Me: just trying to get some laughs on Lemmy.

You: old peeps want to catch some strays.

I have been listening to the Beastie Boys since 1986. How is that already almost years? Paul’s Boutique is probably my favorite album of all time.

It hasn’t really ramped up to anywhere near the levels I am talking about yet. I am looking at it from a perspective of WW3 woth billions dead before it lowers carbon emissions. Pretty that carbon will not be our worst concern among all of the fallout.

No one with any political power is even remotely trying to prevent that. Maybe we can have a huge war that kills billions to slow the rate of ascent. It is the most likely path that actually results in a timely emissions reduction that is politically tenable (see Iran v. Israel and Pakistan v. India for potential starting points, Ukraine v. Russia could escalate too, I suppose).

More likely, the climate will start killing us in greater quantities (famines, floods, hurricanes, droughts) resulting in an emission reduction. Eventually, it is a self correcting problem, but that most likely outcome maximizes suffering.

Track miles driven and tax based on that. No safety concerns of people driving on tires that should have been replaced.

I am sure making consideration of climate change impacts illegal during the approval process won’t have adverse consequences. When the water used to cool the reactor dries up, we’ll have plenty of money and foresight to just pump it in from somewhere else, right?

No, no, this question deserves the RTFM response, not the asked and answered. Unless you linked to an RTFM answer, in which case I’ll allow it.

Every old timer knows AI is supposed to be written in Prolog.

Yet, what happens if you publish research results that do not comport with their unrealistic world view. Why so insistent on defunding research that might uncover inconvenient facts? Very realistic.

The Heritage Foundation is located at:

214 Massachusetts Avenue NE, Washington, D.C., U.S.

“You move 16 tons and what do you get?”

Trump: I like it when the peasants get further in debt.

Yeah that sounds awful. Fortunately corporate policies prohibit putting our technical data into AIs.

Scrum is just something I have to endure in order to get paid to program. The worst is when you’re working on something hard and your status hasn’t changed substantially from the previous day. “I did a bunch of things that didn’t pan out, so I only really have an expanding list of things that are not the problem. No, assigning someone to help me is unlikely to resolve the issue faster.”

I expect the Trump administration to make talking about the negative effects of climate change a criminal offense. That will keep climate change from harming the mental health of children.

2027 teacher: there used to be a city named Miami in south Florida.

2027 student: what happened to it?

Teacher: no one really knows, the NOAA was disbanded in 2025 then in Nov. 2026 Miami just vanished.

That deal fell through. They are still struggling, but huge companies like that take a while to really die. The workers and engineers still show up and do stuff like design new vehicles.

I have an Audi EV (2023 etron). I bought it over a similarly priced i4. The etron has significantly more cargo room and the cockpit ergonomics were significantly better. I found the doorsill of the i4 too wide. Also, I hit my knee on the steering wheel in the i4 every time I got into the vehicle. I tried repeatedly but couldn’t figure out how to avoid it (lose weight?).

I can’t really speak to customer education, I owned 2 Nissan Leafs prior to the etron, so education would have probably just annoyed me. Also, I bought used because depreciation is insane - I got a nearly new car for half price.

For us this design is closer to marketing’s portrayal. The design is a tiger that has lost his tail, is slightly inbred, and has a bit of mange. The implementation looks like this implementation after a dog has used it as a chew toy.

So glad I am not the only one. It doesn’t help that I work on various projects, some of which use really old compilers. Tried using make_shared the other day and the compiler was not having any of it. Triple checked my syntax and spelling three times before realizing that the compiler was too old to support it.

Air conditioning our crops to allow them to have a chance to survive will definitely lower grocery prices.

My Audi E-tron has a full size spare.

We are implementing the feature in this two week sprint. (It is a four week task and is not amenable to being further decomposed - at least not with meaningful exit criteria.)