Norwegian here, can confirm
Air has gotten significantly better in urban areas in the last decade. Given that about half the cars on the road now are electric - it's not only measurable, but very very smellable.
Whenever I go abroad now, I can *smell* the difference.
> "Good enough" is exactly the reason that AI is upending the world of white collar work. It might not replace a skilled and experienced employee, but it's good enough.
I don't necessarily have a problem with that. The problem is, skilled workers only become skilled after being inexperienced for a while and gaining experience. If you cut junior, unskilled workers from the job market, you won't have skilled workers in a few years.
In other words, company that adopt AI to avoid paying unskilled labor are shooting themselves in the foot.
I'm afraid the battery powered busses in Oslo, Norway are dogshite during cold winters. We've been complaining about them for years. Same issue as described in this article. Pushed through before tech was properly ready.
And I'm saying that as an electric car loving Norwegian who has two electric cars and wouldn't go back to fossil cars no matter what.
professors have repeatedly told students that AI is bad.
Whether you like AI or not, if your profession is about to be obsoleted by AI, AI Is factually bad for you.
Beyond that, it's up to you to decide if it's worth paying a talented human writer to report on local events in a local rag. Most of those newspapers are strictly utilitarian and simply inform the locals of what's happening in their communities. I've never seen any of them dabble in gonzo.
And well, journalism is like football: most professional footballers play in minor leagues and don't earn much, and only a vanishingly small minority earns top dollar playing incredible matches watched by millions.
High-flying journalists writing for classy newspapers will most certainly keep writing their own stuff. But the mundane will probably be taken over by AI because mediocre is good enough for the money.
I should have written "90% of people have the SAME abnormal thing". I've been thoroughly out-pedanted. Well done Sir
If 99% of people have something abnormal, isn't it in fact the norm?
I've already watched Soul Hunters on youtube, introducing my daughter to B5. We'll watch The Gathering after season 1, simply because it's important for the story - but a bit crap compared to the series itself.
The Gathering is there, s01e01 (Midnight on the Firing Line) is missing, s01e02 and s01e03 are there (although they're calling The Gathering episode 1, instead of episode 0, on youtube, for some reason, and all the other ones is shifted by one too).
Hope they ensure that Midnight on the Firing Line re-appears.
Open the link in a new tab to avoid that problem.
But yes, you're right, it's yet another problem with infinite scrolling.
Infinite scrolling == infinite memory usage.
Whenever I go to some forum that's heavy on pictures and videos that has infinite scrolling, and I'm looking far down the page for something or other, eventually my browser slows to a crawl, or the browser's resource-hungry JS engine crashes, and that's the end of the scrolling.
Certain sites I patronize that have the stupid infinite scrolling also have the classic &page= HTTP GET mechanism. On those sites, every once in a while, I reload the entire page with a &page= corresponding to roughly where I am in the infinite scrolling, just to reset it and free up some memory.
It's not the UI paradigm that bothers me, it's the resource usage insanity.
This makes my head hurt. I've never even heard of electric can openers. The linked can opener is a very advanced non-electric one. I mean, people should know how to use a pocket-knife can-opener.
And if you don't have that, a knife will do - as long as it's not a nice, sharp knife that you value.
In summary, you struck it rich, so can live with the elite
It's very telling that you think someone who relocated to Europe "struck it rich" and "lives with the elite": it show how much of a dump you think America is in comparison.
Even if their island becomes 100% hostile to all life, the Icelanders can always power artificial life with the free energy they're blessed with: the uninterrupted source of heat coming from the bowels of the Earth.
They're in a quasi-unique position of not really having to worry about climate change, if worse comes to worst.
has been utter shit for decades. It glorifies overtime over everything else - including over metrics that could be improved with less overtime, such as quality and efficiency.
AI is just more of the same: turbocharged shit.
I'm saying this as an American expat living in Europe and actually having a quality of life and work/life balance I never had stateside.
For the MAGA dimwits, getting rid of negative value non-white people results in an effective population increase.
On the plus side, TV has hit rock bottom decades ago, and films aren't far behind. Using AI to make shit faster is kind of fitting really.
It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.
