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- Submitted 2 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 26 comments
- Comment on Oklo breaks ground on its first nuclear ‘powerhouse’ at INL (Idaho National Laboratory) 6 days ago:
Most people who’ve studied the history of nuclear energy at all know about it. While it’s seldom talked about (like most of the other accidents kept out of the news) SL-1’s not hard to learn more about, e.g. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1#Accident_and_response
- Comment on Oklo breaks ground on its first nuclear ‘powerhouse’ at INL (Idaho National Laboratory) 6 days ago:
wacky place
Not surprised! Would like to learn more about what’s become of it.
- Comment on Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice 1 week ago:
That’ll teach them to plan ahead!
- Comment on Oklo breaks ground on its first nuclear ‘powerhouse’ at INL (Idaho National Laboratory) 1 week ago:
Idaho! That’s where the first 3 people died from a nuke explosion!
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 1 week ago:
Yep. The E.U. has allowed itself to be dominated for too long by the US megacorps. It has the talent, ideas, and manufacturing to tell US firms to bugger off … and the sooner, the better for us all.
- Comment on Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice 1 week ago:
A funny thing happened back in the middle 1800s. A man ran a 7-ton electric locomotive a mile and a half. The motor was powered by a storage device. In the late 1800s, people drove their cars around all day using a storage device. These storage devices became better and better, until they could power trucks and buses for hundreds of miles.
They are still getting better and better. Of course they can be depleted, and it’s good to havea backup methods to cover these cases and to keep the storage devices charged when there’s no sun or wind. Hydroelectric dams powered by water-storage are widely-used, and some flat places still burn fossil fuels to do that as well.
- Comment on Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice 1 week ago:
Offshore wind is one of the most environmentally destructive methods of power generation.
Interesting claim (as compared with coal mining and its fly-ash ponds, Canadian tar sands, hundreds of bankrupt and leaking well sites in New Mexico and the Gulf of America, rivers stripped by nuclear heat waste, etc). What exactly does most mean?
- Comment on Apple says EU should get rid of its digital markets law 1 week ago:
The EU has plenty of talent and ideas. (ESA? RasPi? ARM?) It needs to get rid of its dependence on US corps and create its own net economy, infrastructure and great sites.
Here in the US? time for these trillionaire monopolists to get their due. Good to see InternetArchive.eu get established!
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- 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high windsinterestingengineering.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 177 comments
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- Comment on Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact 2 weeks ago:
Conservatives always -hate- deficit spending … or anything else … when someone else is doing it. Else it’s right and noble and good.
- Comment on Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact 2 weeks ago:
I guess there was nothing evil about GM and Ford supplying Nazis with car parts (Henry Ford got a ‘golden eagle’ award from Adolf!) before WW2. Nothing evil about IBM supplying them with punch cards to keep track of the Jewish either, right?
- Comment on Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg unveils new smart glasses powered by AI 2 weeks ago:
He used to have more taste, before the Borging.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Author’s diagram is about summer. Fall, winter, spring is about heating-degree days. If you’re heating your home with electricity, you’ll not get there with batteries.
So, working towards a solution, there are other ways to store excess energy than in batteries. One example is sand, which can be heated to very high temperatures. Insulate a sand container well and its storage can do a lot of home-heating.
Example: livescience.com/…/a-scalding-hot-sand-battery-is-…
We’ll need to put a lot of different methods into use. There are many practical ideas out there, and they’ll need to be tried.
- Comment on Big Tech: Convenience is a Trap 3 weeks ago:
That’s 18 minutes I don’t need to spend learning a minutes worth. (He starts out complaining about the lost time he’s invested…)
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 34 comments
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- Comment on AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then 1 month ago:
So it’s a race then, between AI’s killing us thru high-tech malice, and we killing ourselves thru the same old stupidity?
“And may the best man win!”
- Comment on AI can find cancer pathologists miss 1 month ago:
OK, thanks for that clarification. I was thrown off by ‘assessed as healthy…’
- Comment on AI can find cancer pathologists miss 1 month ago:
From the article: " All 232 men in the study were assessed as healthy when their biopsies were examined by pathologists. After less than two-and-a-half years, half of the men in the study had developed aggressive prostate cancer…"
HALF? I’d suggest staying away from that study … either they don’t know what they’re doing, or some AI made up that article…
- Comment on Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation 1 month ago:
SUCH a great movie
- Comment on Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation 1 month ago:
Wait 'til they come out (if ever), figure out the tech, make/buy a detector, pull your club out ur backpack …
- Comment on Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation 1 month ago:
Anybody can ‘launch’ a ‘startup’. Alway-on recording has been around since the 60s. ‘Smart’ glasses? Har. Guess they never heard of ‘glassholes’.
- Comment on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel, as Trump expands control over private sector 1 month ago:
Wow. Throw 16M people off health care, then invest the savings in corporations. HEy, Intel, how do you like your blood money?
- 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Findsthedailyadda.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.world | 227 comments
- Comment on Study Finds That School-Based Online Surveillance Companies Monitor Students 24/7 1 month ago:
Wow, where do I start with this?
Those aren’t ‘services’, those are personal privacy intrusions. For PROFIT. There is no way this could happen without the school’s cooperation. They ought not only to know it, but also know exactly what data is gathered, every place it is sent to, what privacy protections are in place, and what is done with it once it’s “evaluated”,
“student communications monitoring” 24-7 and/or outside of school is SPYING. There is NO legal OR educational OR ethical mandate for this collecting.
If the kids don’t know about unknown adults prying into their personal lives, AND KEEPING RECORDS ABOUT IT, that’s not necessarily their fault. If the parents don’t know about it, that’s the school’s fault for not getting their knowing permission.
If I was the parent of one of those students and wasn’t told about it, I’d sue that school into a coma.
- Comment on Techrights — Internet Relay Chat and Gemini Protocol Help Us Relive the Net of the Dial-Up Era 1 month ago:
It was already starting to predict what Web 2.0 would become!