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- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Is this really the kind of shit you think about in the shower?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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? 1 week 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 weeks ago:
I’d rather be a free and open society than win any kind of industrial race.
- Comment on same, honestly 2 weeks ago:
It’s a real article.
- Comment on FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site 3 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 3 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 3 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. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on HYPER DEMON PVP brings a free 1v1 FPS like no other out now 3 weeks ago:
I can’t make sense of that trailer.
- Comment on This roof paint blocks 97% of sunlight and pulls water from the air 3 weeks 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.
- Comment on OpenAI signs $38 billion compute deal with Amazon, partnering with cloud leader for first time 3 weeks ago:
At that level why not just build your own?
- Comment on Video games often have crouch and crawl for stealth but not the much more commonly used tiptoeing 3 weeks ago:
Tarkov sort of has it. You can slow down and walk quieter.
- Comment on OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly 4 weeks ago:
The company says that 0.15% of ChatGPT’s active users in a given week have “conversations that include explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent.” Given that ChatGPT has more than 800 million weekly active users, that translates to more than a million people a week.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 4 weeks ago:
Split screen yo
- Comment on Are We Living in a Golden Age of Stupidity? - Slashdot 5 weeks ago:
From the OG Guardian article:
“It’s only software developers and drug dealers who call people users,” Kosmyna mutters at one point, frustrated at AI companies’ determination to push their products on to the public before we fully understand the psychological and cognitive costs.
I disagree for a ton of reasons but what a great line.
- Comment on Why are some many people role playing as animals? 5 weeks ago:
Someone in ancient times carving a piece of art that’s a bear-man has virtually nothing to do with this:
Trying to link the two is disingenuous.
- Comment on Why are some many people role playing as animals? 5 weeks ago:
Linking anthropomorphized animals to furry culture is quite a stretch. Even old tribal cultures where they might wear animal skins/skulls for rituals doesn’t even really have much in common with what people are doing in fur suits today.
- Comment on Why do adults have such big noses? 5 weeks ago:
I was just wondering if my nose was getting larger.
- Comment on What are the demands of the No Kings protests? What's the plan if they win? 5 weeks ago:
I feel like fixing the current mess would require a pretty serious overhaul of the government but no one seems to be having that conversation.
Obviously the act of protest alone won’t do a thing. It’s a method for the people to express themselves and show those that may have power to make changes that they have popular support. A prosecutor, legislator, judge, or president going out on a lonely limb not knowing if they have support of the people is a risky position to be in.
Believe it or not, all governments (more or less) rule by consent of the people.
- Comment on make like a tree ii 5 weeks ago:
Looks like a sphincter to me.
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 1 month ago:
A truly open source (and functional) phone can’t come fast enough.
- Comment on International Shitpost Wednesday! 1 month ago:
Never seen it.
