Here's the thing. Oil is concentrated in a few countries, and if you do not have oil resources, you have to pay other countries for it.

Electricity, though, is everywhere. You can get it in various forms, and while you may have to buy solar panels, once you put them up, they power EVs for a really long time.

So you could import a gallon of oil and once you use that gallon up, import another gallon of oil, Lather, rinse, repeat.

Or you could import a solar panel, and now have basically a limitless supply of electricity for decades.

So your country could either import oil constantly, replacing the oil you use, or you could import the solar panel once, and constantly produce the energy the EVs need to keep running.

Supposedly, in the US, if instead of growing the corn used to make ethanol for gas fill cars with, you instead put solar panels in its place, the amount of energy generated would fulfill the driving needs of way more cars. Or put another way, you could use half the land to power the same number of vehicles, but now have land to grow more useful crops for food and such.

Yes, let's use AI, which consumes enormous amounts of power we don;t have, vast tracts of land we have to clear away, level and build on and huge amounts of water to cool all the heat it generates.

Let's use this resource hungry thing to help us find ways to use less resources to save the planet.

Perhaps we can start by not using this resource hungry thing in the first place. The first "R" is Reduce, which means you use less of it. Using less power, land and water by not building unnecessary data centers seems to be the best place to start.

What did you expect? Project 2025 aims to eliminate pornography in all forms and one of the methods is to get age verification in everything.

Discord reportedly even did it using technology from Palantir, so you can figure out why it was added.

Yeah, that's what I thought too - most kids do not wear backpacks properly (how many times have you seen a backpack worn only over one shoulder?).

And with textbooks weighing what they do and kids having to bring them back and forth for homework, it's no wonder they have shoulder and likely the beginnings of back problems.

To be honest, the US was like that too. Back when copyright was on a country by country basis, the US would often print "pirated" versions of books because none of the US publishers had to respect English copyright. It's why you can often find both the English first printing, and a US first printing of a book - and there can be different values associated with those copies.

Many publishers set up shop in the US to pirate English books for this reason - the colonies were not going to respect English copyright and they were having a fun time publishing what they can freely. Some of those copies made it back to England as well.

It's not just China ripping people off - in the early days of the US everyone did the same, even the founding fathers pirated many books this way to make their fortunes.

Open the link in a new tab to avoid that problem.

But yes, you're right, it's yet another problem with infinite scrolling.

On a desktop yes that makes sense, though many browsers do a reload if the tab becomes backgrounded so you lose your spot anyways. On a mobile device the behavior is more random - sometimes you will get your spot saved, other times it will still reset it. It's no longer a guarantee that you'll keep your spot opening a new tab.

90 years ago the industrial revolution helped improve the economy for most Americans (it didn't help those the laws were written to keep down - i.e., colored).

AI is poised to only help the richest of the rich - always see how it's positioned to "you don't need so many employees" or "you don't need xxx" - where that could be writers, artists, whatever.

And the hyperscalers know the real problem is how perishable the technology is - you buy that nVidia AI processor today, in 3 years it's worthless. That's why they're gobbling up all the RAM now rather than waiting because the hardware value is diminishing quickly, and if you can't get your model out today it's too late.

That's why AI is gobbling up everything in its wake. It's a rush

The tech nexus is basically e-commerce. You might think nothing of returning something to Amazon - perhaps you buy clothes in 3 sizes and return the two that don't fit.

But e-commerce can't handle returns - it's so bad at it, that those ill-fitting clothes often just go straight to the landfill because it's easier to toss it into the garbage than to determine if it's possible to put it back in the stream of commerce. You'll find a lot of products like that - buy two blenders in different colors to return one? Well, the one you return probably goes straight into the landfill - and no one's cracked the seal on the box - it would've been more environmentally friendly if the factory in China simply dumped it after making it.

Fast fashion especially - unsold good often go straight into landfill after they sit on the hangar for a couple of months. It's especially nasty since it's extremely hard to recycle cotton and other fabrics.

