Clare Quilty: a fictional character in Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita. Meant to suggest âoeclearly guiltyâ according to Mr Giordano in 10th grade English class.

Now we have governments telling us we can't burn all the oil we still have because of the dreaded CO2

Ignore governments. Ignore Al Gore. Ignore the theatrics.

Scientists have been warning us for 150 years that carbon will do stupid things to the climate, and so far climate predictions have been pretty much spot on.

When I was a kid, we were going to run out of oil by the year 2000 and nuclear fusion was only twenty years ago.

Now we have governments telling us we can't burn all the oil we still have because of the dreaded CO2 and fusion is still only twenty years away.

All these forecasts are nonsense.

We reduced our usage of coal by sending our manufacturing jobs to China where they run their factories on... coal.

It's almost like the Chinese bribed our governments to ban coal so the crooks in power could justify sending those manufacturing jobs to China.

I'm just old enough to remember when we were heading into a New Ice Age. Of course, Millennials tell me that never happened, but since I lived through the New Ice Age scare I know it did.

It's all been nonsense all my life. If you check even older newspapers you find "Climate Change" scams going back a hundred years or more. If it's hot, we're going to melt down, if it's cold we're going into a New Ice Age.

Bill Gates no longer cares about "climate change" because AI is the new hotness.

You can't build massive numbers of new power plants if you're banning CO2 because of your last round of scare stories.

"Video unable to load"

Once upon a time I'd suspect it had been "slashdotted" , but I doubt Slashdot generates the sort of firehose of traffic it once did. Which means this things just fallen on its arse in normal traffic. Not a good way to launch a ..... startup... or whatever this is supposed to be?

The vine people must be pretty bitter they gave up the ghost and then a year or three later tiktok did more or less the exact same thing and turned into one of the biggest gen z sites on the planet.

I think its important to think about the context of a decade ago. At that point language models where pure research. Things that generated absolute gibberish outputs and maybe might one day be useful in spam detectors, search engines, grammar checkers and translation apps, and the "Attention is all you need" paper that basically changed everything was 3 years in the future. You could be forgiven if one of your investors said "Hey, mind if I scrape your site? We're doing some research on language processing" thinking it was pretty harmless.

Dupe or not, worth leaving this here as a reminder that no, China EV sales are not imploding. Debunked rubbish.

You'd be surprised how difficult that actually is. Take the role of a DJ for instance - a good DJ will know what genre they're doing, play well know things from that genre but also introduce new music to keep it fresh. They might also step outside the genre a little - not too far so it's not dissonant with the rest of their set, but just far enough to give a break and a moment of "ah, that's nice/romantic/gnarly/metal/" for the listener.

It's a skill, and if you haven't got that ability to start with then you're unlikely to be able to give the correct prompts to create it. You might well get a lot of identical things, but a listenable varied set is more than that.

A worry might be SteamOS as a requirement, rather than as simple support. You could imagine kernel modules being developed for 'anti-cheat' and them running under SteamOS but not some other distro that may (justifiably) block them.

This is the most (in fact only) interesting thing about the announcements to me. Must say I'm not sure about it - can't see how mouse+keyboard style games, which the original Stream Controller was explicitly designed to work well with, would pan out.

I have hugely customised layouts for several games to the point where I can't imagine playing them without it - they tend to be RPG games like Skyrim and Elder Scrolls Online. It's that style of game I'm trying to imagine mapping to the new layout, and to be honest gen1 looks more amenable to me at first glance. Hope to be proven wrong though.

Yeah we do the same in australia. Its fine. It was the 1980s when we did it, and I remember being a bit bummed out the 2c lollies wouldnt be a thing no more, but I figured I'm a teenager now and probably should be eating something more substantial than 2c lollies from the delicatesan. (although Im sure my mother was relieved, sweet things where banned in the house except for special occasions, but she couldnt control what me and my brother did outside the house)

I won't be at all surprised if Valve start selling ARM games as well as x86. I'm sure they'd like to not be tied to x86 in the future, just as these devices help to break the ties to Windows.