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Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.

Spent many years on Reddit before joining the Threadiverse as well.

  • Proposed Alberta separation referendum question approved | Globalnews.ca

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  • I think that guy you know might also be one of the folks who doesn't do the work to figure stuff out, unfortunately - we don't "vote for Premier", we vote for a local representative and the party that gets the most representatives installs their party leader as Premier. Just like how it's done with the Prime Minister.

    Even if we did, his plan has taken a bit of a hit in the past year. A lot of Albertans have soured greatly on Gretzky given his chumminess with Trump, his statues have been repeatedly vandalized recently. "Maple MAGA" is actually not as popular here as seems to be commonly believed.

  • Most chatbot servers don't have video outputs

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  • Ethereum's got a market cap of $350 billion and it's where all the new development is going on, according to the Electric Capital Developer it has by far the most developers working on and with it. Approximately 65% of all new code written in the entire crypto industry is written for Ethereum or its Layer 2 scaling solutions (like Arbitrum, Optimism, and Base).

    It's spelled "Dogecoin," by the way.

  • Most chatbot servers don't have video outputs

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  • I said no major cryptocurrency. Monero's got a market cap of $8 billion, it's small fry.

  • Open source, open doors: How Chinese AI is quietly gaining ground in the US despite bitter rivalry

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  • I mean, it's pretty obvious. They release good open-weight models. Western companies did that a little at first, but they've basically stopped doing that any more. It's really easy to win a competition when one of the competitors isn't actually competing.

  • Most chatbot servers don't have video outputs

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  • No major cryptocurrency has used GPUs for mining for many years. Bitcoin uses completely custom ASICs and Ethereum switched away from proof of work entirely.

  • Proposed Alberta separation referendum question approved | Globalnews.ca

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  • You can get a quarter of the population to vote for basically anything.

  • How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again?

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  • It's important to say the "20" prefix so that viewers will know that we're set in "the future."

  • You cannot annex other countries, Danish and Greenlandic leaders tell Trump

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  • How come hypothetically if I make meth in my home. Knowing full well it could explode and take out my neighbors houses, why am I not charged with attempted murder?

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  • I don't know how you're measuring efficiency, but a heat pump with greater than 100% efficiency lets you build a perpetual motion machine. That's not possible.

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  • If the art doesn't look good by whatever standards you have, then it doesn't look good. Whether it's not-good AI-generated or not-good human-generated doesn't matter.

    Just look at the picture, and if you like it then like it. This moral panic about Abominable Intelligence's supposedly soulless touch is pointless.

  • How come hypothetically if I make meth in my home. Knowing full well it could explode and take out my neighbors houses, why am I not charged with attempted murder?

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  • There are some cities that do things a third way; they have a centralized facility that burns the gas (or other fuels) to generate electricity, and then also pipe the heat out to the city in the form of heated water or steam running through insulated underground pipes. Buildings tap into those pipes and run it through radiators. That has the potential to be even more efficient because you're using what would otherwise be "waste" heat, but it depends on a relatively compact city to avoid losing too much heat while sending it through the pipes. I understand this is not uncommon in Eastern European and Russian cities. I'm not familiar with the details, though, so if you want to know more about this I'd recommend Googling around a bit.

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  • I don't self-inflict it on myself, because when I see a piece of art that looks really neat I go "ooh, that looks really neat" rather than "wait, I need to dig around to find out whether I'm supposed to like this or not."

    People have to actively choose to make themselves miserable in the way this comic depicts. That's what I mean when I say it's self-inflicted.

  • How come hypothetically if I make meth in my home. Knowing full well it could explode and take out my neighbors houses, why am I not charged with attempted murder?

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  • Oh, probably because it's cheaper and more efficient.

    If you wanted to use the gas in a gas power plant to produce electricity to run an electric heater, there's a bunch of steps where energy gets lost. The turbine and generator isn't 100% efficient and the transformers and transmission wires lose energy along the way to your house. Whereas burning something directly for heat is nearly 100% efficient, the only waste is whatever heat gets carried away by the exhaust. Which isn't much with a modern high-efficiency furnace. I've got one of those and every once in a while I knock icicles off of the exhaust vent outside when I pass it. They use countercurrent exchange to keep all the heat inside the house.

  • How come hypothetically if I make meth in my home. Knowing full well it could explode and take out my neighbors houses, why am I not charged with attempted murder?

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  • Yet, exceedingly rare to see fires from this

    You just answered your own question. The techniques for running gas lines into houses and hooking them up to furnaces are very refined at this point, it can be done safely.

  • The city of Lyman is now covered with thousands of kilometers of fiber optic cable from FPV drones.

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  • A little plastic fiber isn't toxic waste. You are applying absolutely ridiculous standards.

  • The city of Lyman is now covered with thousands of kilometers of fiber optic cable from FPV drones.

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  • So if I shredded pounds of plastic and a little fiber glass and sprinkle it from the air on your house it doesn't matter because straws?

    Are you forgetting that this is an active war zone? The whole reason those fibers are there is because flying bombs are using them for guidance. Having to sweep up some sparkly fiber is a trivial distraction from far more important issues.

    Exactly as I keep pointing out.

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  • It's self-inflicted.

  • The city of Lyman is now covered with thousands of kilometers of fiber optic cable from FPV drones.

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  • You just seamlessly switched from plastic straws specifically to all microplastics from all sources. This is exactly the sort of thing I'm talking about. How much do plastic straws contribute to microplastics? It's utterly negligible. But it's something that a public panic can be whipped up over, and people end up thinking they're actually accomplishing something meaningful by switching to paper straws. It's outright counterproductive. If I was a Captain Planet villain then I would consider it my greatest accomplishment to get people worked up about plastic straws and thinking that they were significant.

    Same here with these fibre optics. The environmental impact is trivial, be it plastic or glass. The cost of worrying about it is far greater than the cost of just going ahead and using it.

  • Primary time scale failure at NIST Boulder campus; significant impact on NTP services

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  • I love how sci-fi this sounds. Just need mention of verteron particles thrown in there somewhere.