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Zink ,

They are like a big coal-rolling tractor trailer rumbling past somebody on an e-bike and shaking their finger at you because you could be pedaling right now to save minuscule amounts of energy.

Telling others to conserve is free. They themselves conserving could potentially mean less money!

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Sneaky little atheistses, always being tricksy to outsmart the omnipotent & omniscient creator and maintainer of existence itself, precious!

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Well you’re half right, lol.

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I just installed Linux Mint into a dual boot setup recently. Unsurprisingly, their install process made it pretty easy to partition the drive and have everything play nice together.

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Maybe he started with 5 or 10 billion dollars left in the company!

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These two joKes just had me laughing unKontrollably at my phone.

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As a large language model, I expect you to use the search function. Asshole.

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You can look up Spravato. It’s expensive and has to be taken with a couple hours of medical observation.

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I don’t know if that’s a rule of thumb or not, but it certainly makes sense.

First, the world of reliability runs on data and math. Lots of statistics, of course.

And second, aircraft are over-engineered for safety margins on top of safety margins. The test data might say you need a part that’s X thickness of aluminum in order to be 99% sure to never fail in the field. So let’s just make it 3X thickness to be safe!

So from that standpoint, back to back failures should pretty much always draw a bunch of attention in this industry.

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🤌🏻

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Sup, fellow XCHWM here. My first thought was to agree and say something about how people’s right to exist and live the life that is normal to them doesn’t depend on anybody understanding or approving it. And assuming it’s peaceful and all that. You know, decent human stuff.

But then I reread your last line and got saddened by imagining the mental state of JKR. Imagine you are not just rich, but an adored famous artist, an American Dream success story, and doubly mega fucking rich to the point that you could just walk around giving random people life-changing amounts of money all day while funding other big amazing shit… and your mind is distracted by anger and fear towards the existence of other people you don’t even know. And now your famous name is attached to that awful attribute.

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Irrelevant from the American perspective! People all over the world have access to the American dream!

/s for me. I capitalized it for extra snark. Totally not /s for others in this country though.

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There is no such thing as a truly "safe and stable" battery chemistry.

Is it even possible to have energy storage of any kind that is truly safe and stable? Some are better than others, of course.

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A couple decades ago I worked at a place that did power generation turbine controls.

One thing I worked on was a redundant sync check for connecting turbines to the grid. A turbine has to be brought up to speed, about 3600rpm in the US, before being connected to the grid. The sine wave coming out of the generator needs to match the sine wave on the grid.

If they are mismatched when the huge breaker closes, it’s not a shock or fire hazard, it’s an explosion hazard.

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The orbital one sounds interesting. That’s a lot of energy, and it could do a lot of damage, but it seems very stable if left untouched.

My gut suspicion is that with something more safe/stable, you would also be dealing with a low quality/potency source and/or low efficiency.

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I guess in my head I was implying that it was energy humans store for other humans to use at grid scale. When I said "of any kind” I guess that’s not what I meant, lol.

So in my line of thinking, you’re right about e.g. using the sun to heat a rock. But if we use the sun to heat something for electricity generation, or we heat some medium for energy storage, I bet that will be pretty potent.

Besides, past the small scale into the smallEST scale, it’s all just energy anyway, man. 😎

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It can mean a misfire too.

I had an old accord that basically lost a cylinder (blew a valve or something) but could still drive down the road with check engine blinking because that cylinder was “misfiring.”

It happened far away from home too. I drove several dozen miles with my unintentional 3 cylinder swap.

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I found out I could dual boot Linux at work and went right for Mint. I think it’s great. It’s a nice pragmatic choice for people like me who love using Linux and are constantly in a bash prompt, but who don’t want to build up a system from scratch and who are fine not running the very latest.

It’s even downstream from some of the most popular distros out there, but without Canonical’s controversial shit.

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Ok but imagine if Microsoft got altruistic and made the Windows store to be as helpful as possible and not as a marketing or user control scheme. That’s the package manager in Linux.

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Spoiler: when they let you know about the better device, your phone will already be much better at the same client-side processing anyway.

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Sounds like it is more correct to refer to it as GOOG/Linux

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Oh I think it’s all going how it was intended. Just not going according to the public justification.

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Maybe he figures that crashing and burning as many giant global companies/brands as possible will make him more memorable for the history books.

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Agreed. And remember that a good personal project does not necessarily have to be for profit.

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That's the dirty secret behind these business decisions. Making the product worse only ever seems to benefit the firm's bottom line when a business is in a secure cartel.

This, as with enshittification in general, is a symptom of our fucked up culture that views money as a virtue. And with the business culture in particular, regardless of cartel or monopoly status, if the bottom line gets better the managers are doing a “good job” and almost nobody cares about inconveniences to customers or tarnishing of the brand.

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Wow. I am impressed from where I sit, in a house with the AC set to 66F, sometimes 65, to save energy vs where we might otherwise set it.

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Yeah, it was kind of a joke to say I’d probably like it even colder.

And 65 does just happen to be our default winter setting!

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I’d say the purpose of the medical system involves taking measured, educated risks.

