mriguy
@mriguy@lemmy.world
- Comment on Sam Altman takes nuclear energy company Oklo public to help power his AI ambitions 1 month ago:
He can’t be worse than the ones that are already our overlords.
Pretty much all of human history would like a word.
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 1 month ago:
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 1 month ago:
Are they going to give him his $60B bonus now?
- Comment on You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 2 months ago:
No, the question is why not?
- Comment on Google just took down IPAs (Apple equivalent of APKs) of popular YouTube tweaks 3 months ago:
$99/year is a lot of you’re just doing it to side load. If you’re using all the tools available, it’s not that much.
- Comment on Apple to over 100 California employees: Move to Texas or lose your job 5 months ago:
I’m not sure people from the Siri team are going to be in high demand.
- Comment on CEOs say generative AI will result in job cuts in 2024 5 months ago:
So… CEOs will cause job cuts in 2024, and have decided to use AI as an excuse.
- Comment on Moderna’s mRNA cancer vaccine works even better than thought 5 months ago:
A good rule of thumb in medicine is “anything that does everything probably does nothing”.
- Comment on Moderna’s mRNA cancer vaccine works even better than thought 5 months ago:
In this case, you have to develop an individual vaccine for every patient based on the DNA from their own cancer. That’s actually a lot of work. $10K a poke is very reasonable given that you could easily spend 10 or 100 times that on conventional treatment.
- Comment on EV Batteries Are Dangerous to Repair. Here’s Why Mechanics Are Doing So Anyway 5 months ago:
What I seem to see most on Lenny is split 50/50 between “EVs are way worse than cars because they are heavy and have tires and tire particulates are FAR worse than tailpipe emissions, and ICE vehicles weigh nothing and don’t have tires anyway” and “EVs are cars and cars are the devil - if you don’t live in a city center and use a bike exclusively you might as well be slaughtering children by the hundreds, because there is literally no moral difference.”
- Comment on VW Is Putting Buttons Back in Cars Because People Complained Enough 6 months ago:
This shit was figured out 30 years ago
More like 100 years ago.
- Comment on Google Promises Unlimited Cloud Storage; Then Cancels Plan; Then Tells Journalist His Life’s Work Will Be Deleted Without Enough Time To Transfer The Data 6 months ago:
Yes, that’s true, but it’s also true that Google has a long history of discontinuing services suddenly, so expecting them to keep this particular promise was extremely naive.
- Comment on Tesla again threatens to sue Cybertruck buyers who try to resell the cars 6 months ago:
Getting to the point where you get it kicked out of court will still cost you enough to ruin you financially though. So it’s a great deterrent.
- Comment on Why scientists are making transparent wood / The results are amazing, that a piece of wood can be as strong as glass 6 months ago:
Yeah. I think they just couldn’t make large enough pieces for any reasonable cost. cultofmac.com/…/today-in-apple-history-apples-sap…
- Comment on Why scientists are making transparent wood / The results are amazing, that a piece of wood can be as strong as glass 6 months ago:
That project ultimately failed. They use it in the watch, but still use whatever the newest flavor of gorilla glass is on the phone.
- Comment on 1.8 Million Barrels of Oil a Day Avoided from Electric Vehicles 6 months ago:
No, even those are the old talking points! Now it’s “EVs have batteries that are very heavy, so they generate lots of tire particulates, which is way worse than the tailpipe emissions of ICE cars, which somehow magically don’t also have tires or something, and aren’t also getting heavier every year.”
- Comment on OpenAI says it is investigating reports ChatGPT has become ‘lazy’ 6 months ago:
“I already answered that in another query. Closed as duplicate. “
- Comment on US Navy says it will trial using AI to track Chinese submarines in the Pacific 6 months ago:
This tells me that the US Navy already has some way of tracking Chinese submarines that isn’t AI, and that when they clearly know where the subs are, people will think “oh it must be that cool new AI”. This is a cover story.
- Comment on After decades of dreams, a commercial spaceplane is almost ready to fly 7 months ago:
It’s hard to imagine that a spaceplane would have a larger environmental impact than a rocket. Since we are going to continue sending things to space, a spaceplane would have a positive impact on climate change.
- Comment on After decades of dreams, a commercial spaceplane is almost ready to fly 7 months ago:
I think it’s only fair to let sub designers build the spaceplane then.
- Comment on Most of the world's biggest advertisers have stopped buying ads on Elon Musk's X, exclusive new data shows 8 months ago:
So as a result he’s no longer so rich he could do it all again and still have more money than he could possibly spend in hundreds of lifetimes? No? Still super rich? Then it’s not really a meaningful distinction.
- Comment on Solar and wind energy could fulfill energy demand 10-fold, Oxford study finds 8 months ago:
It’s hard to say it’s “wasted”. That just means the sun will shine, and the wind will blow, and nobody will use some of the electricity it could generate.
By that metric, almost 100% of wind and solar power is currently “wasted”. By putting up all that capacity, the amount “wasted” goes way down.
And what becomes possible if you have huge amounts of no cost energy available for some of the day/year? Direct carbon capture? Widespread desalination to produce fresh water? These are things that would help a lot, but are currently infeasible for to energy cost. You don’t have to do them 24/7 - just turn them on to soak up the excess grid capacity. If the cost of electricity went way down, I guarantee you somebody would figure out what to do with the power.
- Comment on Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage 8 months ago:
It was FaceTime, not iMessage. The reason the developers were surprised was that they didn’t own the tech, and Apple lost a patent lawsuit about it and almost had to remove FaceTime entirely. www.bbc.com/news/technology-20236114 fiercewireless.com/…/apple-s-facetime-open-standa…
- Comment on Phones should have FM radio again 8 months ago:
plus it’s useful in emergency situations.
Yes, in case of emergency, tune to a Clear Channel station so they can tell you how the emergency is the fault if the Woke Left.
- Comment on Apple blames iOS 17 bugs and apps like Instagram for making iPhone 15s run hot 8 months ago:
That depends entirely on your definition of “too hot”. I’m sure if it gets hot enough to threaten to harm the hardware, it will throttle. “Too hot to be comfortable to hold” is a much lower and more subjective number.
- Comment on Apple may reduce the performance of the 3nm A17 Pro processor due to massive overheating of the iPhone 15 Pro 8 months ago:
Same here. My 15 pro max never gets noticeably warmer than my 14 pro did, even during the initial setup, where it’s doing lots of things. It seems more likely that this is a manufacturing problem that only affects some phones, because people are reporting super hot phones, most of the time, which nobody I know has seen. The phone itself is generating the heat - the climate difference doesn’t sound like the cause.
- Comment on Two Vegas casinos fell victim to cyberattacks, shattering the image of impenetrable casino security 9 months ago:
They also have a reputation of being run by people who will kill you if you steal from them.
- Comment on SpaceX projected 20 million Starlink users by 2022—it ended up with 1 million 9 months ago:
You can do that now. But you’ll probably wake up dead. Same in two years.
- Comment on Twitter accused of helping Saudi Arabia commit human rights abuses 9 months ago:
No, but it establishes how useful a tool a Twitter you control is to crushing dissent. Which explains why they helped Musk buy it - as bad as Twitter’s previous management may have been, they at least tried to appear honorable. Musk is really leaning into the authoritarian bootlicker thing, so I’m sure he’s eager to get Tesla programmers in there to find new ways to hunt down dissidents.
- Comment on Watch a swarm of drones autonomously track a human through a dense forest 9 months ago:
They absolutely could be!
They won’t be, but they could be!