Long time since I was there, but does Newington still have queues of buses competing for the same routes ?
Imho, should be one tram route, with smooth change to buses towards outlying villages, from somewhere like Cameron toll.
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Being good at passing exams ("majoring") is just the first stage, continuing in the topic as a career depends more on networking skills.
Canongate, I lived there in 1993, remember the open tourist-buses stuck outside, cameras pointing into our windows, should have sold them something. Then there was a european summit using the castle for conference site, and the palace for hotel, so to make it smoother for presidents etc. shuttling between, the council dug up and resurfaced the road not once but three times trying different colours, probably to get some EU money employing local workers, but drilling sure was noisy! Back to present: If they close north+south bridges, not much alternative, maybe traffic diverts via holyrood ? Needs a north-south tram or metro.
I began programming java climate model with UK keyboard. When I moved to the continent, switched to swiss then belgian keyboard to better type emails/docs in french, but it was so tedious for code brackets {[()]} and some other punctuation, eventually switched back. Recently converted whole codebase to Scala 3 (here's the model), now can drop most of those brackets. I speculate whether one motivation for creating scala3 (made in in Lausanne) was swiss/french keyboards.
Article has some logic that makes sense, as does UBI in general.
However currently China is still far away from this, welfare is low compared to most european countries, lack of reliable welfare has contributed to their massive housing bubble, now deflating. Also, I read that Xi J is anti-welfare.
Sounds like Belgium in November-December (due to atlantic moisture), but January can be (and is now) quite sunny.
Problem is, some people imagine (maybe subconciously) that global warming could be like going south on a holiday for some winter sun, while models project that we'll get even less sunlight in winter, due to evaporating more from warmer oceans, without increasing the driver of convection.
Sure, there are such conspiracy theories, and will be more, and indeed it’s hard to sell collective responsibility.
This is not new, for example I recall plenty of rubbish about chemtrails in the 1990s.
Whether it matters depends if it impedes agency of too many people.
Regarding collective responsibility, people might feel more agency, if they felt more equity. In this case first acknowledge that there is a real global elite (anti-tropes can become tropes...) who jet around for conferences and holidays who do contribute a lot more than most people to the climate problem - plenty of data now about the 1% etc, on the other hand that can also show that focusing only on them alone wouldn't be sufficient, our everyday lives count.
It also helps for agency if proposed 'solutions' are within the resources / skill-set of DIY types, not just expensive high-tech for big-organisations. Could 'preppers' convert into ecologists - it's not so far removed...?
Hmmm, so maybe such a search engine could began with a whitelist of 'real' journalistic sites from around the word, inviting suggestions for more, keeping a reputation score for each, evidence of plagiarism / AI risks to be dropped. If the list is smaller, the searching task is easier. It shouldn't be funded by advertising, as that provides bad incentives. Maybe small subscriptions both for searchers and sites on list, to balance incentives.
Fediverse likes / votes / boosts could also help provide rankings for such an engine (evaluating external links, not message content), as real people here are checking stuff, and it’s less distorted by commercial clickbait motives.
They may indeed develop linguistic skills at deeper levels, but LLMs are still only playing with words. Imagine a kid who grew up confined in a library with unlimited books, but no experience of the real world outside, no experiments with moving about, bouncing balls, eating, smelling, seeing, hearing, interacting with others, only reading - might write eloquently but have no 'common sense' of reality. To train a real AI with physical sense and capabilities would be like bringing up a kid - messy, not easy to automate, takes a long time.
Good article, big problem, but I doubt email lists are a solution. I have over years subscribed to many email lists, they get filtered to mailboxes by topic, which I'm afraid to open because overwhelmed by messages. I prefer to find specific news items recommended by communities as here on Lemmy. As for AI dominating SEO for google, it seems there could be an opening for a new search engine that guarantees only content from original-sources, neither AI nor content-farms.
I like Scala:
- multi-paradigm, you can explore many ways of doing something, within one codebase - arguably the most complex language, if you want, but doesn't have to be: start simply, later scales robustly
- compiles and interoperates with JS, JVM, native
- Scala3 dropped brackets - easily readable like python
- great tooling (recently) - compiler infers so much -> less puzzles / testing
- developed mainly in europe, not controlled by big-tech
Fwiw, here's my interactive climate system model running in pure scala.
Belize moved it’s capital city (to Belmopan) for similar reason.