There are two inconvenient questions which matter to this subject, and which Slashdot will not cover, either editorially in the selection of stories or in the comments from the regulars.

Question One: what will the output from wind and solar be in Germany or the UK in December, at about 5pm on a weekday, during one of the usual stalled high pressure episodes that last a week or ten days every winter? And what percent of faceplate is this number?

Question Two: what sources of generation are you then going to use to meet demand?

Go look up the numbers - for the UK they are readily available on Gridwatch. So its easy to answer the first question. The second...? No-one knows, or if they do, they are keeping it secret. Like Slashdot and most commenters they are just calling everyone who asks 'deniers' and hoping something turns up.

This is intermittency, the insoluble problem for the net zero generation project. And no, you cannot run a country off batteries for a week or ten days in winter. Just do the numbers. You can neither afford them, buy them, nor commission and run them.

It may be that this is the hottest JUNE. But consider what this means. We take an arbitrary 30 days, average the temps, and come up with a number for this 30 day period as compared to other previous 30 day periods.

Is there anything special about this particular 30 day period as opposed to any other? No. Is there anything special about 30 as opposed to 45 or 60 days? No.

I could equally well say (though it would not be true) that this year is the warmest for the period: last two weeks of May + first two weeks of June. That would be just as valid (or invalid) indicator.

As an indicator of whether European summers are getting hot, or whether this summer is hotter than previous ones, this is meaningless. The climate does not care about our arbitrary divisions of the days into calendar months.

If you want to make a real comparison, the thing to do is compare this summer with the summer of 1976, which was a real scorcher. Fortunately someone has done that for us:

https://notalotofpeopleknowtha...

There's not a lot going on. Its summer. In any summer you can take some arbitrary number of days, and compare that period with previous periods of the same days, and if you go through enough iterations you can probably often find periods which are, this year, warmer than the corresponding periods in earlier years. So what?

This is just the usual media hysteria about an ordinary summer, which we have now got used to expecting every year. Meanwhile in Europe the crowds are enjoying a warm dry summer, flocking to the beaches and parks in defiance of the hysterical health heat warnings. Realizing that they are having a series of great summers, but that it will not last, so make the most of them, and that next year the UK Met Office will be forecasting a heat wave and a 'barbecue summer', only for nature to deliver a cold wet one, and the next year too. Its chaotic, and sometimes you do get a string of reds or blacks. But that is all that is going on.

This is statism, writ large.

You get paid for work you PERFORM, but not work you RECORD. Copyright is anti-individual rights and liberties.

I'll be glad when Ai truly replaces all of these artists.

You have a line judge, you have the AI. They each make a call. If they match, the game goes on. If there is a discrepancy, or if asked by a player to review, then the footage is reviewed and an umpire makes a final call. If and when conditions are not suitable for the AI system (low light), then the game proceeds as normal.

This whole either or is just dumb. Wimbledon wants to save $$$, and is positing it as a stark either-or in order to justify their decision. All it demonstrates is a lack of professionalism.

a program altered data without explicit permission

You completely miss the real core of the problem. The issue has nothing to do with AI. The issue has to do with the fact that police evidence handlers decided to try and use AI for a task that is so mind-blowingly easy to do on its own. It seriously brings to mind a line from The Martrix: "I say your civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you, it really became our civilization".

It starts here. And nothing stupid like an AI uprising. I'm more concerned with the fact that someone honestly went online and submitted evidence photos that way because they didn't know how to add a logo using Gimp. This is more an indictment of that department, and people in general than anything the AI did.

Oh come on.

We've been saying "Thanks, Biden!" for years as a joke, and you blue haired legbeards always got riled up with your "source????" and "citation needed???" cries.

(FWIW I don't support Trump and have never voted Republican).

Feels like job hiring has gone the way as travel bookings with Sabre where you have a couple big database systems with the actual information and then dozens of sites that just provide front ends for the same group of listings.

There are lots of places for reputable job listings. Government sites at various levels. Business associations and better business bureaus often share postings. NEWSPAPERS. They still exist, and still post actual job listings.

Or, you know, you could do the old fashioned thing and pound the fucking pavement. Getting up off your chunk and doing the old fashioned rounds is still one of the best methods there is. Make phone calls. You know, where you activate the dialer on your phone and punch in numbers and then hold it to your ear and speak. Tauten your vocal cords and force air through them while shaping the sounds with your mouth.

