The Global Warming Gang is not in the business of predicting anything, they try hard to make it happen.

But if you mean scientists, just wait till you hear about AMOC collapse. No serious models anymore say it won't happen. And then, you'll have the heat that you wish for.

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I don't want edit, I want a browser grammar checker that's all client side.

The rates are bad, we don't focus on using the least bad estimate we produce, and we stave off crisis to a degree with mediocre public assistance programs which struggle to cover needs for lack of funding but which really amount to can-kicking. That's better than nothing, but still leaves us poised for disaster. If Cheeto Benito successfully terminates these programs (as he has been trying to do, and he has successfully been interfering with them) then the looming crises become immediate not quite overnight, but in literally more 10-30 days.

I have been stress-testing AIs with increasingly complex projects for some time. The Chinese AIs struggle, but actually do a FAR better job of handling massively complex tasks than Grok, and Gemini just rolls over and whimpers at anything above a very low level of complexity.

What I've found is that the Chinese AIs tend to be sycophant but do "understand" complex projects properly in that you can ask specific technical questions and the answers will be generally very accurate. Any sort of critical analysis is beyond them, though. (Ether that, or I'm a mega-genius. Which....doesn't sound terribly likely.)

Of the "Top AIs", ChatGPT is good on basics but is incapable of any kind of detailed generation. Claude is brilliant at detailed generation, but overloads with anything but a tiny data set.

I've been putting up the projects on Gitlab for a while, so anyone who wants to see an AI break down and cry in despair is able to do so.

The secret tools don't bother me - they'll have long understood how to use Big Data and Analysis of Competing Hypotheses. AI isn't going to find out any more than combinations of those tools will, because that's basically all AI is - a Big Data classification system.

Today I'm mostly avoiding working on cars, but I do have some ongoing projects and they suck. I can't wait for "every" vehicle to be an EV, which isn't practical for me now, but hopefully will be in the future. But I really don't want everything phoning home with information about me constantly. That information could be used against me, so I don't want it to be collected. Nothing prevents it here except opting out by not buying the whatever-it-is, but sometimes you need the thing.

As vehicles age, they tend to get first cheaper but then more expensive to maintain, so just staying in the past forever isn't realistic. It would be nice to have some options without the constant oversight.

My comment was fine, they can build in all the advanced features they want into Windows. However, if you're missing the hardware that shouldn't cause any issue, just disable those features. That's engineering 101, you build the core of the product to work at the lowest possible spec, and then if you have the hardware and features, it can leverage those.

Let's use your example, you bought an electric Mustang. If the electric Mustang can plug into any electrical port to charge, providing something reasonable like a 15-amp circuit, that's fine. If you have to use a special Ford only outlet, that has special circuitry, in the outlet, that's an issue. Now you could support faster or higher amp charging with the Ford outlet, that would be fine, but you should work down to the minimal possible spec.

The proof you don't need all the junk of Windows 11, Linux, and Unix, which constitutes a conservative 85% of all computers, work fine regardless if you have TPM or not. If you have it, you can leverage it, if you don't, it doesn't matter. Hell, they just removed ancient processor support from the Linux kernel. If Linux / Unix can do it, Windows can do it, but as you said, just don't run Windows, which I don't, so it doesn't affect me, or anyone in my house. My older daughter is running FreeBSD (she told me about it one night, the devil is cute, honestly, that's her reason), and my younger daughter just installed Mint, so even teenagers are over the joke that is Windows.

It's the most efficient, safest way to move fuel without burdening rail and road nets with LNG tankers which are large mobile fire and explosion hazards.

That's why there are well over two million miles of natgas pipeline in the US so far. Eight miles should impress no one. Andrew Carnegie drilled natgas wells and built a twenty mile pipeline to Pittsburgh steel plants in the 1880s.

They can't, I've tried, but even if they could, the in-laws don't want Windows 11's absolutely sickening display of forced digital molestation.

I've had that same thing happen with a UEFI update + no internet, and that broke sign-in, and it broke BitLocker. BitLocker should not be tied into SecureBoot settings, and it should never self-activate, or, store the keys / passphrase off the machine.

AKA my penis.

Destroying earth. Last I heard, it uses as much energy as the nation of Argentina.

So you're telling Claude something vague and washy, then Claude invents a prompt that might vaguely possibly be somehow related to what you want along with a drink that is almost but not entirely quite unlike tea. Claude then recurses through this until it has a Celtic knot so intricate that it has its own Hausdorff dimension. What burps out is a product that is completely useless and patented to the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.

Late to the party, but Not Just Bikes has a great video on this topic.

The current government. Under el Bunko, this government is just a protection racket.