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- Comment on Generative AI creates playable version of Doom game with no code 2 months ago:
I mean, yes, technically you build and run AI models using code. The point is there is no code defining the game logic or graphical rendering. It’s all statistical predictions of what should happen next in a game of doom by a neural network. The entirety of the game itself is learned weights within the model. Nobody coded any part of the actual game. No code was generated to run the game. It’s entirely represented within the model.
- Comment on California Grid Breezes Through Heat Wave due to Renewables, Batteries 4 months ago:
Are you misreading something? Renewables generated 120% of demand during the day and still around 50% at night with no solar
- Comment on Helldivers 2 has received 100,000 negative reviews since announcing players must link Steam to a PSN account 6 months ago:
Sounds like Steam may be allowing refunds for this. Worth a try
- Comment on evangelism 6 months ago:
I’m like 90% sure that post was AI generated
- Comment on It is truly magic 7 months ago:
1 min without traffic
- Comment on tremendous 7 months ago:
The message is “wind power bad”
- Comment on tremendous 7 months ago:
That was significantly more hinged than the meme. He probably set a record for the pace of lies or misleading statements, but he had a coherent message: windmills not made in US, manufacturing them releases fumes, they kill birds, having them nearby decreases home values, etc
- Comment on Need tips for my beard trimming routine. This is what I currently do! Any pointers? 7 months ago:
Don’t do this
- Comment on Texas AG Ken Paxton Sues Chaturbate, xHamster Over Controversial Age Verification Law 7 months ago:
I don’t really understand how the state can make it the site’s responsibility to restrict access from their citizens. The site is not operating out of or incorporated in Texas. If the state doesn’t want their citizens to access something, it’s their responsibility to ensure that.
- Comment on Study: Dark matter does not exist and the universe is 27 billion years old 8 months ago:
This doesn’t answer the question in the context of this theory, but the current understanding is that light does lose energy as it travels through expanding space. As the space it’s in expands, the wavelength gets longer, and the energy goes down. It doesn’t go anywhere; energy just isn’t conserved in an expanding space-time.
- Comment on Study: Dark matter does not exist and the universe is 27 billion years old 8 months ago:
A few things not quite right here. Particles are given mass through interacting directly with the Higgs field itself. They don’t need the boson to be involved. Due to the way the math works out, the Higgs field has a non-zero value everywhere, so everything that interacts with that field is given mass by that.
Also, we know of weakly interacting matter such as neutrinos that can pass directly through other matter most of the time already. Things can be in the same place as long as the fields they’re part of don’t interact in a way that stops it.
Magnetism, electric charge, and light rely on photons, not electrons. Photons are the bosons of the electromagnetic field. Bosons are called force carriers. They get exchanged any time an electromagnetic force acts on anything. Electrons are a particle and made from the electron field. They are involved in a lot of electromagnetic interactions via photons, but not all of them.
- Comment on Gel and lithium-ion tech could enable 1000-mile EV range on one charge 9 months ago:
The Ioniq 5 is rated at 18 minutes 10 to 80%. If you really care about charging time, you don’t need to charge all the way to 80. It starts to slow down after 70. And that’s current technology. It’s only getting faster.
- Comment on Gel and lithium-ion tech could enable 1000-mile EV range on one charge 9 months ago:
Not a 3 minute stop. A whole 15 minutes. Assuming you have a charging station nearby anyway.
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 9 months ago:
I’m not blaming them. I acknowledged they may not have any other choice. Just pointing out the harms for the benefit of anyone with the option to do something about it
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 9 months ago:
The practices of those businesses, and people choosing them over other options, is exactly why you don’t have other choices now
- Comment on People who order "a decaff coffee with an extra shot" - why? 10 months ago:
Is it really flavorless? I’ve always had the impression it adds a bit of a bitter flavor
- Comment on People who order "a decaff coffee with an extra shot" - why? 10 months ago:
A single shot of espresso is only around 20-25ml. A double shot is the most common amount you’ll get when ordering a drink at a coffee shop, and 60ml is on the high end of that. Here’s even more about this topic specifically: youtu.be/F4wrUP4c5P4
- Comment on VW solid-state battery retains 95% capacity over 1,000 charge cycles in lab testing 10 months ago:
Hmm, you’re right, looks like it’s commonly used for both. That’s a bit confusing
- Comment on VW solid-state battery retains 95% capacity over 1,000 charge cycles in lab testing 10 months ago:
PEV = personal electric vehicle, like an e-bike, scooter, or unicycle. All the benefits of bike infrastructure while letting you go a lot farther and faster without getting sweaty
- Comment on VW solid-state battery retains 95% capacity over 1,000 charge cycles in lab testing 10 months ago:
A PEV is not a car
- Comment on VW solid-state battery retains 95% capacity over 1,000 charge cycles in lab testing 10 months ago:
But imagine the implications for PEVs
- Comment on Pray for their safety 10 months ago:
If you read what you linked, the meaning where they overlap is in the sense of a tail or something hanging down. The cue in the sense it’s used here, as a prompt to act, was in use since the 1500s in theater. The use of queue to mean a line only began in the 1800s and probably came out of the now basically unused meaning of cue/queue to refer to a tail-like thing. Curly cue and pool cue are the only remaining uses I can think of. Queue has basically lost that meaning in favor of its new one thanks to IT applications.
- Comment on Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported 11 months ago:
Except that if we have the technology to fully digitize a human consciousness, we’ll already have AI that can do everything a digital human could and more
- Comment on I hate that I am become this person but: are delivery drivers just allowed to call and say 'please come and meet me' now? 11 months ago:
Nice, good to know. Thanks for the insight
- Comment on I hate that I am become this person but: are delivery drivers just allowed to call and say 'please come and meet me' now? 11 months ago:
I get the impression they can look at and choose whether or not to take a delivery before accepting it. If you have in there that you absolutely need it delivered to your door, you’re a lot more likely to get someone who knows and is ok with that. That should lead to more no questions asked deliveries for you at basically no cost. Rage against what should and should not be all you want, but it’s not going to change your experience if you don’t do anything different.
- Comment on I hate that I am become this person but: are delivery drivers just allowed to call and say 'please come and meet me' now? 11 months ago:
Putting that explicitly in the delivery instructions might help them have a better idea what they’re getting into and what to expect
- Comment on They should build ev charging stations with a drive in theater so you can watch a movie as you're charging up to continue your road trip 1 year ago:
Actually, the batteries are proving to be extremely reliable, to the point that they’re likely to outlast the rest of the vehicle. On average, batteries with 100,000 miles are still at 90% of their initial capacity. The situation will only get better as solid state batteries are rolled out