It's just the current buzzword.

Hundreds if not thousands went before it and many more will follow.

Think of it as an in-built historic timestamp.

The problem is that ChatGPT is not capable of original ideas. When you see AI, you (and the bulk of the population) think Artificial Intelligence, but what you should be thinking is Assumed Intelligence.

If you open up a mobile phone keyboard and tap the next suggested word repeatedly, you're doing exactly the same as a large language model like ChatGPT, just much slower and with a tiny dataset.

And just like an autopredict keyboard can spout nonsense, so can ChatGPT. It's euphemistically called hallucinations, but really it's just grammatically correct gibberish.

Is there a place where one could offer suggestions for appropriate natural source materials?

Australia has compulsory voting with penalties for not voting. It ensures that people who don't think they have a voice or that their vote doesn't change anything actually are required to make their voice heard, even if they think that it doesn't matter.

There's a joke here about swimming, apex predators, balance of power and Nom Nom Nom, but I'm Too Tired to figure it out.

If you're not a programmer, then what you're saying sounds reasonable, but if you are, it's not.

Different operating systems use different ways to interact with the outside world, in fact, it's pretty much the only thing an operating system does.

Consider for example responding to a mouse click.

Each operating system handles this differently, sometimes within the same OS it's different depending on what else is happening, (Linux X11 vs Linux Wayland).

A mouse is pretty trivial on the face of it, but the operating system needs to be able to track each pulse from a mouse and respond to that and then it needs to tell your program about it. In other words, it needs to interrupt your program, deal with the pulse, update the relevant information, then resume your program.

The same is true for the screen, disk storage, keyboard, memory and even the CPU itself.

Even if the various operating systems use the same CPU, and these days they mostly don't, running the same program in multiple places is extremely rare, and that's for companies who have the source code to the software they sell.

Some programs are more universal, because they're written in a language like python that's compiled when you launch it, but dig inside and you'll find code specific to each operating system.

Source: I've been writing software for over 40 years.

The funniest part of that is that Portugal and Spain share a border. Specifically, Portugal only has one neighbour, Spain, and these two countries speak different languages.

I love the (currently one) down vote on your post. Clearly not a connoisseur of René's work.

Your shower thought on the other hand is on point!

Nicely done.

It's interesting that there's a disconnect between density and cost of living. Not only the roof above your head, but the availability and density of services, from healthcare to recreation, from work to food, from coffee to plumbers, from walkability to public transport.

The denser the living conditions, the more people live within a viability catchment, the more opportunities for alternatives and competition.

"I only have one plumber who can fix my blocked toilet?" in a rural setting, vs. "Which plumber should I use today?" in a high density area.

X (twitter) is a signatory to the Christchurch Call set-up by Jacinta Adern. Signatories agree among other things to suppress the dissemination of terrorism. Nobody is talking about this.

Signatories: https://www.christchurchcall.com/our-community

I checked the Christchurch Call website which clearly shows Xitter as a member of the community that agreed to:

"Take transparent, specific measures seeking to prevent the upload of terrorist and violent extremist content and to prevent its dissemination on social media and similar content-sharing services, including its immediate and permanent removal, without prejudice to law enforcement and user appeals requirements, in a manner consistent with human rights and fundamental freedoms. Cooperative measures to achieve these outcomes may include technology development, the expansion and use of shared databases of hashes and URLs, and effective notice and takedown procedures."

Full text: https://www.christchurchcall.com/about/christchurch-call-text

I'm very confused. About a year ago I saw a YouTube video describing the use of hydrogen as a replacement for fossil fuels.

It went into great detail about the effectiveness and impracticable restrictions on distribution of pure hydrogen, mainly because its extremely small molecules leak through pretty much everything and compression is required to carry any useful quantities around, not to mention storage temperature and refuelling issues.

This was contrasted with using ammonia as a hydrogen delivery mechanism instead. We distribute and transport ammonia around the planet in great quantities already. The chemical process is green, uses significantly less energy, and we already know how to do this.

What I don't understand is why we're still talking about pure hydrogen, doing studies about cooking and still trying to promote this as a great fuel, when better, more effective ways exist.

Anyone?

More information here: https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2020/11/ammonia-to-green-hydrogen/

Given how invasive their Android implementation is on their phones and tablets, I'd be extremely reluctant to go anywhere near a device like this.