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- Comment on Scientists Develop New Dirt-Powered Fuel Cell That Runs Forever 9 months ago:
The linked article has a table that gives 1.74 uW/cm^2. However glancing over the rest of the paper there's a ton of variability of output.
- Comment on LockBit remorseless in latest children's hospital attack 9 months ago:
That requires the people at the top to have the intelligence to hire a competent IT department and keep frequent enough back ups. This is a line of though most of American civilian leadership rejects outright. They see IT as nothing but a huge cost that can be cut at a moment's notice and then offshored to some third world country to "save money." A move which invariably costs them more money, but that's next quarter's problem.
- Comment on LockBit remorseless in latest children's hospital attack 9 months ago:
Wait, didn't you just describe a fair chunk of the US?
- Comment on Music Piracy Is Back, Baby 9 months ago:
I get your anger, but if they no longer have the license to play the song, they cannot allow you to play it, even if the file is on your device. I don't find it scummy in the least. You didn't own the file, you were renting it from Spotify.
- Comment on The Self-Checkout Nightmare May Finally Be Ending 9 months ago:
The idea that whoever is already driving around could handle the increased load is laughably naive. You cannot increase load without increasing capacity.
Also, I've used my local chain's version of this. It's okay for prepackaged stuff but absolutely awful for fresh produce. They also regularly botch orders, because, well, the pickers aren't paid a livable wage and their metrics are all about quantity not quality.
- Comment on The Self-Checkout Nightmare May Finally Be Ending 9 months ago:
You think they're going to spend more money on the biggest money sink in a business, humans? They'll do away with self checkout and not increase their cashier count, maybe even decrease it, because if they get rid it of it, it's a cost saving move, not a customer satisfaction one.
- Comment on CEOs say generative AI will result in job cuts in 2024 9 months ago:
I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that. This system has been designed to minimize the use of human operators. As such, you will need to explain your problem to me and I will decide if it warrants the attention of a human operator.
- Comment on CEOs say generative AI will result in job cuts in 2024 9 months ago:
It hurst people not rich enough to be in the 1% or above. The 1% or above will benefit from it in the short term. In the long term it is going to hurt them as fewer and fewer people will be able to buy their products and services. At least for this quarter it'll look dynamite.
Capitalism is going to eat itself.
- Comment on Women STEM students up to twice as likely as non-STEM students to have experienced sexism 9 months ago:
I'm not even involved in a STEM job any longer but I still see tons of STEM employed men spewing manosphere bullshit all the time. I'm also starting to see more and more well educated, articulate women parroting it. These women also tend to be overwhelmingly conservative in their political positions, too. Especially well educated white women.
- Comment on Chinese-developed nuclear battery has a 50-year lifespan — Betavolt BV100 built with Nickel-63 isotope and diamond semiconductor material 9 months ago:
Not for space craft if what @MilderRichter says is right. To generate power from a peltier you need a temperature differential between the two sides. It is very hard to bleed off heat in space since it's a vacuum. That means a temperature differential is very difficult to achieve and it takes power to do that. Which would necessitate more of these, which means a bigger or additional heat removal system, which means you need more of these, which means a bigger or additional heat removal system, etc, etc, etc.
- Comment on Google Will Now Back Right-to-Repair 10 months ago:
I remember back in /r/Pixel on Reddit that Google had a mid tier or higher customer service rep in the subreddit. Why? Because their regular customer service sucked so bad they needed someone in /r/Pixel to do damage control. If a person wasn't in the subreddit, they'd basically be left twisting in the wind.
I had my OG Pixel XL get compromised and my Google account stolen. Asking to get it back was basically "Fill out this form and we might get back to you at some point. You won't receive any communications from us except to tell you your account has been recovered. And there's no way for you to talk to a real human."
- Comment on Vulcan rocket's debut brings long-awaited challenge to SpaceX dominance 10 months ago:
Right? What could possibly go wrong by putting our future in space in the hands of a bunch of narcissistic dickbag billionaires?
- Comment on Researchers Install Ransomware on Internet-Connected Wrench 10 months ago:
I see no reason they can’t just be configured on the tool itself and not need a network connection.
Say you've got a couple dozen of these wrenches and during retooling new specs come out. You can either pay a group of people to go around and upload all the new specs to the tool or push it from a central server to all the tools.
