Rhaedas

Languages change over time. As long as the intent is clear, don’t get hung up on what is and isn’t “correct”. “You’re welcome” probably was seen as extreme at some point itself.

There is a solution.

True of many things we take for granted now. It would be a different world entirely. Another non-computer example would be the 3-point seat belt that Volvo left as an open patent, saving countless lives over the past decades.

Or a different “feel” when turned on vs. off (more resistance or something). They spent effort printing all that text to show where the switch was when a universal 0/1 would have made it clear.

I can’t think of any example of a button or switch that by itself can be clear if it is engaged or not. A button could be assumed to be on if in, but that isn’t always the case, like for example with emergency stops.

The greatest generation birthed the boomers, who did not live up to their parents’ reputation or expectation.

Close enough, it’s not blocking a space. Better to be secure, but got to take what wins we can get. It’s possible that when that cart was brought there the corral was full and the person retrieving them didn’t get the loner. It’s like the pictures of the car parked across several spots without the context that there was snowfall and no lines were visible then.

I have heard that over the years, I think that may have been hit or miss (as with anything in production). Once I had something to fight the power swings I never had an issue with my power supply again. Perhaps the last one I got was from a “better” run.

Brownouts, even ones so minor the human eye can’t see, are killers to electronics. Learned that decades ago when I got my first computer (C-64) and had to return a few before we figured out it was bad power. Building code ought to include protection within the main breaker box. Maybe in some places they have such a thing.

The airlines can maximize that idea as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks\_(1781\_ship)#/media/File:Slaveshipposter.jpg

There’s no question I wrote the couple of things I’ve done for work to automate things, but I swear every time I have to revisit the code after a long while it’s all new again, often wondering what the hell was I thinking. I like to tell myself that since I’m improving the code each time I review it, each new change must be better overall code. Ha. But it works…

So it wasn’t even political, she’s just a nasty person in general.

Unless you use a VPN/browser security addons (don’t know which breaks it). The “register your device” has never stuck for me. But it’s not a big deal even then, just another step as long as there are a few options to choose in case one method isn’t possible at the time. The “are you a robot” ones though…I really need to get a bot to solve the ones that still pop up for me (definitely VPN).

Might relook at the chart and scale, none of the recent interglacial periods hit 4C, only one topped 2C. Plus note that the x axis is logarithmic, so the time that things happened increase as you look back. The PETM took hundreds of thousands of years to start dropping down, but also a thousand years to ramp up. Compare that to our “instant” climbing now started only a hundred or so years ago.

If you mean all the rest I wrote, time will tell. That we’ve lost so much in biodiversity already and haven’t had things play out completely doesn’t suggest that things will be “fine”.

Extinction event level but not really, since some human groups didn’t show a remarkable effect. A large percentage drop in total population doesn’t mean much when it’s concentrated in certain areas and the total number of humans is very low already because hunting/gathering isn’t conducive to large species numbers. Did you note the one mention of the theory that adaptation of affected humans’ behavior might have been the driver for aggressively taking over Neanderthals through killing and incorporating captives into the groups?

Circling back to the point at hand of the thread, climate change is far greater a threat on all species than past recent geologic events, even possibly surpassing ones such as the PETM which is the closest in comparison and definitely an extinction event. Humans haven’t experienced that level, ever. They weren’t around.

I never said Toba didn’t happen. We’re just debating the degree it affected the entire species, and if you want to bring better evidence to support Toba being a bottleneck, go right ahead and add the citation.

I used to quote the initial Toba theory myself years ago, but more data leads to a more localized event. That’s okay, that’s how science works.

You should read the entire article. Toba hasn’t held up well to additional evidence. It was certainly hell for many in the area, but it doesn’t seem to be the bottleneck that people still quote it for.

Life in general does rebound, it’s very persistent. That doesn’t mean most life won’t die off, nor will the rebound be quick and even resemble what we had. My own opinion is that we may have been witness to the peak of biodiversity, something that won’t even happen at that scale again simply because it needed specific conditions to be so vast.

This has been circulating for years, and the accuracy of its predictions are high at the equator and drops off quickly as you go towards the poles. This map falsely implies that we’ll just move out of danger and be fine. Canada, Siberia, and Western Antarctica are imagined almost as futuristic paradises.

It changes so much so fast. For a video source to grasp the latest stuff I’d recommend the Youtube channel “AI Explained”.

In the context of LLMs, I think that means giving them access to their own outputs in some way.

That’s what the AUTOGPTs do (as well as others, there’s so many now) they pick apart the task into smaller things and feed the results back in, building up a final result, and that works a lot better than just a one time mass input. The biggest advantage and main reason for these being developed was to keep the LLM on course without deviation.