Basically “let me hand wave away the main issue that people with have it, by just throwing out that “developers will be able to find tune it””.

What are you basing that on bud? It’s literally not how DLSS works. DLSS effects the entire frame or nothing at all.

That not a cause, that’s a judgement.

Quarterly earnings reports are why companies are so shortsighted.

Oh yeah, I was just expanding on the non turbine power types cause I think they’re neat.

Though I missed some of the most interesting ones: Nuclear Batteries.

Edit: just realized that ngram already mentioned these.

They’re different from chemical batteries in that they can’t be charged or discharged, and their energy comes not from chemical reactions, but from radioactive decay.

Thermal-nuclear batteries convert heat into electricity, including completely solid state ones like radioisotope generators, that use an array of thermo-couples to convert heat into electricity, not turbines.

Then there are Beta-Voltaic nuclear batteries that use specialized semi-conductor circuits to convert the electrons and positrons emitted from a radioactive material into usable electricity.

Neither of these produce anywhere near enough power output for a flying suit, nor can their power output vary, but still interesting to think about in the context of Tony Stark’s arc reactor.

The biggest problem IMO is the fact that all our power generation technology comes down to “boil water to turn turbine”. How we generate the heat changes, but not how we turn it into electricity.

Technically the ones that use steam to spin turbines are:

• Coal plants
• Gas plant
• Thermal Solar Plants
• Nuclear Fission Plants
• Nuclear Fusion Plants

Then you have ones that spin turbines, but using other methods:

• Hydro dams and tidal power - use water
• Engines / Generators - use controlled explosions
• Wind Turbines - use wind

Then you have the few that truly don’t use spinning turbines:

• Solar Panels - they use semi-conductors specially designed so that light causes the electrons in the material to start flowing, directly creating usable electricity.

• Piezo Electrics - similar semiconductors that react to material stress (bending etc) and cause electrons to flow

• Batteries & Fuel Cells - store power in chemical form, and the reactions cause the electrons to flow directly

• (Proposed) Direct Energy Converters - experimental devices long proposed for nuclear fusion reactors that can directly produce flowing electrons. There’s been recent research investigating doing this with fission reactors as well.

“I can shoot the balls off a fly at a hundred yards.”

“Do flys have balls?”

“Not when I’m around.”

Everyone here is correct about power being the biggest limiting factor.

The number 2 factor though is concussions.

Concussions don’t usually happen from something slamming into your head, most concussions happen from your head moving quickly and then coming to a sudden stop, and your sloshy brain inside still has momentum and slams against the inside of your skull.

It’s why you can get badly concussed in something like a car accident even if your head never hits anything. Or in football / hockey, even just a big full speed hit to the chest can give you a concussion.

The way Tony Stark moves in that suit would give him constant concussions. You cannot move that quickly and suddenly come to a stop. Until we have a way of transferring consciousness to a computer or something solid state, theres no chance of ever directly piloting an iron man suit.

Neither are they on the instances that defederate from them.

It’s also not like it’s an ideological thing. The instances that get defederate from are just filled with obnoxious tankies.

I care if an OS can manage the running applications and their windows in a reasonable way, which MacOS cannot.

Lmao.

,we have to submit tickets to run software because everything is installed through random .exes.

You have to do that because your IT department doesn’t trust you. There’s no difference in danger between a dev with system access installing an exe or a DMG.

That’s long and kind of interesting, but also super pop-sci-y.

The opening talks about how music physically reshapes your brain, but what doesn’t?

A professional athlete’s brain is going to develop differently from a professional chef or professional writer or professional mathematician. Whether you regularly exercise or take drugs or do whatever will all change which regions of your brain get more or less prominence and resource and change it’s wiring. That how the brain works.

The rest of the points all follow in a similar manner. Some are interesting and can be taken at face value, a lot have glaring obvious questions unanswered that make it sound like someone is boosting a nothing study result.

Overall, they don’t add up to a particularly interesting or cohesive point, it honestly feels AI generated.

If you’re talking the US government, then no, they don’t need political capital from the people, they just need capital capital and they can use that to swing elections and bribe politicians.

Regardless, some AI companies will inevitably survive. It is legitimately useful in solving a ton of problems that were near impossible before. Literally this xkcd. Now it’s not “I’ll need a research team and five years”, it’s “sure, easy API hit, we’ll just have to manage cost / use”, in the future, it will be “sure, we’ll just add a background task client side”.

If they lie like that peacefully and contently then it’s because they find it comfortable.

If they’re active and trying to get your attention, but don’t want pets, then it’s because they want to play.

Promote fair digital trade by prohibiting unjustified data localisation requirements and forced transfers of software source code, thereby protecting businesses from protectionist practices and fostering confidence in digital markets.

Assuming that the EU is taking the position that the GDPR is justified, does this signal we might be adopting something similar? 🤞

I was like “ok what’s the principal”, then I scrolled looking for it and saw how long the article was and was like “Jesus Christ I’m not reading all of that”, then I started reading it and found myself at the end.

A lot more compelling of a lens then I was expecting.

I mean, we know for a fact that they used Palantir’s system for planning the invasion which is an automated intelligence analysis system.

That alone makes it entirely possible for them to have information and not know about it, on top of all the other existing ways that information can be compartmentalized, or thorough analysis and double checking can be skipped.

We do know that the US was targeting the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC), and the school is in an IRGC compound.

The most likely explanation seems to be that they intended to target an IRGC building, but instead hit the school. Whether that’s an issue with the missile’s guidance system, the plane’s targeting system, outdated maps, or a flaw in whatever process the military is using to select targets, is unknown.

It’s of course, possible that the US intentionally bombed a little girls school, but it seems somewhat unlikely. Even the most hawkish war mongerers recognize that randomly slaughtering hundreds of school girls is not going to gain support for your war.

No, it wasn’t, he got lucky. You want to know what a high Cha score looks like, look at Obama.

Trump is mid cha at best, he was just born rich and does evil shit so can get ahead at others expense.

I feel like in DnD terms, Bush would have low-mid Int, high char, mid wisdom.

Trump, would have low Int, low wisdom, low-mid char but high luck.

Good. Get off the internet and do anything else.x