explodicle
@explodicle@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Fossils 14 hours ago:
Oh man imagine how talkative birds are at sunrise, except it’s thunderous dinosaur roars.
- Comment on Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI 1 day ago:
I didn’t even realize it could do that! I’m going to use this on emails from HR to translate them to simple English sentences.
“No raises this year because greed”
“We want you to work Saturdays now”
- Comment on Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI 1 day ago:
Thus solving climate change forever!
- Comment on Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI 1 day ago:
Inequality since Nixon because of the Cantillon effect
- Comment on Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI 1 day ago:
The only short term solution is the sort of legislation DeSantis is fighting against. AI is useful, but should only continue while paying the full cost of its energy consumption.
- Comment on Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI 1 day ago:
The Jevons paradox would like a word
- Comment on Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower 2 days ago:
Middlebrow dismissal. These are designed for electric blowers.
- Comment on Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower 2 days ago:
(10 hours of work later)
“Ok how much money will this save me for the risk of your plastic thing melting all over my blower.”
- Comment on Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower 2 days ago:
That’s way too expensive. I just use my fingers.
- Comment on xkcd #2932: Driving PSA 5 days ago:
And it gets them to stop doing it. There’s no “oh don’t worry I’m good” that they listen to.
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 6 days ago:
This game doesn’t ruin your entire day by playing it for even a second.
- Comment on Dell warns of data breach, 49 million customers allegedly affected 1 week ago:
The cost of that insurance doesn’t just disappear - today it’s paid by ordinary folks left holding the bill. A company that can’t afford to pay for its expected damages is doing more harm than help to the economy.
This isn’t just an answer to leaked databases. Companies can deliver profits when things go well, and then disappear after they ruin thousands of people’s lives.
- Comment on Dell warns of data breach, 49 million customers allegedly affected 1 week ago:
Isn’t that the whole point of insurance? They assess the risk of that liability and average it out over time so you just pay a little bit of your return.
- Comment on Dell warns of data breach, 49 million customers allegedly affected 1 week ago:
Why do you think it would kill investment despite liability insurance?
- Comment on Dell warns of data breach, 49 million customers allegedly affected 1 week ago:
If the data is breached, won’t we find out anyways once they start selling it?
- Comment on Dell warns of data breach, 49 million customers allegedly affected 1 week ago:
Why stop there? Abolish the corporate veil. Those motherfuckers can buy liability insurance.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 week ago:
No, you can already legally download copyrighted data and use it for training.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 week ago:
Better yet, copyright should be abolished completely.
- Comment on AI Computing on Pace to Consume More Energy Than India, Arm Says 1 week ago:
This focus on individual applications shifts blame onto consumers, when we should be demanding that energy prices include the external cost of production. It’s like guilt tripping over the “carbon footprint” (invented by big oil) of your car.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ or else you basically support Xbox
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
Keep in mind this is purchasing a Sony product after they already showed us who they were with the first rootkit scandal.
- Comment on sweet dreams 2 weeks ago:
I think the top is the small one because you zoom in really far on small things in rectangles. And the bottom is the universe because it’s a distorted view of a sphere, like our full view around us.
- Comment on we love those power laws 2 weeks ago:
You’re not alone, you’re together through time with so many others past in future. None of us are going to put up with repeatedly subpar copper ever again.
- Comment on we love those power laws 2 weeks ago:
3D video was a fad in the 1950’s
- Comment on we love those power laws 2 weeks ago:
They’ll say the same thing about us. We could start building a utopia right now.
- Comment on We can dream right 2 weeks ago:
Folly Studios
- Comment on Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants 2 weeks ago:
But I loved the Richard Pryor version!
- Comment on Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants 2 weeks ago:
Let’s liquidate Tesla and expand the rail network instead!
- Comment on Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants 2 weeks ago:
This means they’ll gradually lose de facto control over the charging standards to other car companies, though.
- Comment on We can do all three things at once 2 weeks ago:
You’d think they of all people would appreciate that.