ziknard

There is a words for people who go to EST: EST-holes.

Worrying about declining birth rates on Earth in 2025 is exactly as psychotic as dinosaurs worrying about their investment portfolios the day after Chicxulub.

Someone said "more meat for the grinder", which is exactly correct whether it is referring to a war machine or the late-stage capitalist shithole we've created.

You're all absolutely crazy if you think more fscking people on this finite planet is going to solve any problem.

Get sterilized.

The API base for OpenAI compatibility in ollama is http://localhost:11434/v1

That mystery ate up a few hours.

Tried everything. The only response is "Error: Failed to execute function: failed to deserialize api response: expected value at line 1 column 1".

Can't see anything about this in Issues. Checked the API key a dozen times.

Need an example, perhaps some setup suggestions, and better coverage of potential errors.

Edit: this may be because I only have a free account at OpenAI. If a paid account is necessary, it would be great to mention that in the ReadMe.

Also, tried it with ollama API, but the code is looking for /chat/completions in the API base, but it looks like ollama wants something like /api/chat. Can't find where in the code this is formatted.

Since you mention smollm2 and local compatibility in the readme, it would be helpful to include something about how to configure for other APIs

Easily defeated by a large Tupperware container.

Sounds like it would be fantastic for the kind of degrowth we need to do to begin to save the planet.

Seven point four percent reduction in GDP? An excellent start!

From the abstract, "Diversity of terrestrial microbiomes decreases with depth..."

Decreases. Gets smaller.

That is a copy and paste from the abstract of the paper.

Exaggerated by the ignorant tech press and the legacy media; misinterpreted by the public who probably did not read the article, let alone the paper it is based on.

Are we actively trying to become morons, or is it a passive process?

It doesn't know enough books.

Prompt: "HE HAD BEEN EATING THE WHOLE WORLD FOR THE SEVENTY years of his life; and for the last twenty, he had been trying to eat the valley."

No relevant results.

map in the article

"Obviously this blue part here is the land."

Point 1: "Economic self-interest for the working class includes both robust economic growth and a robust social safety net."

No point reading any further. The author is a cancer advocate.

It would be so nice if we could stop destroying the planet by dropping support for legacy Macs. Mine is a 2014 Air and I'll stop using it when it crumbles to dust.

Addiction is a failure of education.

If our schools were better, and more honest, we would explain the biology of addiction well enough that no one who understood the lessen would become addicted.

The lesson is simply this: Any pleasurable experience results in a normal and natural down-regulation by the body of the receptors that are responsible for that experience.

It is impossible to repeat the same dose (whether drug, food, roulette wheel, or skydiving) and have an equally intense experience until enough time has elapsed that the receptors have been up-regulated back to their original levels.

The hallmark of addiction, "chasing the dragon", is therefore pointless and quickly becomez harmful.

The other important lesson, of course, is that quality control is essential. Variations in the drug (concentration, impurities, improperly attached bungee cords) are solely responsible for the non-dragon-related dangers.

I do not believe this perspective is supported by evidence.

315,000 tons of CO2 over 10 years, so 31,500 tons per year.

40 billion tons of CO2 per year will be created globally by 2030.

So Microsoft's deal will remove 0.00007875 percent of globally emitted CO2 on an annual basis.

This process would have to be scaled up by 1,269,841 times to capture all emitted CO2, neglecting the increased CO2 emissions associated with the scaling itself.

That seems like a lot of work just to enable humans to increase our numbers and consumption on a finite planet.

Can someone please remind me why more people consuming more resources is a given?

We can't, and never will. The speed of light, and the tyranny of the rocket equation, prevents us from doing this in bulk, ever.

It is delusional to think otherwise. We need to act as if this is our only home.

Every time my CEO speaks in an all-staff meeting, the subject is growth. Growth is the main theme and entire substance of the meeting.

I think he is insane. So is anyone who is in favour of perpetual growth in a finite environment.

Apparently, our political leaders are also in favor of perpetual growth. So is the media.

They should all be locked up in an institution for the criminally insane.