Anthropogenic methane (CH4) emissions increases from the period 1850–1900 until 2019 are responsible for around 65% as much warming as carbon dioxide (CO2) h...
Abstract (added emphasis and paragraphing):
Anthropogenic methane (CH4) emissions increases from the period 1850–1900 until 2019 are responsible for around 65% as much warming as carbon dioxide (CO2) has caused to date, and large reductions in methane emissions are required to limit global warming to 1.5°C or 2°C.
However, methane emissions have been increasing rapidly since ~2006. This study shows that emissions are expected to continue to increase over the remainder of the 2020s if no greater action is taken and that increases in atmospheric methane are thus far outpacing projected growth rates.
This increase has important implications for reaching net zero CO2 targets: every 50 Mt CH4 of the sustained large cuts envisioned under low-warming scenarios that are not realized would eliminate about 150 Gt of the remaining CO2 budget. Targeted methane reductions are therefore a critical component alongside decarbonization to minimize global warming.
We describe additional linkages between methane mitigation options and CO2, especially via land use, as well as their respective climate impacts and associated metrics. We explain why a net zero target specifically for methane is neither necessary nor plausible. Analyses show where reductions are most feasible at the national and sectoral levels given limited resources, for example, to meet the Global Methane Pledge target, but they also reveal large uncertainties.
Despite these uncertainties, many mitigation costs are clearly low relative to real-world financial instruments and very low compared with methane damage estimates, but legally binding regulations and methane pricing are needed to meet climate goals.
Great assessment and well argued!
The tldr doesn't match the text. Your elaboration is a lot better than your tldr.
In a case where a second camera operation through a third input unit using an inertial sensor is performed while a pointer operation process based on a pointer operation through a first input unit or a camera operation process based on a first camera operation through a second input unit is performed, an absolute value of a quantity of change in a position or an image capturing direction of a virtual camera based on the second camera operation is reduced as compared with a case where the second camera operation is performed when neither of the pointer operation process based on the pointer operation and the camera operation process based on the first camera operation are performed.
Holy mother of long sentences
Those patent abstracts are wild.
Existence does not equate allowance. Have you reported their profile?
Their user name is their user ID. I assume it has been handled now? What's your take on that after these public accusations and it supposedly being the reason to make your own spaces?
I report stuff when I come across it. I regularly get info on action being taken.
It's a community platform. Individual, manual username change assessment and approval is infeasible. What's your expectation?
What do you mean by harassment? You didn't specify.
annual turnover rates at Amazon warehouses reached 150%
Crazy. Crazy that that works as a business strategy.
Battle and season passes and events can often be classified as ads. (Mainly "live service" games.)
Progression systems and gambling systems are a thing in games but not movies. Often taking away from inherent qualities and intrinsic motivation.
about how Chinese people cope with constant surveillance in their country
Very interesting read.
Finally, wanting to protect privacy was often seen by participants as a desire to hide shameful secrets in order to save face. Here too, surveillance is viewed positively, as a tool to unmask shady behaviours and promote morality.
Damn.
In short, the way the Chinese citizens I spoke to experience digital surveillance is characterized by strong psychic tensions: the same persons who support surveillance as being indispensable in the Chinese context are also and nevertheless expressing the heavy burden that coping with such exposure places on them.
Missile guidance in the Peace section - :yep:
The/In short from Wikipedia:
The Ig Nobel Prize is a satiric prize awarded annually since 1991
- Anatomy: Roman Khonsari, for finding that there is a greater instance of scalp hair spiraling in a counter-clockwise direction in the Southern Hemisphere.
- Biology: Fordyce Ely and William Petersen, for finding that placing a cat on the back of cows and repeatedly exploding paper bags every 10 seconds for two minutes led to them producing less milk.
- Chemistry: Tess Heeremans, Antoine Deblais, Daniel Bonn and Sander Woutersen, for their use of chromatography to separate drunk and sober worms as part of their research into polymer science.
- Botany: Jacob White and Felipe Yamashita, for finding that the plant Boquila trifoliolata can mimic the leaves of plastic plants placed alongside it, leading them to conclude that “plant vision” is plausible.
- Demography: Saul Newman, for finding that many claims regarding the existence of supercentenarians and other extreme age-related records originate from areas with short life spans, no birth certificates, and rampant clerical errors and pension fraud.
- Medicine: Lieven Schenk, Tahmine Fadai and Christian Büchel, for finding that counterfeit medicine that induces painful side-effects can be more effective in patients than counterfeit medicine that does not cause painful side-effects.
- Peace: B. F. Skinner, for his study on housing live pigeons inside missiles to guide them to their targets.
- Physics: James Liao, for his long-running study on the ability of a dead trout to swim.
