There are places in America where your rate goes up with consumption. Yes.

Should you choose to believe the gossip, this is apparently being seen as a good thing amongst Apple's staff.

Seems to be a case of the Gene Wilder's Wonka scene "oh no, stop!" while doing nothing to actually stop it.

Sorry - as a full-blown human-caused climate change believer, I am also old enough to remember being told that we were in an inter-ice age era and that it would end in my lifetime. I'm in the UK, and I clearly remember a school textbook with drawn pictures of Trafalgar Square fully iced up. This would be early 80s.

Let's not deny that bad information has been given in the past. Bad information is also likely being given today, and will be tomorrow as well. Mistakes happen. I like that this paper has been caught and do not in any way see it as a problem.

"We need to be open to admitting errors"

Well, most errors...

I'm old enough to remember being told that we were all going to freeze due to global cooling. Panic, oh the horror and terror!

I'm also old enough to remember and no you weren't. You were told that, absent human interference, we were in a warm period (inter-glacial) in an ice age and would be heading back into a colder period where much of the northern hemisphere developed world would see glaciers return.

Over tens of thousands of years.

Natural climate change is slow. The Earth has enormous thermal inertia and the variability in the sun's output is tiny compared to the long cycle orbital effects.

Obviously once we start talking giga-years then the Earth will be toasty warm (before it's most likely swallowed by the expanding sun).

Using the 1970s stuff on the inter-glacial we are in to assert that anthropogenic climate change is not a problem is like using the red giant end of the world to assert that it will be the end of the world.

Not everyone lives in a fantastically rich petrostate.

I'm seeing a lot of scepticism in the posts, whereas in fact this approach works really well. I'm going to use the example of the Mac - Rosetta 2. I play games running x86 code all the time on my M2 ARM chip, and it's not really noticeable at all. Taking exactly the same approach and applying it to Linux - yep, why on earth not? Already proven to work well.

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Would this be the Starlink system Musk rushed to Ukraine and afaik continues to allow UKR to use free if charge? (I believe that some donor nations do pay sub fees for the systems they've purchased for Ukr, to be clear.)

Musk repeatedly said that he won't allow Starlink to be used to support offensive operations. Yes, sometimes free gifts come with strings attached.

Your insistence that because Musk doesn't do everything Ukraine wants without question, "we know where his sympathies lie" is childish.

Yes, I can see the argument that an offensive to retake Ukr territory should be allowed, but I can also see the argument that it is an offensive. Musk, a rather pacifistic person who routinely gets collywobbles when confirmed with violence as pacifists often do, probably sees it that way (and your own linked article mentioned that Biden military & intel people at the time thought Putin 's retaliatory threats were increasingly credible). My guess is that he was confronted with Russian threats to himself or his companies globally.

Would it be better if Starlink just entirely shut down all service to the region? Would that be better for Ukraine?
If that's not what you want, then maybe shut the fuck up?

What is happening to Ukraine is terrible. Ukraine's defense against a sociopathic neighbor has been heroic. That doesn't mean everyone, everywhere, 24/7 makes "what's best for Ukraine" their priority.

And?

Dead on. The stuff that's the same is the party leaderships trying to keep us in line, to trust them wit the reins of power, finance their campaigns, vote for the incumbents or the approved candidates, and let them do what they want.

In the US, the two major parties are indistinguishable in intent, that is, to keep their jobs. Challengers are either vetted by the leaderships, and so are not really challengers but replacements, or they are hammered into submission, to serve the Uniparty.

For one party this is absolutely the goal and ambition of their rank and file, to see their 'leadership' prevail. For the other party, this is actually anathema, but the rank and file is not yet entirely aware of the process.

We will see which succeeds...

...me!

I can do that. $%**, I've deleted /, /root, /boot, that's easy.

Seriously, though, when the AI recognizes it is about to operate on a root folder, it should be directed to confirm this twice with the user. These AI coding agents will become useful, to me, when they help a user avoid errors.

John Money was the first of the batshit legion (that I'm aware of; his entire oeuvre sickens me so pardon if I haven't delved too deeply) to believe gender was distinct from actual sex.

"My deeply flawed views" are the facts that stand unchanging, despite fads.
Humans are either xx or xy chromosomes, producing large or small gametes respectively.

The tiny percent that aren't that, are mutations that happened to survive, like people being born without eyes or legless or conjoined. None of them are to be brutalized, none of them are to be treated with anything but respect and sympathy; it doesn't make them normal except insofar as 'mutations' in heterosexual reproduction are normal.

Give up; your bullshit carried through the crazy-years of 2020-2024, but nature is healing. Fucked up ideological gaslighting is fading before things like actual facts. We're calling MAPs pedophiles again, and people are recognizing how wrong were the lies that fueled Mengele-like brutal transgender experiments on CHILDREN, ruining their fucking lives. You can't "undo" castration chemicals given to prepubescent teens. You can't just wear a girl-mask and insist you're a woman. If you believe that, you need help and counseling, not endorsement.

That wasn't *all* I said, but it is apparently as far as you read. But let's stay there for now. You apparently disagree with this, whnich means that you think that LLMs are the only kind of AI that there is, and that language models can be trained to do things like design rocket engines.

...which makes it super convenient when you can just use that label on everyone, right?