After all, they're building climate refuges/bunkers in places that they expect to survive what's coming and that are sufficiently remote that the probability of a mob showing up at the front door is quite small. They know that climate scientists are right, and they suspect it's going to be worse than predicted. (Which is a good bet, because if you actually take the time to read things like the IPCC reports, you'll notice something that's common to all science in every field everywhere: the projections are never exactly right. You'll also notice something else: time after time, those predictions haven't been pessimistic enough. In other words, the real world gets worse faster than the models predict; the models are adjusted with this new data; and then the real world gets worse faster than the models predict.)

And that's not the scary part. Nor is the part where wars over water happen (because that's right in front of us) or the part where areas become uninhabitable (same) or where hurricanes devastate areas that "can't" be hit by hurricanes (already history) or where record-setting fires, floods, droughts, etc. happen constantly (also already history). No, the scary part -- if you understand stochastic processes -- is that there is nothing anywhere in the mathematics of global warming that guarantees that the process is linear and stable. There are things that strongly suggest that there is a point at which it's neither, and of course there's a lot of debate over what that point is. If it's not clear what "nonlinear and "unstable" mean: imagine a century's worse of warming in a year. Imagine what kind of weather becomes possible if that happens. And then realize that it won't end there. If we go over that threshold, whatever it is, we're not coming back. All the frantic efforts to engineer our way out of it won't work and all the belated changes that we should have made decades ago won't help.

There is no hell hot enough, no torture chamber cruel enough, for the people who are driving us to this future.

This is why it's more important than ever to maintain friendships/acquaintances/etc. with professional colleagues. I haven't gone into an application cold in about 20 years, because if I don't have previous coworkers/bosses actively trying to recruit me, I at least have lots of people to ask.

...until you consider the implications.

The first is that it's not evenly distributed: some parts of the planet will get hotter faster than that - others may even cool down. Some will get dryer; some will get wetter. Keep in mind, this is a globally-calculated average. As we've already seen, short-term, mid-term, and long-term temperature increases in some regions may be much more than just a quarter of a degree. Some of those are well on the path to becoming essentially uninhabitable, and that in turn will generate social, political, and economic crises.

The second is that even this fractional degree of warming significantly shifts the window of possibility for extreme events: bigger hurricanes, worse droughts, etc. Events that were extremely unlikely 20, 30, 40 years ago are now only somewhat unlikely. Even the best weather models -- which are stunningly accurate when it comes to things like predicting hurricane landfall locations -- may need to be adjusted to account for conditions that have never happened before. Until that adjustment happens, those models may not be as reliable as they have been, and that affects public safety.

The third is we don't know where the tipping point is. Despite enormous amounts of research, we have - at best - plausible estimates. And if you've read any of this research then you know that we do not want to find the tipping point by going over it. And every incremental increase in the rate of warming slightly increases the probability that we'll do that.

Mobile in general and touch screens specifically will never replace PC's for real work. Mobile devices and touch screens only really work for consumption only devices. But that also is the direction that the tech sector wants to push us. They don't want us able to create our own code. If we can create our own code, then its impossible for them to artificially cripple things so that functionality can be sold back to you.

For those that have attended a Christian wedding ceremony there's often a biblical passage read about the need for the man and woman to break ties with their parents and create a new family.

- But why should I give a crap what it says in your cult's shitty book full of rape, murder, incest, and other bullshit?

s/done/sometimes done/
Try attaching any monitor above 1920x1080 via HDMI. So if the cable is known to be good, the computers in question have all "HDMI 2.0 4k" in big letters in their specs, all should work, right? Mwahahaha.

The particular case on my disk right now: EDID and DDC properly report 1920x1200 (native), 1920x1080, 1600x1200, etc., yet it fails to work in the first mode. 1920x1200 needs HDMI 1.4 bandwidth, the two other HDMI 1.3. The same monitor, the same cable work with some computers, fail with others. Hrm.

My low-res monitors are DVI, which is supposed to be carried over HDMI (same protocol), but guess what? It's also random which computers they work with.

Meanwhile, in the DP land, I have yet to see my first failure. But sometimes I need HDMI for $REASON. :/

The problem I see is one of scale. The places you describe often have 30+ gas pumps, and around here, we have Bucee's that have about 100 - with usually 95%+ in use during peak times. You need 5-10x as many chargers to keep the same car throughput, so you're looking at 150-1000 charging stations. At 300kW each, that's 45-300MW of electric service for one business. Not only do you need 10x the real estate, you need room for a pretty sizeable substation, and access to pretty hefty power lines (probably 200-300kV, from some cursory research).

I wouldn't say that I've known this, but this does seem like a very small leap of logic considering that metals have long been known to be able to cold weld when in space. When to chunks of identical metal and cut apart in space, or cut apart on earth and then carefully etched to remove oxidation once in space, when put back together, they become one object again. When there is no oxidative barrier, the lattice just rejoins together. This story seems like it is the same effect. And my non-scientific guess is that at the nanoscale level, oxygen would take time to get there, so basically cold welding can happen at a nano scale before oxygen is able to get into the small area.

The problem with that plan is that collectively, those companies have a lot of resources to develop other solutions. It's only a matter of time before they form an industry group that duplicates VMWare with open-source tools, that's just as easy to use. Someone will also sell support for it. At that point, VMWare as a platform is done.

I suppose it's possible that Broadcom sees that happening anyway, and is just trying to squeeze as much out of it as possible before then.

People who become billionaires usually do so rapidly near the start of their careers by inheriting a billionaire's fortune. - there, fixed it for you.

Just ban Meta from the internet. Problem solved. Zuckerberg is a hitler-dicksucking Nazi anyways.

Zuck is a literal Nazi who banned people for posting links to the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. Meta is a shit nazi company that needs to be killed off.

That is code for, "it doesn't lie well". Meaning it doesn't misrepresent capabilities or features and doesn't hide faults. Sounds to me like LLM's are functioning exactly the way consumers would like them to work. But this brings to mind an interesting concept. With human sales or support who lie or misrepresent, in consumer centered cases, it should be possible to force companies to cough up their LLM training modules and prove they are lying in court!!!!

You need to realize that both sides are corrupt and always have been. They just have different end goals. Both sides like what they see Trump doing, that is the only explanation why nothing is being done to close all of those loopholes.

Clarification, on what I said above. The title says never use biometrics. That was meant to say never use biometrics ALONE.