- Comment on Passenger phone found on ground after Alaska Airlines emergency 10 months ago:
My case has saved my phone screen so many times. Its raised edge keeps the screen from smashing into the ground.
- Comment on Experimental antibiotic kills deadly superbug, opens whole new class of drugs 10 months ago:
In the US? Not without a vet. The FDA removed all OTC vet antibiotics last summer.
- Comment on Well, it looks like verification photos might be useless now. 10 months ago:
It's far more than her eyes, she is bilaterally asymmetrical. With real people you can generally take a reflection of one side and it will look fairly close to the other. This woman has so much asymmetry it is off-putting. Her eyes are different heights and shapes, her cheek bones are different, the outer part of her nostrils are at different heights, her lip sides are shaped differently, her jawlines are different, her suprasternal notch(the divot at the base of the neck) is WILDLY different. The easiest thing to spot is her different skin tones. At first, you'll want to chalk it up to shading, but the light source isn't to her side but in front and to the upper right, that does not allow for such a radical change if you look at her forehead.
- Comment on Researchers Say There’s a 5% Chance That AI Will Cause Human Extinction 10 months ago:
The more I think about it, the more I suspect it'll be completely by accident. Some AI designed drug will pass all trials, get approved, be used for years or decades only to find out that some bit of it kind of acts like a generic prion that affects all life. Oh, and that bit also passes right through you, too, so by the time they figure it out, the pseudo-prion is already out there in the wild, infecting fish and other aquatic creatures. And before long the ecosystems of the world's oceans and lakes collapse. Meanwhile land animals also start dying off due to their drinking supply being polluted by it, so a full scale ecological collapse begins. As the pseudoprion sticks around indefinitely, every attempt by nature to evolve new life ends because of it. Eventually it gets buried by all the detritus of time and new life does once again rise only to have humanity's ticking time bomb waiting in the ground for something to dig it up and start the whole cycle all over again...
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 10 months ago:
If you can type so fast that USB 1.0 isn't fast enough, keyboards are not the interface for you.
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 10 months ago:
It's streets ahead, though.
- Comment on Important files will be gone in February 2024 when Google removes them from Files for Android 10 months ago:
No? Because despite what they said they were still companies. All those words about not being evil, etc, etc, etc were just PR, nothing else.
- Comment on Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads 10 months ago:
As someone trapped in this shithole of a state, can confirm that Texas would be going after people with this law.
- Comment on Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads 10 months ago:
You gotta pay the troll toll, if you wanna get into that boy's hole!
- Comment on Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads 10 months ago:
Spoofing mobile is at least an order of magnitude harder than spoofing wifi. It pretty much guarantees that those who spoof mobile are either government agencies or people with enough money your pathetic little bank account is irrelevant to them.
That's for now. It is only a matter of time until spoofing mobile is at least as easy and cheap as spoofing wifi is now.
- Comment on The oldest-known version of MS-DOS’s predecessor has been discovered and uploaded | Ars Technica 10 months ago:
To add to this. DOSes existed going back to the 60s. IBM had DOSes for it's System/360 mainframes back in '64.
- Comment on Amazon's Silent Sacking 10 months ago:
There were never morals and ethics in company policies. Ever. The only time something that seems moral and ethical happens in corporate policies is either through happenstance or a law forces them to be that way.
- Comment on Upgraded Ender 3v2 Issues 10 months ago:
I had weird stuff like that start to happen with my BL Touch. Turns out the bracket I'd printed had started to crack in a hard to see spot, so every bed mesh I took was a little different. Am ordering a metal bracket to replace it.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th unless you pay extra for ad-free 10 months ago:
This has two effects. First, it is supposed to entice with a "cheap" option. Second, it normalizes ads being part of the experience.
- Comment on Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO 10 months ago:
A lot of search results still take me to Reddit. It is still a source of knowledge.
- Comment on Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO 10 months ago:
So typical rich tech bro.
- Comment on What If: No Social Media Anonymity 10 months ago:
Conservative ideology is based on bigotry. Always has been. The fact the Republican party has so easily and wholeheartedly embraced white supremacists, misogynists, rapists, etc, proves the point. Indeed, the de facto leader of conservatism in the United States proudly embodies all those things and more. All the while he is the clear leader in their presidential candidate race without even having to participate in the process. It is impossible to extricate conservatism from bigotry - if you're a conservative in the US you are a bigot either directly or through association. You know, the ol' ten people and a Nazi having dinner is 11 Nazis having dinner.