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"Dave] is using bifacial solar panels– panels that have cells on both sides. In his preferred orientation, one side faces South, while the other faces North. [Dave] is in the Northern Hemisphere, so those of you Down Under would have to do the opposite, pointing one face North and the other South"

um, yes, do the opposite.

"My best guess is that we have another 12 months to enjoy some degree of confidence in our shared sense of reality."

...with no metrics provided to explain how this was arrived at, or why it's a better guess than others, etc

as _wire_ said: pointless click-bait jabbering.

yes, transforming xml. and it was useful. great!

edit: zomg mcswell I see you're the person I was replying to in the first place, to this absurd comment:

"First, who decided that XML was a good format to write a programming language in? Punch cards would have been better"

I mean come on.

I dont have Spotify either. I have self determination.

nah. its a transform for XML and its super useful when you need it. People such as yourself who claim its not a great programming language are probably not trying to use it for the right thing.

XSLT is not a programming language. It's a declarative transform for XML, and when you need such a thing, it is extremely useful.

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It wasn't at all difficult to tell that comment was sarcasm.

The first clue was this line:

> I present to you: underwater data centers!

"I present to you" is clearly lighthearted, and then it gets rounded off with an exclamation mark.

And then this final sentence is also clearly sarcastm:

> We'd have to figure out the whole physics of it all, or maybe not, OpenAI can just ask ChatGPT for help!

I'd suggest to you that in situations where you think the meaning is unclear a better approach might be to assume the best rather than the worst. This is how we can extricate ourselves from the shoutfest that the world has become.

That last one, he's never going to make it over that stretch of water

"It was not even clear that we were so near to create machines that could understand the human language"

LLMs don't _understand_ "the human language". They dont _understand_ anything. It would be really great if everyone would keep their heads and not lose sight of this fundamental truth.