Maybe I'm not seeing it but wouldn't it be just easier to pump the river water back up instead of letting it flow on the sea?

Except that the amount of water needs to be augmented as it disappears through usage and evaporation. So you’d run out pretty quickly.

Large scale desalination might be necessary but I think the article is downplaying the brine issue. I don’t think we’re running out of table salt so trying to use it for harvesting metals will be an environmental challenge at the scale being proposed here.

I feel like the brine issue is a red herring. Coming from first principles the ocean is unbelievably big such that no practical amount of desalination will change the oceans salinity. (Plus most desalinated water will make it back to the ocean eventually anyway)

It really is just a matter of distributing the brine water over a large area.

There are some minor breaking changes like the order of iteration is not always the same as the official Linq implementation, or Sum might give different values due to checked vs unchecked summing. Probably not an issue for most people, but a subtle breaking change nevertheless.

See here for more info: https://github.com/Cysharp/ZLinq?tab=readme-ov-file#differen...

To add on that, you can define your lambdas as static to make sure you're not capturing anything by mistake.

Something like dates.Where(static x => x.Date > DateTime.Now)

There's also a really nice implementation of Rope for C# here: https://github.com/FlatlinerDOA/Rope

Specially because there are no network effects and no lock in.

Only lock in could be if they become smart enough to truly know you and small preferences as a person that would be hard to repeat all the nuances to the next chatbot

Netflix did that many years ago, interesting idea even if a bit disruptive in the beginning https://netflix.github.io/chaosmonkey/

See also, the rest of the simian army: https://netflixtechblog.com/the-netflix-simian-army-16e57fba...

What a bunch of corporate newspeak. Their demand of 8% of gross revenue in annual license fees, or >$30M for 2024, shows how much this was only about profits and not about contributing to the WP community:

"It’s important to note that a significant part of Automattic’s revenue, including any licensing revenue, is channeled back into supporting the WordPress community, as Automattic is currently contributing 3,552 hours per week to the WordPress project. This comes out to something in the order of $20M annually in salaries."

And the post then goes from defending open source to how their actions made everyone's websites safer (which, they didn't) and how you should migrate your website to their hosting solution. Despicable.

I think the original quote was "One in a million is next Tuesday": https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/larryosterma...

Isn't that precisely what they were doing? Forcing landlords to follow the recommended prices?

"RealPage thus makes it hard for customers to override its recommendations, according to the lawsuits, allegedly even requiring a written justification and explicit approval from RealPage staff." From: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/08/ai-price-a...

Reminded me of their Command-E acquisition from a few years ago (https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/company/welcome-command-e-to...)

Command-E lives on: https://www.dash.ai