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- Comment on xkcd #3143: Question Mark 3 days ago:
Anyone else reminded of Victor Borge?
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 2 weeks ago:
Some of these devices have even been known to look for other similar devices within WiFi range, and phone home that way (i.e., send analytics data via a neighbor’s connected TV as a proxy).
Ummm, wut? I’m going to need some quality sources to back this claim up.
- Comment on Value Age verification 2 weeks ago:
ValueValve - Comment on Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater 3 weeks ago:
That makes a lot more sense than sea water and fresh water.
- Comment on Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater 3 weeks ago:
Friggin hell. Thanks.
- Comment on Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater 3 weeks ago:
I think the article author is completely confused and doesn’t understand what’s happening. Their are hints of what’s happening in this paragraph.
Fresh water—or treated wastewater—is placed on one side of a membrane. On the other side is seawater, made even saltier by concentrating leftover brine from a desalination process. The difference in saltiness pulls the fresh water across the membrane, increasing the pressure on the saltwater side. That pressure is then used to drive a turbine, generating electricity.
I don’t think any fresh water is being used. I think what’s actually happening is…
Very salty wastewater (from the desalinization plant) is placed on one side of a membrane. On the other side is seawater. The difference in saltiness pulls the wastewater across the membrane, increasing the pressure on the saltwater side. That pressure is then used to drive a turbine, generating electricity. The waste then is just water that’s saltier than sea water, but less salty than what came from the desalinization plant.
- Comment on Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater 3 weeks ago:
So, then why are you confused about what’s using power at night?
- Comment on Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater 3 weeks ago:
Do you go to bed at sunset?
Do you turn off your heat at sunset in the winter? Maybe you do, but most people don’t.Also, most people with an electric car and a garage to park it can just use a cheap Level 1 charger to trickle charge it whenever it’s in the garage and always have plenty of range for their commute and errands. This means all of those cars are charging. … at night while the owner sleeps.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to 3dprinting@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Personalized pricing can backfire on companies, says study 5 weeks ago:
I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve walked away from some online product or service that I was interested in but refused to publicly disclose a prices beyond, “FrEe TrIaL!”
Nah thanks. If you’re playing mind games like that right off the bat, that tells me everything I need to know about the experience of using the product.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 5 weeks ago:
3.1
- Comment on AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified 1 month ago:
threatens to “financially ruin” the entire AI industry
No. Just the LLM industry and AI slop image and video generation industries. All of the legitimate uses of AI (drug discovery, finding solar panel improvements, self driving vehicles, etc) are all completely immune from this lawsuit, because they’re not dependent on stealing other people’s work.
- Comment on Making the most of a totally dead cabinet corner? 1 month ago:
What’s on the other side of that wall? Maybe that room could use some extra (secret/hidden?) storage.
- Comment on UK Government responded to the "Repeal the Online Safety Act" Petition. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app 1 month ago:
JTC, as if this guy wasn’t already the poster child for cringe.
- Comment on Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app 1 month ago:
Some guys are lying assholes and horrible people, but so are some women.
and some guys anonymously posing as women online to undermine the competition.
- Comment on YSK that "AI" in itself is highly unspecific term 2 months ago:
What they’re not designed to do is give factual answers
or mental health therapy
- Comment on YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds 2 months ago:
for reviewing gaming handhelds.
No. That’s not why. Click-bait headline.
- Comment on I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good 2 months ago:
It depends on what info you’re trying to find.
I was recently trying to figure out the name of a particular uncommon type of pipe fitting. I could describe what it looked like, but had no idea what it was called. I described it to chatgpt, which gave me a name, which I could then search for with a normal search engine to confirm that the name was correct. Sure enough, search results took me to plumbing supply companies selling it, with pictures that matched what I described.
But, asking it when a particular feature got added to a piece of software? There’s no additional information one would get from the answer to help them confirm that the answer is correct.
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 25 comments
- Comment on Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon 2 months ago:
That’s absolutely not the point. I was criticizing the journalism, not technology. 🙄
- Comment on Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon 2 months ago:
without human help
…
responded to and learned from voice commands from the team
🤨🤔
- Comment on Sleeping beauty bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2 billion 2 months ago:
I was going to calculate how much electricity this would consume and how expensive it would be, but the answer to that is plainly “too much to imagine”.
Purely hypothetically speaking, but, what if someone had their own private Dyson Sphere generating electricity? (Asking for a friend.)
- Comment on On July 7, Gemini AI will access your WhatsApp and more. Learn how to disable it on Android. 2 months ago:
Open settings, and search for"Gemini" from the search bar. That’s the only way I was able to get to anything Gemini related. I turned off it’s access to everything from there, then the last setting was to switch back to assistant which appears to have turned Gemini off, but who knows (hence disabling it’s access to everything anyway).
- Comment on On July 7, Gemini AI will access your WhatsApp and more. Learn how to disable it on Android. 2 months ago:
These instructions are awful. There’s no Gemini listed in my apps, and Settings > Apps doesn’t show it either. But if I search for “Gemini” in settings, THEN it shows up, but doesn’t have access to anything the article says to do.
However, from that screen, I was able to apparently turn off its access to everything, and switch back to assistant, which appears to have turned it off completely, but who knows if it’s still lurking in the background.
- Comment on 32, f. Are there any dating sites that are actually free and don't suddenly force me to pay to actually use the site? 2 months ago:
I hate to be a downer, but…
Building, running and maintaining a website isn’t free. Building, running and maintaining a popular website is fucking expensive. Somebody’s got to pay those bills.
As the saying goes, if it’s free, you’re not the customer, you’re the product. Corollary, if it’s not free, you still might be the product.
Furthermore, these days I would assume that 99.9% of profiles on a “free” dating site are scammers, or bots, or scammer bots, many of which are probably run by the people running the website.
And to double down on the downerism, subscription based dating sites/apps are financially motivated to keep you paying for as long as possible. They are not motivated to help you find a match, cancel your subscription, and live happily ever after.
In an attempt to not be a total downer jerk, my suggestion would be to find local meetup groups that interest you (even if just barely) and start going to those consistently.
That’s how I met my spouse almost 14 years ago. We were both on the dating apps but not finding each other. Eventually we met through a meetup group that I ran, and after months of casually chatting occasionally at group meetings, sparks spontaneously started flying. 🤷
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The post title is not the same as the article title and doesn’t even make sense. That first comma changes the entire meaning of the sentence to nonsense. Then yanking out whole phrases just makes it worse.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Ok, nevermind. I guess we’ll just do nothing. 🙄
- Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not 2 months ago:
The judge making this determination is an idiot.
The judge hasn’t ruled on the piracy question yet. The only thing that the judge has ruled on is, if you legally own a copy of a book, then you can use it for a variety of purposes, including training an AI.
“But they didn’t own the books!”
Right. That’s the part that’s still going to trial.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Drops Off Passengers in Middle of Intersection… Handpicked Riders Say the “Performance Was Great” 2 months ago:
How long before weird or dangerous incidents start to happen?
Well…
one gaggle of Tesla influencers was dropped off directly in an intersection