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Comment Re: Getting 7-8 years before installing Linux (Score 1) 17

Iâ(TM)m running Monterey on my 2015 MBP via OCLP. This was mostly so I could run a newer version Lightroom. I also have an external boot drive that I move between this MBP and an 2013 Mac Pro. The Mac Pro natively supports Monterey. I wasnâ(TM)t sure if OCLP would be happy with Ventura or newer in this configuration. Howâ(TM)s the performance of Ventura on your system?

Comment Re:"Dark message mode" (Score 1) 17

Everything serious takes a long time with Mozilla (applies to their browsers too). I wonder if they'll ever announce that maildir support isn't experimental? It would also be nice if they dragged the Thunderbird editor out of 1998 and made writing emails a bit more modern. I use Thunderbird because I've used it since Netscape Navigator, but if I discovered it today, I'd just laugh and move on.

Comment Re:So something I don't think anyone is asking (Score 1) 49

Why do AIs keep putting fake citations into cases they generate? An AI just regurgitates what it finds in its data set after all...

No, they actually don't. What they do is regurgitate the sequence of tokens most likely to follow the current token based on a model generated from the training data. They certainly can regurgitate the exact contents of the training data set, but they can equally make up strings based on the model weights. That's what makes their output so pernicious: since it's what would likely follow, we see it as plausible and don't immediately flag it as something we need to check on. The only way to find the problems then is to check everything regardless of how plausible it appears to be.

Comment Re:Context is needed (Score 1) 136

Because photosynthesis produces oxygen, and increased CO2 would lead to a higher oxygen production rate. It's pretty basic science that one learns in middle school.

I picked 25% arbitrarily, it could be higher or only marginally lower, and presumably it'd take a great deal of time for the entire planet's oxygen levels to stabilize to newer CO2 levels.

Comment Re:500 means statistically significant health effe (Score 1) 136

In a word: yes. (And no, I don't understand the mechanism here.)

The studies on both have been pretty conclusive. Masks have had zero measurable impact over baseline on viral infection rates in anecdotal studies, have been shown to significantly increase bacterial infections in the wearer, and they contribute to increased blood CO2 levels for the wearer. Rhetoric - yours or mine - aren't really factors here, it's merely what we've been able to prove scientifically.

Comment Re:500 means statistically significant health effe (Score 1) 136

I didn't get anything backwards, you misread and made an incorrect inference.

China has a lot more people. They also have a lower per-capita CO2 emittance but higher overall, because more people.

Because they have more people, they're also outputting (breathing out) more CO2. Thus how you get 4-5x total more. Because people breathe.

Comment Re:500 means statistically significant health effe (Score 1) 136

You also have to consider that the US has a long way to go before its even remotely competitive with China, if we're talking about total tons of CO2. They produce 2x what we do, and that's not including how much they breathe - which puts it more like 4-5x the total of what the US produces, for both India and China.

Comment Re:500 means statistically significant health effe (Score 1) 136

That's largely dependent on relative oxygen concentration in the air, which is the biggest reason indoor air quality is poor/low in oxygen - not CO2 directly. CO2 is the second order issue.

These are generally people with poor cardiovascular health in the first place.

With higher oxygen levels (as naturally happens with increased CO2) due to increased plant growth, people will/are able to withstand much more CO2 before its problematic.

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