BussyCat
@BussyCat@lemmy.world
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 23 hours ago:
Which is why it doesn’t search within an instant and it uses a bunch of energy and needs to rely on evaporative cooling to stop overheating the servers
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 1 day ago:
Computers for all intents are purposes have perfect recall so since it was trained on a large data set it would have much better intelligence. But in reality what we consider intelligence is extrapolating from existing knowledge which is what “AI” has shown to be pretty shit at
- Comment on New fuel cell could enable electric aviation 1 week ago:
The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is not actually very high in terms of actual percentage it represents less than half a percent so the reaction would not neutralize all the sodium hydroxide. Also trace amounts of sodium hydroxide is a bit of an overstatement if we have jetliners using 100MW while flying
- Comment on When you see danger coming 3 weeks ago:
And how do you keep the wood from being exposed to moisture without petroleum derivatives? Like technically it is possible but to build enough homes to that standard for even 1/1000 of the population is unreasonable
- Comment on When you see danger coming 3 weeks ago:
We also cover wood in hydrocarbons to stop it from being broken down, if a bacteria can break down long hydrocarbon chains we are kind of fucked
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 4 weeks ago:
It’s a chance for you to explain what you were doing. If you spent that time taking time off between jobs because a job fell through, you got laid off, you quit spontaneously, etc those are all very rational things that an employer may want to know.
It’s up there with innocent questions like “where did you work before here”, and “do you have reliable transportation “
- Comment on The new AMERICAN pope doesn't even speak AMERICAN 4 weeks ago:
He’s in charge of the Catholic Church why is it a surprise that he follows the status quo of the Catholic Church?
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 4 weeks ago:
You can say something like “I was attending to personal matters” that still gives no information but doesn’t come off as rude to what could be an innocent question
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 5 weeks ago:
And that’s how you don’t get a call back
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 5 weeks ago:
That’s the inside their head conversation the actual words would be a boiler plate rejection letter
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 5 weeks ago:
It depends on the context if you say you had an NDA and can’t elaborate at all on the details that’s a clear red flag as most NDAs you can at least give the context of what it is about I.e. specific job processes, witnesses an event, etc.
If you say you worked for X company but can’t talk about the details of your work because of an NDA then that’s fine but they might call your old employer to verify you did really work there.
- Comment on Vitamin technology has advanced so much over the years 5 weeks ago:
Vitamins are barely regulated and don’t have to pass the standard of “generally recognized as safe and effective”. Because of that we don’t even have a ton of data on the effectiveness of multivitamins, but one of the things that we do know is most of the vitamins are just pissed out because they need cofactors to be properly absorbed. If you truly can’t get nutrients from a healthy diet then they are better than nothing but healthy diet is still the number one priority.
Doctors sometimes recommend them because “they can’t hurt” but that doesn’t mean they are actually helpful
- Comment on Liquid Trees 5 weeks ago:
You are absolutely correct and that was a stupid on my part
- Comment on Liquid Trees 5 weeks ago:
How much CO2 does the tree on your desk take in? Do you think it approaches 1/1000 of the amount that a bunch of algae can take in? So maybe it’s not the same and comparing it as being the same is done in bad faith. Trees are great and in many cases are superior as they also provide shade, but you can’t ignore the negatives of them(mostly related to their roots) and that they don’t work in every situation
- Comment on Liquid Trees 5 weeks ago:
The majority of our oxygen comes from algae, they aren’t reinventing existing solutions they just put a tank of them in a city and blow air into it so that a city can use the same more efficient fauna that is available in coastal cities
- Comment on Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices. 1 month ago:
Why are you so mad? You are making a bunch of disjointed statements and I’m literally just tying to get you to connect the dots. If people are misinterpreting you have you considered you are not being clear?
