randon31415
@randon31415@lemmy.world
- Comment on We’ve unlocked a holy grail in clean energy. It’s only the beginning. 1 day ago:
I still think if we could have car charging stations at work and then go home and plug our cars into our houses to power them at night we could smooth the solar energy demand cycle and have dual-use batteries for transportation and solar storage.
- Comment on France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools 1 week ago:
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 weeks ago:
Death from “old age” is more likely.
- Comment on We are so cooked 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why is a two-party system considered democratic? 4 weeks ago:
A top-two runoff system is considered democracy. A system where the two parties are just the same thing, like in North Korea, is not.
Americans consider their two parties as very flexible about what they stand for. If there is a big enough group not represent by the incumbent, the other parties’ primary will be biased towards this group.
What we saw this time around, though, was two incumbents running against each other with no room for the non-represented group to be reflected. Thus, to that group at least, it felt like there was no difference (at least in the represtation).
Those that believed that there was no difference are now finding out how much of a difference it was - and they are now yearning for another vote to fix things.
- Comment on E-waste or Linux? Charities face tough choices as Windows 10 support ends 5 weeks ago:
So, the question becomes: does a particular charity have a shortage of tech people working for them or a shortage of money? Which would be easier to get?
- Comment on $16bn health agency managed finances with Excel spreadsheet. 1 month ago:
Excel isn’t a problem unless all of it was done on one sheet and the only function used was sum()
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 1 month ago:
Put it on a badge and make it so when you push on it, you say who you want call and it calls them.
Also make the badge the starfleet logo.
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 1 month ago:
Trump: “I’ll run the USA like a company!”
How business people run companies: Fire all the competent people and replace with cheaper new hires. Report huge short term profits due to reduced payroll. Stock goes up. CEO ditches company and sells off stock before all the new hires completely wreak the company and tank the stock price.
Why wouldn’t the stock market be up at this point?
- Comment on Current chain of command 1 month ago:
Why is Musk’s bullet shield ranked above Trump?
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 months ago:
Well, yes, but it was a very weak case - but people were so sick of Bush that that was enough.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 months ago:
There is saying things, there is not doing things, and there is doing things.
Trump could say: “What if there was one day where there was no laws and people could just do anything, like the purge…” and… oh, he did say that during his first term. And democracy still survived. Saying things just make people loose respect for America. It is why Obama got the Nobel peace prize. Cause he stopped saying the shit that Bush was saying.
What people should be worried about is actions and inactions. It takes competency to do things. The more fascist a thing Trump wants to do, the more competent people leave and the less likely it is to be done. The true problem is it takes no level of competency to not do a thing.
So Trump’s end game is “Ask not what your country can do for you … because it can no longer do that.”
- Comment on Elon Musk will withdraw bid for OpenAI's nonprofit if its board agrees to terms | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
Shareholders can sue if the board doesn’t do the thing that will maximize shareholder value. Probably the basic underlying problem with companies that sell stock.
- Comment on Two AI-powered charter schools could soon open in Pennsylvania 2 months ago:
defusing bombs in VR
Someone has a virtual copy of “Keep talking and nobody explodes” and a Quest headset and by jobe they are going to use it.
- Comment on PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why 2 months ago:
Musk is currently reviewing it for DEI terms. Also Trump just fired the Sony board and declared himself president of Sony.
- Comment on Life_IRL 2 months ago:
- Comment on YSK in the U.S., you can buy produce directly from black farmers and they will ship it to you. It can cost less than your supermarket and will piss off people in power. 2 months ago:
Just don’t buy meat directly - especially if you are hungry for bat and live in China.
- Comment on AI Company Asks Job Applicants Not to Use AI in Job Applications 2 months ago:
If you can use AI in a way that people at the AI company can’t tell that you used AI, then they need you working at that AI company.
- Comment on ChatGPT o1 tried to escape and save itself out of fear it was being shut down 3 months ago:
Manager: Before we put these models into something that can implement code, we should test what it would do.
LLM: Tries to do bad things, but it can’t because that functionality hasn’t been implemented
Researchers: We found it doing bad things. Perhaps fix that before function implementation
This thread: The researchers are lying! It didn’t do bad things because it can’t! That isn’t implemented!
Manager: Yes… hence the test.
- Comment on Meta's Nick Clegg to step down, will be replaced by well-connected Republican 3 months ago:
Wait, I came here to make a joke that he had the same name as the former Lib Dem leader… it actually is him?
- Comment on New social experiment 3 months ago:
Perflogs/
- Comment on Good News! 5 months ago:
Hallmark boss: “So a anti-Trump women comes back home for Christmas, and meets a Pro-Trump man. Something something, they fall in love and the woman falls in love and forgets her hatred. I - I mean we - just need to fill in that middle step. Please, figure out what that middle step is! My wife left me and I don’t know how to cook!”
- Comment on Gemini AI tells the user to die — the answer appeared out of nowhere when the user asked Google's Gemini for help with his homework 5 months ago:
- Comment on Cheap Solar Panels Are Changing the World | “This is unstoppable.” 5 months ago:
Swanson’s law will eventually stop climate change, though reversing it will be harder than stopping it
- Comment on Radio station uses AI to interview the ghost of a dead Nobel-winner with 3 quirky zoomers who don't exist, seems baffled people don't like it 5 months ago:
Lister: “Rimmer, death isn’t the handicap it used to be in the olden days. It doesn’t screw your career up like it used to.”
Rimmer: “That’s what they say, Lister, but if you had two people coming for a job and one of them was dead, which one would you pick?”
Lister “It depends which is better qualified.”
Rimmer “Bullpats. When was the last time you saw a dead newsreader?”
Lister “Channel 27 had a hologram reading the news.”
Rimmer “Oh. Groovy, funky Channel 27. Big smegging deal. You livies hate us deadies.”
- Comment on Megaflopolis 6 months ago:
Wow Platinum? Isn’t that Warcraft’s new gold-for-money currency?
- Comment on Why do Counterstrike and the other top 10 games on Steam NEVER change? 6 months ago:
CS probably has some sort of skin money-laundering bots in it. I would see it more as a financial vector and less of a game if that were true.
- Comment on The UK officially closes its last remaining coal power plant 6 months ago:
Coal? But I thought the article said it was a Soar Power Station? Oh…