in the old it's not physics or chemistry that will doom humanity but economics, aptly called the dismal science

Here in Canada we were able to stay on track with our targets until our neighbour and former friend the USA threw us under the bus while at the same time shooting themselves in the foot.

I'm not sure if you can call the actions of the American government "economics." I certainly don't.

My experience is that you have to double check everything any model tells you. They don't "think" or understand. I find them most useful as a search engine when I'm not knowledgeable enough to know the specific terms I'm looking for. Also, they're good if you just want to generate text, but aren't too concerned with the specifics. With image generation, even nanobanana, they have never given me anything remotely usable as they have extremely strong attractors towards producing images that already exist. I typically am more interested in the subject of an image than the composition and they've proven incapable of creating a unique subject.

Yeah, and whose fault is that? Right the USA which objected to one word in the entire accord: "Shall" instead of "Should". But sure, blame the French.
Anyway blame game aside the fault is your own. The court case fine had little to nothing to do with the Paris agreement as it was brought locally by a local court against the government related to an international agreement. The fine was always going to be symbolic because there was no legal mechanism to do something otherwise. Governments can't pass laws to fine themselves. Laws don't work like that.

Incidentally the French are part of the EU and the Paris Agreement was signed in such a way that the block reports emissions. The EU is ranked "Insufficient" against the Paris target. Canada is ranked "Highly Insufficient" along with China and India, and the USA "Critically Insufficient" sharing that category with what Trump would call "3rd world shitholes".

So I wouldn't go throwing shade at France in a story about Canada.

Maybe don't quote where the guy says you should punch trans girls in the balls... I'm just saying.

There is no equivocating here. The man called for violence. The fact that he wanted cops to come and do the violence first doesn't change the fact that he said that when the cops won't come and do the violence you should do the violence yourself. This is classic stochastic terrorism.

America does this too and our police will arrest you for it. The difference is they won't charge you with a speech crime because it's tough to make those stick.

Instead they'll do a little bit of extra investigation and odds are they will find something they can charge you with conspiracy to commit such and such with.

This is becoming a major problem because the people at the FBI and other agencies in charge of finding violent lunatics and getting them arrested before they do violent lunatic things are currently spending all their time arresting illegal immigrants. Arrests for crimes unrelated to immigration have dropped from 44,000 per year to 11,000 per year. Meanwhile 3/4ths of the immigrants being arrested for deportation do not have any criminal record and the majority of the ones with the criminal record have minor things like traffic infractions...

This is important and relevant to the discussion here because we have devoted resources that would normally be catching potential shooters and cr violent crazy people and getting those guys under control to non-violent immigrants. Meanwhile if your goal is to deport immigrants Trump is doing less of that because he's incompetent. One of the dirty little things the Democrats don't like to talk about is that Joe Biden and Barack Obama deported more illegal immigrants than Trump has ever during the same time frames...

Like it or not you need to keep your crazies under control. You can do that however you want but if you don't do it you're going to get a large increase in mass shooting incidents. You can't keep letting people encourage acts of violence in countries with little or no mental health services without consequences

The problem is one of short term thinking and lack of strategy. Those who will invest money to deal with the problem are the ones that will make the most money in the future when the rest of the world plays catchup and comes asking the experts for assistance.

The future cost money but that investment pays dividends.

Yes... that is ... the problem... Literally the last few major AWS outages have been the result of a Route 53 fuckup.

In other news when there's a breakdown on the highway and you reroute traffic over local roads it will be slower.

I agree. They are just so much less adroit than Blair's government was. Being less completely shit than the Tories is just not good enough.

I guess it's conceivable. Not sure if every EV's battery diagnostics can report total charge received in the last 12 months. If it's consistently available, then yes, in principle, the MOT inspector could stick a dongle into the ODB port as part of the inspection and the government could use that rather than mileage. But I guess the government thinks mileage is less politically & emotionally contentious than an extra kWh charge.

yup

You just called every company dumb. Either that or you just pointed out you have no idea how financial departments work. Massive excel spreadsheets are the mainstay of all large companies and even wall street. In many cases replacing a spreadsheet will require a myriad of interlinked tools, databases, calculation engines, scripts, all suddenly opaque to the end user who ultimately needs a data in a row that is able to be analysed. Most of the best data analytics tools are also designed around the ability to quickly ingest large spreadsheets and export them again.

You're just clueless as to how the world around you works.

No one is not accepting anything. The AI label is no different than "This product may contain Peanuts". What Sweeny wants to do is push AI rubbish while hiding it from people who actually care about it.

When you ask people to vote for change vs no change they will vote for the latter regardless of how good the former. The problem there is that you will perpetually maintain two systems.

People hate change. All change. Even if the new website was perfect people will vote for what they know.

Found the guy who doesn't own a mobile phone. No there's nothing fine about the BOM website. It flat out doesn't work on the device most people use to get weather information. Forget mobile site, it doesn't even format existing text to make it readable on a small screen.

The BOM website is truly a national embarrassment, especially in a country that is so often hit by floods, fires, and tropical storms.

One of the problems here is legacy. There's an insane volume of information on the BOM websites dumped in a very simple way. Many years of lack of an API has created all sorts of interesting ways people use and access the data.

Making a front end is easy. Making a front end that doesn't break someone's workflow is virtually impossible, even for sites much smaller.

Honestly their best bet would be a parallel system. Make and app, register the domain bom2.gov.au and set up shop there. Then monitor how the old site gets used to see what functionality is actually required.

That's precisely the thinking that can put you in the situation of massively overspending. You made an assumption without ever even looking at the requirements. Your project is doomed from the onset simply because of your approach or view of the situation.