It only needs about 700MB to tell you it's raining, it doesn't go over a gigabyte until you want to see WHERE it's raining.

The 300MB difference is more than enough to support literally hundreds of users on glass terminals, on Unix of yesteryear. And silicon jebus wept.

You will never wash the children's blood off of your hands, rapeublicans.

Who is "we"? It's long been known that he's corrupt.

You misspelled "swamp"

While your concern is applaudable, explain how during times in the past when CO2 was much higher than now, the world didn't end.

This is not for a second to deny the energy retention of an atmosphere being controlled by its gaseous composition. This is not to suggest that this isn't a big problem.

Your idea is pure FUD. Fact is, we've been through warming and cooling cycles before. The world is not ending. The oceans will not become lifeless. There will be problems - some substantial. But doom and gloom hand-wringing doesn't help.

I hadn't considered that part, and it is a really good point about people starting their day around the only time they can get some decent sleep.

For people who might be living in more arid parts of the world, humidity can be a real beotch. And we're"used" to it here. At one of my work sites, it was a beautiful fall day, sunny, 70 degrees, around 55 percent humidity. I was loving it. I was working with a guy based in Southern Arizona. He was suffering. Good thing he wasn't here in July!

I don't think they think that far ahead. So unintended consequences bite them in the backside all the time.

It always helps to ask questions like Why did time get coordinated in the first place? Until the early 1800's most places kept local time, as in directly tied to the sun. So every town/area had it's own time. Think of it as hundreds of thousands of mini time zones.

Then along come the railroads. As they branched out, there was a need to have more coordinated time. Needed to have it known what point in time what train was likely to be where. We don't want the trains running into each other.

So we had to sit down and figure out time zones in a manner that made for easy calculation, taking into account that even from east to west in any given time zone , sunrise and sunset will differ somewhat. since the world operates on a 24 hour clock, 24 time zones was then logical choice.

Especially radio which was a worldwide communication tool, everything had to be synchronized. If I have a contact in say, Japan, and we need to talk at a certain time, we bother have to know just what time it is. Enter Greenwich Main Time, known known as Universal coordinated time. When it is 0910 in Eastern US it is 0910 in Japan. Just figure out the local time which is either added or subtracted.

But what this fixed time and time zoned approach does not have is a lattitude based differential As noted, places near latitude zero don't have much difference in day/night length, and the further north or south you go, the larger the variance in seasonal day/night cycle there is.

So DST was born. It wasn't a group of stupid people creati gnit, and it wasn't people trying to kowtow to farmers in Minnesota. It was dealing with the issues created by necessary changes in a connected world.

It's why people in my latitude don't want the sun to rise at 8:30 A.M. in December and January if we go permanent DST. And as noted before, I'm at around 40 degrees latitude.

Unfortunately, few politicians are versed in physics, so I guess this will be a case of FAFO. The likely result is a repeat of the 1970's permanent DST failure.

"Crisis" because we don't have enough nurses for everyone to have one in their home? Because we might have to cut back on senseless make-work bullshit? Because we might have to remove the Social Security contribution cap (or do the local equivalent elsewhere) and actually expect the people profiting from society to pay for its maintenance?

Demographic decline is not the crisis. It's having an economic system dependent on endless growth because there's no other way to satisfy the boundless greed of the Epstein class.

Probably.

That's what I meant, too.

I see you've mastered talking to people who talk to LLMs. That's even harder than doing prompt engineering alone, my hat is off.

Stop, I can only get so erect.

The only slashdot interface which is not hopelessly broken is classic on desktop

"Heard about the Amazon Warehouses in Canada? Full of Indian Workers!"

Telling us we have to work while sending all the work to other countries so more profit can be made to get even more control is just a predictable step on the path to fascism, as it breeds desperation. It helps to own a newspaper you can use to tell people it's raining while you piss on them.

Are the good tech companies in the room with us? Why don't you name some for us?

It takes an expert to change voice filters? You must worship sysadmins.

Is it just me or is a doctor who can't figure out how to turn off an audio setting scary? What happens if his shoe becomes untied on the way to the operating theater? Does he call tech support?