You know he can pack the courts if he really cared, right? Y’all think the lifetime catholic who is against abortion is really on your side for this one?
My Views: I would love it if Solar, Hydro and Wind and other renewable sources of energy + Non Renewable Nuclear were to provide enough energy reliably to completely replace fossil fuels, but I know it’s not a feasible solution at least at this point. And maybe it will never be. Renewable sources of energy are highly dependent...
A study mentioned on Our World in Data suggests that if the entire world adopted a vegan diet, our total agricultural land use could shrink dramatically, from 4.1 billion hectares to 1 billion hectares, a reduction of 75% . This reduction is significant because agriculture, particularly livestock farming, is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.
Further, a research team, including scientists from Leiden University, found that if high-income countries switched to a plant-based diet, almost 100 billion tons of CO2 could be pulled out of the atmosphere by the end of the century. This switch would reduce annual agricultural production emissions by 61%, and converting former cropland and pastures to their natural state could remove another 98.3 billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by the end of the century .
Additionally, a study by scientists from Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, found that phasing out animal agriculture over the next 15 years would have the same effect as a 68% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions through 2100. This would contribute 52% of the net emission reductions necessary to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. The phase-out of animal agriculture could create a 30-year pause in net greenhouse gas emissions and offset almost 70% of the heating effect of those emissions through the end of the century .
If people stopped eating meat and we turned the massive amount of land we waste raising animals to slaughter into carbon sinks it absolutely would be enough. But go on justifying your addiction that’s literally killing the planet. I’m sure your grandchildren would agree.
Especially with the way these companies positioned themselves. Google and Apple were the anti-Microsoft. Google even had the motto don’t be evil. Facebook was started by one of us! A hacker nerd dropout who loved open source. Of course he’s on our side!
Sort of off topic but I honestly hate Santa. I don’t think it’s cool to lie to kids, especially to tell them that they and their actions are constantly judged by an invisible third person. That’s before getting into the class issues around rich kids apparently being better in this all knowing all seeing quasi benevolent god’s eyes. Why else would they get the good stuff while the poor kids get the shitty stuff and the knockoffs? Was no one else upset as a kid finding out that adults had essentially engaged in a conspiracy to deceive you? Fuck Santa. And fuck mass surveillance and judging gods and normalizing those concepts in children.
Lmao a decade of talking shit and he goes back. What a chud. I have no idea how anyone buys his voice of the voiceless speaking truth to power bullshit. Motherfucker spreads bullshit rumors in dirtsheets to the point that it’s a meme, bullies jobbers and tries to get them fired for tweets he misread, feuds with people because they ask for a phone number or send him a text, throws punches because people come see him after he told them to, fucks over the debut of a brand new show he pretty much booked and ran because he wants his nepotism hire to be able to come to work after throwing a chair and biting someone.
Honestly wish he’d never come to AEW - he got all of those WWE boring people to take up airtime, got his shitty, “what” fans, and stunk up the product when he wasn’t derailing it because he’s made of glass.
Capitalism is criticized a lot on here (especially by American users, it seems to me). Most of that seems well-founded, but I also have the feeling that most of these complaints are simply venting and not the first step to improvement....
Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers wrote a letter to the board of directors warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters....
The computer self corrected based on its understanding of math principles that it learned through text. It’s not about the math. It used reason.
The computer had a thought. A rudimentary one, yes. But an actual thought.
I don’t really know what to say if you don’t see why that’s an amazing discovery.
Also the Belgium thing was if it continued growing at the rate it is, but the technology didn’t improve. The technology has already improved by two generations since that paper was written. It’s a crappy talking point and nothing else.
The image you've uploaded is a humorous take on a programming practice common among Python developers. It shows a list comprehension, which is a concise way to create lists in Python. The joke is that nobody prompted the Python programmers to use a complex or sophisticated feature, yet they are using it anyway, which implies that Python programmers tend to use list comprehensions frequently and perhaps even when they are not strictly necessary. List comprehensions are a popular feature in Python because they can make the code more readable and expressive, and this meme plays on the idea that Python programmers might be eager to use them at every opportunity.
