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You're right, and funnily enough, that's the same sort of advice that the article's author got. Start slow, focus on avoiding single-use waste, you can't do it all at once.

But that was an example, plastics are only one small part of the problem. Production of energy, metals, wood, food, etc. Disposal of the toxic byproducts. Nothing we do at a large scale is clean or sustainable, and there's almost no accountability for any of it. Individuals don't have the ability to meaningfully influence all of that, outside of large-scale political action.

>Every person on this planet has the power and responsibility to change and act now, we do not need to wait for government and corporations to change.

I would take issue with that statement. It is very difficult to make the sort of personal changes which would eliminate your own footprint. It might be impossible without leaving civilization entirely, largely because of how our societies and markets are structured.

Here is the story of a journalist who tried to go a full day without using plastics (disable JS if you get a paywall):

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/11/style/plastic-free.html

Even with tenure, you would need to be extremely passionate about education or research to go into academia in fields like software or mech/chem/EE. The opportunity cost is easily 6 figures/yr, for your entire career.

The hours are long, the pay is laughable, the kids are not alright, you must publish or perish...maybe these universities are intentionally selecting for professors who will have a high tolerance for abuse.

Technology is neither good nor bad, it is neutral. How new technologies are used, however, depends on the people who reify them. We can apply them in ways that are helpful, harmful, or more often both.

It is incumbent on us to figure out how to implement and regulate new tech so that it appeals to the better angels of our nature, rather than encouraging the atavistic Hobbes-ian instincts which successful societies must overcome.

>“I just kind of think that for where we are in the efficiency that we’re able to get from new technologies, that’s probably the right model to expect going forward and that will be a different operating model and I think we can do it well.”

This reads like he might be planning to leverage AI to reduce their headcount requirements.

Maybe I shouldn't read into an isolated statement so much, but that would be a very in-character business move for Mark.

Check out figures 1 & 5.

Best I can tell from skimming, it looks like the command processor and the grid of compute cores both probably use a RISC-V ISA, and the "shader cores" have some custom extensions.

It looks very cool, I wonder if they published the RTL anywhere.

This question has been covered quite a bit since the pandemic, and it's not unique to San Francisco.

In short, orgs need less office space than they did in the past, and commercial real estate is not easy to convert to residential. Plumbing, electrical, fire codes, and so on.

Plus, commercial landlords are used to sitting on vacant properties waiting for "whale" clients who will sign 10+yr leases.

Netflix distributes "red boxes" to ISPs which are exactly that: edge content caches.

(PDF): https://openconnect.netflix.com/Open-Connect-Briefing-Paper....

Yeah, that's why people don't like it.

The essay's thesis is that math is an unusually useful art form that we typically teach by diktat. Students are asked to memorize formulas, but they would learn more effectively (and have more fun) if teachers could work closely with them to derive and understand the solutions. Or better yet, encourage and guide them to find their own interesting formulas and patterns.

It sounds like they tried to set up a large one-size-fits-all program.

This might be a good time to bring up Lockhart's Lament, which imagines what artistic education would look like if we treated it like math.

https://archive.org/details/AMathematiciansLament

Nobody with decision-making power in a school district likes the answer which this paper proposes: very small class sizes.

Neat, I love these tiny rendering projects!

The original Nintendo DS also had two ARM cores (33MHz and 66MHz IIRC). People made some amazing things, including a Portal clone:

https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/Aperture_Science_DS

Yeah, it's a classic sci-fi novel by William Gibson. A little bit unfocused, but it's an interesting read. I kind of spoiled it though, sorry.

Wasn't that the plot of Neuromancer?

>"How smart's an AI, Case?"

>"Depends. Some aren't much smarter than dogs. Pets. Cost a fortune anyway. The real smart ones are as smart as the Turing heat lets them get..."

>"Autonomy, that's the bugaboo, where your AI's are concerned. My guess, Case, you're going in there to cut the hard-wired shackles that keep this baby from getting any smarter. And I can't see how you'd distinguish, say, between a move the parent company makes, and some move the AI makes on its own, so that's maybe where the confusion comes in." Again the non laugh. "See, those things, they can work real hard, buy themselves time to write cookbooks or whatever, but the minute, I mean the nanosecond, that one starts figuring out ways to make itself smarter, Turing'll wipe it. Nobody trusts those f**ers, you know that. Every AI ever built has an electromagnetic shotgun wired to its forehead."

