I currently work hybrid. It reduces my effective pay by around 10%, which is a hell of a cut. It gains me nothing, since all meetings - even when we're all in the same room - are via teams, because company policy.
I see no added value from visiting the office.
Prior version of this work here:
https://www.nber.org/system/fi...
It states: "We project that climate-driven increases in future smoke PM2.5 could result in 27,800 excess deaths per year by 2050 under a high warming scenario, a 76% increase relative to estimated 2011-2020 averages. "
From abstract published in nature:
"We project that smoke PM2.5 could result in 71,420 excess deaths (95% CI: 34,930 - 98,430) per year by 2050 under a high warming scenario (SSP3-7.0) - a 73% increase relative to estimated 2011-2020 average annual excess deaths from smoke."
The natural cascades of man-made global warming have only kicked into overdrive in recent years. Basic common sense tells us that the rate is only going to increase in the foreseeable future. Meaning that regular heat itself will be the main problem. And way earlier than 2050.
Point in case: It's nearing the end of September and temperature and humidity was flat-out tropical this weekend in western Germany. The water table here has been nothing but dropping for the last decade or so with zero replenishment happening and it ain't looking like that's gonna change. Rains have mostly reduced to short warm drizzles or the occasional 3-hour long flash-flood with a years worth of water coming down in an hour in selected counties. And flowing away within 24 hours. The first farmers in Germany are starting to move towards dryland agriculture (in effing Germany!), the complete vanishing of alpine glaciers is due in 5 years or so, perhaps even earlier and the famous German forrest with their Beeches, Oaks, Sykamores and such are officially a thing of the past because the water-cycle can't support them anymore.
Tourists have been steering clear of the mediterranean in recent years because the water was too warm. Not the air (although that too), the effing _water_ was too warm.
So I'd say in 2050 smoke from forrest-fires is likely to be one of our lesser problems.
Ish.
I would not trust C++ for safety-critical work as MISRA can only limit features, it can't add support for contracts.
There have been other dialects of C++ - Aspect-Oriented C++ and Feature-Oriented C++ being the two that I monitored closely. You can't really do either by using subsetting, regardless of mechanism.
IMHO, it might be easier to reverse the problem. Instead of having specific subsets for specific tasks, where you drill down to the subset you want, have specific subsets for specific mechanisms where you build up to the feature set you need.
Oh, absolutely. These days, I spend so much time checking the output from computers, it would normally have been quicker to do searches by hand. This is... not useful.
I can fully understand that.
A restoration expert in Egypt has been arrested for stealing a 3,000 year old bracelet and selling it purely for the gold content, with the bracelet then melted down with other jewellery. Obviously, this sort of artefact CANNOT be replaced. Ever. And any and all scientific value it may have held has now been lost forever. It is almost certain that this is not the first such artefact destroyed.
This is why you should say please and thank you around LLMs and avoid unnecessary chatter.
DeepSeek the model (as opposed to DeepSeek the online service which is pretty bad) is in my experience no worse in terms of censorship/refusals than the other models.
... about the Fyre Festival fraud and failure, (at least) one of them on Netflix. Check it out, absolutely hilarious. LimeWire buying the Fyre brand sounds 110% like something the LimeWire crew came up with while laying stoned in a Whirlpool. I love this. LOL!
So I guess the light pollution from LEDs is due to light reflecting off the ground?
Higher frequencies are preferentially scattered. Most LED street lamps operate at higher frequencies than the HPS they replaced.
They make shit up because they have no meta-cognition and don't know any better.
This study applies model of lighting conditions throughout the country to a circadian health model and draws conclusions about health impacts of each of the three scenarios from model evaluation alone.
I am personally skeptical of these types of extrapolations from models generally. Numbers being bandied about in this study seem unreasonably large. I would be far more interested in learning about studies that actually managed to find real world health signals in real world data following time policy changes elsewhere in the world.
A previous well advertised study focusing on transition itself found statistically significant signals for increased heart attacks that magically vanished when averaged over the week. Basically there was a fleeting temporal shift of a few days over when events would occur.
In the absence of compelling evidence and the fact this was already tried in the 70s where this experiment ended in popular rejection I prefer to keep the current policy the way it is.
The US has 6 timezones already. It couldn't be much worse if you just let each state decide.
There are three time zones across the 48 contiguous states.
I opted out of this bullshit years ago.
How does one "opt out"? What does this even mean? Does everyone else now organize their time around your schedule?
What's wrong with "Yeah, there are some kinks that we overlooked. It's because the studio had to get the release out before bladiblah. We're working on a patch that addresses the issue. Anyone who bought the game until yesterday will get skin/pet/neat-fun-little-soapbubblegun as a bonus DLC for the inconvenience."
It costs like nothing to do this and you'll be portrayed the cool gaming company dude.
Borderlands is a beloved franchise, it's not that the fans will get all worked up about this. Why insult your customer base with bullshit for no reason what-so-ever? And claiming they build UE5 or that UE5 is a sub-par engine is just being silly. A move that anyone who knows a bit about gaming will see right through.
I fundamentally don't get it.
These pretentious douchebags need some basic PR training above anything else.
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