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- Comment on Al Jaber says comments claiming there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels were ‘misinterpreted’ – Cop28 as it happened 2 days ago:
All eyes will now be on Al Jaber over the coming days to see if he can fulfil his pledge that an “unprecedented outcome” to keep alive hopes of limiting global temperature rises to 1.5C, is within reach.
From what I’ve read recently, it seems the only way that’s in reach now is by fiddling the numbers.
- Submitted 4 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 216 comments
- Comment on Backlash over fake female speakers shuts down developer conference 1 week ago:
Sizovs claimed that Boyko, “a demo persona from our test website version,” was added to DevTernity’s speaker list “by mistake” after two real women cancelled their conference appearances due to “reasons out of our control at the worst possible time.” He said that he “noticed the issue in October” but failed to fix it because “it was not a quick fix” and it was “better to have that demo persona while I am searching for the replacement speakers.”
Removing a name from a website is “not a quick fix”?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
newyorker.com/…/a-guided-tour-of-hebron-from-two-…
A source for the story. Despite the population imbalance the garbage-throwing (and acid pouring) is apparently true.
- Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 46 comments
- Comment on Bill is a pro grammer 1 week ago:
If you’re working with others, even simple code benefits from comments explaining what it’s intended to do. Sure you can read code and get a good idea of what it seems to do, but having a quick statement from the author enables you to work faster. And if you find a mismatch between the comment and the code, it’s a smell that could mean a bug.
And for methods and functions it’s particularly helpful to have a description at the top. Many IDEs will pop this up when you’re using the method, so you can quickly confirm that it’s appropriate for your needs and get your arguments in the right order.
- Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on UK responds to Argentina new president’s pledge to ‘get back’ Falkland Islands 1 week ago:
The war rescued Margaret Thatcher’s teetering prime ministerial career for almost a whole decade more. Let’s hope we don’t have another one under Sunak.
- Comment on These Eerie Photos Are The Only Ones Ever Taken on Venus 1 week ago:
I think the upper half of the photo with the horizon visible is some kind of artistic recreation. The original photos did not show the horizon.
- Comment on Scientists Find 'Kill Switch' That Activates Cancer Cell Death in The Lab 1 week ago:
GOOD point
- Comment on OpenAI Employees Say Firm's Chief Scientist Has Been Making Strange Spiritual Claims 2 weeks ago:
In my experience the engineers usually hate the motivational bullshit that managers dream up because they have too much time and no actual skills. The best thing you can do is give them quiet time to do their work.
- Comment on Scientists Have Simulated What It Might Be Like to Plunge Into Uranus 2 weeks ago:
You have to buy me dinner first.
- Comment on Amazon lays off Alexa employees as 2010s voice-assistant boom gives way to AI 2 weeks ago:
Microsoft seems to be attempting this with the new Copilot in Windows. You can ask it to open applications, etc., and also chat with it. But it is still pretty clunky when it comes to the assistant part (e.g. I asked it to open my power settings and after a bit of to and fro it managed to open the Settings app, after which I had to find the power settings for myself). And they’re planning to charge for it, starting at an outrageous $30 per month.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 53 comments
- Comment on UK environment secretary took donation from funder of climate sceptic thinktank 2 weeks ago:
They’re really ramping up the corruption. The Tories must be in “fuck it” mode, seeing the writing on the wall.
- Comment on How David Cameron tried to make his fortune with cash from China 2 weeks ago:
The Tories aren’t even trying to hide their corruption and self-serving greed. And at this point self,-enrichment seems to be the main goal of their government.
- Comment on Rivian says "fat finger" caused software update to brick infotainment systems, physical servicing may be required 3 weeks ago:
in the longer run.
I have yet to work for a company where management cares about this. It’s always about what can be sold next week if we rush it enough.
- Comment on Merge then review 3 weeks ago:
It’s the Microsoft way.
- Comment on happy partially muscled screaming skeleton day 3 weeks ago:
Yeah just regular corpses for me thanks.
- Comment on Merge then review 3 weeks ago:
Why review at all when the users will do this for you? Deploy and move on. If it’s broken they’ll tell you.
- Comment on Implementing Tic Tac Toe with 170mb of HTML - no JS or CSS 3 weeks ago:
No, that’s why it seemed weird.
- Comment on Jeff Bezo is now cosplaying as a working class man. 3 weeks ago:
Solid subs, warm if a little boxy in the mid-bass, a slight dip in the mids and a tasteful rolloff in the highs after a slight peak around 6KHz.
- Comment on Implementing Tic Tac Toe with 170mb of HTML - no JS or CSS 3 weeks ago:
I was actually confused enough to have to check. I’m always aware of the distinction between MB and Mb, so I wondered whether “mb” was intentional, if weird.
- Comment on Jeff Bezo is now cosplaying as a working class man. 3 weeks ago:
I just watched Escape at Dannemora, which is also very good. He’s a talented guy.
- Comment on Jeff Bezo is now cosplaying as a working class man. 3 weeks ago:
She is a robot designed by owls.
- Comment on Implementing Tic Tac Toe with 170mb of HTML - no JS or CSS 3 weeks ago:
170 Mb of unnecessary tagging
The guy in the blog says mb (millibits) and you say Mb (megabits). I was confused so I checked, and the page is 170MB (megabytes).
- Comment on BBC licence fee is ‘regressive tax’, broadcaster’s former chair says 3 weeks ago:
Here in Canada the Conservatives are always demanding the abolition of the CBC.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 15 comments
- Comment on ‘ChatGPT detector’ catches AI-generated papers with unprecedented accuracy 4 weeks ago:
The original paper does have some figures about misclassified paragraphs of human-written text, which would seem to mean false positives. The numbers are higher than for AI-written text.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 57 comments