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Comment Re:It's irrelevant if the average person acknowled (Score 1) 186

This might be the case in the US, for Europe I beg to differ.

As individual you _can_ make a difference: energy consumption per capita for the US is about 279 MMBTU, for the EU this is 86 MMBTU - less than a third so it is possible. Due to larger distances you won't get to the European figure, but reducing your energy consumption by 50% would already account for 350 million times 140 MMBTU = 49 billion MMBTU per annum. The cut down in CO2 emissions for 49 billion MMBTU is approximately 2,597,000 kg (5,725,405 lbs) - roughly the same as the annual emission of countries like Niger or Surinam. All to say that it _will_ have effect.

Also, governments _do_ regulate a lot here and companies threaten all the time to relocate to cheaper countries (read: countries where there are fewer regulations and where climate change is an afterthought). It's too bad (for the world) the US is becoming one of them, while already being very energy-hungry.

Comment Re:I was wrong (Score 1) 248

Maybe, maybe not. I've used plenty of Google-Fu but the last 8-10 years the results kept getting worse, mostly due to SEO and advertising. The Gemini AI results now usually make more sense than the actual search results below it.

I'm interested to see where it goes. But with everything AI - you will need to verify. The LLMs may be trained on all kinds of data, including biased ones (e.g. right wing, specific religious standpoints, regional differences and plain misinformation). Not only that, they are continuously trained by us, asking them about stuff and arguing with them. You can have a pretty dark conversation regarding Nazism and the "Endloesung" with it if you prompt it correctly, but also a fun conversation about unicorns and dragons and what their babies would look like.

Comment Re:technical project management reply to module ow (Score 1) 286

*types in password case insensitve a few times...

***The password you have entered is incorrect. Your account has been locked.***

See? Case sensitivity matters. And I _do_ see mynotes or MyNotes as 2 different things, and most people I know do too (as they should).

Example: Windows explorer kindly hides the file extension by default. The MyNotes (or mynotes) can be the executable and have a mynotes.ini on top of you having a mynotes.txt file.

Comment Re:Maximise useful sunlight hours (Score 1) 201

There are multiple libraries available that do the conversion for you, just call the right code and you're set. Most unix systems either use unix time or epoch (although there are different versions of epoch), and display it according to the set locale. So for synchronised checks around the world, just call the unix/epoch timestamp "date +%s" and you don't have to take the conversion into account.

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