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- Comment on A rare polar bear showed up on the shores of Iceland. Police shot it 1 week ago:
A bit more context from reading the article
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the bear was actively going through the trash of a woman’s summer house while she was there which is why it was reported
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the Iceland environmental agency actively decided to not try and relocate it, likely due to how expensive it would be to take back to Greenland
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the bear is also being studied for potential diseases/parasites, how healthy it was, body fat, etc. which is nice I guess
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- Comment on An Avalanche of Generative AI Videos Is Coming to YouTube Shorts 1 week ago:
Exactly, there’s already plenty. I do my best to scroll as fast as possible and not interact, it will be unfortunate if this makes it worse tho
- Comment on An Avalanche of Generative AI Videos Is Coming to YouTube Shorts 1 week ago:
Exactly, there’s already plenty. I do my best to scroll as fast as possible and not interact, it will be unfortunate if this makes it worse tho
- Comment on Pilot killed after Western-donated F-16 fighter jet crash in Ukraine 4 weeks ago:
Doing some quick searching, it seems that we currently do not know how the plane crashed. It was in the air on a mission to shoot down cruise missiles, and after doing that on the way to another target they lost connection. It will likely be a while before we know, both because it will take time to investigate but also depending on what the cause was they may not want to release it publicly for a while.
Slightly more informative article I found: www.nytimes.com/…/ukraine-f16-pilot-crash.html
- Comment on Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? 4 weeks ago:
As a other premium user, trust me that is not the main reason I use it, it’s entirely to get rid of ads on mobile. I use the feature occasionally on mobile too but on desktop I use sponsorblock and it’s wayyy better both from an accuracy and user interface standpoint.
Sidenote: I also am on a plan that my parents pay for, though I used to pay for it myself after getting it for free for 6 months and I couldn’t go back to the ads
- Comment on Regarding this picture, where do you think quantum computers lie and why? 5 weeks ago:
I’d agree, but that slope will be a long and hard one. And the hype cycle may have many more peaks and troughs of disillusionment, from new breakthroughs, but the researchers will still make steady progress.
- Comment on NASA and Boeing say Starliner astronauts ‘are not stranded,’ but will be on the ISS for a few more weeks 2 months ago:
They functionally do, at almost all points in time there are enough capsules docked to the station for all astronauts to be able to return to Earth. The starliner capsule is currently able to return if needed, they are having it stay up there a bit longer to check things out now and make sure that it’s fully safe and usable.
- Comment on Putin hints Russia to start making previously banned missiles 2 months ago:
Turns out the missile in question is an intermediate range nuclear capable missile. So, on one have it’s possible we will see tactical nukes used in Ukraine, but on the other hand it will likely take a few years to get production back up and running after so long of not being in production.
- Comment on If you’ve got an EV, Google Maps is about to become much more valuable | New updates address one of Americans’ top concerns about owning an electric car: finding a place to charge 5 months ago:
You can pretty well? The search along route feature works pretty well, sure there are a few things a little out of the way but not much
- Comment on 1.8 Million Barrels of Oil a Day Avoided from Electric Vehicles 9 months ago:
Exactly, and petroleum really is a wonder material, it has so many amazing uses besides burning it but instead we decide to do the absolute worst thing with almost all of it
- Comment on 1.8 Million Barrels of Oil a Day Avoided from Electric Vehicles 9 months ago:
While 55 gal drums are the standard physical barrel, barrels as used for oil are their own unit, and oil is rarely in actual physical barrels anymore anyways. It’s weird, but it’s how the oil industry measures it.
- Comment on 1.8 Million Barrels of Oil a Day Avoided from Electric Vehicles 9 months ago:
Assuming you could feasibly bike, it would probably still be environmentally better to use the bike, mostly because it is more energy efficient at moving a single human places because it doesn’t have to move a whole car frame, and in most places a fair amount of power is still from fossil fuels, so less would be needed. Also the other benefits of biking.
