mindlesscrollyparrot

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Millions? 7 billion more like.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, I know, but he said he has to have the Windows version.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

AI developers: your copyrighted work is such a small contributor to the AI's output that copyright doesn't apply. Also AI developers: but our AI won't work without it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I would say that the bbq is already on and the ceiling is going black, and then the alarm is installed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

OK, but is it really a requirement to improve on what you have? That said, I find the O365 versions better than the native Mac versions, and I would run O365 rather than bother with a VM (plus the Windows license for the VM might outweigh the savings you get from switching from Mac to Linux, unless your employer will pay for it).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

How does Requirement 3 work? You have macs, so you must be running the Windows versions in a VM? Obviously you could do that on Linux as well.

But, to be honest, Requirements 1 and 2 say to me that Apple have you heavily locked in, and I think you should recognize that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Formula 1 switched to semi-automatic in the 1980s. The technology has only improved over the last 40 years. If fast is what you want, driving a manual is insanity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Although we do still need to keep an open mind. Most approaches take years to roll out. For example, Solar wasn't very efficient in its infancy, but there have been massive improvements since then. Nobody was talking about e-bikes replacing many car journeys; they might not have got anywhere if we hadn't already had big investments in battery and motor technology thanks to e-cars.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

I hear what you're saying, but I think the real problem is the policy makers, who are without doubt choosing to use the least scary predictions, and pushing even those targets back when they fail to achieve them.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Have they?

"In this case, their very specific prediction was that warming of between 1.5°C and 4.5°C would accompany a doubling of atmospheric CO₂" https://theconversation.com/40-years-ago-scientists-predicted-climate-change-and-hey-they-were-right-120502

Isn't the problem more that people have been reading that and assuming that it means 3°, not 'possibly 4.5°' ?

That said, the study there seems to assume that the effects are roughly linear, ie. that there are no tipping points.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I don't think the billionaires' investments are going to be worth billions if the global economy collapses.

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