Was torn between moderating and replying - am replying. Yes, it is and by 'backwards' I'm guessing you mean that as a good thing. Ives did fine with most hardware, but when he got his hands on software and produces macOS Funereal Edition (aka 10.0 Lion) stripping all colour and joy from the interface...yuck.

Bring it back, that's what I say. People still talk about BlingOS, Snow Leopard, as their favourite incarnation. There's a lot of functionality added since that I'd miss and I'm not totally sure on the 3D dock base, but I certainly get where they're coming from.

So what, we plunge to oblivion because we didn't hit good? If we're in a minimisation game, so be it. But we should still try to minimise.

There's still some good news on the UK, although it's less visible. There is a change to building regulations this year requiring new builds to have solar panels. It's long overdue.

There are pushes on heat pumps as well. In fact I had a worry with the original Green New Deal that it had basically been hijacked by lobbyists to concentrate too much on carbon capture, allowing them to carry on burning stuff but still claim the money from the deal. The EV mandate is on track regardless of the lobbying to soften it, which is a good thing, and also lower cost attractive EVs are starting to arrive. Our energy mix is improving too, with a smidge over half being generated by renewal last year.

There's the standard tabloid backlash rubbish, but in general green ideas are popular in the UK so they're likely to continue. Is it as big as the push from China? It is not and the deadcat bounce of loud and boorish objectors is annoying. It's still a pretty good picture though.

I'm also confused what is going on here, though I was thinking more about the renewable energy side of it, not the electric car stuff. There must be some loaded language in the declaration?

However, the way China is building up the renewable energy capacity it looks like "Yuugen Jikkou" to me. That's actually a Japanese/Romaji version of a 4-character Chinese/Japanese expression that can't be used on Slashdot anyway. I'm not sure if there is a way to say it in English. "All talk, no action" is kind of the opposite idea (and there's also a 4-character expression for that), but yuugen jikkou is about doing what you said you were going to do. However what I wanted to say is still slightly different... It's more like the Chinese aren't really worrying about what the Europeans are saying about climate action, but they are just acting. The Chinese are building up LOTS of renewable energy capacity and not worrying too much about who says what. Pledges are cheap.

Now how to go for funny? One angle would be the YOB's recent claim there aren't any wind farms in China versus the reality. Not sure how much I trust the google's AI answers these days, but I'm pretty sure that the summary saying China has 40% of world capacity for wind power is in the right ballpark. However if the claim for new capacity around 50% (for 2022) is accurate, then that bodes even more Chinese dominance for the future...

This makes no sense at all to me. While we're (I'm in the UK, this applies to the rest of Europe too) fretting about how to keep Russian gas supplies and other nonsense, China has built phenomenal amounts of renewal power and their emissions peaked this year, with a modest (1%) decline.

Here's a good source from the World Economic Forum. It notes the complexities and fragility of the decrease, but also shows the underlying path which lead to it. Their renewal energy capacity grew faster than their demand and interestingly, their demand was rising at a higher than average level just across for fifteen years.

The EU? Not so much. Energy sector is moving forward with a 2.9% drop, but outside that sector emissions are rising. The UK has a 3.6% drop, with coal in particular back to Medieval times and peak demand having passed over a decade ago.

The EU is playing politics here, nothing real. It is the EU that would struggle to live up to the example of China in the energy sector.

Now I notice another spelling error in the human part...

Yours was the first visible comment in the AC hate stream.

But don't get me started on the question of whether Mormons should be classified as real Christians versus real suckers.

Mod parent Funny. We desperately need some Funny around here. Crying only makes the flooding worse.

Not surprised. Nor that the discussion was apparently dominated by an AC brain fart of the most obvious smell.

In your body you said "ChapGPT", but I wasn't sure that wasn't part of the joke. Nor how much of the Funny post was actually written by a human. Assuming you are human.

Increasingly dangerous assumption these years.

Poe's Law may apply.

Okay, I know you are going for funny, and I wish there was more funny around here, but have you read The Chaos Machine by Max Fisher? Maybe it's time to stop treating anti-scientific stupidity as a laughing matter?

Or maybe it's too late and we should just laugh as we head to our funerals?

Hmm... Finally a bit of Funny? Funny that tastes funny?

As the cannibal said about the clown?

(Actually I don't want to know how Joey digests his victories. Especially if he doesn't. And I am kind of surprised he's still alive, according to reports.)

Or their spouses think so. Especially when their spouses rule the kitchen with an iron skillet. (Or is it aluminum?)

Me? I dislike 'processed meat' and have been avoiding it when I can for many years. Fresh chicken and beans are my protein sources of choice. As if I had any at most meals...

(First part was going for Funny, but hain't seen much on Slashdot so far today. That's "much" as in "any".)

As usual.

So many AC shite posts. So many real people feeding them and propagating their vacuous Subjects.

I'm always too prone to meta-comments, but going meta is actually rather relevant here. The "art of programming" with generative AI is in writing accurate meta-descriptions of what the code should do. The thing that looks magical is how often the AI writes code that does what you wanted, not what you said. (DWIM.) Not that the AI has any comprehension of the difference. Just a matter of whether or not the AI was mostly trained on good code code examples. Or bad.

Hmm... In the case of training from code there may be a special advantage helping the AIs? If the version histories are available, then all of the versions except the last one can be classified as carrying "bad code" labels except for the bits of code that remain unchanged to the final version?