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Seems to have a very narrow focus in terms of variety of music covered

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I don't think that comment was necessary. What do you gain by denigrating the Arts?

So, larger batteries, then. Or produce hydrogen from excess wind power in the summer as a chemical battery.

I meant anything like "IStatusChangeEntityCreationManagerFactory"

"the language. Or the standard libraries"

Scott base in Antarctica (NZ's scientific research base) is installing wind turbines and batteries and getting rid of diesel generators.

So, everywhere, in a Capitalistic society

Show me where IStatusChangeEntityCreationManagerFactory is in the language. Or the standard libraries. Or anything like it

what has that got to do with what we name the field?

I've been using the Vector API in Java to get some massive speedups for flowfield generation. There's no guessing with that approach - if the hardware supports SIMD, you get it.

The field has been called Artificial Intelligence for what, 60 plus years now. Why is it a problem now?

I'm a New Zealander. Farmers here are disliked by a large percentage of the population

Because its dominated more by businessmen than engineers c.f. early days of IT

"History" is generally used to mean when humans were around writing stuff down. And no, CO2 levels have never been this high during the entire history of human civilization, and li…

Yeah, but they're not going to expand by taking on coal and fossil fuels. The third world is taking on green energy alternatives at a great rate. Not least because it's cheaper and…

They can have Russell Crowe. But you'll take Lamingtons from my cold dead hands!

how do you know?

Wikipedia suggests hundreds of deaths in various regions around the world - more common in the past, which suggests, I think, more wolves = more deaths.

You sound like someone who might be closer to one of those sides than the other

Yeah, me too. Java always seemed to consider design a lot more than C# which seems to have taken more of a kitchen sink approach to language design. That stuff piles up over time (…

The guy who is on track for causing 9 million deaths? That guy is your example of someone who made the world a better place? The guy who supports far right groups, white supremacis…

Its a reference to an Onion article about gun violence in the US

We've had deaths due to climate related storms in NZ now, and we haven't been hit anywhere near as hard as, say, Pakistan who had 1/3 of their country flooded in one go. And it's g…

Climate change is the result of aggregate human actions. What we contribute per human is exactly the metric to use.