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  • Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha,

  • Is it possible to run a LLM on a mini-pc like the GMKtec K8 and K9?
  • This is some top tier mental gymnastics. Holy shit, I hope you're a troll. You're literally on the internet discussing your plans to commit fraud. Mensa-level shit, here.

    People are going to buy CP one way or another... that means you should make it and sell it to them, right?

    Grow the fuck up, and maybe train a LLM on ethics, you're going to need some education on the subject if you hope to stay out of prison.

  • xkcd #2948: Electric vs Gas
  • In the medical industry they refer to motorcycles as "donorcycles", since, in the event of a fatality you can usually still salvage at least one or two organs from the corpse.

    That said, I own a motorcycle myself. :)

  • xkcd #2948: Electric vs Gas
  • I think people (not me, I agree with glitchdx, overall) are probably down voting because it's a classic example of letting the perfect be the enemy of the good, with a healthy dose of smug mixed in. Smugness is a great dialectical tactic if you hope to entrench people deeper into their views, rather than convince them to consider alternatives through reasoned discussion.

    Do I agree that ideally we'd have robust public transit and increased usage of smaller, greener personal transport solutions? Of course I do.

    But, incrementalism is progress. Valuable progress. We could argue whether it's more likely to get us to the aforementioned vision of robust public transit or not, but history has proven time and time again that progress takes time and is resisted tooth and nail by monied interests. I don't like it either. I want to wave a wand and have everything change. OP is right. Electric cars are not the solution. But treating symptoms while you work on curing the disease is best practice.

  • xkcd #2948: Electric vs Gas
  • Downvotes don’t make me wrong, chuds.

    Oh look, a child is on Lemmy!

  • How the hell should I even switch mail providers?
  • Thanks for elaborating! You raise a lot of good points.

    I recently tried to consolidate all of my various email addresses into Thunderbird and oh boy is it fun trying to get a 20 year old Gmail account to cooperate. I often find myself having to open up Gmail in my browser just to get anything more complex than checking or writing new email accomplished. It doesn't help that I have a quarter of a million messages organized between ~70 "folders", I'm sure, but holy hell... it's a nightmarescape. Thunderbird never stops querying the server. I'm about ready to backup all of the old messages and just burn the whole account down.

  • How the hell should I even switch mail providers?
  • None of those are problems for me.

    What is it that you hate about email, then? You've piqued my curiosity.

  • Honk rule
  • Say what you will, but this person absolutely knows what they're about.

  • The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates
  • We recommend four widely applicable high-impact (i.e. low emissions) actions with the potential to contribute to systemic change and substantially reduce annual personal emissions: having one fewer child (an average for developed countries of 58.6 tonnes CO2-equivalent (tCO2e) emission reductions per year), living car-free (2.4 tCO2e saved per year), avoiding airplane travel (1.6 tCO2e saved per roundtrip transatlantic flight) and eating a plant-based diet (0.8 tCO2e saved per year). These actions have much greater potential to reduce emissions than commonly promoted strategies like comprehensive recycling (four times less effective than a plant-based diet) or changing household lightbulbs (eight times less).

    https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7541/pdf

  • Seeing a lot of this lately...
  • Even if you wanted to vote for Biden you won't be able to because he's not going to be on the ballot either.

    Edit: Obviously Biden is going to be on the ballot, I made this comment just to see how the person I was replying to would reply. Their original post is a lie (Trump will still be on the ballot), and their reply to my comment confirms that they're either a failing comedian or intentional misinformation spreader.

  • [US] I'm hesitating launching my own business because I'd lose health insurance for my family. What are my options?
  • I'm not sure about that, as I've seen conflicting information. Medicare has existed for around 60 years, and not only have patients been more satisfied with their care on average than people with private insurance, the costs have also been lower than private insurance overall. Couple those factors with metrics from the most recent study I was able to find on the cost of single payer, and the picture seems a bit muddier than you're presenting it.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8170543/

    https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/how-much-more-than-medicare-do-private-insurers-pay-a-review-of-the-literature/

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/universal-health-care-could-have-saved-more-than-330-000-u-s-lives-during-covid/

    https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/yale-study-more-than-335000-lives-could-have-been-saved-during-pandemic-if-us-had-universal-health-care/

  • This is Fine Rule
  • We recommend four widely applicable high-impact (i.e. low emissions) actions with the potential to contribute to systemic change and substantially reduce annual personal emissions: having one fewer child (an average for developed countries of 58.6 tonnes CO2-equivalent (tCO2e) emission reductions per year), living car-free (2.4 tCO2e saved per year), avoiding airplane travel (1.6 tCO2e saved per roundtrip transatlantic flight) and eating a plant-based diet (0.8 tCO2e saved per year). These actions have much greater potential to reduce emissions than commonly promoted strategies like comprehensive recycling (four times less effective than a plant-based diet) or changing household lightbulbs (eight times less).

    https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7541/pdf

  • [US] I'm hesitating launching my own business because I'd lose health insurance for my family. What are my options?
  • Okay, thank you. I wasn't sure. Why couldn't they just pay them 50k and lobby for single payer to save money? It seems like you're suggesting that they'd have to raise wages if single payer was implemented? Maybe I'm still confused, because it still seems like they'd save money in the long run?

  • [US] I'm hesitating launching my own business because I'd lose health insurance for my family. What are my options?
  • Please forgive my ignorance on the topic. You seem to know a lot about it. Are you saying that they save more money than the insurance costs them?

  • [US] I'm hesitating launching my own business because I'd lose health insurance for my family. What are my options?
  • Wow! Companies could sure save a lot of money if they lobbied for single-payer! I wonder why they don't! 🤔

  • /e/OS Is Better Than Android. You Should Try It
  • 👍 Good luck out there!

  • /e/OS Is Better Than Android. You Should Try It
  • I don't have a position on cell phone interfaces and hadn't planed to give one. No skin in this game, really, though it's clearly a contentious issue!

    I just can't help but notice when people are being terrible conversation partners, mostly. Me finding you to be an asshole has nothing to do with how I feel about cell phone ports.

    Anyone fucking stupid enough to think the 3.5mm Jack is a good thing deserves the disappointment they feel every time a device doesn’t have own, tbh, bring it on themselves

    Are you 12?

  • Cartier boss with $7.5bn fortune says prospect of the poor rising up 'keeps him awake at night'
    www.independent.co.uk Cartier's $7.5bn owner says fear of poor rising up 'keeps him awake at night'

    Says he is concerned about robots creating 'structural unemployment'

    Cartier's $7.5bn owner says fear of poor rising up 'keeps him awake at night'

    The rich were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of guillotines danced in their heads.

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