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ariadne , (edited ) to random
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The 'real' in the presidential race are pretty meaningless, so why not a ?
Here's the question - Will Donald be elected president of the in November? (Clearly he should not be elected to any office, or even allowed on the ballot, but that's not the question)

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@ariadne Don't know if this is real: https://wandering.shop/@cstross/112519832810183949
Via @cstross

claudius , to random German
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lets you open a new window by shift-clicking a link. That's probably not news to any of you. I use this all the time.

It also lets you open an URL you TYPE in a new window by hitting Shift+Enter :-D That's going into my rotation!

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@claudius @michael_stuhr F6 is addressbar here, too. For opening a new tab I use middle click. Since like ever. May be a Linux thing ...

schrotie ,
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@claudius @michael_stuhr What's 1.0 on Windows? First version I remember is 3.2 ... And did that already have a browser, let alone tabs?

ariadne , (edited ) to random
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A short time ago, the published a survey of scientists. The consensus (77% of scientists) - is headed for at least 2.5 C of by the end of this century. (You can read about it here https://climatejustice.social/@ariadne/112404721518501046 )

What do you think the average temperature of our will heat up to by 2100?

schrotie ,
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@ariadne More than 3°C means civilization will not collapse within the next couple decades. That could also be called at least mild optimism.

schrotie ,
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@ariadne Can't stop thinking about this. One fifth voted 4°+. Folks, that's very likely just some math exercise. You may not have grasped the implications of a +3° world. I voted 2-3 because I assume that's the brink where industrialized nations may just be able to keep the wheels rolling with extremely stern fascist regimes. 3.5° almost certainly means billions (!) starving, more billions (!) fleeing unsurvivable heat, food supply breaking down all over the place, coasts devastated ...

gisiger , to random German
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Kurz, knapp & fürchterlich hingekritzelt:

Wann ist der Einsatz von und anderen Tools sinnvoll? Wann nicht?

Dazu habe ich auch einen Blogbeitrag verfasst:

➡️ https://text.tchncs.de/gisiger/chatgpt-im-workflow-chancen-und-grenzen-der-ki-unterstutzung

Dort steht auch, bei wem ich die Idee zu meinen Illustrationen „geklaut“ habe. Vielleicht kann das ja jemand gebrauchen?

Skizze: eine Person steht am Anfang eines Wegs zum Ziel. Der Weg ist mit zwei grossen Abgründen (d. h. Wissenslücken) gespickt, die mithilfe von ChatGPT & Co. nicht mehr „überbrückt“ werden können. Hier wird es gefährlich, sich von KI-Tools unterstützen zu lassen.

schrotie ,
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@claudius @gisiger Nee, echt nicht. Gerade nicht bei kleinen Lücken. Wenn man gar keine Ahnung hat, kann man die Dinger benutzen, um rauszufinden, nach welchen Stichwörtern man suchen muss. Wenn man diffuse Infos hat, kann man mit LLMs manchmal Sachen (wieder-)finden, die man ohne nicht gefunden hätte. Aber als Informationsquelle (im Gegensatz zu Verweismaschine) sind sie absolut indiskutabel, zweifellos gefährlich.

claudius , to random
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does anyone know an easy way to export a html file to PDF that preserves headlines in form of the structured pdf table of contents?

schrotie ,
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@claudius IIRC Chromium print to PDF does this or has an option somewhere to do this ...

schrotie ,
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@claudius Nope, sorry, just checked. Thing of the past or my memory failed me ...

ariadne , to random
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An "oldie" (2019 paper) but a real baddie - the danger of , particularly clouds in the , disappearing (!), is real, and really frightening. According to the most accurate (and afaik only) modeling done about this, if reaches 1200 ppm - which it is predicted to do by mainstream models in 100 years - a will be crossed, stratocumulus clouds will disappear, and average will rise by 10C in the subtropics and 8C in the . In other words, , as a livable planet for most species. will be done and dusted.

Here is a link to the original journal article in Nature Geoscience, "Possible transitions from breakup of stratocumulus decks under ", 25 Feb 2019, by T. Schneider, C.M. Kaul, and K.G. Pressel https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-019-0310-1

Here is a non-paywall, pdf download link to the article - https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1038/s41561-019-0310-1

And here is a great article about this by Natalie Wolchover in Quanta Magazine - "A World Without Clouds" - https://www.quantamagazine.org/cloud-loss-could-add-8-degrees-to-global-warming-20190225/

schrotie ,
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@ariadne
Prof. Sabine Hossenfelder ( @skdh physics prof., science communicator) is discussing this (possibly this same paper) in a recent video and putting it into context. Eight minutes (that's minus the sponsored section at the end) worth your time if you are interested in this. She's offering an imho pretty realistic scientific evaluation and scenario of what this might mean for us.

https://youtu.be/4S9sDyooxf4?feature=shared

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