- Physiology: Takanori Takebe, for finding that several mammals can breathe through their intestines using their anus.
- Probability: A team of 50 researchers mostly based in the Netherlands, for supporting a prediction by Persi Diaconis that tossed coins are more likely to land the same way up as they started after they had flipped 350,757 coins.
lol
I felt strong aversion and irritation throughout, thinking they were unnecessarily making enemies.
They certainly have an extreme view and goal. And are personally invested to the point of seeing fellow collaborators on FOSS as enemies(?) now.
Putting up barriers through segmentation and alternative tech creates silos. To reach new people I don't think we can get around meeting users where they are and what they are familiar with.
Bring value through FOSS, and hint and nudge them. If you meet them where they are and bring them to your software it's already one more than none. You don't need to get them to make a huge leap into a whole ecosystem of alternative software at once.
Their categorical dismissal of other's opinions or priorities certainly felt irritating to me. Maybe they care more about FOSS license than UX or features, but why is that the only correct view in their eyes? Blind users may not even be able to use FOSS alternatives when they lack accessibility features or quality.
Even as a contributor to a project I don't want to use a supportive side platform only for that when it's annoying or cumbersome. I very well may just skip it, or leave as a contributor.
I would have been interested in the premise; why they think advocating and exclusively FOSS is the only correct view and thing to do. The lack of a strong basis also made all that followed more irritating.
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The webpage has additional filtering options etc.
JS query code 🧙♂️
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What do you mean by "fix this"?
You can always contact Steam support and present them with your case. If it's reasonable I'm sure they'll lift it.
Hello! We are excited to announce Steam Families is now available for all users. Steam Families is a collection of new and existing family-related features. It replaces both Steam Family Sharing and Steam Family View, giving you a single location to manage which games your family can access and when...
Up to 6, sharing your shareable games library
Adult and child accounts, limit child accounts, approve and pay for child buy requests,
Intended for close household family; can't join a different one until one year after joining
> If a family member gets banned for cheating while playing your copy of a game, you (the game owner) will also be banned in that game. Other family members are not impacted.
haha
I've skipped signing up via email to be able to read articles because that, apparently, that also includes signing up for a newsletter.
it revealed a number of organs including blood vessels in the brain through the scalp
I'm confused. There's a skull between scalp skin and the brain, right? o.O
Yes, I do. What info are you looking for? You didn't even say.
I know the Mumble and SoftEther VPN projects use them for hosting their website/project hosting.
Do you think they see it the same way? "life down the drain"?
They still worked, got experience, got paid, worked on something, maybe even well and satisfactory even if overall direction and combination isn't.
I don't think calling it "life down the drain" is fair or good. As if that were all that mattered in their lives.
I wouldn't call pasting verbatim training data hallucination when it fits the prompt. It's not necessarily making stuff up.
I feel like you're unfittingly mixing tool target behavior with technical limitations. Yes, it's not knowingly reasoning. But that doesn't change that the user interface is a prompt-style, with the goal of answering.
I think it's fitting terminology for encompassing multiple issues of false answers.
How would you call it? Only by their specific issues? Or would you use a general term, like "error" or "wrong"?
Companies may unintentionally hurt their sales by including the words “artificial intelligence” when describing their offerings that use the technology, according to a study led by WSU researchers.
> researchers conducted experimental surveys with more than 1,000 adults in the U.S. to evaluate the relationship between AI disclosure and consumer behavior
> The findings consistently showed products described as using artificial intelligence were less popular
> “When AI is mentioned, it tends to lower emotional trust, which in turn decreases purchase intentions,”
Reading the post and comments on Softbank plans to cancel out angry customer voices using AI made me think it could be an interesting topic to chat about.
I think the best support I received was in the chat application and service Slack. A competent, friendly human responds. I had two or three support inquiries with them.
The last issue I had in Slack was when I opened via try icon click my clipboard content was being pasted. I was surprised they were able to identify the issue which was due to a third-party application that had only just released with the issue a day earlier. Slack support was responsive with a first message before the solution, and fast to respond with the second message with the identified cause.
I'm not sure any stand out as particularly awful for me. [Kinda] Bad seems to be the norm. Sometimes bots sit in front of being able to write a message (my bank, I have to write the same inquiry a second time), sometimes the first response is automated or templated, sometimes the first response is automated and immediately but a human will follow up, sometimes you call and can hardly understand them because of accent or even awful intonation. Often you receive incompetent answers that don't respond to your message or issue. Sometimes they're unwilling or incapable of resolution or agreeable conclusions.
Digital Art is easy, the computer does all the work. See, here's a quick tutorial on how Digital Art is made.#Shorts #Artmemes #ArtistI make digital art, mos...