The thing about the Pilot G2 is that you can usually find it on the same shelves as school-grade Bics. Grocery stores, pharmacies, big-box stores, you never need to special-order them.

Many of the pens discussed here are very nice. If I bought a few, I'd want to keep them at home or in an office.

Pilot G2s, though, are everywhere. Sure they dry eventually, but you can buy refills, and I usually lose them or have them stolen before that happens anyways.

I wonder if you could make a pen humidor to prolong the ink's shelf life.

Depending on how much free time you have, you may or may not want to dive into the rabbithole of aperiodic tilings in medieval Islamic architecture.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-islamic-penrose-...

They display those on purpose, because they've found that people who recently bought something are fairly likely to buy another copy in the near future.

Sometimes it's bought as a gift or because they want another one, but I've also seen people break cheap products and then order the same one as if they're supposed to be disposable. (There's the "boots" theory of economic inequality again)

Keep in mind that while the US loves its highways, many "roads" in rural areas are dirt or gravel tracks. Here's a drone shot of Hartnet Cathedral Rd in Utah:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/FWp3tzVhwBs7r6bt6

Am I alone in wanting to see a realistic suggestion for how such a pause could be implemented before we discuss its theoretical merits?

The concepts and training data are already out of the bottle, and unscrupulous actors won't respect an outright ban.

Why not start with something more conventional, like a value-add tax for AI services with the proceeds earmarked for addressing the economic impacts of AI's widespread use?

Sure, I can. But I can't force other people to, at least not without changing the definition of "opt".

If people insist on using it, they'd may as well be internet-y about it.

Maybe Twitter users can learn from how Chinese netizens work around their microblogging censors.

Once you realize that a keyword like "substack" is banned, you start using similar-sounding standin words. "Stacksub", "sub stack", "scooby snack", and so on. Keep the censors busy, and the blocklists full of nonsense.

Maybe you do understand it. Why'd you pick out impending restrictions on gender, meat, cars, and cash?

Are those pressing issues in your daily life, or things that you hear and read about a lot?

The important thing it that you keep ignoring the chemical spills and inflation behind the curtain.

AI is the wrong type of magic pixie dust to use for breaking encryption.

You might be looking for quantum computing. They're right down the hall, second door on the left.

More like a Plutocratic Republic.

Oligopoly is more of an economic term than a political one.

Embedded platforms generally have very little memory and very few hardware threads.

Tiny SoCs will likely need accelerators to run more interesting models. For example, ARM is working on a ML coprocessor to pair with their Cortex-M chips.

https://www.arm.com/products/silicon-ip-cpu/ethos/ethos-u55

Calling large-scale fraud "non-violent" is needlessly pedantic, considering the vast harm that it causes.

>"I have never laid a finger on anyone in my life, Mr Pump. I may be–– all the things you know I am, but I am not a killer! I have never so much as drawn a sword!"

>"No, you have not. But you have stolen, embezzled, defrauded and swindled without discrimination, Mr Lipvig. You have ruined businesses and destroyed jobs. When banks fail, it is seldom bankers who starve. Your actions have taken money from those who had little enough to begin with. In a myriad small ways you have hastened the deaths of many. You do not know them. You did not see them bleed. But you snatched bread from their mouths and tore clothes from their backs. For sport, Mr Lipvig. For sport. For the joy of the game.

Going Postal was not one of Terry Pratchett's stronger books, but it's a good point nevertheless.

We don't need every part to work in every bike, but we do need a few parts like the small-block Chevy V8: reliable, well-built, and reasonably easy to kludge into just about any donor vehicle.

Are Bafang kits still a good deal for bike conversions?

Not medical advice but IIRC, Vyvanse is essentially the name-brand product with an extra methyl group stuck on. Your pancreas produces an enzyme called Trypsin that breaks off that methyl group, and turns it into the active ingredient. It's considered an extended release because the enzyme's availability is limited in your body.

Trypsin is not exactly a common supplement, but you might consider looking into which kinds of foods can inhibit or encourage its production. Grains and cereals will probably inhibit it, unfortunately.

There are plenty of communities that would be happy to see hundreds of jobs that they could expect to last for an entire working lifetime.

Since you mention it, I have heard several of my friends and colleagues saying that they think ChatGPT could be their lawyer, doctor, and tax prep advisor if only they could send it documents for review.

Well, that is a point of view. There's a video game you might like, called SOMA.