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- Comment on Saudi Arabia's Dystopian Futuristic City Project Is Crashing and Burning 6 days ago:
The Kingdom’s other strategy—which, so far, seems to be much more successful than its urban development efforts—has been to make itself indispensable to the AI frenzy currently sweeping the globe.
When I started reading this article, I didn’t expect to be presented with yet another solid reason to want the entire field of AI to crash and burn.
- Comment on Worthy mod to pick up 6 days ago:
“…Talk about a television series with amazing longevity.”
- Comment on Hair rule 1 week ago:
He is, as always, correct.
- Comment on So much... 1 week ago:
Fair.
- Comment on So much... 1 week ago:
Oh no. You can get close to any star of your choosing with only minuscule amounts of reaction mass if you start out in vacuum away from significant gravity wells - eventually. Granted, the star in question may or may not have gone supernova or collapsed into a black hole by the time you arrive, but I doubt that’ll make a lot of difference to the person doing it at that point.
With that said, I’m not about to discourage anybody from taking an interest in fusion of the up-close-and-personal-kind. And if people aren’t into the math of Magnetohydrodynamics? Well, first off, sucks to be them, but second: Then donate to the cause to pay those who are. Fusion is fucking awesome, and we desperately need it.
- Comment on So much... 1 week ago:
That or the right job application and a lot of propellant and oxidizer - but seriously, don’t do that. It didn’t end well for Icarus. Gravitationally-driven open-core fusion reactors are best admired from a safe minimum distance.
- Comment on Hair rule 1 week ago:
“It’s always nice to get a customer who can appreciate the finer points of palaeoenvironmental conditions. I swear, some days I have clients without even the most basic epistemological awareness. Then again, I suppose someone needs to watch all that so-called reality TV they’re producing. Let’s get you all fixed up, hun.”
- Comment on Don't have a cow 1 week ago:
“…And therefore I feel that it’s incumbent on me to assault you while you’re just trying to use the toilet in peace.”
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yes, it’s a pity the last term is occluded. We might have solved cat-faces for ever if not for that blunder.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’m going to have to remember that one.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Damn. It’s like watching meme’d videos with humorously wrong subtitles when you actually speak the language used in the clip. I just can’t ignore what’s actually on the blackboard.
- Comment on At this SF grocery store, you can't leave unless you buy something 1 week ago:
Well, I mean, even if the thing has access to a shared PoS DB using properly randomized, sufficiently long and non-sequential transaction tokens, it’s still deliciously susceptible to simple malicious compliance: Find the cheapest single item carried by the store, fill up an entire basket with them sumbitches, line up each item separated by a divider and insist on a receipt for each separate transaction to “prepare for any future need to check if the store carries anything i actually want while maintaining strict compliance with store policies”. Then, head outside and start distributing whatever it is for free to other prospective customers and use that to strike up a conversation about the recent changes. You never know. People might get ideas.
- Comment on At this SF grocery store, you can't leave unless you buy something 1 week ago:
And you repay the establishment for the inconvenience of your unlawful imprisonment by advertising their special services to all the other visiting patrons. That seems fair.
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 1 week ago:
“We also plan on patenting atmospheric air and granting reasonably priced usage licenses for limited daily volumes to every man, woman and child on the planet. It’ll be great!”
- Comment on At this SF grocery store, you can't leave unless you buy something 1 week ago:
“You didn’t have what I wanted at a price-point I found acceptable, but that’s all right - I came prepared with full camping gear and my own sleeping bag. Don’t worry about it - you’ll hardly notice me sticking around, possibly for ever.”
- Comment on Commodore Industries Is Trying To Prevent The Revived Commodore International From Using The Iconic Name 1 week ago:
Not worth a fight. Just call the damn thing C64, with the ‘C’ standing for ‘Computer’, naturally. We all know what it is.
- Comment on Ukrainians to honour sporting dead by building country they 'died for': minister 1 week ago:
I can’t think of any better way to do it.
- Comment on US states demand Meta reject EU sustainability directives 1 week ago:
“Elites” and “bureaucrats” - named let alone unnamed - do not dictate law or its prosecution in the EU.
- Comment on What does Oracle actually do? | Good Work [11:47] 1 week ago:
Much like Vampires, no sane person should ever invite Oracle into their home: Both are bloodsucking parasitical leeches, and you’ll never be rid of the affliction.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says the company doesn't have enough electricity to install all the AI GPUs in its inventory - 'you may actually have a bunch of chips sitting in inventory that I can’t plug in' 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, okay. If we could pull the reins on this collective AI idiocy a little, that’d be greeeat.
- Comment on Check your candy 2 weeks ago:
“Shit! We have to get rid of the evidence!”
“Yes, but where do we dump it? It’s already literally in the environment!”
“We’ll just have to eat it. No wait! Better idea: Make other people eat it!”
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 2 weeks ago:
Very interesting, although I’m going to withhold judgment pending some serious peer review.
- Comment on Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do? 2 weeks ago:
Dude, people can’t handle the complexity of simply driving the vehicle as it is. Bad things happen when adding handling dynamic communications into the mix with people who aren’t trained to the level of combat pilots. That’s why we don’t let people juggle a cell phone while driving.
- Comment on Google confirms AI search will have ads, but they may look different 2 weeks ago:
I should hope not, no. Unfortunately, corporations seems to care increasingly little about legalities as of late.
- Comment on US | SNAP benefits cut off during shutdown, driving long lines at food pantries 2 weeks ago:
Oh look, Soviet bread lines in the “greatest country on Earth”. Sehr wunderbar.
Really showing the rest of us how a country is supposed to be run.
- Comment on Google confirms AI search will have ads, but they may look different 2 weeks ago:
“Why, you’ll hardly notice they’re there… Or that they’re ads, for that matter.”
- Comment on President suggests being anti-Trump is ‘probably illegal’ in rant about Seth Meyers 2 weeks ago:
It’s called being a patriot, Donald. But I’m not surprised you wouldn’t recognize the phenomena.
- Comment on Male Fantasies (by Nhim) 2 weeks ago:
…Keep looking. I don’t see “analyze the phase delay of all my 16 pole-mixing LTI filter variations and use regression fitting to compute frequency compensation coefficients for accurate pitch waveguide audio synthesis” on the list yet.
- Comment on I added a filament sensor today. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I came here with the same question: What meaningful action can be taken in response to running out?
- Comment on I need to choose? 3 weeks ago:
Just buy one of each, mix 50/50 and stir well.