So the other tech nexus is environmental - surely one of the great hallmarks of tech is supposed to be better for the environment (save the AI boom destroying land and water for datacenters and consuming dirty power). Environmental tech is a thing, as is protecting our environment from waste.

So basically the same evidence that RTO makes people more efficient and productive when there are butts in the office.

It's mostly "feels" and some areas do benefit therefore RTO is a good thing overall. Feels and some areas benefit with AI, therefore it's a good thing overall. After all, if one small bit benefits, then if we spread it across the entire organization it all should benefit.

Does anyone doubt for a second that Trump would nuke the country if he was promised godhood by an advanced alien race?

Greenland would've been it, because doing so would fracture NATO. Section 5 has only been used once in NATO's entire history (i.e., come to the defence of a NATO ally) - by the USA, on 9/11.

That would be a minor war, but it may be te war that starts a precursor to WWIII because Russia would probably take advantage of a distracted Europe to cause some chaos along their borders, China sees the US as distracted to invade Taiwan and basically all hell breaks loose.

I was wondering if the 5.15 LTS being valid until 2023 was a typo in the summary, but if it was released in 2022 it does make sense.

Though these days I would've also questioned why use a 5.x kernel in 2026 when there are newer 6.12 which is LTS I believe.

The thing to note is this is 2026, and we have full IDEs in web browsers, so the need to download, install, or do anything that modifies your computer is basically nil

My present employer needed to do a coding test, and they had one set up on one of these sites. It presents a text editor with the function you write, and you write it. You can then click the green arrow to run the program with the test cases and see the results. If you make a syntax error, the compiler output is shown. They even say to try their practice test which runs through the whole thing to make sure your browser settings work and to get familiar with the system. Once you're ready, you click go and the real test starts - they tell you how long you need to set aside for a distraction-free test.

Once you click go, if the test passes, you can submit your code, do another question or revise your code some more.

All you need is a web browser to do the test. Gets rid of any issues you might run into - environment (sure most people use Windows, but what if your recruit is using a Mac? Or LInux?), licensing (if you want the user to debug code, you might need to license tools for doing so, or if you use Visual Studio, they need a license), etc.,

In person tests? Well, that's what laptops are for - you provide them a base set up laptop with all the tools set up and let them have a go at it.

These days I'm wary of anything that requires a download. I needed a TFTP server a few months ago, and had a heck of a time trying to get copyparty set up on my Linux machine. Oddly it worked on my Windows work PC, so I ran it there. I went with copyparty because it's an open source does-every-file-sharing-protocol-known-to-man server, rather than daring to try one of the many Windows TFTP server programs out there

Even my shell account in the mid 90s they had EDITOR default to "pico" (the UW editor that the "nano" GNU clone was based off of, part of the UW pine email client). That way if you needed to edit something they would default to a simple easy to use editor.

I never really learned vi until the early 2000s when I got fed up with emacs. I know the very basics at the time (like how to quit), but I never truly learned it until IBM came out with their vim tutorial which I then supplemented with vimtutor.

Of course, the problem now is I have to set everything to vim-mode, and anyone trying to drive my VS Code gets frustrated because it's got VIm mode installed.

The start is also electronically controlled - push button start where the computer starts the engine is remarkably efficient at getting the engine going quick. You don't really crank a pushbuttong start engine - it just barely turns and its running. I'm sure the computer is basically goosing the spark and mixture to get an easy start within half a turn or something.

That also means the starter gets used hardly at all.

I mean, I remember cranking for 3-5 seconds to start an engine, the modern start-stop systems have the engine going in a few hundred milliseconds. You lift your foot off the brake and the engine is started and running before you hit the gas.

But yes, the computer monitors everything - if the engine takes longer to start up because of a weak battery, you're more likely to get a code thrown at you to replace the battery long before you worry about the start-stop dying on you.

It also breaks back button functionality. If you scroll down a long list, then click a link, then go back, chances are it won't scroll to where you were, but just the beginning. And then you'd have to scroll back down again reloading pages along the way.

Pagination is a good thing.