tonyedgecombe

I don’t know, I think that I might prefer the prompt over the slop it produces.

Most emissions come from transport and housing. Imports represent a relatively small proportion of the total.

>Were you not able to get laid or something?

The GP did say "and I was very successful", perhaps your gigantic libido has destroyed your reading comprehension.

Did you not read my last sentence?

As long as we don't fill the gap with more immigration from poorer countries.

China’s coal use has shifted from decades of rapid expansion to a historic decline. Coal’s share of electricity generation dropped below 50% for the first time in 2026 (reaching 49.7% in the first six months), down from over 75% in the early 2010s and a peak share of around 81% in 2007, driven by massive wind and solar growth.

It has still grown in absolute terms although even that seems to have flattened off in the last couple of years.

>This problem starts and ends with corporations and government regulations.

That's what we have been relying on for the last forty years and we still have an issue.

Corporations respond to demand. If someone is willing to buy a barrel of oil to burn then you can be sure you will find someone else to pull it out of the ground for them.

Another thing that might surprise you is 75% of the waste in the great pacific garbage patch is lost or discarded fishing gear.

I never hear environmentalists talking about plastic straws, only people with an anti-environmentalist agenda.

I was thinking about this a while back whilst I watched someone struggle with their shopping across the supermarket carpark without a plastic bag only to get in a Range Rover. I guess it's a form of moral self licensing[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-licensing

I don’t know about that. What I have noticed is people who work long hours often have a distorted perception of their own productivity.

The paradox of choice:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice

Woosh

It’s way better for pedestrians and cyclists, you took your life in your hands cycling under the old one.

A locally attached drive.

We were already flooded with software, if the iOS App Store has four million apps instead of two it will make little difference to peoples consumption of apps.

Works might be a stretch. Every time I hear someone complaining about Time Machine it turns out they are trying to do it over SMB.

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My first job was writing barcode printing software for the Apple II. One of my last jobs 42 years later was also related to printing barcodes.

It sometimes seems that all we have done over that period is add layers and layers of complexity.

>or music playback

We had record players for that, and Walkmans for when we were out and about.

Yes, the temptation to skip forward is going to be to great for most people.

Giving the Apple engineer (but not Apple) the benefit of the doubt I guess their policy is not to make any promises or announcements in that channel. They have probably said as much as they are allowed.

The UK spent £320 million on a single roundabout on the M25. Meanwhile the same government cut the national cycling budget from £200 million to £20 million.

For a while members of the mafia we’re stealing them to trade against their sentence if they got caught for some other crime.

>My feeling is that there’s just always a group of people who complains no matter what.

There is a religious zeal to some of the criticism.

>E.g. it now takes about 5 seconds to "Privacy & Security" in the system settings

It's instant for me on a six year old base level Mini.

Before the internet those people were ignored because everybody in the village knew they were potty. Now they get to talk to each other which amplifies and concentrates the idiocy.

>Let industries govern themselves ...

I wonder what could go wrong with that.

I'm coming to the conclusion that my life is improved the more I can leave these technologies alone.