Remember, friends don’t let friends buy Nestlé

It’s all fun and games till they keep it because they like it…

I think this is about Copilot in the online saas form, not related to or dependent on any OS.

Steps outside Everything sunshine and rainbows There is no ground Turn around, there is no inside Fall into the void forever Find out you don’t even exist

Everything is sunshine and rainbows

I’m pretty sure it isn’t that easy to do what that dude did. It’s a multi step process. It doesn’t say: “This will delete your data, are you sure you want to continue?”, but it also isn’t like he clicked on the x top right and all of the data was gone. The language of the function is also pretty clear and there are a lot of ways to find out what it does. The dude even admits himself he wanted to know if he could toggle that and still have access to his data, but instead of asking the chatbot beforehand he just tried it and then cried foul when it actually locked him out.

I’d recommend the movie Threads (1984), if you don’t feel like sleeping for the next week or so.

I once challenged a relative of mine who is a big proponent of “tradition” to look up when those traditions came to be. They are the kind that justify objectively terrible things, just because it is tradition. And sees themselves as a better person than other, because they follow the traditions where others do no. One by one the traditions were shockingly (to them at least) recent. We’re talking mostly 1970s, invented by boomers with too much money and free time. Some as old as 1950s, some as recent as 1990s. There were some that were pre-WW2, but those are almost unrecognizable when compared to the modern version. I don’t think it changed their mind, they just ignore the facts, but it gave me a laugh that’s for sure.

Fuck traditions, especially the ones that are designed to sell stuff.

The “algorithms” are also dumb as fuck. For example on a large retailer site you spend a couple of hours browsing for a particular kind of item. You are comparing different kinds, looking up reviews and issues, watching YouTube videos about them. And finally you pull the trigger and but the thing. Then for the next 3 months that site (and others that picked up on the research) will go: Hey here are some more of that thing you like, you really liked it right? Would you like to compare some more items? Uhm no, I actually bought said thing, you made the sale. All of that “targeted” advertisement is just wasted, I have zero interest anymore since the need has been filled.

It’s either that or stuff I can’t afford (like memory or graphic cards) or really weird stuff I have no idea why it’s being shown to me. Sometimes very alarmingly so. Just recently I got an ad that said “Popular in your region” and it was for illegal Nazi dogwhistle flags, “self defense knifes”, baseball bats and tracksuits. That’s a bit scary. On the other hand the same site gave me an ad for an “easy to conceal” blowjob machine sex toy. Like holy shit what kind of people are living in my region?

Targeted ads have been terrible for as long as I can remember. I don’t think I ever bought anything through an ad or hardly ever even clicked on them. Only time I click on them is because the site and my adblocker are fighting and when I try to click somewhere on the page, it inserts an ad the last millisecond, shifts the entire page so I accidentally click on it.

I’m not sure the energy to weight ratio of 80,000 pounds of batteries to 80,000 pounds of fuel is.

Fuel is about 25 times more energy dense compared to batteries. Of course depending on the fuel and depending on the batteries. 25 times is most diesel fuels compared to most modern li-ion batteries. Large LiFePO4 would probably be used for transport, which do worse than high performance LiCoO2 batteries, so then you are talking about somewhere around 30 times worse. Transporting batteries simply isn’t worth doing, it’s super inefficient.

Same with stuff like microwave transmission of power, you lose so much in the transfer, it’s a total non starter.

The big enemy is transportation. You can put biofuel in a container and it will keep for a very long time. It’s easy to ship anywhere you’d like in large quantities. It can be pumped around using pipelines, it can be put in ships, boats and fuel trucks and brought to just about anywhere. Even places that don’t have permanent infrastructure can often easily be reached by truck and transport a huge amount of energy in one go. Those fuels are very energy dense, so transport is easy and cheap and it doesn’t lose any energy from being transported.

With electric energy transport is much harder, you need large transformer stations to get it up to high voltages and then you need fixed infrastructure to transport it anywhere. And on the receiving side you’d also need large stations to be able to use the energy and distribute it further. And every step loses energy, the conversion up to high voltage, the transport over the powerlines and then the conversion back down. Reaching places that don’t have fixed infrastructure is much harder, as we don’t have very good storage options for electrical energy. Best we can do is chemical storage in the form of large and heavy batteries that aren’t as energy dense as biofuel.

