BussyCat
@BussyCat@lemmy.world
- Comment on AI data centers may soon be powered by retired US Navy nuclear reactors from aircraft carriers and submarines 6 days ago:
The DOE doing it is already financially accounted for and there is a professional staff that are trained on how to do it
- Comment on AI data centers may soon be powered by retired US Navy nuclear reactors from aircraft carriers and submarines 6 days ago:
Weapons grade uranium is so expensive and energy intensive to make that I can’t imagine they would ever pay for it and the fuel is at end of life so would need refueling soon.
The navy likely puts a safety margin on the fuel so there is probably some life left in the fuel but I would be very surprised if it lasted more than a year or two which is where I am confused on how this would work
- Comment on I promise, no one can tell that you're high at work, trust me 1 week ago:
Well your pupils dilate like crazy which is pretty obvious
- Comment on I cannot imagine what lawsuit led to this 1 week ago:
The last line mentions not using it as a step so maybe someone was stepping on it and after a while it broke down and they fell and sued
- Comment on Someone has a LOT of dusty computers 1 week ago:
If Steve O didn’t end up in a wheelchair from his nitrous use, then I think that might be a hyperbole…
- Comment on Someone has a LOT of dusty computers 1 week ago:
How would they start considering how expensive it is and with the additive?
Like nitrous canisters are decently cheap
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers 2 weeks ago:
I wrote a school report about iter back in middle school or high school when it was still in the design process and still occasionally check their job listings because I would love to work there and on fusion but we still don’t know if it will ever work like we hit the scientific breakeven with inertial confinement but the scaling on that is terrible and I don’t believe we hit even the scientific breakeven with magnetic confinement
Then we still need to harness the energy from that turn it into work, turn that into electricity and distribute it with enough excess to pay for the whole system which is still a lot of hurdles we need to climb
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers 2 weeks ago:
I heard it in the same vane that I heard that we would have a moon base by 2020 a mars base by 2025 and nuclear fusion in just 10 more years
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday 3 weeks ago:
That is just such a strange law
I tried googling it because I was curious and the only thing I could find was about temporary structures
Is there a name for the law that I could search?
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday 3 weeks ago:
So woodland that can’t have a permanent dwelling is affordable but woodland that can is cheap?
Like that would make sense if the construction of the building was different but if it’s simply just how often you can spend time on your own land that’s ridiculous
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday 3 weeks ago:
Not from the UK but why can’t you live in a cabin?
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday 3 weeks ago:
A car weighs 2000-4000lbs and can be produced in a mostly automated factory
A reasonable sized house still weighs 50-100k lbs that’s a lot more material and you have the land it is built on. It then takes multiple people days to build.
Houses being as affordable as cars is a pipe dream
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday 3 weeks ago:
The time scale is the other big difference. A credit card is intended to be paid off at the end of the month and gives you much better fraud protection than a debit card
Products like klarna instead have you pay off a tv over months and offer you no real benefit besides racking up debt
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday 3 weeks ago:
They have late fees and can have incredibly high interest if you pay late.
1 in 10 for $30 includes every single man, woman, and child in the United States. In reality there is a much smaller group spending much more money and developing a revolving door of debt where they are chronically in debt for non essential purchases and as soon as one of those payments goes late they will be slapped with a bunch of late fees and interest that will make them miss other payments and get even more late fees and interest until they end up underwater
Klarna got 2.8B in revenue last year and they did it with those “interest free” loans
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 4 weeks ago:
Ah I thought you were the person with 200 tabs
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 4 weeks ago:
Isn’t there a vast improvement by having a clean set of tabs that you can read the names of compared to 100 little tabs that you have to click through?
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 4 weeks ago:
Why not just close them and open them back up later? Like you can bookmark the pages so you don’t lose your spot but I find it annoying to find the tab I am looking for at around 10 I would imagine it’s much worse at 200
- Comment on Had to look this up 5 weeks ago:
Racism towards clankers? Maybe I’m not up to date on my lingo but aren’t clankers, robots, I.e. not a race? Or am I missing something?
- Comment on Had to look this up 1 month ago:
You can make fun of stereotypes without being racist.
