1.5 hasn't been viable for over a decade and was already baked in when it became popular. Now people are moving the goalposts to 2.0 and guess what the situation is.
These feel-good "we can still fix it" articles are very common and are never correct. Our trajectory is set. Read Hansen. He's been shouting about this since the 80s when he testified in front of Congress.
Well, gpg2 is an implementation of openpgp and is GnuPG the tool correct? So are you saying that when I `gpg2 --symmetric myfile` I'm doing something harmful rather than useful?
The expectation is that anybody who ends up with the encrypted copy would have an impossible time trying to decrypt it without, I don't know, millions of dollars worth of compute per year for decades to throw at it or something like that.
Compared to the previous generation, E Ink Kaleido 4 doubles its color gamut volume to more than 40K, increases white reflectance by 15%, and improves contrast by 50%. Additionally, with the introduction of new algorithms, E Ink Kaleido 4 is capable of video playback at up to 18 frames per second (FPS).
I wouldn't say it's terrible at all. With proper lighting it's excellent. I love reading color PDFs on it. In low light, the front light built into the device with variable brightness and warmth works perfectly. I guess it would be annoying if you had a Kaleido 3 color with no front light. You'd probably want to get some kind of clip-on external front light in that case.
I have it and i'd still say it is pretty terrible. Doesn't mean it's not useful (I love reading docs and comics on it), but the contrast is so bad that I have to drive it at full backlight to get something resembling readability on Kaleido 3.
I think it's a little early to make that statement. Could be. But at this point I think things like printing press, agriculture, writing ... they're all many times more significant.
I know it’s a hot take, but I disagree. I think the invention of AI (or more specifically, ASI with RSI) will dwarf the printing press, agriculture, writing, etc. in terms of significance.
Now, obviously all these things built on each other, so comparing them like this is a little silly, but in my view, inventing AI is essentially inventing an inventor of fantastical things on par (and beyond) the greatest inventions of humanity, including the ability to self-improve.
To be clear, I don’t think today’s LLMs are there yet, and I take no position on whether they’re a dead end, but in my view ASI has no fundamental barriers that cannot be overcome in time.
"The invention of a magical wish-granting technogenie that has not yet been invented, and may never be invented, and we have no idea how we could get from what we have to inventing it, would be the best thing of all time!"
Not even a ground cloth, just a sleeping bag. Under an astonishingly clear night sky with galaxies for nightlights. This was the territory of the red diamond rattlesnake and the Arizona giant hairy scorpion. If they visited me that night I was too sound asleep to notice.
Every once in a while some people come up with something new to make people feel like we're doing okay by the environment. People lap it up, because really, we want to keep our conveniences and way of life mostly unchanged. No plastic bags at the grocery store anymore, yay for us!
Just don't read anything from the IPCC, don't keep track of glacier ice melt rates, or biodiversity collapse, and definitely don't read anything from that suppressed UK environmental assessment. Otherwise you might realise that the problem is so much larger than plastic bags or straws or even recycling, and you might risk losing some of those virtuous environmentalist feelings you enjoy.
> So: The actual price paid for college isn’t very high and is declining. Obtaining a college degree unlocks higher wages. Plus, white-collar jobs are safe and easy.
Sounds great. Except we keep hearing about people getting zero callbacks after submitting hundreds of resumes for white collar jobs. While at the same time we're hearing about how the trades are desperate for recruits and can never find enough people to hire.
I think young people should try to follow a path that might hold their interest as much as possible, and collect data about their interest. Talk to people that are doing the actual work. Don't assume trades are for people who have no choice because they're not smart enough for anything else. And don't assume that white collar jobs are best because you're guaranteed to have an easier, more prosperous career.
These feel-good "we can still fix it" articles are very common and are never correct. Our trajectory is set. Read Hansen. He's been shouting about this since the 80s when he testified in front of Congress.
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