- Comment on 1.8 Million Barrels of Oil a Day Avoided from Electric Vehicles 9 months ago:
A little less yeah, considering that there has been an increase in renewables for grid power, also it’s much more efficient burn oil/natgas/etc. in a big powerplant than in an ICE car, so less is needed overall.
So yes. It does help. But electric trains are still better lol And we need more renewable grid power
- Comment on 1.8 Million Barrels of Oil a Day Avoided from Electric Vehicles 9 months ago:
Or… Electric trains? Perhaps?
(And the good ones with overhead lines not the shitty battery ones)
- Comment on Which slicer do you use 9 months ago:
I’ve only used cura (no particular reason, just what was shown to me and I now know how to use it
However, I’ve heard good things about both prusa and klipper
- Comment on Light-Speed Spaceships Would Have Trouble Phoning Home 9 months ago:
Now I’m imagining spider-ships traversing the galaxy making strings of filament behind them, connecting the galaxy in a vast web of communication lines.
- Comment on Light-Speed Spaceships Would Have Trouble Phoning Home 9 months ago:
Also, I don’t think this is anything particularly new. It’s pretty logical of you think about it for a few minutes.
- Comment on Inside an OnlyFans empire: Sex, influence and the new American Dream 10 months ago:
- Comment on Google app being flagged as a virus by Huawei phones 11 months ago:
1%based for calling Google malware 99% bullshit for being probably at least equally bad
- Comment on The employees secretly using AI at work 11 months ago:
For large-scale industrial production, yes. It is likely the original commenter is doing custom or fairly small-scale welding, which needs either a much more expensive welding robot, or lots of extra work reconfiguring a still very expensive one. For such applications it is both cheaper and faster to do by hand and likely will be for a long time, though how small scale the practical limit for having a robot will likely decrease over time.
- Comment on In Gaza's crowded Khan Younis, 90 people live in one house 11 months ago:
It’s about to get a lot worse with Israel trying to compress all of Gaza into half the land area and move over a million people south
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 11 months ago:
Currently have been playing a fair amout Stormworks: Build and Rescue and the new Space dlc, unfortunately there are a fair amount of bugs but it’s still quite fun.
The other game I am playing a lot of is Deep Rock Galactic
- Comment on YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it 11 months ago:
In-video sponsorships are almost certainly never going to be gone for every channel, and definitely not as a part of premium since those sponsorships are done voluntarily by creators. As another said, the sponsorblock extension works great, find creators that dont do sponsors, or just skip manually.
- Comment on Lasers Could Soon Power U.S. Military Bases—And Not Even Jamming Could Stop It 11 months ago:
Somehow, I’m actually more comfortable with the military having small nuclear reactors
Good, cuz they’ve had them for years on submarines and maybe some boats too
- Comment on US government issues first-ever space debris penalty to Dish Network 11 months ago:
To be fair it is only for a single satellite not being properly de-orbited, not for a whole constellation being a problem.
- Comment on Can you melt eggs? Quora’s AI says “yes,” and Google is sharing the result 11 months ago:
Yep, also id argue eggs are ‘melted’ by default, but if you froze and the reheated the egg it would then melt.
- Comment on PlayStation 5- how sre the visuals so good and games run so well on a machine with the equivalent of a GTX 2060? 1 year ago:
I doubt windows either has or wants to have that functionality, given their more business/general purpose oriented focus, also the steam deck runs on Linux.
A part of me wonders if it would be possible to put the Linux distro/is of a steam deck onto a dedicated gaming computer to get some of the optimisations from it like that.
- Comment on NASA collected a sample from an asteroid for the first time — here’s why it matters 1 year ago:
True, most of the really good and interesting stuff will take years, there will hopefully be initial findings sooner, more in the of months but you’re right that weeks is way too short
- Comment on NASA collected a sample from an asteroid for the first time — here’s why it matters 1 year ago:
Oh cool, it’s finally back! I remember when it collected the sample, can’t wait to hear about all the stuff they find in the coming weeks and months
- Comment on USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix 1 year ago:
Ooh can you use thunderbird for Usenet? I already use it for desktop email but I might have to go try Usenet too just for the hell of it