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Rhaedas

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  • Free-Market Advocate, Elon Musk, Asks for U.S. Government to Put Tariffs on Chinese EV Imports

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  • I agree that's it's a "hate the game, not the player". The issue is how much influence he could have to steer the market to favor his product vs. the competition. It's happened so many times in history where the better product fails because they can't play the game like the inferior company.

    To quote "Pirates of Silicon Valley":

    Steve Jobs: We're better than you are! We have better stuff.

    Bill Gates: You don't get it, Steve. That doesn't matter!

    So is it fair for the consumer for big companies to be able to influence the game itself and not just play within the same rules? I'd say no.

  • OpenAI says Sky voice in ChatGPT will be paused after concerns it sounds too much like Scarlett Johansson

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  • Irony, since Scarlet had dubbed over the original voice actor Samantha Morton because in post Spike Jonze realized the voice needed something "different". So in the movie they needed to turn the dial up a bit, while in reality they started at 11 and had to dial it back.

  • Methane emissions from gas flaring being hidden from satellite monitors

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  • Hang on. I misplaced my surprised face...oh, here it is.

    Huh, who would have guessed?

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    Charlotte shooting: Four officers shot dead, four wounded, in North Carolina home siege

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  • I did comment that enforcement seemed to be part of the problem here, yes. Do the laws need to be more strict? I doubt that will fix any enforcement, since that's the failure.

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    Charlotte shooting: Four officers shot dead, four wounded, in North Carolina home siege

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  • Guns are regulated. How much regulation, who gets allowed, what types of guns, and if the regulations are being enforced, those are the real questions. This warrant and shooting is a result of a law that wasn't enforced well, as they had already broken the law once and yet someone sold/gave them guns again.

  • What happened to "You're welcome!" as a response to "Thank You"? It's not even included in the canned answers on an apple watch. Have we as a society abandoned it?

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  • Languages change over time. As long as the intent is clear, don't get hung up on what is and isn't "correct". "You're welcome" probably was seen as extreme at some point itself.

  • Biden's 13th-Quarter Approval Average Lowest Historically, Least Popular President in 70 Years

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  • The variety of actual polls on each President is very odd. Apples, oranges, and fish?

  • How is the hydrogen made?

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  • Solar panels (PV) degrade over time and use and have to be replaced and disposed of. A better case would be for things like solar furnaces that are simpler, but most of the time solar implies PV panels.

  • How is the hydrogen made?

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  • In the spirit of the comic - how is the solar panel made?

  • Trump holds 6-point lead over Biden in national matchup despite legal woes: Poll

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  • Polls are polls, but just the fact that there is still any conversation at this point says a lot about the state of the country.

  • AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt

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  • There are two dangers in the current race to get to AGI and in developing the inevitable ANI products along the way. One is that advancement and profit are the goals while the concern for AI safety and alignment in case of success has taken a back seat (if it's even considered anymore). Then there is number two - we don't even have to succeed in AGI for there to be disastrous consequences. Look at the damage early LLM usage has already done, and it's still not good enough to fool anyone who looks closely. Imagine a non-reasoning LLM able to manipulate any media well enough to be believable even with other AI testing tools. We're just getting to that point - the latest AI Explained video discussed Gemini and Sora and one of them (I think Sora) fooled some text generation testers into thinking its stories were 100% human created. In short, we don't need full general AI to end up with catastrophe, we'll easily use the "lesser" ones ourselves. Which will really fuel things if AGI comes along and sees what we've done.

  • My son uses Arch... How do I know? He tells me... Constantly...

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  • Personal net zero? Gas utilities pitch offset plans. | The programs aren’t eliminating emissions from natural gas. Instead, they’re tapping into a huge [and largely fraudulent] carbon offset market.

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  • The Earth doesn't care how we move things around in our spreadsheets.

  • More and more USB sticks and microSD cards are being made with dubious components — data recovery firm uncovers no-name, low-quality NAND inside many devices

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  • Be sure to have backups and not that sole location. Same is true of any physical drive, but at least a drive failure might be recoverable. A cloud storage can just be gone one day.

  • xkcd #2889: Greenhouse Effect

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  • Their work resulted in the often-posted newspaper article speculating how in a few centuries the emissions of burning coal might become a problem for the world's environment. What they didn't anticipate was the rate of increase from a population explosion which would begin its climb in a few decades from various factors.

  • NASA lost contact with its Mars helicopter

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  • Nothing that high level. Different systems are running independently, some may be redundant to each other in case one fails. But run something long enough especially in extreme conditions and things can drift from the baselines. If a power off and on regularly prevents that it's a lot easier than trying to chase down gremlins that could be different each time they pop up for different reasons.

    Even NASA I believe has done such resets from Apollo through the unmanned probes from time to time. Mentioning Windows, the newest versions don't really do this baseline reset if you just shut them down, even if you disable the hibernate/sleep modes, while a restart does.

  • Extreme cold still happens in a warming world – in fact climate instability may be disrupting the polar vortex

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  • It's true that I haven't yet seen temperatures as low as some of the worst winters I've experienced in the Southeast. I remember as a kid a few bad ones that shut things down for a week or more, destroyed lots of trees and property with ice buildup, etc. What makes it far worse than just cold is the wind caused from the Arctic blasts (driving storm fronts), as well as the higher humidity from more moisture in the air in general. Add to that the regularity of these Arctic temperature shifts every year now since the jet stream is toast from the reduction of the difference between the latitude temperatures as the Arctic warms.

    I am getting tired of some of these Youtube weather channels with their "this is a bad one" videos every week. They are bad, but don't act like it's not "normal" now. I guess "yet another wave of cold/hot" doesn't get clicks.

  • NASA lost contact with its Mars helicopter

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  • During a flight is a bit much, but some aircraft have a reboot between flights as a standard procedure to fix glitches that would happen if the plane was left on for the entire time.

  • 99% to passing the shopping cart test yet they failed right next to the goal.

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  • Close enough, it's not blocking a space. Better to be secure, but got to take what wins we can get. It's possible that when that cart was brought there the corral was full and the person retrieving them didn't get the loner. It's like the pictures of the car parked across several spots without the context that there was snowfall and no lines were visible then.