I do not hold with the detractors. I've personally known people who write like this since before LLMs were a thing. I rarely use LLMs, and come from the days of "expert systems" and the tail end of when universities had hundreds of typewriters in a room.

So perhaps, that's my bias: towards a former reality.

I often find myself wondering at a random HN commenter's flaming of a post for being full of AI slop, when the accused reads like normalspeak to my half-old eyes.

Last I read, Kagi is using data from 3rd-party scraping of Google results, because buying directly from Google comes with onerous limitations:

- Must not alter the order of Google's search results - Must not alter the appearance or placement of Google-inserted ads

> Moore law did its thing, now you can do it with a lot less computer power.

s/power/time/ maybe? Or on second thought: so energy-efficicient that it actually uses less power in the same-or-shorter time… which brings me back to "less compute power".

Although…my gran's coasters were made of Waterford crystal, and could definitey do some damage. (-:

Some countries chose different physical sizes and/or embosed bumps in the corners.

You can, but then "The cake is a lie.", because linecount and bug rate, when concieved as proxies for productivity[1] or quality rarely match up with reality in a way that allows you to make predictions or reason about past outcomes.

You can reason about frequency of particular types bugs, such as null pointers or overflow, or whether those bugs can occur at all.

[1] https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html

There is long-standing tradition that if a company's "core competency" is retained, it remains the same company. And also of adults being adopted into a family (including when done as a means of producing a successor when there is no suitable heir).

So, a family of weavers going back hundreds of years, now switching to carbon fibre production under the direction of an unrelated (adopted) heir can said in Japan to still be the same company if that carbon fiber is woven.

But also, sometimes "core competency" is re-interpreted. Perhaps the original core competency was as dyers, which morphed into weaving at some point, and might eventuall change to "anything involving carbon fibre"…

Perhaps they take issue with "_any_ other source". I agree that U.S. govt data is now suspect, but there are far sources. Maybe an s/any other/more reputable/ would be accepted?

Mayhap

But…you're correlating previous climate changes (which had much slower rates) with "Even though this one measures daramatic'ly different, it's the same.".

As some others have asked you, would you be so kind as to please suggest other sources for either the required energy inputs, or the required reduction in heat losses, so as to provide other plausable explanations for the available data?

We agree that corelation is not causation. I suppose we should also agree that ignoring a correlation when choosing what to investigate would not be science.

Colour me confused.

Dark mode on an oled reduces brightness (and power consumption).

Dark mode on my work laptop (not oled) reduces backlight brightness. This is auto-tragical, because it seems to only respond to changes in the display buffer's average requested luminance, instead of using an ambient light sensor. Dropping backlight toward minimum when the room is bright makes the screen mostly unreadable. And there's no control for this. Dell should be ashamed!

More importantly, if you place any darkening filter, including a darkened set of pixels, in front of a light source, it reduces the brightness. But perhaps the main concern you intended is "power consumption", not "emitted lux"? If, I'd say "Depends on your application.".

Dark modes alone only reduce lightness, are not reducing brightness.

That's the distinction some are missing.

And the most important parts:

- no dark mode is actually needed, for me anyway, once I reduce brightness;

- I have serious retina artifacts issues after reading a dark mode web page like that one.