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Until he advocates for an independent body akin to IAEA under the control of the UN, I'll call everything he says about AI safety and the greater good bullshit.

> to push to main, not have a CI, not write tests, test in production, commit with one-liners like I'm asking someone if they want a beer All the start-ups and SMEs I've worked at …

No, wait! The increased productivity will lead to a decoupling of the economy from resources consumption and GHGs emission. Just one more data center. /s

ghostty has tabs and splits for instance, alacritty is deliberately minimalistic

I have also lost all sense of pride in my work. As well as all interest in learning anything new related to software, knowing it'll be of zero value to me personally. For many of u…

Maybe learn to read comments. Less than a third of the population had running water at home in countries like France before WW2. In 1960 a quarter had a fridge. But sure, commoners…

Yes

I'm in-between two minds. On one end £9 of labour cost for a plate of asparagus seems deeply inefficient and unrealistic, particularly when the cost of ingredients that also includ…

That's why we need and have diplomacy. Everyone is aware that violence is the ultimate option if an actor thinks there's an existential threat to deal with. If the consensus become…

By threatening to nuke their datacenters and chip fabs, for instance.

You really come across as condescending and patronizing.

That's awesome, thanks for sharing.

Cool! I've been wondering for some time if a good low-distraction but pleasant environment could be an old Mac OS on a (good looking) Hackintosh. The UI was baked with UX research …

Same here, it has always been a state transition. There's always that snake showing up who forces everyone to watch their back and eventually disband. A tech coop seems like a good…

Thanks for that sensible answer, had to scroll down quite a while to find you there. The real problem is that for many people it takes a while to realize you're being abused, in th…

No they can't, it's dirt cheap because the social and environmental consequences aren't accounted for. Both the US and EU could have kept producing with higher standards on their l…

Not rebuilding, but at least not building more of it. But this exact mindset is why the US can't be helped and will be the last one to go low on carbon. The whole culture is built …

It depends on what you mean by EVs really. There is an alternative to big electric individual cars, we've been building for 70 years car-centric urban areas for big vehicles doing …

That's an awesome website! I had never heard of Patrick O'Brian before looking at your maps, I'll give The Mauritius Command a read.

Everything you wrote is plain obvious to anyone who looked into the topic. But come on, we don't have to change anything about our consumption because we'll eventually reach some s…

Yes, but you're missing the point, I'm not debating that. Renewables aren't free, we should care about consumption just as much as production, and we don't know (yet) how to sustai…

Of course, but pretending consumption doesn't matter in that situation is just silly

Asia is producing all of our shit. Also: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-co-emissions