You misunderstand: I was being a smug neckbeard about Linux.

With that aside: yeah well maybe GNOME. And systemd! Bring on the hate whoop! whoop!

But seriously though the system is in my control. I have a GPU and pytorch installed. I can install an LLM coding bot if I want (I don't). I can use any of the pure local ones, etc etc.

The whole point of dark energy is to explain why the cosmos is expanding more than it theoretically should be. If it isn't, then you don't need dark energy, or if it isn't expanding as much as formerly believed then you don't need as much of it.

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As a long time Linux user I can't tell if they talking about AI or just regular Windows.

The UK has at least 20x as much wind power available than its current electricity consumption.

Where do you get that figure from? That sounds high, probably like a multiply-total-land-and-sea-area-by-energy-density kind of figure, and then build to the maximum density under optimal conditions.

Note that the Seagreen 1A (deep water) is about 0.1x the power density the power density as the London array (~25m deep). Your figures are I reckon predicated on everything built like the latter.

I think more realistic figures are somewhat smaller than that, though still above our current generation capacity. Maybe comparable to current generation plus automotive.

If such a thing is possible then we should call that a correction and it needs to happen sooner than later, the fantasy can't go on forever. I think we all know the stock marker is irrational and has been for years. Boom n' bust baby.

It most certainly did. The summary even discusses it.

When your party's leader is against putting the word in your party's title, and when he executes party higher-ups who consider themselves socialist, it's fair to say "no true scotsman" doesn't come into it.

Jesus, would it kill you to read even a Wikipedia summary of what the Nazis were and did? Or are you too afraid about what you might find out?

No, they didn't, but they weren't socialist either.

The original party was a diverse coalition of shitty people, some of whom considered themselves socialists because socialism isn't, outside of the Americas, considered a "bad word", especially in a Europe that was having trouble adjusting to a world war and unfettered capitalism during the industrial revolution. Workers rights are not a bad thing. It had, by that point, been watered down to practically a feel good term, the way "Freedom" is in the US.

Anywho, the socialists within the party pushed to have "Socialist" put in the name. Hitler opposed this. He was out numbered.

Then during the Night of the Long Knives, Hitler had the entire self-described socialist wing of his party purged. Its leaders were executed.

TL;DR - the party wasn't a socialist party, it had that in the name for historical reasons, Hitler hated it but by the time the party rose to power it was too late to do anything about it. But he did do something about the socialists in his party, and it wasn't pretty.

They exist to present to the public as a viable alternative to renewables and transitioning to renewable energy resources in general.

It lets you tell the public that the scientists will figure it all out so they don't need to make any changes to the way we do things today.

It's the exact same scam plastic recycling turned out to be and for the exact same reason.

The sort of people who think base load generation wont be required in the future are deluded.

No one has said that. But thanks for playing.

Renewables are undeniably a good idea. The energy is just right there.

Sure they are not without problems, and in a country the size of the UK, there's not enough to be energy independent, but even with that we should build more.

One of the things I've been noticing lately is that the kind of people who didn't use to get hassled by the cops are now getting hassled by the cops...

Crime keeps going down but we keep putting more cops on the street. People expect them to arrest people. So they're looking for guys they can hassle like yourself.

Recently a municipality had lost a fight to prevent a freedom of information request for flock camera data.

They instantly canceled the program and shut down the cameras.

Remember that Steve Jobs would buy a brand new Mercedes every couple of months so that he didn't have to have a permanent license plate.

The rich and powerful are very concerned about having their movements tracked.

What they are talking about is specifically abuses of the technology that people are on aware of.

The concern is that people are going to use the tech to get information and it's going to be bad information.

In politics there is a concept called a low information voter. This is someone who pays very little attention to politics and ends up with a lot of poorly informed opinions and makes poor political choices because of it.

This is Been supplemented by a new phenomenon call the bad information voter. Someone who has actively bad information and is making decisions on it. The decisions they make tend to be catastrophic.

Llms are bringing that same energy to every other aspect of people's lives. Basically people are awash in extremely bad information. Things that are just absolutely objectively false in every way shape and form. And they are likely to make decisions based on that information that are going to be very terrible.

A proper civilization would recognize this issue and work towards education but we have become obsessed with personal responsibility to the point where we can't even consider the effects on ourselves of other people having that much bad information.

We have all forgotten that no man is an island. Probably should be teaching that poem in schools...

Going back in time would play forward to a completely different set of events pretty quickly.

Only if the Many Worlds Interpretation holds true. If what Hawking said is true, that there is some time of time chronology protection which prevents changes to the timeline, no matter what you do will not cause a change to already happened future events. Or, put another way, history will always be history.