I'm into that drug from Robot Cop 2.

Solutions starting with "everybody in society must" have a long and celebrated tradition of going immediately (and often horrifically) pear-shaped, as it inevitably turns out that most of everybody doesn't want to, and therefore won't, and in many cases, can't.

For examples, see the Soviet Union's Communism, China's Great Leap Forward, the Khmer Rouge's agricultural collectivism, North Korea's juche, etc.

No matter what, you're still going to need someone in a red shirt to duck into the circuit bays and reverse the polarity.

I suppose it depends on whether you want a comprehensive solution.

Switching to electric without also providing external ventilation doesn't solve the problem. Adding external ventilation to a gas range does, and still allows switching to electric in the future for even further gains.

In this sense "don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good" doesn't tell you which of the two imperfect solutions is better -- but I'm making the claim that the proper ordering from best to worst is electric + ventilation > gas + ventilation > electric + !ventilation > gas + !ventilation.

What I'm saying is that a minimal safe setup anyways requires an externally-ventilated hood regardless of the cooking fuel type.

Given that this is not mandated by building codes as it is, it's silly to mandate electric over gas. Neither of them are safe without external ventilation.

... this year. And next year, the same logic will have us getting rid of all of the entry-level employees, and the year after that, the mid-level employees, and some years from now, all employees. Yay, progress?

Having an expensive feature to show off then never using it does seem to check out for a certain kind of Apple user.

The matte coating decreases contrast. People like contrasty displays, and most people don't use them outside. I wouldn't be surprised if matte coatings also reduce the resolution on high resolution displays significantly.

OpenAI's models, and most of the LLMs, are trained at least in part by having humans rate their conversations. That's what the "chat" in chatGPT stands for. Humans apparently rate chat partners that make up truthy sounding stuff more highly than chat partners that admit they don't know.

That's a useful finding for a company that makes LLMs. It should be an interesting observation for people who talk to other people too.

Comedians will do anything that works to get a laugh, but sourcing jokes from ChatGPT (or similar) is not an effective way to get a laugh. Comedy is based on surprise, and LLMs are based on summarizing old material, so there's a bit of a mismatch there.

Well, sure, in the same way a 747 is just a fancy mechanical bird. Which is to say, yes, but no.

So, how does anyone enter the workforce?

(Puts a sheet pan of halved peppers in the broiler.)

I'd been trying to quit my air addiction and switch to traditional water breathing, but now I'm finding out that water breathers like coral aren't going to survive a warmer planet.

Fingerprints all over your screen? Gross!

Actually I have two PC laptops with touchscreens. I disabled them when I moved to Linux because they are not useful to me and it's too easy to bump them when closing the lid. (and on Linux there was a bug where the touch screen was still active when using an external display - sending your mouse cursor screaming all over the desktop)