Unfortunately, I also believe that market forces may push away from this direction, as LLM companies try to capture the value stream

People aren't nihilist - social media is.

People aren't shallow - dating apps are.

The world isn't shit - late capital is.

But of course, people are also nihilist, shallow and shit; and those same people are hopeful, complex, patient, kind and loving - but the internet rarely brings those stories to you.

Are you referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerogen?

At any rate, this is why I would like to see a better investigation of the subject

Better Kerogen wiki: https://wiki.aapg.org/Kerogen

So I would say yes.

On average though, I would say no.

Solar panels don't convert air to fuel directly, but you could use the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction

From what I've seen, 10,000 barrels per year is a reasonable guestimate.

If that is the case, then just the electrical energy harvested from solar panels in the UK could convert air into fuel at a faster rate than the WHOLE earth (on average over geological time scales) (as long as the fuel conversion/production was at least 1% efficient at converting electricity to fuel).

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1owp09/if_oil_t...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S209624951...

Of course, the preceding paragraph could be re-written in many different ways.

Most maintainability conflicts come from packaging and design for assembly.

Efficiency more often comes into conflict with durability, and sometimes safety.

I wouldn't expect even a lightly informed mid-wit to think that this murderbot held the ground by itself; and I don't think the author expects that either. Thus something else is probably going on. To wit - puffery.

Watching the movie first will set the stage for a lot of details that work better in a book than a movie.

Measured in terms of mass * distance, trains with steel wheels will beat anything with rubber pneumatic tires.

Part of the magic of hybrid trains is that you can have multiple generation units that can be turned on or off as needed.

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Efficiency is just one consideration for a power plant.

Historically, reliability has been more important than efficiency, especially for industrial applications like locomotives. In other words, locomotives are probably not as efficient as they could be. For instance, you could use a lower viscosity engine oil for lubrication, but that would reduce reliability as engines fail due to friction.

For any particular person, you can tell a story that satisfies "Why?". But for a large number of people, you have to answer "Why?" for one sub-group at a time.

In other words, there's not a single answer that will answer this in a satisfying way.

To answer a different question: It appears that the Israeli government and military wanted to bomb Iran again, and the United States executive branch and military decided to help out. This is an incomplete and unsatisfying answer. Sorry.

Of course, working in a legacy codebase is also torture.

Software development is a hyper-rational endeavor, so we don't often talk about feelings. This article also does not talk much about feelings.

Reading between the lines, it looks like reverting the code is supposed to affect how you feel about the work. Knowing that failure is an explicit option can help to set an expectation; however, without a mature understanding of failure, that expectation may just be misery.

With a mature understanding of failure, the possibility of a forced rollback should help you "let go" of those changes. It's like starting a day of painting or drawing with one that you force yourself to throw away; or a writing session with a silly page.

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If someone thinks that they are giving you good advice, but it sounds terrible, then maybe they are expecting you to do some more work to realize the value of that advice.

If you are giving someone advice and they push back, maybe you are implying some extra work or expectations that you have not actually said out loud.

Advice is plagued by the tacit knowledge problem.

Regarding the rest of the article: it reminds me of how things like nursery rhymes or fairy tales or Shakespeare's plays used to mean something very different and very specific.