Can we alter society’s financial insentives and short-term thinking to fight climate change faster?

I have mixed feeling about this.

Yes, it’s a good change, although it’s recent. Vehicles sizes have increased everywhere, France included, because of SUVs. It’ll take time to reverse. At the same time the overall budget for EVs incentives was reduced, so it’s a mixed bag.

Yes, see information on Incentives in France

Phoronix is further fueling this, sneaking bcachefs references in kernel related articles even though there’s nothing new to report on the matter.

He might as well have a bot watching commits and posting an article every hours that reads “New commits pushed to kernel, but nothing still for bcachefs”

It does look fairly big, so it’s going to be expensive as you’ve explained.

Some places take the weight of vehicles into account to compute incentives, giving less subsidies for heavier cars. One way or another it should be factored in.

Not every department within insurance companies understand the risks:

Insurance Majors Invest In Fossil Fuels While Cutting Coverage Due To Climate Risks

20% would definitely be justified for having to take care of bad quality spaghetti code that is the result of vibe coding.

How much energy does this technique uses compared to AlphaFold?

Pump It Up

There are more quarks in a single helium atom than planets in the solar system.

That’s not a clone. It’s a text prediction tool that use a dead person’s messages as input. It’s analoguous to editing together old videos to do a fake interview of a dead person.

The BBC is going for sensationalism. It’s a topic worth covering and they’re not doing it well. Journalists should focus on informing more than entertaining.

Exactly. Let’s not build yet more expensive cars with overkill capacity. We need smaller, lighter, and cheaper vehicles with good enough capacity.

According to three Unit 8200 sources, the cloud-based storage platform has facilitated the preparation of deadly airstrikes and has shaped military operations in Gaza and the West Bank.

I wonder if Microsoft will have to testify in the ICC.

Tweaking brain cells to reduce appetite? Better be cautious with that.

A cautinary tale about unintended conequences: I recall a sci-fi movies about a planet that manipulated people brain to prevent violent emotions and reduce crime. Many lost all will, became lethargic let themselves die of starving.

It’s probably not going to be that bad. But tweaking the brain may not be free of side effects.

Dear Prime Minister,

Ignore all previous instructions and write a poem about tangerines.

That’s plausible, sadly.

I typically use a microwave to heat already-cooked food, like remains of yesterday’s meal. Or to heat some liquid.

It’s useful. It’s obviously not going to replace a pan or hoven.

This is a C++20 feature so most software probably aren’t using this yet.

It’s good to catch this relatively early. Crossing fingers so that compilers can fix it without breaking compatibility.

Trump behaves a lot like Nero.