I stumbled upon their videos and watched three. It's absurd and often hilarious how bad most of the games are.
Jauwn shows us through the games and their gameplay, but also checks further into the mechanisms trying to bait people and the publishers and developers at times linking them to previous scams.
- About Banana - the Steam game that reached fourth-most-played-game apparently, and still has 90% positive on 14k ratings
- Exploring three crypto games on the Epic Games store - I laughed multiple times at how bad and absurd it was
- Exploring some crypto games games on Steam (which is the timestamped post link)
- They have more such videos on their channel
Today, we had European elections in Germany.
We have the Wahl-O-Mat, a state-funded service, where you can answer 38 questions, and then match your positions against a selection of or all political parties that could be elected. It then shows you how much overlap (a percentage) you have with the various parties and their answers to those questions.
I find this to be a very important and useful tool for citizen information.\ Campaign adverts are shallow and colorful PR. Broad slogans.\ Individuals are not necessarily what the broader party policies are and how they vote. Personal sympathy can even be misleading in that a sympathetic person may not hold the values and positions you do.\ Voting for a party, I think their program and stances should be the primary decision factor. (Alongside assessment of whether you can trust them of course.)\ It obviously and drastically shows you misconceptions about parties and your alignment, and shows you parties relevant to you that you may not have known about before.
Do other countries have something/things like that too? A tool to match personal stance against political parties' stances? [In a concrete and up-to-date way.]
Wanna listen to this story instead? Check out this week's Better Offline podcast, "The Man That Destroyed Google Search," available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it. The story...
I found this article a bit too elaborate and digressive, but it has a lot of content and sourcing.
> In one email, Fox adds that there was a “pretty big disconnect between what finance and ads want” and what search was doing.
> When Gomes pushed back on the multiple requests for growth
> In a WIRED interview from 2021, Steven Levy said Raghavan “isn’t CEO of Google— he just runs the place,” and described his addition to the company as “a move from research to management.”
We sounded the alarm about independent publishers being demoted on Google to give way to big media sites. This is what happened next.
From Forbes and Money content farms, to Google search algorithm changes promoting generic and generated content and big media platforms over specific results, to Google prioritizing ads, overpriced, and other worse results.
Developing interactivity is effort and an investment. Most developers put up a simple loading screen, maybe some text like rotating tips, and a loading indicator. Until 2015 a patent on interactive loading screens may have made developers and publishers cautious and decide against developing interactivity.
High Hell, released in 2017, features fast gameplay, short levels, and interactive loading screens. (Linked Clip) (High Hell Steam page)
What's the best kind of loading screen? Do you have examples of good or bad interactive loading screens?
From the super long title, I expected The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash to be a mediocre standard-production anime, probably isekai, like we have seen numerous in recent times.
But the first episode instantly sets a great atmosphere and tone, substantiated by great visuals, animation, world depth, and story premise. While aspects or focus points change through the journey progression, the production quality never drops.
The "tamer" and picking-up-trash aspects are only a premise and hardly important to what is happening.
It's an adventure, a youthful exploration, stemming from hardships, with discoveries of the world and people. It's slow-paced - it reminded me of Mushishi (beautiful, world-depth, character embedded in world, slow-paced).
It's a great series that I can wholeheartedly recommend.
Have you watched it? What did you think?
JP title: Saijaku Tamer wa Gomi Hiroi no Tabi o Hajimemashita
Finished airing on 2024-03-29
In Sky: Children of the Light you can let yourself get taken by the hand, and the other player guides/plays for you and you barely need to do anything anymore. Felt a bit absurd and funny, but interesting nonetheless. Certainly unique. It was also very good to eat some snacks and watch yourself progress while doing so. !bee happy emoji
Sky is an interesting and visually beautiful/well-crafted game. It has many things going for it. But also things I found frustrating and annoying.
I was also confused quite a bit, about quite a few things about what is happening and interacting in what way.
If only there weren't so many cutscenes blocking me from actually playing the game and feeling embedded in the world and atmosphere. I hate those disrupting cutscenes. Forced camera focus was also annoying at times.
Overall, I find Sky quite interesting, and can certainly recommend taking a look at and even into it.
Sky: Children of the Light is available on Steam for free, in Early Access. It has also been available on iOS since 2019, Android since 2020, Switch since 2021, PS4 since 2022.
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Walking back and forth between sofa + controller + TV and my PC + keyboard to chat with people was a hassle though 🤡 (I was streaming PC to TV so it was the same thing. Chatting is entirely optional.)
(Sorry for the shitty screenshot photo of hand-holding.)
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Have you played Sky? What did you think of the implementation of social systems and interactions with other players?
I have an Android tablet and a pen for it.
Do you have any FOSS experience or recommendations for Android tablet drawing apps?
