jayandp
@jayandp@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on 'X' Marks xAI's Spot: xAI has acquired X in an all-stock transaction. The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Judges Are Fed up With Lawyers Using AI That Hallucinate Court Cases 5 weeks ago:
Don’t need something the size of AWS these days. I ran one on my PC last week. But yeah, you’re right otherwise.
- Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms 1 month ago:
People have been able to extend the electromagnetic effect to a few feet, but yeah, there’s a reason why most just use the close range version we have today.
Here’s a demo from 2009: youtu.be/MgBYQh4zC2Y
Microwave transmission has also been explored in addition to lasers, as you say, but either way both methods involve power loss in energy conversion, and they both are very directional, making it impractical for consumer use.
But anyway, just wanted to say that the tech technically exists since it’s funny when normal people bring it up without knowing the limitations of current technology and physics.
- Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms 1 month ago:
I mean, wireless electricity tech does exist, it just sucks and is horribly inefficient at any reasonable distance.
- Comment on Solidigm pulls out of consumer SSD market with discontinuation of drives 2 months ago:
I didn’t even realize Intel’s SSD business still survived as a separate company. Apparently they’re owned by SK Hynix.
- Comment on AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs 6 months ago:
That tip of a handle bar that makes you wonder if that square counts or not.
- Comment on Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text 6 months ago:
Yep, had basically a throw away account for the occasional thing that basically required a Facebook account, and then I guess because I never posted anything they locked my account and demanded ID. Hell no.