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Oh, that kind of goatlover:)

I'm reminded of Don Bradman's conversation with Sachin Tendulkar at his 90th birthday (Google who they are), when he asked, "Sir Don, if you were playing today, what would you have averaged?"

Referring to the difference of the modern game.

Bradman replied, "Maybe around 70." Which seemed bizarrely low for a man who averaged 99.

Tendulkar asked, "Why only 70 and not 99?". Suspecting excessive modesty from the great.

"Come on, an average of 70 is not bad for a 90-year-old"

I can't find it just now but I'm sure I read that record was broken later today with 41.3C.

I've just moved the goalposts back to the subject of the article.

Treating all sciences as the same seems like an error.

I don't think it's as dire as you're supposing. I hadn't expected the rollout of renewables and the growth of EVs to be as swift as we've seen.

If we can cut emissions entirely then that's the first step. Next devote 5% of energy generation to CO2 removal and we'll take out a year of 100% emissions in less than 20 years. We don't need to go back down to 280 ppm, something like 320 would be fine. It's a long term project but it can work.

Need step one first though.

I'm not sure the folks down the chippy ordering a "fish supper" were trying to be pretentious!

Not $447 million? Sounds like a result!

Both examples from medicine rather than physics. Can you give an example from physics? Preferably from the last century or two?

I know who some of them are. I'm sure as hell that you weren't one of them.

What felt Sci-Fi to me was when I saw this Stack Exchange question about what the A's at the end of the COVID virus sequence meant: https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/90607/does-the-g...

Edit: I found the wrong one; I think the one I remember was https://bioinformatics.stackexchange.com/questions/11227/why...

Buy a domain? If you're going to fork email, may as well go the whole hog and fork DNS too!

Have your own gmail.com

There's no real point in engaging with these bot accounts. They'll keep making points that sound superficially correct but allow an argument against.

TT has real results which is why his opinion is worth listening to even when you disagree. These random accounts are dismissable immediately.

Except to make jokes about of course.

I guess it's a better title than Dick News...

It's strange we're complaining about too much investment. The reason we avoid deflation is because it hinders investment, but perhaps it's time for a bit less money creation and have a period of deflation, even if it makes the "growth" figures look bad.

Politically difficult of course.

Many comments pointing out this is part of the response rather than the prompt.

But the whole speech is the response. What do you call the bits at the start "Certainly, I can write a speech in this style" type thing, and at the end "Would you like to learn more about political speech writing?"

Perhaps something like "AI tells" but perhaps there's already an industry term.

Edit: hadn't watched the video, this is the former "response to prompt" type tell.

No site should be able to give you your password because they should never store it. They store the hash of the password and whatever password you provide is then hashed and compared to the stored hash.

That way, when their security is compromised, the attacker doesn't get your password.

Any site giving you your password is doing it wrong because they should never know it.

> They can be used as adhesives, abrasives, laminates, passive fire protection, personal protective equipment, window films, paint-protection film, electrical insulation, car-care products, electronic circuits, optical films, Scotch tape, Post-it Notes, labels, dispensers, and magnetic tape.

Triple emdash cannot be used as a lubricant. Do not touch, inhale, or look at triple emdash. Do not taunt triple emdash.

That's such a bizarre statement. Diversity was rare in London? Have you ever been there (I lived there for years).

London is quite possibly the most diverse city in the world.

Edit: I thought perhaps New York might be more diverse, so I hedged but it turns out Toronto is! I would not have guessed.

Because the Roman empire included parts of Africa, including importing their slaves.

There were black Roman soldiers posted on Hadrian's Wall in the north of England.

That's a better comment but

> Societies throughout history have taken as a given their power to overthrow malicious governments when things hit a breaking point,

simply isn't true. People throughout history have simply accepted that society is the way it is and sometimes used whatever means they could to get to the top.

Revolutions have been very rare and usually ended up with the revolutionaries simply taking the place of the previous rulers. "Meet the new boss..."

Check out if my statements were accurate. I realise it's not ego confirming to be told you're wrong but you could really see it as an opportunity to learn.

You can't help me anyway because you know far less than I do.

You don't know what's historically accurate. You don't understand why there was a black community in Rome. You don't know why there was one in 17th century London. But you still think you know better than me bubba.

I'm agreeing with you. Rome was the centre of the empire so had every type of person just as London had as the centre of the British empire.

And I suppose New York as a major centre of the American empire. Multicultural cities are the rule rather than the exception.

Have you ever watched The Gladiator? How many of them were black? They were slaves.

Do you know how many slaves were black in the Roman empire? More than had American accents I assure you.

None of them spoke English either.

Yes but Musk is really astonishingly ignorant. I realise he didn't have a classical education but he's the kind of person who would complain about Othello casting a black man as the main character.

Possibly why cloud servers are 85% Linux, 14% Windows and 1% Other (including BSD).

My main shell isn't even bash, I go with zsh, but if I'm writing a script for general use I go with bash.

This is very true. It's why I try to keep my configs as close to default as reasonable because I know I'll be touching strange machines so best to know how it works.

Possibly more for DevOps than a dev.

It probably works fine in New England due to a dodgy regex.

It doesn't seem too egregious an error to assume "death recorded" means they were executed, rather than the opposite where death was recorded as the verdict but not actually executed.

Not checking newspaper reports of the period is lazy though and exactly the kind of thing I'd expect a journalist to do and therefore be the one to discover the flaw.

I tried to give this a fair chance but it's really an incoherent rant.

There is nothing of substance here. You don't like AI, I get. But it still exists and pretending that no-one finds it useful is utterly foolish.

Edit: I overuse the word utterly. Nice to identify one of my tells.

Types of technology - of which we can include intelligence - move along S curves, but it's more absurd to think that humans are near the top of that curve rather than right at the bottom.

There might be a thing beyond intelligence that we can't even conceive of.