It was essential and without alternative when it was new, and it's stupid to ban it, as it's still a great choice now, but for most people, non-mRNA alternatives are about as good.
A stupid move, yet possibly with few consequences. I got 2 % of my "fortune" in Moderna stocks though, lol.
Far worse is EU and its member states, which just delayed the release of the new adapted one just enough that everybody can meet in class for 3 weeks after returning from summer vacation before getting it. Although it was ready for shipping a long, long time ago. More madness than the US, for once.
actually expecting a child from the guy on the left, and proudly announcing it to her husband (mid) with this gesture?
option 2, but only the husband (mid) knew, and he is announcing it to both
option 2, everybody knows, but the parents didn't know that the husband knows, which he is announcing herewith (only option that explains ALL facial expressions)
wanted pink smoke, but device malfunctioned / wrong device?
both: the child is from the guy on the left, but it was supposed to be a secret to the grave, foiled by the chatterbox smoke device?
To be fair, the (good) British cops are by far not as likely to assault an innocent person as many others. But they do love to stop you and have a chat if even the tiniest thing stands out. I once walked around London, 15 years old, with toy handcuffs on one wrist. Cop came up to me and wanted to know the whole story, like one of those super-chatty people. Where are you from, how old, name, where are the cuffs from, why am I wearing them right now at this moment, ...
He seemed happy with the answers, and we both moved on.
Well, it's still a bother, especially when you are not free to walk away at any moment.
It's not just the two we see - they are apparently in radio contact with additional tax fraudsters / wasters, probably of higher rank or even with a law degree.
Never let them tell they need more funds. Could defund plenty without affecting any actual service one bit.
Seen them for decades, but thought it's best to keep them a secret. Until Family Guy just casually mentioned them like they were no big deal! Not as crazy as I thought, after all ...
Soviet Union realises it'll never become the sole superpower by conventional means. Makes "stupid" decisions, collapses, becomes "democracy". Let things calm down for a few decades, then plant a pro-Russian president (Communist president would have been too radical). Suddenly, it's the right that is pro-Russia. Now, bring back Communism and the Soviet Union.
MAGA-patriots: Yay, Communism!!! Tankies: Unsure what side to pick
As I got older, I started building a Hifi system (Panasonic), but after amp and boxes, the digital era came. Bought a previous gen used tape player for my tapes and attached my 2nd and last discman, and that's where it's still at.
It's still as I left it. I kept my old tiny apartment as an office, with all that and other 80s & 90s tech in it, and visiting is like time travel. For the era, and my life. Should you ever visit, don't trip over the BNC cable in the hallway.
Interesting what he wrote about LLMs' inability to "zoom out" and see the whole picture. I use Gemini and ChatGPT sometimes to help debug admin / DevOps problems. It's a great help for extra input, a bit like rubberducking on steroids.
Examples how it went:
Problem: Apache-cluster and connected KeyCloak-Cluster, odd problems with loginflow.
Reducing KeyCloak to 1 node solves it, so it says that we need to debug node communication and how to set the debug log settings. A lot of analysis together. But after a while, it's pretty obvious that the Apache-cluster doesn't use the sticky session correctly and forwards requests to the wrong KeyCloak node in the middle of the login flow. LLM does not see that, wanted to continue to dig deeper and deeper into supposedly "odd" details of the communication between KeyCloak nodes, althought the combined logs of all nodes show that the error was in load balancing.
Problem: Apache from a different cluster often returns 413 (payload too large).
Indeed it happens with pretty large requests, the limit where it happens is a big over 8kB without the body. But the incoming request is valid. So I ask both Gemini and ChatGPT for a complete list of things that cause Apache to do that. It does a decent job at that. And one of it is close: It says to check for mod_proxy_ajp use, since that observed limit could be caused by trying to make an AJP package to communicate with backchannel servers. It was not the cause; the actual mod was mod_jk, which also uses AJP. It helped me focus on watching out for anything using AJP when reviewing the whole config manually, so I found it, and the "rubberducking" helped indirectly. But the LLM said we must forget about AJP and focus on other possible causes - a dead end. When I told it the solution, it was like: Of course mod_jk. (413 sounds like the request TO the apache is wrong, but actually, it tries internally to create an invalid AJP package over 8kB, and when it fails blames the incoming request.)
