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Probably a good time to start up a rival mod site that every one will flock too after these guys backpedal on their word.

Something synonymous with Nexus… CapitalMods anyone?

Yeah I don’t disagree with you whatsoever, and the only time I actually use the handbrake in this situation is for one set of lights in my hometown because they take 5 minutes to goddamn change.

I’m more pointing out that driving instructors will have little quirks about things like this so going for a test in a manual can be more of a nightmare, especially now that manual trans is considered a hobbyist/enthusiast thing nowdays.

Apparently it’s because there’s a chance your foot could come off the brake if you’re rear ended so the car has momentum forward and no brake applied.

It’s just a pedantic rule from my neck of the woods and most people would never do it the ‘correct’ way for daily driving, but if you’re going for your licence test the driving instructors might get anal over small things like this.

I was told off by my driving instructor for putting the car in neutral while sitting at the lights, he said it was due to the risk of being rear-ended and rolling forward into oncoming traffic, this isn’t a problem if you’ve got the handbrake engaged but some driving testers will have a whinge about this apparently. (At least in my area)

It’s a good habit to learn though. Also to add, resting your hand on the gearstick will wear down the transmission in a similar fashion

It’s crazy to think that a handful of people who have floated around Obsidian/Interplay/Black Isle have created (in my opinion) some of the best games to have ever existed.

You put a name like Chris Avellone or Tim Cain onto a project and I’m going to pay more attention to it than any AAA with millions put into trailers and other bullshit to sell you down the river.

Maybe you should try a different roast or cafe?

I spent more time refactoring AI drivel in my last job than I did implementing my own.

I’m glad LLMs work for the OOP, unfortunately programming isn’t uniform and different scopes and contexts can cause LLMs to create more overhead than they’re worth, I suppose in the same sense that throwing junior devs at a problem until it goes away creates more overhead.

Sure it can figure out X problem and make a PR for it, but did it do it in a clean manner? No.

Did it while working on X, also realise how X ties into problem Y and Z, and that dependency A does not have the extensibility to cover all these problems in a clean and effective manner before baking up a weird solution? Also no.

Do I have to divide my time and attention across multiple different areas of the code base, comprehend, refactor and commit the code that would usually take me 15 minutes to write in the first place? Yes.

They’ve got their strongpoints like the OP said, but I’m not insane or crazy for not wanting to use them. My tools work fine without the use of AI

The reasonable RCP pathways we’re trying to follow require us to remove a net 2 Gigatons of CO2 a year from the atmosphere per year.

And yeah we can’t really do it this way because of entropy unless we work a miracle, best we can do is tip the Earths natural carbon sinks into our favour but we’re doing the exact opposite of that.

Those carbon sinks can also take millenia to find a state of equilibrium as well.

I know I sound like a pessimist so here’s my take from this, these companies have insidiously compartmentalised an existential threat to our species to the confines of the economy.

These companies will never amount to anything significant, they will ride a model of perceived hype around some vaporware tech that flies in the face of thermodynamics.

This detracts from real solutions to a very real problem that falls beyond the comprehension of these arseholes and they don’t deserve our attention much less the time of day.

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Friendly reminder that the IPCC models have consistently been conservative in their approach, mainly because the reports are influenced by policymakers and a biased committee before they reach daylight.

You can look this up yourself, there is plenty of criticism from the scientific community.

IIRC the AR6 said it had high confidence that we would not reach 1.5c before 2030 and medium confidence we would reach it around 2035.

Because of this I want to say that the 1.5c limit is an arbitrary bullshit number for policymakers to appear as though they’re aiming for a goal.

There is no safe level of warming, and a large amount of these feedback loops have and may happen because of factors other than ONE fucking number. (E.g Human influence on the Amazon)

Polls must have shown it’s popular to stand with Palestine.

I like the Albanese government but it is very quiet when there is an issue that conflicts with the parties values or donors.

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This is honestly the reason why it’s going downhill, forcing people to do Y or use Z because of some problem irrelevant to the question being asked.

It limits creativity and depth of discussion on a forum designed to discuss all principles of programming

Fuck yes dude, chop my hands off. I’m in one of those 10%

Thanks for the summary and a reasonable opinion on it.

Coming to you soon, a brand new remaster… Command and Conquer: Alert ™

Oh you poor fool, if only you knew how good things could be…

Migrated away from Google because they’re just genuinely useless.

Search results are infested with AI bullshit and SEO slop, can’t actually search for anything useful unless you know the website you’re looking for, in which case I just go to the website directly.

Youtube curates a selection of completely irrelevant videos to try to shove ads down your throat, I still have to change my user agent string every time because YouTube throws a hissy fit at firefox with ublock.

Gmail is pretty much the same as any other email provider but comes at the expense of your data being sold for advertising purposes.

Don’t even get me started on the shit show that is Android.

I run GrapheneOS, Fedora and debian, self host what I can and use decent providers for what I can’t. I’m the furthest away from the big tech corps than I’ve ever been and it feels great to have computers that actually compute and not serve me useless fucking ad drivel.

Oh yeah the very nice police force that has absolutely not been systematically trained to shoot first and ask questions later when things go south?