This is literally just a commentary on how JK Rowling wrote her other characters like Cho Chang and Kingsley shacklebolt.
No reasonable person is offended by the joke because it’s making fun of the stereotype not of the actual race.
- Comment on When "AI" content becomes indistinguishable from human-made content, is there, philosophically speaking, any meaningful differences between the two? 1 month ago:
It’s a question of ethics because why would I pay money for what I consider stolen property?
Courts ruling one way doesn’t make something ethical.
Personally I would never knowingly pay someone money to ask an AI that was trained on stolen data to generate a picture that they then print off. More so I would judge anyone that did pay more than the cost of printing it on a paper. It’s not art to ask a computer to use stolen art to make a prompt
- Comment on When "AI" content becomes indistinguishable from human-made content, is there, philosophically speaking, any meaningful differences between the two? 1 month ago:
Because it mean the product you are getting is just someone else’s stolen work. Courts have said lots of things are legal that are unethical. When you ask an AI to make art it just is stealing that from other people’s art
- Comment on When "AI" content becomes indistinguishable from human-made content, is there, philosophically speaking, any meaningful differences between the two? 1 month ago:
Does an AI exist that uses no copyrighted products for its training?
- Comment on Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants 1 month ago:
I could be mistaken but wasn’t the issue that when the rods were fully withdrawn the graphite was also partially withdrawn so when they scrammed the first thing that happened was an insertion of positive reactivity from the graphite which was enough positive reactivity to burn up all the xenon which then caused the reactor to go prompt critical?
Like the presence of the graphite wasn’t that bad but it combined with a lack of interlocks and improperly trained operators was the big problem and of course trying to start up at the peak of a xenon transient is never ideal
- Comment on DEI4All 1 month ago:
DEI is not about having quotas for X amount of every group even though people like to spout that nonsense. It’s about removing hurdles that people may have that may seem innocuous
For example if a job that is done fully remote is requiring people to interview in person a DEI analysis would look at that and say that’s not very inclusive of the disabled who may struggle to do the in person interview even though they can perform all the duties of their job with their disability so we should offer remote interviews
Like all other initiatives that start off fine, you also do just end up with some upper manager who tells some random middle manager with no experience to make things more DEI and that middle manager does some stupid shit
- Comment on Why Trump hijacked the .gov domain 1 month ago:
There is literally a law that prevented things like posting “this shutdown is caused by radical left democrats” on the banner of official governement websites
It has literally never been done before
You can make an argument for some amount of propaganda that lives in everything but nobody ever posted a picture of a bag of cocaine and used it to blame a previous president….
This is magnitudes above anything that was done before it’s like comparing casual trash talk to sucker punching
- Comment on Why Trump hijacked the .gov domain 1 month ago:
Using it to insert AI generated propaganda onto official government websites is a brand new thing that’s never been done before
- Comment on If "James Bond" is a codename, would a hypothetical female operative filling the same role receive the same codename? 1 month ago:
But James Bond is supposed to be a bland forgettable name since Jaymes is an uncommon name for a woman it would be much more rememberable
- Comment on Always question those who are the "teachers" 1 month ago:
If nfl is owning a business then high school ball is being a cashier.
Claiming that a high school business teacher is unqualified because they don’t own a business is like an nfl coach being unqualified because they can’t play at a pro level.
This is also laughable for high school where the teacher gets paid trash and needs to teach only the most basic level of info
- Comment on Always question those who are the "teachers" 1 month ago:
Playing at the college or high school level is not even remotely comparable to playing at the professional level it’s like comparing a manager to a ceo
A quick google search of the best coaches brings up
Bill belichick (never played pro) Vince Lombaradi (made it to semi pro but not pro) Don Shula (did actually play for 7 years) Bill Walsh (never played pro) Paul brown (never played pro)
So 1/5 played pro yet they are able to coach profesional athletes, it’s almost like it’s a different skill set
- Comment on Always question those who are the "teachers" 1 month ago:
And those amazing football coaches would get trounced if they tried to sub in to play
Especially at a high school level (since they don’t teach PE in college) their job is to teach you the fundamentals like knowing the difference between macroeconomics and microeconomics.