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stormcrash · Jun 20, 2024

BL38 said:
Disingenuous. As if the choice for humans was eat grass or meat. There are other sources of protein. (I'm not a vegetarian, much less an eco-terrorist, too bad, you'll have to argue in other grounds). Historically, humans thrived while eating significantly less meat than in the current epoch. And today, large differences between countries.

Survived yes, thrived is more difficult, the increase in protein in the average diet, mostly from increased meat availability, has been important in boosting both physical and mental capacity.

puppetstrett · Jun 20, 2024

A good electric bike meanwhile can be found easily under $5k, handle the majority of trips people make at speeds that are similar to a car's effective speed for these trips, and only require 20 lithium ion batteries compared to an electric car's 2000 batteries. Add in the overall size and cost of building bike infrastructure is a fraction of car infrastructure, and it makes for a better climate change solution, better option for a second vehicle, and a better option for city governments costs of maintenance.

Mortus · Jun 20, 2024

Took a few tries, but I was finally able to take down Tormented Duriel. With that, my seasonal journey is completed. Just in time for the Elden Ring DLC to take over my existence. See you next season!

JoHBE · Jun 20, 2024

gregorerlich said:
There is no reason to think there's anything special about neurons that allows for intelligence. Presumably any processing system of sufficient complexity/the correct design can be intelligent.

It should even be possible to emulate any given intelligence with any Turing-complete system (speed notwithstanding lol).

This could all be true, but I'm not quite sure where exactly the confidence comes from. General AI is not going to be magic, but NotMagic doesn't automatically equal "engineerable in practice with current technology or similar".

internetomancer · Jun 20, 2024

squiggit said:
They're both pieces of modern technology that certain tech-sector groups have gone to great lengths to hype up as both the future of modern civilization and huge investment/moneymaking opportunities. While the practical use cases of the technology remain somewhat niche.

Basically the way techbros talk about AI and cloak it in marketing speak just reminds a lot of people of the way certain people talk up crypto too.

That is a good similarity, but isn't that also just true of every technology and every product? CEOs are basically sales people, and you should never listen to them. But you don't write off every product, right?

gregorerlich · Jun 20, 2024

Uncivil Servant said:
I think you misunderstand my point: there is nothing special about neurons that makes intelligence their primary purpose. There is no reason to believe that a neural network would necessarily have cognition or any sort of awareness. Even if it did, we see so many different ways to organize neurons into neural networks within the animal kingdom to demonstrate complex behaviors in ways far different from ours.

Additionally, none of this is "emulated", the physical hardware is an intrinsic part of how it functions. And that's before even getting into feedback loops and disinhibition and all of the complex reinforcement and counteraction that neural networks require.

You'd have to completely redefine the concept of logic gates and how logic works, and I'm not even sure I'm comfortable calling neurotransmission "logic" because it just...isn't.

I think my point was more that you can surely emulate any intelligent system with any Turing machine. There's logic at the core, even if it's fuzzy and/or non-deterministic/statistical.

There's nothing necessarily special about any particular hardware configuration that would make it not emulate-able with sufficient understanding and sufficiently powerful hardware.

EllPeaTea · Jun 20, 2024

"Nominal transfer orbit"

dio82 · Jun 20, 2024

wrylachlan said:
From the article:

Does this imply that Ukraine will be flying sorties from bases in NATO countries? That seems even more provocative than just giving them the F-16s if true.

Perhaps they will do a quick turnaround on a Ukrainian field, get their weapons straped on, do their mission, get "de-weaponized" in Ukraine and then land abroad for RnR and maintenance?

markgo · Jun 20, 2024

Good security costs money. Good security requires a knowledgeable CTO/CSO even if you outsource everything (in some ways, more so). Good security requires ongoing spending that will never produce one cent of revenue.

This is why private equity firms, the apex predators of capitalism, will cut spending until bad things happen. Sure, that might wipe out the business. But, hey, look at the money we’ve extracted in the meantime.

Health and safety (which includes cybersecurity) are the Achilles heels of capitalism. Regulation is the only way to avoid bad outcomes, otherwise “the market” will drive spending to reduce risk to zero.

Papageno · Jun 20, 2024

What the heck is that "Sir, this is a Wendy's" thing from, anyway?

BL38 · Jun 20, 2024

On the one hand, by converting fibrous plants that people can’t eat into protein-rich meat and milk, grazing animals like cows and sheep are an important source of human food.

Disingenuous. As if the choice for humans was eat grass or meat. There are other sources of protein. (I'm not a vegetarian, much less an eco-terrorist, too bad, you'll have to argue in other grounds). Historically, humans thrived while eating significantly less meat than in the current epoch. And today, large differences between countries.

PurpleMinion · Jun 20, 2024

Note to anyone picking a company name: never have the first two words be an oxymoron

Mr_B · Jun 20, 2024

"This service sucks! I want you to cancel it now!!"

"Sounds like you want a speed increase. Alright, do you want to upgrade your bundle to super mega plus, or to super mega plus pro?"

OrangeCream · Jun 20, 2024

ev9_tarantula said:
I'm 99% sure it will be Cortex-X925, that will be competitive with anything else around.

I thought 10 wide was crazy a decade ago. Man how technology progresses.

Snark218 · Jun 20, 2024

blackhawk887 said:
When they also own the business?

Even still. Harvey Weinstein had his fucking name on the door.

