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  • Have you tried asking ChatGPT or Bard to write you code to do something? It is actually remarkably good at it.
    That and being an alternative to a thesaurus is about all I use LLMs for.

  • Neither very much. Python won't change. Excel when running in the cloud will become more powerful, but the workbooks using Python will also be incompatible with desktop versions of Excel. At least that's what I'm understanding so far.

  • The problem is there are tipping points. Some global warming leads to increased forest fires leads to fewer trees and more CO2 = more global warming
    ....and/or
    global warming leads to less polar and high altitude snow+ice and since snow reflects the sun's heat, less ice = more global warming.

    4 degrees warming quite likely makes 6 degrees inevitable.

  • ???
    I'll just presume you agree with everything I said since you didn't mention any aspect of it.

  • Economy` is pseudo-science at its best.

    This sentence doesn't even make sense.
    Econometrics is highly research driven and evidence based. In it's simplest form econometrics says if you put prices down you will (usually) sell more of your product. You'd dismiss this observation as pseudo-science?

  • What do you think the economy is?
    I would argue Iceland has a very good economy, yet it is world leading in renewable power and has minimal inequality.

  • There is nothing which inherently says an economy has to be environmentally bad, indeed there are many examples of economic success on the back of renewable power.

    I'd agree in too many cases an environmentally bad policy is persued with economic measures being given as a justification, but that is just bad policy.

    A good economy can invest green, a bad economy is a collection of of people just trying to make ends meet - the environment will never benefit from this, environmentally distructive options are usually cheaper than their greener alternatives.

  • Partially true, a bad economy is indeed very detrimental to society. People starve, people don't get healthcare. People die.

  • Yep, there is a good reason the median average is usually used when looking at incomes.

  • And the chromium open source project while they are at it...

  • Except at it's core chromium is open source, and I can't see the FOSS community embracing the idea. The French also wouldn't be able to fully limit access to unrestricted browsers.

    It's an all round dumb idea. Much easier and more effective to tell ISPs to do the blocking.

  • Ah, dangers of written text. The "Sure." comment make it look like you were being sarcastic to me as a Brit (we use sarcasm a lot!)
    I stand corrected!

  • What a weird comment. I guess you'd not plug your 96W charger into your 2.4kW capable power socket?

  • While some of what your say is true, the examples you give are not good ones. The Amazon example has far more to do with EU/US data residency requirements (e.g. GDPR), and practicalities about how things like local taxes are treated. In games it has more to do with latency and ping times and also you don't want 10,000 people waiting for one particular mob to spawn because of a quest or drop.

  • You can already send images as an attachment and it doesn't compress or change the file in anyway.

  • But somehow gun laws work in every other civilised country... Odd.
    Well if you are sure it's not the gun laws then instead fix the other laws which are putting people in poverty and creating the gangs.

  • Same old. Just follow specific users by copying their full ID (e.g. @Teppic @kbin.social without the space) onto the search on Mastodon and follow as normal.

    We should perhaps use hashtags more here because that would would be another way for Mastodon users to find/follow kbin content.

    Going the other way to contribute to a kbin magazine from Mastodon, If you want the post to appear in a particular magazine, simply mention it in the post content, for example, "@fediverse @kbin.social" (no space) Note it will appear in the Microblog section.

  • There was clearly a large bot net which started stencilling the outlines of the letters, but then it was magic, everybody understood the assignment. The letters filled out in a handful of minutes. Then, then the whiteout slowed - the apes (mostly) agreed the job was done. It took another half an hour or so for the white fog to finally take hold.