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- Comment on Trump orders blockade of 'sanctioned' Venezuela oil tankers 5 hours ago:
dons TFH
A spokesperson for US company Chevron, which still operates in Venezuela under a special sanctions waiver, said Tuesday that its operations “continue without disruption and in full compliance with laws and regulations applicable to its business.”
I gotta wonder what role Chevron is playing in all this.
- Comment on It's really ugly but it's a sign of a healthy environment for soil microbes. 1 week ago:
Learning from a shitpost feels weird.
- Comment on People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts 1 week ago:
[…] leave em to hang and they’re good as new the next day.
No, sir!
- Comment on People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts 1 week ago:
The genitals are one of the cleanest things on your body, by far…
I don’t know if I’d go that far. It’s not very open to the air (bacterial and fungal dream) and the anus is like right there. After a long sweaty day, shit migrates.
But I don’t get the fear when using a towel immediately after a shower.
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- Comment on US | Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business 1 week ago:
I don’t think I like this man.
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 2 weeks ago:
It’s just that all your shit and users are there, like issue tracking in this case.
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 2 weeks ago:
The original block post is rather frank and to the point. Wish the engineering leadership I worked with communicated this well.
- Comment on DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's reasons why 2 weeks ago:
I think when the economics of destroying a thing is better than reusing a thing, we should maybe have some sort of incentives toward reuse.
I get that the logistics of setting up what’s basically a secondary supply chain is difficult, but I’ve got to believe it would be for the better.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 2 weeks ago:
I’m curious if it would even be thermodynamically possible. If we could magically run a pipe that far, would the heat from the water radiate into space before it reached earth to do anything useful?
Someone get XKCD to do a video short on this.
- Comment on DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's reasons why 2 weeks ago:
That’s really disheartening. Not because of my want for cheap RAM, but for the sheer waste of it all.
- Comment on DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's reasons why 2 weeks ago:
For example, OpenAI’s new “Stargate” project reportedly signed deals with Samsung and SK Hynix for up to 900,000 wafers of DRAM per month to feed its AI clusters, which is an amount close to 40% of total global DRAM output if it’s ever met. That’s an absurd amount of DRAM.
Will these even be useful on the second hand market, or are these chips gonna be on specialized PCBs for these machines?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Is this really the kind of shit you think about in the shower?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Lots of neat uncomfortable questions arise though. At what point is it conscious? If it never experienced autonomy, life, locomotion, or social human interaction, is it torture or just its natural state of being?
- Comment on Americium: How a small element could power the next century of space exploration 4 weeks ago:
Not thermoelectrics, but sterling engines. But fair point about the heat.
- Comment on Americium: How a small element could power the next century of space exploration 4 weeks ago:
In the UK, large stocks of civil nuclear waste contain significant quantities of americium-241. That makes the fuel not only long-lasting but also readily accessible. Instead of building new reactors to produce plutonium, agencies can extract Americium from existing waste, a form of recycling at a planetary scale.
Using it seems way more preferable to just letting it sit in casks.
Traditional RTGs utilize thermoelectrics, which are reliable but inefficient, often achieving only five percent efficiency. Stirling engines can convert heat to electricity with an efficiency of 25 percent or more. […] Stirling engines introduce moving parts, which also raises reliability concerns in space. However, Americium’s steady heat output enables RTG designs with multiple Stirling converters operating in tandem. If one fails, the others compensate, preserving power output.
That seems a little ridiculous though. All that friction requires a lube that’ll last “generations.” In space, without gravity, and at incredibly low temperatures.
- Comment on Platform for Crowd Sourced Software Bounties? 4 weeks ago:
GitCoin exists and has been pretty successful in the past.
Though I suspect it’s not what you’re looking for. I don’t see bounties on their site anymore and their focus has been mostly in three crypto space.
- Comment on Russia’s first AI-powered humanoid robot AIDOL collapses during its onstage debut 4 weeks ago:
Yeah but like, if humans aren’t dying there’s no stakes. Eventually one robot army must chew through the other to get to the human soldiers or civilians. Then you just eventually just have a robot army massacring a populous with no internal morality.
- Comment on If we ever find a planet with life in it, we could never set foot on it, because the interaction of the two biologies can have unpredictable consequences 4 weeks ago:
Never said it was the best. But yeah, I did read the whole damned thing.
Only thing that stuck out for me was the weird furry and homoerotic dog piles, but it was still fun.
- Comment on If we ever find a planet with life in it, we could never set foot on it, because the interaction of the two biologies can have unpredictable consequences 4 weeks ago:
Reminds me of Deathworlders. Some woman got stuck on a planet and had to take a shit and the microorganisms in her shit wrecked the planet.
- Comment on Montana Becomes First State to Enshrine ‘Right to Compute’ Into Law - Montana Newsroom 5 weeks ago:
The bill text seems pretty reasonable. Basically just says the government needs a good reason to create regulations on computation.
It even explicitly mentions good reasons may include things like fraud, deepfakes, and public nuisances of datacenters.
As a Montanan, I’m cool with it. Guess we’ll see how it’s used.
- Comment on Countries agree to end mercury tooth fillings by 2034 5 weeks ago:
Doesn’t exactly seem like a problem that needs 10 years to complete.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 5 weeks ago:
I’d rather be a free and open society than win any kind of industrial race.
- Comment on same, honestly 5 weeks ago:
It’s a real article.
- Comment on FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site 5 weeks ago:
Maybe like a Great Firewall. Seems like a great idea.
- Comment on This future of piloted personal robots is perfect for lazy racists 5 weeks ago:
And they can’t steal or threaten you in any way! What a dream! /s
- Comment on Japan dispatches troops to help combat deadly bear attacks 5 weeks ago:
“The townspeople feel the danger every day,” Kazuno Mayor Shinji Sasamoto said after meeting 15 or so soldiers who rolled into town in an army truck and jeeps, equipped with body armour and a large map.
That map must’ve been huge to be notable.
- Comment on A sock is just a foot bag. 1 month ago:
- Comment on HYPER DEMON PVP brings a free 1v1 FPS like no other out now 1 month ago:
I can’t make sense of that trailer.
- Comment on This roof paint blocks 97% of sunlight and pulls water from the air 1 month ago:
I think this would only really be relevant in drier areas. Areas where you can just to catchment don’t need to worry about this.
Not entirely sure what you meant by this, but if you mean only dry areas benefit from this, I’m not sure. Most of the world is losing groundwater. Capturing any, especially in sub/urban areas might have a measurable impact.