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I've found just one store that carries them, but seeing as they reported "50+ units in stock" I called the store and learned that "the item is available through a third party vendor within four business days", but looking at that the ratings it would be more like three weeks.
There are diminishing returns, but half of the rate you mentioned would already help me keep focus.
Why return only after being poisoned and not earlier?
I believe the current modus operandi is to offer a window.
On a serious note: plenty of people were surprised that Navalny returned to Russia. I suspect that after his poisoning it became clear Putin and his cronies wanted him dead, so he chose to give them the judicial spectacle they wanted so that they would at least spare his family.
The people doing it don't care that the HOA (so us) pays a fine for each item and that we were already warned that there will be a doubling or quadrupling of the waste disposal fees. I can ask politely and sometimes it works, but ultimately I can't tell them what to do.
I don't really like tofu and I don't share your values, so I think I'll continue eating chicken breast - just sourced from a place that meets certain standards, as usual.
I don't believe in individual action and regarding eating animals I draw the line at those which don't readily breed in captivity - octopuses for instance.
I expect a major revision after India's census concludes next year.
We really don't know how many people there are in the world - some countries (mainly in Africa) hadn't had a census in years.
In reality by 2100 the world's population will be around 10.2bln and declining from 10.3bln in 2084 or so.
And that also assumes the UN won't revise its projections once again, as every time they did, they had to lower their estimates.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221214-what-is-the-lowe...
Compared to chicken breast it's about 2.87x less impactful, but the real offender is beef, which has 25x the footprint of tofu.
Overall we really just need to get rid of beef. On an annual basis the carbon footprint of the respective protein sources is:
-tofu - less than 500kg
-chicken - less than 1250kg
-beef - over 10 tonnes
Mix one part peas with two parts chicken and you're around a tonne - a reasonable amount without having to even touch tofu.
Running LLMs locally on outdated hardware, I've come to the realisation that sub-10b models are broadly speaking kind of stupid. They can answer simple questions, but can't really solve problems.
The effect is so strong that with an 8GB GPU a 27b model can sometimes finish the task earlier than a 9b model, despite residing largely in RAM. If it's a MoE model, then it isn't even a competition.
Does it really simply not stick and is held in place by pressure alone?
There was never one to begin with. With a sufficiently good quality generator and a digital oscilloscope one could reverse engineer any kind of DSP - including harmonizers.
The real moat is the same as in every business - customer service, durability, warranty - things like that.
If someone vibecoded a clone of Valve's Steam nothing would change, because the system itself is not the thing that makes their business so valuable.
Same thing with Qwen3.6 35B A3B produced mangled garbage, but still, it didn't have errors in the code.
Exact same prompt in ChatGPT produces a half-decent model (ok, but exactly not the thing I asked) so long as animations are not involved.
> What are signals in Angular?
> How does that relate to RxJS?
This was enough to loop Bonsai 2.
I've been messing around low computing power hardware to run models locally and to me 100 is already plenty fast. You most likely won't notice a huge difference between 184 and 250, unless you're running some serious multi-age agent circus.
In absolute terms, yes. But per capita there are quite a few richer countries, like Switzerland, where people genuinely seem to brave the elements as part of their culture.
Sure, everyone adopts conveniences, but I've never seen anyone do it to the extent Americans do.
I don't love it, but it's my job now and I would prefer keeping it.
I'm not breaking any new ground with the project I'm in - just serving our users and there's a lot of stuff requiring improvement that would normally take a great deal of time to finish if it weren't for LLMs.
For my own things I would rather not use LLMs, but it's tempting, considering how little time I have for such activities nowadays.
The rest of the world also has these things, just doesn't use them nearly as much.
The thing about the nations I mentioned is that they either barely use any AC, like Switzerland, or set it to 25°C or more, like Japan.
They embrace discomfort - most of the world does.
That's a uniquely American perspective.
Japanese homes often don't have space heating. The Swiss often keep their homes at 20°C in the winter.
Most of the globe doesn't travel everywhere by car. Arguably it's the intention to remove pain as much as possible which resulted in the opioid epidemic.
There's a point at which trying to get rid of inconveniences becomes harmful.
Output from compilers is already verified - after all they have an extensive suite of tests.
With LLMs you're getting into the role of someone who keeps validating the compiler over and over, because its output is not deterministic.
"Please don't turn away from oil now that its geopolitical risks are so plain to see."
I still use it occasionally and it's really the old CPU and worn out SSD which slow it down.