- Comment on Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices. 1 month ago:
And that makes logical sense to me that’s why I was surprised by the other commenter
- Comment on Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US? 1 month ago:
That’s factually not true; what happens to a company with no competition but also no customers and no suppliers? There is a reason why the most successful companies aren’t isolated from the world
- Comment on Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices. 1 month ago:
But especially reusing things should be a priority if you are broke right? Like that’s a way of saving money
- Comment on Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US? 1 month ago:
The problem is if you hit everyone with a stick sometimes they just leave and you are left just playing with your carrot by yourself
- Comment on Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices. 1 month ago:
So you listed a bunch of things that make sense for illegal things you might have to do in order to acquire food but just because you are poor why can’t you recycle?
- Comment on 1994 white Kevin 1 month ago:
It’s also run by people vetted by the school who are also employees so they generally have other responsibilities and then the service doesn’t generate a profit. Which is a long way of saying it’s not even remotely close to being the same
- Comment on 1994 white Kevin 1 month ago:
Speaking as a person who does not fit the demographic for this service, the big problem I see with it is how you trust that the walking buddy is actually going to be safer than nothing. Uber drivers are somewhat regularly in the news for assaulting women and I know several women that don’t like riding them alone
- Comment on 1 month ago:
You take one hand and count with the thumb as 1 and the pinky as 5 and the middle number is 3. If you switch and start with the pinky as 1 and the thumb as 5 the middle finger is still the middle number. Talking about the gaps can be useful but anatomically we name things for what’s there and what’s not there and we talk about fingers much more than we talk about the gaps
- Comment on How come id Software / Bethesda have never sued Bungie / Microsoft over the similarity between Doomguy and Master Chief? 1 month ago:
Halo reach came out way later, and doesn’t look half as good as master chief but that’s not due to the coloring and instead the worse looking armour
- Comment on Five-minute EV charging: CATL says "Hold my electrons and watch this" 1 month ago:
For low travel areas slower charging and batteries make a lot more sense as the investment in ultra fast charging is not viable and I don’t see that changing
I think regulatory inertia Is always going to be a problem but if we are regularly adding charging stations it will get faster as power companies have an incentive to build them and you get staff trained up on them
Gas stations can still have single point failures for example if their underground tank gets contaminated or damaged and they don’t have a back up and electric doesn’t need to have single point failures you can run them in parallel with breakers able to isolate portions of the system and have redundant transformers
EV works best if most people charge at home/work and people only charge in public if they don’t have the ability to do it at home or they are on a long drive. So you don’t need to meet the same cars per hour as gas stations.
I don’t see a world where fast charging is as cheap as slower charging just due to increased losses and more expensive equipment so I believe having 10 500kw chargers would be a better investment than 6 1MW chargers even though technically the MW chargers have a larger throughput they are more expensive to produce/run and have more issues if for example 8 people arrive at once
- Comment on Five-minute EV charging: CATL says "Hold my electrons and watch this" 1 month ago:
Electricity is not my forte so correct me if I’m wrong but if you had a long gap in cars using the charger a capacitor would quickly become saturated. Which means you would need more wattage going to the capacitor at all times. Whereas with a battery if you have a car on a 5 minute charger with 5 minutes in between you could pretty easily run 500kW constantly to the battery and then as the battery dropped in level you could slowly ramp up the power draw
- Comment on Five-minute EV charging: CATL says "Hold my electrons and watch this" 1 month ago:
It doesn’t need to be, high voltage transmission lines can run 1000s of MW then you can use a transformer to step the voltage to what you need and then use a rectifier bridge to convert to DC.
The problem I see is the effect of trying to turn on and off 1MW power from a grid could cause problems so the battery could work a bit as an expansion tank to smooth out grid power, so that you always charge it at 100KW and if you need to increase supply you can slowly increase your power draw without shocking the grid.
At the end of the day I personally think 1MW charging is overkill and a 10 minute charge time is a perfectly reasonable goal
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 1 month ago:
It is hard to get a light EV when the batteries themselves are around 1/10 the energy density of gasoline and people want them to have a longer range than a gas car to make up for charging so you end up with a battery that’s 500-1000lbs. To put that into perspective a Miata weighs around 2000lbs
- Comment on British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies 1 month ago:
If you block the radio waves then isn’t that accomplishing the same thing as overloading it with radio waves?