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> It's a crisis measured in hard numbers: reservoir levels, rainfall data, aquifer depletion rates.

Of course I went to check the actual numbers from official sources and they tell a different story. Reservoir levels near historical maximum. So much for building an article on "hard numbers" without pointing to sources.


For cypress its half as much water in the reseviours compared to last year: https://www.moa.gov.cy/moa/wdd/Wdd.nsf/page18_en/page18_en?o...

what data are you looking at?


Italy, Spain... eg. https://embalses.net shows maximum historical levels after a sharp bump these past 2 years... pretty sure it's the same story in many EU countries. Droughts are there until they aren't. Normal fluctuations if you check an actual chart going 50-100 years back.

Can you post a historical chart of Cyprus? maybe it tells a different story


We had an exceptionally wet winter - reservoirs which I have not seen full in a decade are suddenly at capacity - or were, a few weeks ago. There’s now a rapid draw-down however as the weather has shifted to unseasonably hot almost overnight.

The main problem isn’t reservoir levels, however, as most agriculture in Iberia doesn’t use reservoir water, rather, on-site boreholes - and the groundwater is getting seriously depleted.

There’s a whole bunch of stuff that folks do here that doesn’t help matters, however - olive groves and other arboriculture, which is a large part of agriculture in Iberia, are kept with bare topsoil, as the belief is that the grass steals the water, and irrigation is done with broadcast rather than drip, and it all evaporates almost as fast as they can spray it. We don’t plough or irrigate ours, and we get a crop - we just cut the grass at the end of spring to reduce the fire hazard. There’s also a tragedy of the commons affair going on, where people pump as much as possible from their boreholes in the spring to keep in open black plastic lined storage ponds, because they feel that if they don’t their neighbour will get the water and there won’t be any for them - so water which would have been safely stored underground is brought to the surface and put in perfect conditions to evaporate.

None of it is sustainable, and it’s going to end in tears.


Usually that is a sign of subsidized water below cost, which disincentivizes the more efficient irrigation methods you highlight, at least that's what happens in California with is baroque system of senior and junior water rights and its "use it or lose it" mentality.


Yup, it’s just an annual fixed fee to have a borehole - which most folks don’t even pay as enforcement is nonexistent.


Droughts are there until they aren't. Now you see it, now you don't. That's just a perspective of the annual situation, but there's an emerging pattern of recurring drought at shorter and shorter intervals. It's right there in the article: "'We used to have drought cycles every 20 years,' according to Cyprus Water Development Department data. 'Now it's every two or three years.'"


Maybe that Sabine lady with the Youtube channel that people seem to take seriously because she has a funny German accent?


And you thought you’d refute it by also not providing sources?


Can you? can you provide a historical (25+ years) chart of reservoir levels in Cyprus or any EU country? Otherwise let me assume you just fell for a sensationalist article


You’re the one saying you have sources that disagree with the article not me?


It's not that it isn't better, it's actually worse. Seems like the big guys are stuck on a race to overfit for benchmarks, and this is becoming very noticeable.


Is this the first major flop from Anthropic? This thing is unusable. Slow, awful responses. Since Sonnet 3.5 the only real advance in LLM coding has been Gemini 2.5 Pro's context length. Both complement each other quite well so I'll stick to switch between these 2.


> Slow, awful responses.

Probably there servers cannot handle the traffic today.


I think the vibes are really based on how you use it and what you're working on. For me I had the exact opposite vibe. I use it to generate typescript with Claude code



Quite good, it would sound much better with SOTA voices though:

https://github.com/nari-labs/dia


Dia is too slow, I need a time to first audio chunk of ~100 milliseconds. Also generations fail too often (artifacts etc)


Does Dia support configuring voices now? I looked at it when it was first released, and you could only specify [S1] [S2] for the speakers, but not how they would sound.

There was also a very prominent issue where the voices would be sped up if the text was over a few sentences long; the longer the text, the faster it was spoken. One suggestion was to split the conversation into chunks with only one or two "turns" per speaker, but then you'd hear two voices then two more, then two more… with no way to configure any of it.

Dia looked cool on the surface when it was released, but it was only a demo for now and not at all usable for any real use case, even for a personal app. I'm sure they'll get to these issues eventually, but most comments I've seen so far recommending it are from people who have not actually used it or they would know of these major limitations.


I've been using this one with Cursor the past few months...

https://github.com/foges/whisper-dictation


IMO this is a bigger blow to the AI big boys than Deepseek's release. This is massive for local inference. Exciting times ahead for open source AI.


The market for local inference and $10k+ Macs is not nearly significant enough to effect the big boys.


it is absolutely not


I don't think you understand what the "AI big boys" are in the market for.


> I don’t understand how stupid some traders can be.

90% of traders lose money, so that's a data point...

You're trying to apply rational thinking but that's not how markets work. In the end valuations are more about narratives in the collective mind than technological merit.


The parallels with the dotcom bubble are clear... Tech is magical. Tech becomes cheap/free. Stock holders panic.

For some time it's been clear that there's an AI bubble and this may be what finally pops it.


According to you there's a bubble in AI and this... legitimate AI research breakthrough... may be the thing that pops the bubble?


Bubble's don't always imply fraudulent underlying tech.

The dot com bubble was a real thing, and yet the internet has gone on to be one of humanities most valuable innovations.


I agree with that. It doesn't refute my point, though. Point being, I would expect something else to pop a bubble.


I don't think there has to be an AI bubble, but valuations overall have to come down to something in accordance with the interest rates and expected long-term profit rates.


Gave it a go for several projects, but didn't like it... for big projects it gets messy, fast. It also feels like it has become the new bootstrap.

I'm very happy with my current CSS-in-JS workflow. Crafting good old css with LLM help. You just show the LLM a pic, ask for the components.... boom, done (with proper naming, etc)


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