Oelph · Jun 20, 2024

I don't expect interest rates to come down much. I doubt they'll drop below 3% for at least 10 years, if ever unless there's another massive financial crash. I feel like people have unrealistic expectations and/or have put themselves into a financial position that isn't tenable unless those expectations become reality.

Prices are climbing. People expect to be paid more. Expect to have more. Unless the post-covid 'you only live once' mindset completely dissipates. Food prices in the UK have been artificially low for years. We've seen and are seeing big corrections to this. Energy prices aren't really coming down in a way that will make a meaningful impact. The most recent drops equate to about £100 per year.

Woochifer · Jun 20, 2024

MMarsh said:
Having been born in the mid '80s, I'm old enough to remember when credit cards were processed with carbon paper and a pressure imprint roller.

Even in the 2010s there were a few times when I was at a store and the POS terminals went down. Cashiers would be confused, lots of "well I'm not sure what to do," and then a 60 year old lady would come out of the back office carrying an old yellow box. She'd say "OK kids, time you learned to deal with it the old fashioned way", break out a 40 year old imprint roller and a stack of CC forms, and tell them to press really hard when you're writing the dollar amount because you're making three copies.

In the last 5-6 years it seems that even those have disappeared. The last few times I've been in a store that had a POS network issue, everything really did grind to a halt and the managers had no idea what to do.

Can't even do that anymore because credit cards no longer have the embossing needed to generate a triplicate form. Long after merchants transitioned to POS terminals, credit cards still used the old school embossed info.

It wasn't that long ago that I received my first "flat" debit card. It had the numbers printed on the front, but did not have the familiar raised embossing. First merchant where I used that card did a double-take, thinking that the card was fake.

Now that cards have gone contactless, all the info is now printed on the back. The front is just blank. My bank only stopped issuing credit cards with embossed numbers a couple of years. Coincided with them finally going contactless.

JournalBot · Jun 20, 2024

Of the 26 cases identified so far, 25 sought medical care and 16 were hospitalized.

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EllPeaTea · Jun 20, 2024

Good staging

Snark218 · Jun 20, 2024

sword_9mm said:
They voted; that's why we pin it on them.

It wasn't your parents or my parents or xyz's parents. They didn't pull up the ladder by hand; they voted to pull it up cresting with Reagan and now we got the rest of that shit these people STILL vote for fucking us.

Let's all be very clear, however, that merely being able to afford a 2-4 year old car is not really within the category of that shit.

Random John Smith Guy · Jun 20, 2024

MMarsh said:
Having been born in the mid '80s, I'm old enough to remember when credit cards were processed with carbon paper and a pressure imprint roller.

Even in the 2010s there were a few times when I was at a store and the POS terminals went down. Cashiers would be confused, lots of "well I'm not sure what to do," and then a 60 year old lady would come out of the back office carrying an old yellow box. She'd say "OK kids, time you learned to deal with it the old fashioned way", break out a 40 year old imprint roller and a stack of CC forms, and tell them to press really hard when you're writing the dollar amount because you're making three copies.

In the last 5-6 years it seems that even those have disappeared. The last few times I've been in a store that had a POS network issue, everything really did grind to a halt and the managers had no idea what to do.

I mean, most cards don't even have embossed numbers anymore.

Mandella · Jun 20, 2024

Haven't watched a night launch in a while. All that ice falling off the booster looks prettily sparky from the booster cam.

JoHBE · Jun 20, 2024

alphathreethree said:
I love the comments on these articles. "I dont know how this works, I don't have the skills or experience to actually work on it, but let me tell you how bad it is and and how it will fail" hahah

Sometimes, just a healthy level of general scientific awareness, and awareness of past science and technology history, is all you need.

Like, this subject is currently very similar to claims of making breakthroughs towards shortterm commercial-grade nuclear fusion: there's a lot of hype and attention that is weaponized to distort just how many more (sometimes very wide) gaps we still have to bridge.

Sure, General AI is somewhat different in that it's less clear what exactly is still missing. But that doesn't necessarilly make the situation better. It just means pure optimism looks a bit less naive an uninformed.

ZX7PETE · Jun 20, 2024

Psyborgue said:
You're making a big deal about an EV cord going across a sidewalk, hand wringing about a trip hazard and "illegal" (is it even) when, as a Canadian, you shouldn't be talking about the condition of your sidewalks.

I've been there in winter. Handle anybody shovels their sidewalks. They're all covered with ice outside major cities. I guess slip and fall lawsuits aren't a thing there.

Why exactly you care about such a tiny little thing?

I act like EVs are the solution in the US (and Canada) because public transportation isn't happening for the reasons outlined in my previous post. Because it's not, EVs are the only way to cut carbon emissions.

I wish we could have the sort of public transportation Europe does, but that won't happen outside NY, Montreal, Vancouver and some other rare cities where it's done well and you don't actually need a vehicle. Infrastructure was designed around individual vehicles and "freedom". Undoing that isn't feasible -- culturally, politically, or otherwise. I accept the good. I don't demand perfect if it's unattainable.

You might want to look at SMC 15.04.072 (Assuming you are in Seattle.)

Check out Seattle charging cord guidelines.

OptimusP83 · Jun 20, 2024

Sudoma bin Usri said:
Yet another Venture Capitalists FTW event…

Venture Capital is about funding new ventures, ie startups, generally. Your perfectly valid criticism should be pointed at Private Equity firms. VCs don't do shit like this with longstanding companies.

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