The UN and other groups keep talking about "carbon removal" like it's a real thing, when we basically have no idea how to do it, don't have the resources to do it at scale, and have limited understanding of the impacts of overshoot. It's a mythical creature invented by fossil fuel interests to put off net zero as long as possible, and anyone talking about it is not serious.

I really wish that Linux had made the switch to TAI when they changed off 32-bit time. It would have been a little more work at that point to bite the bullet and fix all the little issues instead of doing the simplest thing.

Wish we had changed Unix seconds to TAI instead of UTC when dropping 32-bit... Who cares where the stars are.

I thought broadband wasn't a public utility. Why are we even allowing them access to public right of way or private property? They should have to pay for that access.

I used to think like this. But I've come to realize that editing, whether by a professional or an AI, is a good thing. It flags when I think I'm being clear, but I'm not. Sometimes that's as simple as reworking a sentence to be less verbose, but other times a simple edit can indicate that the entire paragraph is confusing. LLMs can be quite helpful here, because you can actually ask them what they understand, and they'll give you a good idea of what your readers are actually reading. Even when you are a good writer, it helps to understand what people are actually taking in. A good editor will do this, as will teaching students, but an AI will do it with you all day without complaint and without embarrassment.

Because the point of Rust is that it's safe by design. In other words, once you've figured out how to structure your program to make it not do unsafe things, you have a design you can just implement in C and (as long as it's a faithful implementation), and it will also be guaranteed to be safe. The only reason not to is that maintenance is harder that way. It also shows that Rust has to many limits because code that is provably safe by a human cannot be written in Rust without a redesign to meet Rust's more limited understanding of safe.

We must have joined the same day!

Several people are already demoing mobile charging trucks. Pretty soon the AAA will just arrive and plug you in for a quick boost, the same way they'd give you a few gallons of gas.

Since when are the rich important...

They're just building a training dataset...

It's also unlikely they'd mix the concrete on site - most comes from ready mix plants. But construction sites do use a lot of water.

I know it's kind of off topic, but there's going to be some fun when whatever groupstole the trellix/McAfee/fireeye code gets done looking for holes (and you know they're there...). We're going to have a massive breach across millions of corporate desktops.

Add Proxmox and Talos to that list.

This is a simple rule to live by - if you see advertising, start by assuming you don't need it. If it's for a brand, assume that brand is overcharging you. If you see product placements or informal/influencer content, assume that's a paid advertisement. Think very carefully about what you need, make a shopping list and monitor the prices, so you know when to buy (and give yourself a cooldown to avoid impulse buying - if you haven't needed it while waiting for a special, maybe you don't need it at all). Even for groceries, know the prices of items, and adjust your weekly purchases to target specials.

Using ad blockers online on the other hand is just a good idea...

What an idiot. AI is going to accelerate global warming, which is going to drive millions to migrate...