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When I've played around with Bing, I've been seeing hallucinations and outright false data pop up quite regularly.
My initial assessment of LLVMs is that they can be great writing aids, but I fail to see how I can trust them for search, when I can't use it for simpler tasks without getting served outright falsehoods.
It turned out profits were more important, and now people are angry about the new 230g mayonaise tube costing the same as the 275g one did last year. But at least the new tube required 17% less plastic.
Something's got to give if we expect inflation to drop. _Many_ people expect businesses to take the hit. After all, many raised prices due to things like energy costs last winter, but very few lower them again now that production costs go down again.
We as in "society"), have assumed this would be solved by some healthy competition. It's just that we optimized society for maximum short-term gain rather than a market where newcomers are welcome. As a result, the players that are already in the game are free to ignore the forces society assumed would keep things running smoothly.
My teenage daughter will most likely never watch The Seventh Seal. Unless she stumbled upon it on Youtube or something.
1998 me would never have believed you if you'd told me Gorillaz will be a household name while Blur will be some old 90's band the kids don't know about.
Luckily, most people don't charge their teslas with coal power.
Alas, at least in Northern Europe, the grids are largely in private hands, and investments are kept down to the legal minimum. There's no way we go all-renewable until someone kicks that hornet's nest.
Fixing this with trans-European energy transfers is a neat idea, but if you want to send power from i.e. a solar panel on a roof in Spain to my house in Finland, or wind energy from Denmark to Poland, then we'll require infrastructure upgrades at scales that haven't been seen in much of Europe since the early 50's.
Unless you somehow solved storage at a low enough price for it to be viable, we need nuclear or fossil fuels up here - biofuels won't be enough.
Sweden has twice the population and what? Three times the landmass?
Sweden also does not have an oil fund where it invested much of the dino profits from the last 60 years. The Norwegian one won't last forever, but I'd bet it'll last longer than any of us.
Don't get me wrong; Sweden has a decent economy and the standard of living is still amongst top-20 on the planet. Norway just struck black gold and scored higher.
I guess it's a matter of how efficiently you can cool the CPU with pool water. If you're able to keep the P4 below whatever limit it has for thermal throttling then I suspect it will, indeed, be a winner. If not, a Thunderbird will happily boil away the enire pool if given a chance.
The listening experience differs from person to person, depending on everything from hearing, to noise to the individual listener's preferences and tastes. The audiophiles you mention try to justify that individual experience using whatever argument available, including false ones.
This isn't about that, though. This is about artificially creating a supply of workers by lowering standards, rather than increasing the price for the existing supply of workers.
With a looming demographic bomb looming at the horizon we need to value existing workers more and increase individual productivity rather than removing child protection or workplace safety regulations. Spare time jobs aside, children are the workers of tomorrow -- not means to short-term value for shareholders.
But yeah, good call. No reason to support it in new kernels.
Personally, I'd rather find a non-tech sector job close to my home than commuting to a tech job. I am very happy to be fortunate enough to have the option to work from home all of the time -- most people don't
Travelling, as in actually going somewhere, is often a nice and relaxing experience. Taking a delayed filled-to-the-brink bus to the train-station, switching to a delayed train without a single free seat, switching to a hermetically sealed metro car an hour later and finally arriving at the office 30 minutes late is _not_ a relaxing experience.
I'd love to see my coworkers now and then, but commuting really neutralises any benefits from going to the office.
The tricky part is getting someone else to take the first step -- there's going to be a lot of changes if we really want to do this, and most people seems firmly convinced that someone else should take the lead.
I take 30 minutes longer lunch breaks in winter the days the sun is out, just to be able to get outside.
It's more or less impossible to get natural Vitamin D otherwise -- any spare time will be during the dark hours.
Sure, it'd be possible but we'd have to concieve a lot of new cultural concepts to replace the ones invalidated by the shift to UTC, and find new ways to remind people that it's impolite to call people in the middle of the night.
In the long run, a list of time zones aren't that much more complicated to work with than a list of times when it's mid-day is in the major population centres on the planet.