I've been using a Konica Minolta MC7450 for over 12 years now. It's been the most reliable and cheapest (per page printed) printer I've ever owned and will probably ever own. Also, this one happened to be A3 sized (Tabloidish in freedom units) and I've been using that much more than I'd initially expected. Not saying you should get this one (it was a lucky find) but I'd definitely aim for a networked color laser printer meant for office use.

What utter nonsense. Only totally unrealistic scenarios could still limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. As in: we stop using fossil fuels today and stop eating meat today (both would collapse the economy). In reality we have known about this for a long time, starting really talking about it in 1979 and launched IPCC in 1988. We're now 46 years in the future and apart from some hiccups due to COVID and the odd economic/oil crisis, each and every subsequent year we have increased our emissions and destroyed more forests, accelerating the problem. Humanity should be ashamed of itself and no longer deserves to survive on this planet. And probably they won't.

Also, the idea that 1.5 degrees is still feasible is based not only on the unlikely idea that we will stop burning fossil fuels anytime soon but also on the assumption that the boatload of "unlikely" tipping points and feedback loops that we routinely leave out of models because of uncertainty don't do what they usually do: make things much worse than our models predicted.

Humanity and many other species are absolutely fucked. The most "extreme" action currently taken is what Extinction Rebellion is doing and that's embarrassingly little compared to the horror we're facing. It's a matter of time before some desperate people are going to do things that actually help and it will probably involve removing the culprit from this planet, which almost certainly includes you, assuming you're complicit because you're still driving a ICE car, eating meat (routinely left out of IPCC scenario's for political reasons!!!), heating your home with gas and perhaps even flying planes. If so, you're actually consciously murdering future people and the consequences WILL find you. Good riddance.

There are some attempts. Actually, there are many. Some are moderately successful (notably OVHCloud and ScaleWay) but most are amateurish at best. I think the trouble here is that the existing megascalers (Google, MicroSoft, Amazon) originated from companies that revolved about software development. For some reason, European cloud attempts are run by traditional hosting companies. They lack the software engineering culture/skills/vision required to develop well integrated and automated solutions; they approach the problem from an traditional operations-perspective, focusing on offering hosted existing services instead of the fully integrated whole that a cloud should be.

It's probably quite difficult to make the paradigm shift from a hosting company with a bit more automation to the software development company that's capable of achieving the level of integration and automation we'd expect from a cloud provider. At the same time, those half-assed cloud providers make it difficult for a more innovative software-development-driven company to enter the market. Likely, only Big Tech companies can break through this. And the thing is: Europe simply doesn't have any of them.

Due to this combination, Europe is stuck in a local minimum it will likely never escape from.

I don't trust the output of the vast majority of my peers either. We have fixed that problem ages ago with reviews and tests.

So what? I do exactly the same when training my flesh and blood LLM. Does the implementation really matter that much? And if yes, why?! Just about all "knowledge" is encompassed in copyrighted stuff. As is just about anything you consume with your eyes that is not nature, ranging from your clothes to this comment and from the method you used to learn arithmetic to you singing your favorite song or reading a book from the library.

Is everything I do a derivative of a copyrighted work? Yes. Should I therefore not do anything anymore or refrain from looking at copyrighted works? No. I don't see why we would apply different rules to very similar systems.

Also note that copyright is basically about publishing, or the act of passing on. It is not and has (at least originally) never been about consumption of such works.

Being from The Netherlands I was quite surprised regular household waste would still end up on landfills in countries like the UK. Over here, only incineration ashes and stuff that's impossible to handle differently like asbestos end up in landfills. Now, to get to the point, apparently over 50% of household waste in the US still ends up in landfills. That's significantly more than the UK, making neither of your countries "civilized" by your own definition.

I'm not a MAGAcian so I'm not too well informed about the shenanigans over there, but wont those tariffs apply to all imports? Isn't this news merely about a very specific part of a whole package and wouldn't the other parts affect brand names and bulk imports just as much?

Also, in general duties are applied to actual value, which would definitely include any value caused by a brand logo being on there. Brands could change their tactics and stick the logo on in it the US and swap the box, thereby evading the additional costs their own brand causes them, but that would probably be even more expensive than simply paying the tariffs.

Forgot this was slashdot and I have to type HTML. So here's my second attempt: 1000 < 2^10.

No. 1000 2^10.

The Moon is not a distraction. It's much easier to land there and it's much closer so it'll be much easier to find people that want to work there. And perhaps most importantly, we should not go to Mars or any other celestial body that might have an actual chance of hosting live before we are absolutely certain it is as dead as can be. The alternative is yet another extinction.

I looked at the linked PDF of the legal complaint. It contains a couple of exhibits illustrating the allegedly plagiarized images. They show a man standing in front of an orange-hued urban landscape, not dissimilar from those that occur in reality during wildfire episodes

Claiming copyright infringement on generic images of orange skies would be akin to the producer of the movie "The Beach" suing anyone who prints images of a beach resort with white sands and turquoise waters.

China? How on Earth?! The USA is responsible for about 25% percent of cumulative emissions. The EU (which is not a country) comes second with 22% and then there's the Chinese with 12.7% of which a large share was directly caused by consumers in the aforementioned areas.

But a large part of those numbers are simply the size and population of those countries. We can also have a look per capita but that shows the same picture. Apart from some desert oil states, the US (together with Australia) is by far the largest emitter, about twice as much as China. You'd think they'd have enough money to be the leader here, but the reality is that the USA just does not give a flying fuck about the world.

But let's talk about China some more. China is also the largest manufacturer of renewable energy with more than half of all PV and wind production on the planet and the biggest investor in clean energy.

There is absolutely zero doubt about who is the most responsible for global warming: the USA. I cannot even get my head around how someone could not be aware of that...

Actually I don't think the cure is worse than the disease at all. It would be if all our plastic would end up in nature, but if I'm not mistaken, this is not the case in the vast majority of developed nations.

Not so fun fact: the footprint of paper (bags) is much larger than that of plastic (bags); it kills more trees, emits more COâ and uses an ungodly amount of water to make or recycle. Paper is the better solution only if you're planning on tossing it in nature, work in a paper bag manufacturer marketing department or are called Roni Size.

Just about all music production software depends on this. RT ready kernels have been shipped with many Linux distributions for years if not decades because without it a lot of stuff simply won't work. RT has been mainstream for ages. It's suitability for production use is totally undisputed.