I’m running the same desktop for nearky 14 years and I have two laptops that are over 8. Still daily use.

If was to become part of the diet of one, he’d change his views very quickly.

Well, he is right on the mark in the first part: go vote and talk to two friends.

Go vote, damn it! You don’t like how things are going, do something about!

Large Language Model

To the extent of my understanding, it is a form of slightly more sophisticated bot, as in an automated response algorithm, that is developed over a set of data, in order to have it “understand” the mechanics that make such set cohesive to us humans.

With such background, it is supposed to produce new similar outputs if given new raw data sets to run through the mechanics it acquired during development.

Fully agree.

If this kind of institution starts to be ignored, with no consequences, then it no longer serves a purpose.

There should be at least two zeroes added to those numbers.

Aliens took them, obviously. What else? What other logical, rational, simple explanation could there be?

Thank you.

But… Why do you assume I have instant knowledge of acronyms because I opted to insert a comment on a topic that teased my interest? Does it pressuposes anything about my person?

Good morning.

Let’s call that example the canary in the mine but I’m seeing many similar situations where I live.

Being in a less than urban area, there is still a bit of industry around and some factories are cutting staff and a few have already shut down operations, especially in sectors more closely related with end user products (clothing, footwear, yarn, etc). Industries with ties to industrial use (metal working, construction materials, wood and derivates) are keeping afloat but only replacing workers that go into retirement or that for some reason or another just quit, and these industries, in my understanding, are keeping afloat because of the hard push into more sustainable and efficient houses, which is forcing a good deal of public investment into large renovation projects and funds.

Parallel to this, bakeries, coffee shops, small businesses that rely on consumption, are shutting down. For me, this implies there is less money floating around.

Paired with the hike in housing…

You are going to have to unfold all of those acronyms before we can move forward with this conversation.

I don’t have the palest of ideas of what you are trying to convey.

How could such an odd choice benefit them?

Honest question.

The only thing I’m sure of is death and taxes.

I’m risking that statement because I’m seeing a good deal of events similar to what happened the last time we went through one (the world) and the big companies starting to let go people is like the canary in the mine.

I smell a recession forming!

And if you dislike the foretelling, you can just eat the cheese and start again.

If it is impossible, either shut down operations or find a way to pay for it.

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Not an exotheric notion.

Besides special purpose built charging spots, available in the streets, my country is incentivizing the instalation of charging spots in supermarkets, shopping malls and regular gas stations.

Residential buildings have incentives to install charging spots and I’ve read that new construction has to have it by default.

It is doable. In extremis, regular street light posts can be retrofitted with the necessary hardware.

Grab the torch, I’ll bring the pitchfork, and let’s ask the writer just why didn’t made the title less click bait.

No matter what we do, this is not a problem that anyone alive today will see fixed.

I’ll be fucked sideways with a three pronged dildo if I don’t do whatever I can to leave this place better than how it was left to me, no matter how small the outcome of my efforts may be.

The mentality of “whoever comes next can deal with it” is what took us here.

This problem is humongous, if not humanity ending, and yet somehow most people think it’s something science will solve within the next few years.

If there is one thing we are good at is finding solutions for problems. Unfortunatelty, we often create new problems for ourselves, which is a nasty habit we should look into solving as well. Not doing anything, at all, is not what we are.

Plants have a fixed life cycle. Unless we found a way to make all plants like bamboo, capable of growing at extreme speed (there are species of bamboo you can observe groing in real time with your naked eye), plants take a set time to absorb a set amount of CO2.

The promise here is to syphon CO2 straight from the atmosphere into a solid state we can store, reuse or dispose of, safely.