There’s likely already a shortage of drivers and they can’t get more because they don’t pay enough. Blow the whistle. It’ll end up getting you paid more if you can stay secret. If not, they’ll fire you and you can sue and get paid A LOT more.
The key word there would be Jewish. If it’s genocidal to say from the river to the sea Israel will be Arab (which isn’t even what people say in English!) how is it not genocidal to say from the river to the sea Israel will be Jewish? How is that bad faith?
A WIRED analysis of leaked police documents verifies that a secretive government program is allowing federal, state, and local law enforcement to access phone records of Americans who are not suspected of a crime.
We have plenty of homographs as well, “lead,” “bow,” etc but every once in a while I’m struck by just how massive the vocabulary of English is compared to… well, every other language.
Ooh that's a neat fact. I wonder how much training it would take for it to be able to make those images. I'm not sure the available models are capable of that right now. They have trouble with English text and I'm sure that they're trained mostly on that. There's an added wrinkle to Arabic in that GPT writes from left to right. From my understanding models like BERT, ROBERTA and BART don't have that issue as readily, since they "read" bi-directionally. Pi does, as well. I don't know enough about the back-end of DALLE 3 to know if it would naturally have extra issues with Arabic but my suspicion is that it would not, as I imagine it uses a diffusion model, which works by refining random noise.
It got updated a few days ago and the new one is quantized so it's not quite as smart, might be part of it. The tuned GPTs or plugins make it better overall post-update, though, I think. But the base model definitely got a little dumber.
Casualties Rise in Gaza: 70% of Killed Women and Children (www.financial-world.org)
Gaza is currently experiencing its longest communication blackout since the Israeli operation began in October....
Watch out Jack! (lemmy.ml)
The GTA 6 trailer wasn't just cinematics, according to a former Rockstar developer who says "It's really gonna look like this" (www.gamesradar.com)
What do you think of Just Stop Oil?
My Views: I would love it if Solar, Hydro and Wind and other renewable sources of energy + Non Renewable Nuclear were to provide enough energy reliably to completely replace fossil fuels, but I know it’s not a feasible solution at least at this point. And maybe it will never be. Renewable sources of energy are highly dependent...
"Reaching people on the internet in 2022" by The Oatmeal (files.mastodon.social)
@oatmeal...
Santa Cardassian (i.pinimg.com)
friendly dog rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Possible Federation Issues..again. (kbin.social)
Hey everyone!...
MAJOR Free Agent returns to WWE (kbin.social)
Spoiler in comments!
A controversial US surveillance program is up for renewal. Critics are speaking out. (www.technologyreview.com)
Critics of capitalism, what concrete economic policies do you support?
Capitalism is criticized a lot on here (especially by American users, it seems to me). Most of that seems well-founded, but I also have the feeling that most of these complaints are simply venting and not the first step to improvement....
196 (lemmy.world)
OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources say (www.reuters.com)
Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers wrote a letter to the board of directors warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters....
does this code run rule (lemmy.ml)
Just install EndeavorOS lol (feddit.de)
stolen from linux memes at Deltachat
Seriously spends $80 to drive 20km.. (lemmy.ca)
Ransomware (lemmy.world)
Voyager S5 E26 Equinox
Doctor suspended from U of O residency after pro-Palestinian social media posts (www.cbc.ca)
Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records (www.wired.com)
A WIRED analysis of leaked police documents verifies that a secretive government program is allowing federal, state, and local law enforcement to access phone records of Americans who are not suspected of a crime.
Reviews for Starfield on Steam drop to "Mixed" (www.aroged.com)
Ice cream rule (lemmy.world)
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake Is Dead (insider-gaming.com)
Rewriting nouveau’s Website (drivers for NVIDIA) (tesk.page)
Average TS developer (lemmy.world)
deleted_by_author