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My eyes are decent, but if I had a sixth sense that gave me full accurate 3D 360 spatial awareness regardless of visibility, I would probably not turn it off just to use my eyes. I’d use both.

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Why would any social media company bid the real value of the property when the real value falls to zero in nine months?

I could see Google buying the brand even without the secret algorithm, and now the next app update will start showing YouTube Shorts. Or maybe they would just start showing “tiktoks” in the YouTube app, with no mention of yt shorts.

Meta seems like a possible choice too. Hell, maybe Elon Musk will waste billions of dollars ruining it and throwing away an extremely popular brand.

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A black-and green-theme AND start menu searching that is accurate and fast.

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It would certainly increase the value of the company and the products in my eyes. Imagine if musk could make billions of dollars on his stock if he quit his job, lol. It has so much forget to fall though.

I would love to see what their vehicles could be if they let the engineers do things right. As much as that business has fallen from grace, the engineering teams have done some good things under the hood.

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CaNceL cUlTuRe!!

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I think it’s safe to say that the Lemmy user base trends a bit more “computer nerd” than the general public. So we generally have more people that already use Linux, and more people that could reasonably benefit from switching.

Plus of course moving off of windows is one of the most effective ways to show your displeasure with Microsoft.

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Did you mean to say avocado oil there? I love the stuff.

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I had thoughts along these same lines the first time I fired up a Linux Mint VM last year. The most basic computer users would have their experience enhanced by being stuck with a system they “don’t know.” They can do all the same browser based activities on a system that’s probably more responsive and more stable.

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The point about longevity is a great one too. I mean what’s the best thing to do with a crappy old laptop? Install Linux and make it useful for something!

Adobe’s ‘Ethical’ Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney Images (www.bloomberg.com)

When Adobe Inc. released its Firefly image-generating software last year, the company said the artificial intelligence model was trained mainly on Adobe Stock, its database of hundreds of millions of licensed images. Firefly, Adobe said, was a “commercially safe” alternative to competitors like Midjourney, which learned by...

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We always thought the singularity is when our technology would take off advancing without us.

Maybe that moment when it decides it doesn’t need us will be a rapid disintegration by machine circle jerk.

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    Zink ,

    At work I have your standard corporate Dell laptop running Microsoft 365. I run Linux in a VM to do my work and it’s pretty funny how responsive it is compared with the host OS running on the actual hardware. Funny in a sad way, really.

    And this is still on windows 10, not even updated to 11 yet.

    X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in domain names, breaking legit URLs (mashable.com)

    On Monday, it appears X attempted to encourage users to cease referring to it as Twitter and instead adopt the name X. Some users began noticing that posts viewed via X for iOS were changing any references of "Twitter.com" to "X.com" automatically....

    Zink ,

    Are any of you fine lemmings currently in business school or studying marketing?

    I wonder if this whole branding debacle is already actively studied and discussed in academia.

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    Yeah true, but nothing drives the point home like a huge embarrassing real world example!

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    You aren’t supposed to do that, assuming you’re the one pumping gas. Gas stations are a bad place to generate static electricity, lol.

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    Maybe in some perfect high school physics problem context. Ever heard of the three body problem? How about the million body problem zooming through the galaxy?

    Why would be expect a deep space probe to return to earth when it’s going to interact with many objects with millions of times the mass of the earth?

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    This is exactly it. So many normal people have no awareness or concern of the bad faith in so much of the corporate and tech world. They might have some negative impressions along the lines of “I was talking about X with my friend and the next ad on Facebook was X,” but even in those cases they don’t realize how deep it goes and that the companies don’t need to listen to your microphone.

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    I’d venture to say that the overwhelming majority of atheists are agnostic.

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    It’s a pretty bad word tbh because people have varying things they read into it, just like “atheist.” I’ve heard an old religious family member say that agnostic people believe in God/Jesus but don’t like organized religion.

    The definitions that make the most sense to me are that theism/atheism is about what you believe, and gnosticism/agnosticism is about what you claim to know.

    This thread made me go see what the dictionary definitions of the words are these days, and I saw that M-W not only has pretty clear definitions, but has a little write up on the terms:

    “How Agnostic Differs From Atheist

    Many people are interested in distinguishing between the words agnostic and atheist. The difference is quite simple: atheist refers to someone who does not believe in the existence of a god or any gods, and agnosticrefers to someone who doesn’t know whether there is a god, or even if such a thing is knowable. This distinction can be troublesome to remember, but examining the origins of the two words can help.”

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    That there was a joke. What argument do you think I was making?

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    So? They can do what they like, just like Lena could for the original image. Hell, I applaud them for it!

    I also think Lena looks beautiful in the commonly used image, and it doesn’t bother ME one bit that the image shows up in research.

    But all of that is completely separate from whether it is appropriate to use a cropped playboy image in professional settings (it should be UN-cropped, am I right fellas? /s). However, if it genuinely offends the people around me, or makes them feel marginalized or less valued, well then it DOES start to bother me a little bit.

    It’s OK to change the world in a way that doesn’t affect you but improves the life of somebody else.

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