Assuming that this is referring to the same study as that earlier post (I'm not paying for popsci to find out), there was already a good breakdown of why that study was bad: https://lemmy.ca/comment/22499339
Ai sucks, but this needs better research
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That's 9.1°C, according to the title on the site.
@Innerworld@lemmy.world Did you change the title to have it in Fahrenheit instead? You could have just added the conversion so it had both, instead of making life difficult for the majority of the world that works in Celsius.
Yes I did. Was it really difficult? I just edited the title to include both. I did some quick searches and was surprised to learn that the percentage of people outside the US is more than half across all Lemmy instances.
Was it really difficult?
As the one distributing info in a one-to-many relationship, it is more efficient for you to post the conversion than to ask for everyone else to do it. It is equally difficult for you or one reader, but you have many readers.
It did occur to me that perhaps the site itself had localised it. That would be odd for a science site given that science is usually done in metric, but as the New Scientist is pop sci they might have thought it would help grow US readership.
Was it really difficult?
Assuming this is referring to my comment about making life difficult, you had to either do the maths or use a conversion tool. You made it (now fixed, thanks) so that half (I expected a higher %age tbh) of the people reading it had to do that.
You seem to be pretending that the headline has always been F/C, and not exclusively F at one point before you edited it.
Small price to pay for an endless stream of b- term papers and bad management decisions. The janky code is just a bonus.
Aren't jumping spiders seemingly more intelligent than AI datacenter slop?.. 🤔
Probably but jumping spiders don't constantly affirm my decisions and viewpoints making me feel better about my insecurities.
And nowadays there’s whole swathes of back to back data centers in rural America.
Which reminds me of that video of a guy in a flood using a bucket to take the water out of his yard and throw it over the fence.
There’s gotta be a better way to vent all that heat. It all eventually rises, so maybe pump it into vertical turbine cooling towers and use that like a flywheel to stabilize the grid.