Call a company or organization and ask to speak to someone in the department where you want to work. Get that person's name. Ask if there are any openings in that area, then ask if they know of anyone else in the field looking. Talk to the people in the field before you approach HR.

I know, actually talking to someone is daunting, but I believe in you. And, hey, with some clever fiddle-faddling you can probably still use AI to prompt you on what to say.

If you can't demonstrate a work ethic LOOKING for a job, then how are you going to demonstrate one having a job.

This is such cry-baby nonsense.

NONSENSE.

Since 2008, I have personally mentored dozens of young dudes (at no cost whatsoever, just because that's what successful people do).

I have helped poor dudes in bad neighborhoods buck up, get some side hustles, stack cash, and buy property.

You fucked yourself because you refuse to actually do someone to buy property. I don't know ANYONE, starting with even zero money, who couldn't find a nice home in just 2-3 years of saving money properly -- except the lepers in California, and fuck them anyway.

If the snapshot data changes the system has to store additional data to maintain access to multiple versions.

This makes retention a function of storage space, and the number of changes made. This doesn't explain why it should be a hard-limit function of time. There is already, and has been since System Restore was implemented, a way to limit restore points to a percentage of disk space. If you don't make many changes and/or want to dedicate more space to System Restore, how is a 60 day hard limit of any use to anyone?

Adding in a hard time limit makes no sense.

I would rather let Nazis speak and elect to block them myself than have an entire moderation team block everyone they disagree with.

Reddit is equally a shithole.

Heck. /. used to have a good libertarian minority and today it's nerds defending their trans kids here.

No. 45th and 47th profiles.

Texas Instruments did invent the integrated circuit. But yes, a lot of what they do now is neither innovative nor high tech. They can afford to make their shit here because it's low techy techy and easily automated cruft. In short, it's the pig iron of the tech world, and even Texas and Utah hicks can manage it. Great way to appeal to the MAGA base, because to them it still IS high tech.

TI was good at 1970's-style innovation, meaning they were good at finding cool initial new uses for silicon. They pioneered speech synthesis, but didn't take it past the speak-and-spell stage. They invented the integrated circuit but they themselves never really pushed the envelope after that, they just drafted off other companies. They did some work in military - fire control and INS, but couldn't make that profitable so they sold it off to Raytheon. They had almost the very first 16-bit CPU and put it into a computer then hobbled that computer with such awful design that it was worse than the 8-bit computers of the time. Horribly slow memory on an 8 bit bus and then on top of that TI BASIC was written in an interpreted "Graphics Programming Language" that lived on GROM, so any BASIC program was doubly interpreted and could only use video memory which had to go through multiple stages before a CPU ever saw it.

It's a wonder they still exist. Texas Instruments is a company that has shot itself in the foot so many times it's a wonder they can stand, let alone operate.

In short, they sold off or abandoned anything that actually competed with anyone because they can't actually compete, and found niches making the stuff anyone can make but couldn't be bothered. Them making stuff here looks great for Trump's crowd but in the end meaningless.

The right equipment already can extend that range further... in some cases up to 30cm with a high Q antenna. This is what malicious actors use to get people's cards in sketchy airports and markets the world over. I'm not sure the extra range from .5 to 2cm in nominal use is worth giving thieves more range to work with.

How about vendors who are having problems just start using better equipment. I use square in my little restaurant and have never had an issue with it. This seems to be solving a non-problem at the expense of introducing more.

I would prefer to replace myself, yes.

I have a 37 year work history of finding ways to replace myself and folks like me. I already offer my clients free Ai consulting on the side to help them replace me. I'm already onto the "next thing" that will replace Ai in the headlines anyway.

I don't understand what you want to say here. I read "no meaningful improvement" as "consistent user experience". Users who loved KDE 3.5 are still able to work the same way with recent Plasma

Yes, but along with that "consistent user experience" slash "no meaningful improvement" they give on the front end, they just told any LTS user to fuck off. So for those who want to enjoy that "consistent user experience" over the long term can't because KDE won't support something for longer than their attention span.

Rapid releases of consistent user experiences = pissing off literally everyone. They are telling the distros to fuck themselves and that no, KDE will not support a long release. And they are telling the users to fuck themselves with the dual whammy of no improvements over rapid unsupported releases.

KDE already has a far lower uptake, and is declining. There's a reason that Mint dropped it back in version 19. Maybe all this is just KDE's way of ceding the user-space market they are losing anyway, and to focus only on the bleeding-edge crowd. I just feel bad for normal users who get sucked into KDE not knowing it's a mine field.