However solar has a trick up it’s sleeve where it’s super easy to generate the energy where you need it, reducing the need for transport. Different from other power generation options you don’t need a whole lot to generate some energy. For a lot of homes simply putting solar panels on the roof is enough to generate a lot of power for the home itself and an electrical car. Putting solar in places we need energy is the trick to a sustainable future (although we need to fix some issues with solar, but it’s pretty good as it is). Having a bit of biofuel as an alternative can be pretty handy though and is better than fossil fuels for sure.

In the real world you can expect panels to lose on average no more than 10% per decade. Usually it’s less, somewhere around the 7-8% mark. Some manufacturers or installers give warranty for a max of 10% in the first decade. However due to natural variability of the energy produced, it would have to be pretty bad in order for anyone to notice.

The reason lifetimes of solar panels is given somewhere around 20-30 years isn’t because they stop functioning after that time. It’s because they simply won’t perform very well after that time. It’s a double edged sword, where the existing panels degrade and new panels get better. Especially if the mounting can be re-used, it becomes more and more favorable to just replace the panels. Chances are within 30 years at least one panel would have failed, in a string configuration that often means the entire string goes down. Depending on the setup that one defunct panel can be bypassed, but simply replacing all the panels makes more sense.

One of the parts I would like to see improvements in longevity is the inverters. Those are pretty expensive a lot of the time (depending on where you live they have to meet very strict specs and certification, driving up cost) and don’t live as long. Typically an inverter will work for at least 10 years, but they hardly ever make it to 20 years. So an installation that runs for 25 years will probably have its inverter(s) replaced at least once.

This article doesn’t state anything new, this has been the case for a very long time now.

The person in the photo is a YouTuber known as STRANGE ÆONS aka Teya. Their content is pretty good and seems like a good person.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrq3JYirgV-BLluzTF6X_7A

I’m sorry but WHAT? how do you work on stuff for 2 years and have NO BACKUPS? Like dude WTF. I have backups of backups, I have version histories of everything I do. I have physical backups, cloud backups, off site backups, you name it. If I put effort into creating something, it’s worth putting in effort to keep it safe.

This dude was outsourcing his brain to a dumb chat service and lost the ability to think. His brain was so fried he actually tried the feature that said this will lock you out of your data, just to see if he actually got locked out.

Not the mention the dude worked on grants, papers and as a professor. And now the bullshit generator has tainted all of that. Imagine getting a huge student loan to go to get a good education and your professor just outsourced it to fucking ChatGPT. I would be hella mad. Not to mention things like grants and early research is often covered by an NDA and my man just uploaded all of that to some shitty US company.

Most of what is left after Jupiter is in Saturn and after that Neptune and Uranus take up a lot of the mass. The amount of mass in the small terrestrial planets, all of the moons, all of the asteroids etc. is less than 0.002% of the mass of the Solar system.

Uhm the Moonmen built the pyramids, why would we need to teach them? Man it’s sure going to be embarrassing if we get up there and proclaim: “Hello Moonmen! We are here to teach you about pyramids” and they are like “Dude, we know all about the pyramids, what else you got?”. Can you imagine how red the astronauts faces would be?

And 0.1% is Jupiter, the other 0.04% is everything else…

No worries, they already showed how easily they can be replaced, so they probably won’t get paid at all somewhere in the near future.

Huh? I can’t get my head around the logistics of this. If it were on the lens it wouldn’t be in focus and perhaps not even visible depending on the lens. But if it were walking in the film, you would just see an outline of the bug right? But we see it from the top, with a light source and everything. Even if it were somehow exposed properly, we would see the bottom and not the top? So it’s probably on some internal piece of the camera? And perhaps really really small, but looks larger because it’s close to the film?

Can someone with knowledge of the internals of this specific camera enlighten me as to how this works?

Someone send this to Randall Monroe, how fucked would we be if we actually created this piece of land?

It’s those damn Duke boys at it again