I like having serious conversations on Slashdot at least as much as the next nerd, but arguments on Slashdot can only be taken slightly seriously today. There's a lot of people here who are not arguing in good faith.
They also get in the way of building homes.
For a while (no idea about current situation) but where I used to live in the UK you could not build a property because the Environment Agency had enacted new rules which capped water run off into watercourses, and no council anywhere in the UK had manageable plans to actually meet it with new developments, so nothing got built.
The rules were well intentioned, but came down like a hammer and stopped everything.
As far as I can tell, the "current serious effects" are always handwavy
Your lack of perception is irrelevant.
'look at all the people that die from heat!' (invariably after a hot week in summer; again routinely and repeatedly debunked by statistics that show 6-10x more people die from cold than heat
And now we see what it stems from, a total lack of logic. Run along now.
Microsoft's effort is about as competent as it can be in that it's seamless and *most* things sort of work. However *most* is not the same as *all* which is what people expect when they run Windows.
Again, people with no experience maybe.
What you said was dumb because what we need is to reduce emissions further than our weak targets. Also automakers do NOT have any trouble meeting the targets. They could have met those targets years ago, but they would have had to make less exciting vehicles. You're putting your excitement over sustainability. This explains why you support a child molester's tampering with the future.
You cannot make a market freer by removing all regulations. That's a total misunderstanding of how markets work.
"R&D is a sunk cost, especially if it was subsidized. Nobody's going to try to recoup it"
Wat
The proper approach would be to allow customers to try the AI tools for free and give honest feedback
(etc.)
That's all true if your goal is to serve customers, as opposed to spying on them.
We would certainly be at a disadvantage if Russia was able to copy rockets that constantly blew up shortly after launch.
The idea that humans in 2100 will politely sit on their hands while the planet burns is genuinely adorable.
It's happening now. There are serious effects now. And there is mostly a lot of thumb-sitting going on.
Humans invent things.
Yes, for profit.
AI is already chewing through research faster than half the committees publishing these forecasts.
AI is chewing through NATURAL RESOURCES faster.
Pretending society wonâ(TM)t respond, wonâ(TM)t adapt and wonâ(TM)t innovate is probably the most unrealistic assumption in the whole exercise.
We don't have to pretend, we can see it happening right now. Or rather, not happening.
For example if you need to get call records months after the fact, with prepaid, tough shit, they don't have them at all.
Nonsense.
Want HD calling? Prepaid got it years after postpaid.
Why would I care? I don't speak a language for which call quality matters.
Paying three times as much or more for someone else to keep records for you is dumb. My phone keeps records for me.
We've seen even Microsoft's own ARM laptops chug trying to emulate x86 software
Using the word "even" here implies that we would expect Microsoft to be competent, but no one with experience with Microsoft expects that.
Copilot in notepad.
You win teh funny. They really have fucked Notepad up bad.
"Risk, is not the topic that will earn you a smile from a grieving mother of a perfectly healthy child who's now dead."
Coddling idiots only drags the rest of us down to their level.
"How many teamsters does it take to screw in a light bulb?" "FIFTEEN!! YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT?"
