This article gave me existential dead - more than the normal background existential dread. Using the ocean as a heatsink sounds great, but we are already warming the oceans. Yes, they’re big - but they’re not infinite. We’ve figured out how to get “free” energy from space with solar. Now we really need to figure out how to dissipate the excess heat we produce with that energy back into space, or use all of it. Someone really needs to figure out how to turn heat back into electricity - without boiling water to spin turbines.

What’s a FP (in this context)??

They’re getting paid by the government, not trump personally - I’m assuming they’ll get paid much more than the job is actually worth, possibly as payment for some previous or future job for trump. There will be some angle to every contact issued for the whole project.

I’m the same as you, but there are a lot of people that pay (monthly fees I believe!) for pre-built “android boxes”.

Yeah, you’re not going to get that in Australia. The latitude goes down to about 42° South in Tasmania. Boston is about 42° North. I know there’s much more to the climate than just latitude, but gives you some idea.

Interesting that you’d like it colder. I’ve moved from Australia to Atlantic Canada and much as I’m loving it here - there’s a lot to said for a more temperate climate.

I find this news very encouraging, but also really hard to believe.

I’m no longer on speaking terms with my mother and two brothers over their pro Ameriacn fascist regime position - and the anti trans stance of said regime is the main attraction for them. They all live in circles of friends where this is normal.

My previous house had security screens on the windows with screws that I could never find a driver for - it was a few years ago, but I think they were pentalobe with the security nub in the middle. I didn’t look too hard though - it was a good excuse to not wash the windows.

I read yesman’s comment as agreeing with the sentiment in the op, not arguing against it?

Doesn’t autumn start on the equinox? (Honest and confused question from someone who grew up in Australia, where the seasons are determined by months, but now lives in the northern hemisphere.)

I’m not sure - I don’t measure it. It’s in my home server running Linux. It does everything I want and is >90% idle most of the time - so it’s fast enough. And I just realized I lied in my original comment - my laptop has DDR4 RAM, but it’s already at max. capacity so I won’t have to worry about buying more.

Shouldn’t be a problem for me - I plan to skip DDR4 and go straight to DDR5, or maybe what comes after, at some point. Still running 32GB DDR3 here.

It’s messed up that so many people believe it. I belived it! I’m not on speaking terms with my mother any more since I had a conversation with her about his “grab em by the pussy” comments and her willingness to forgive him for that, despite his obvious lack of contrition. I can 100% believe that there are people out there that would forgive him raping their daughter.

In the current political climate, I can’t understand how they got visas to enter the country and then, with appropriate visas, how/why ICE allowed them to cross the border. Of course I understand how it’s possible, it just seems weirdly wrong.

I get this one. Many years ago a former wife tried to convert me. I started going to chruch, bible studies etc. and after a while I realised that none of the people I was with actually believed anything - they were just going through the motions doing the stuff you need to do to stay in the club.

I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make. I have god, not God. I know because I was typing on my phone and it autocorrected to God three times and I had to go back and fix it.

33% have a college degree yet only 3% are atheist. That’s batshit crazy. I can’t imagine having the critical thinking skills needed for a degree and not using those skills to figure out that god is a fairy tale.

Yes I know lots of educated people are religious - I had several christian professors when I was studying mathematics / computer science. That doesn’t make it any less crazy to me.

I have a STEM background myself and spent a good bit of my career writing (relatively poorly in my opinion) technical documentation. I understand what you’re saying and I guess I didn’t make my point very well.

I was hoping people would understand that I was referring to the enshitification of internet search results - where every search leads to pages of results of entire articles about very simple topics that say basically nothing. It seems obvious to be, though I admit I’m making an assumption, that the vast majority of these articles are LLM generated fluff attempting to lure people to pages to generate ad revenue.

I get what you’re saying, but I’ll just clarify that my 16 paragraphs vs 16 words was about wordiness, not layout.

Denial information is available on the internet, so LLMs have ingested it. Couldn’t the above output have easily been generated with a prompt like “what arguments do holocaust deniers use?”?

For me the most obvious tell is using 16 paragraphs to say something that could have been said with 16 words.