, you're probably going to have hemorrhoids. The phone you're using to pass the time more pleasantly is not what's causing them.

I swear to God, when did so-called "smart people" get so stupid?

> worked flawlessly the whole time on the few dim incandescent bulbs, satanic candles, etc
 
Satanic candles are unusually efficient light sources for solar panels, not everyone is burning those; check your privilege

Money has definitely changed the food pyramid over the years. Various lobbies, and all.

But to your points about vegetarianism/veganism, I think the reason most people who try these diets have poor outcomes on them is because they unwittingly end up eating more ultraprocessed foods that are actually worse for them than what they ate on their previous diet. Most packaged "vegan" options are just awful. Ultra-processed TVP is as bad for you as cured meat in the long run.

My wife and I are on a "mostly" plant-based diet, and we do it with fresh fruits and vegetables, not ultraprocessed "imitation" meats and other garbage like that. I eat between maybe 8 and 16 ounces of meat in a normal week, and it's fresh meat from a local farm, not packaged, cured, processed, dyed, antibiotic'd, hormoned meat. It makes a huge difference.

I would venture a guess that the high cholesterol problem came about with ultra-processing of foods in the 1960s and 70s. More chemicals, more industrial food manufacturing, less nutrition in fruits and vegetables due to monoculture and mega-chemical farming, etc.. A lot of the chemicals used in the ultraprocessing of foods are probably toxic and inflammatory, and cholesterol production and plaque buildup is one way your body can defend the epithelial cells in your cardiovascular system from these toxins in your blood. It just so happens that this can also kill you.

Now, here's the ultimate problem. There are too many people. Eating healthy food requires agriculture that is free of pesticides, herbicides, hormones, altered DNA, chemical growth stimulants, and ultraprocessing. The amount of land we have could not possibly produce enough healthy food to feed everyone, and it can barely produce enough garbage food to do it. So, good luck solving that one.

I came to the same conclusion years ago. American culture especially glorifies extreme behavior in literally all things. Anything you do, you must take it to a crazy extreme, or else you're not *really* an American, right? "What do you mean you can only eat a 32 ounce steak?!?!?" Or, "hey YouTube, today I'm going to tell you that eating meat every day for every meal is the most healthy diet out there! Don't for get to smash that like button and subscribe! And by the way when I don't want my data compromised, I install this Chinese VPN! It's great!"1

Nothing will kill you in reasonable amounts (and for you pedants out there, this statement is not meant literally, but requires some capability of higher level abstract thought to understand). If you do everything in reasonable amounts, you are probably going to be just fine.

The outbreak of refined sugars has really been the downfall of our health and well being. People can't seem to make the right decision here not to consume a quarter pound of sugar every day. If artificial sweeteners accelerate cognitive decline by 1.6 years, that is probably a better outcome than dying of diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, stroke, and the myriad of other diseases that come from over-consumption of sugar.

If there's something truly novel that required more than 4 hours thought, it's worth putting a one or two line summary in the form of a comment for the next guy. Heck with modern tooling you don't even have to document it yourself "add a comment here explaining the problem and how this solves it and why". My code isn't 50% comments, but it's at least 3-5%