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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 us our job has always been a craft, being able to perfect our skills while delivering a product was part of the deal when working on a hard problem. All skilled workers who saw their job moved by the side of a conveyor belt in the past two centuries were alienated in the same way.

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 had access to the kind of place described in the article in 1926. Get a grip.

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 include (hard) labour is £2. On the other, just a century ago being served quality food in a nicely decorated place was exclusively the privilege of aristocrats.

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 becomes that a 50+TFlops datacenter in the wrong hands is as dangerous as a uranium enrichment plant, we'll likely move towards treaties and coercion.

"Wrong" is obviously subjective here...

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 at least.

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 option, but it's almost exclusively web dev.

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 that case it was only a while after.

I highly recommend learning the basics of persuasion and how to manipulate people. It helps identifying the signs early.

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 land, they chose not to for profit. China is also not forcing their products onto the west.

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 exclusively on unlimited space and resources.

Suburbia is much younger than a 100 years btw: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y_SXXTBypIg&list=PLJp5q-R0lZ0_...

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 30km+ of commute every day. Good luck with a hellscape like Dallas but electrifying Utrech or Tokyo will scale to 9B people just fine.

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 solar punk utopia? That's the comment I was replying to.

Nothing for now tells us we can power our current needs with renewables only, however we know we can drive around in much lighter vehicles, fly much less, eat more local, buy less clothes, use compute for less stupid things in data centers.

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 sustain the current consumption with renewables only, that includes being able to manufacture renewables.

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

It does matter because for now renewables are manufactured mostly with coal and oil

EDIT: I'm not a renewable skeptic, answers bellow

You don't, pi with a codex subscription is great. Mario Zechner is on the opposite end of that AI hype spectrum.

Until we can daily drive pi + qwen/glm/kimi.

I'm in the same boat, weirdly I can't find colleagues or friends who share my point of view. It's always the same "I can do higher level thinking now" or "no it can't do X". You nailed it with the output having no value anymore.

I find some solace in electronics repair, sadly there isn't much money to make in that.

No, in advanced societies we tell children to never hit others.

Bottom line of all these comments here is "because women are too innocent / fragile / weak / ignorant". It's entirely unrelated to how men view them, of course.

Any source to share? I know most drug-related crimes get the death penalty but I haven't heard of potential innocents being routinely executed.

You have some data point at home so you extrapolate on the entire population?

Learning a new language or tech has always been such a minor hurdle. The whole point of the current wave of AI is that there is nowhere to retreat to if your means of income depends solely on intellectual work. Learn a trade or train to be a vet, sure, that'll last a while longer.

They've earned 500k/y for a couple years, they don't need another job that pays enough, that's why they can be so indifferent about the outcome.