Highest demand peaks correlate with highest solar panel output, which would be hard to use or store otherwise. Especially nice when private, local panels are available.
Some also work as a heat pump in reverse for highly efficient heating in winter.
It's not far-fetched at all - that's what happened with search engines. Lobotomising an LLM is not that easy, as we just saw with the strange Grok outbreaks after they tried to make it anti-woke. But they can work through training data, nudging it softly in a direction. I bet that what happened with early days SEO is already happening again: They optimise online content for influencing LLMs trained by it. When their shills and bots (also LLM driven, lol) say "shelf X is scientifically known to be very durable", that becomes a "likely thing to say", which is all an LLM is looking for.
What you add is the suspicion that the corporations behind LLMs influence this process more directly and get paid for it, either already or in the near future, and that seems likely.
Couldn't that be interpreted as a confession that their air is at least as unsafe as staying with a heavy smoker the whole night, in terms of PM 2.5 and other hazards?
I wonder how much of the problem would be avoided if the top personal CO2 emissions per capita were capped at Scandinavian upper middle-class level since 1970 (imported CO2 included). Flying on vacation only occasionally, comfy car yes, SUV just if needed, nice modern house yes, wasteful lack of insulation no, buy what you need and treat yourself to some fashion, electronics etc. yes, mindless consumerism no. Just a comfy standard of living.
I wonder if the mindless consumerism in certain countries with insane emissions per capita makes up a big part of the problem, or if the sheer number of "decent standard of living" would have pushed us over the edge anyway.
In wonder if, in terms of logistics, delivery of groceries and online shopping could be a good thing.
Of course not with instant-services like Flink. Of course not with single-use cardboard boxes and worker exploitation.
More like the good old milkman. People order their groceries, and they are delivered in reusable boxes next day, old boxes picked up. Same with online shopping.
Both is already a thing, but few do it. Maybe it would work much better if a huge percentage of people would do it, e. g. 15 % for grocery delivery. The grocery truck would not have to do more miles than if it would deliver to the current 1 % (guessed), just needs to be bigger and have more stops.
In communities that are not built to live car-less, that might save many individual car trips.
The blue numbers are completely absurd. 30% live in Texas, 32% in California, 30% in NYC. And 20% with a household income over 1 million? I know a couple who are top seniors at Google & Apple, respectively, and while I think they may be over 500k annually, I doubt it's a million. And I definitely know they are far from the median.
Reminds me of an ad (!) German conservatives (CDU) made. I don't remember all the details, but it showed the politician as he stated something like: What the social democrats want to do would make housing in Berlin affordable again, thus removing real estate from the free market.
These people are in it so deep, they think that the common man would hate that just as much as they do.
That was so nice when I got an 8 year old indoor cat. You could see this world of wonder in her eyes, as she didn't know where to look and where to sniff first.
With time, I could let her run free but supervised in a shared apartment building garden. She always went to the same pine trees and couldn't get enough sniffing them. Also jumped on the window sill of neighbour cats just to hiss at them from the outside.
When I went to neighbours, for example to pick up a package or talk about something, she trotted next to me through the hallways like a well-trained dog and sat next to me when I talked to a neighbour. The whole stairway and hallways were another great adventure to her, sniffing and clawing doormats etc.
It was essential and without alternative when it was new, and it's stupid to ban it, as it's still a great choice now, but for most people, non-mRNA alternatives are about as good.
A stupid move, yet possibly with few consequences. I got 2 % of my "fortune" in Moderna stocks though, lol.
Far worse is EU and its member states, which just delayed the release of the new adapted one just enough that everybody can meet in class for 3 weeks after returning from summer vacation before getting it. Although it was ready for shipping a long, long time ago. More madness than the US, for once.