damn i see that chatbots don’t want to stay behind rfk jr in body count

will they learn that safety regulations are written in blood? who am i kidding, that’s not their blood

firefox at minimum clears the very low bar of not exposing casual user to crypto

That might be why they do this, marketing is secondary (and mcd at first didn’t market fries as tallow-containing specifically). When done on purpose and currently, i guess it’s seed oils thing

painting goth David Gerard as their archenemy is pretty rich coming from a group that already owned two castles

Tallow is saturated, so you can use it longer before it oxidises

no

Now, this is clearly a repugnant market. Repugnant market is a market where some people would like to engage in it and other people think they shouldn’t. (Think market in human kidneys. Or prostitution. Or the market in abortions. […])

i consent/i consent/ i don’t!!

lol who asked them? stop the presses, homegrown techbro has an Opinion! also when you use up drones it’s only natural that you’ll need new ones. even observation drones go down all the time, and rewarding certain targets is just making sure that drones don’t get blown up on stupid shit, so this is government specifically incentivizing what would be most important targets to them, on top of regular rules of engagement and more specific orders. this one seems to be meant as supplementary program that also, or even primarily, makes nice videos for propaganda

Introducing a market system, on the other hand, allows the lower-level units to take calculated risks. Destroy that many enemy units and you can buy, say, an armored vehicle, that improves your safety. Friction gets greatly reduced.

these are drones for drone kills, nothing else. biggest thing i’ve seen is that some units get donations from their drone videos, and used these to get a car or jammer or more drones, but never APC or anything like that, it’s too big deal and too expensive, and drone operator is unlikely to benefit from APC anyway

No side gets an advantage when both sides use it. Then there’s no point in using it in the first place.

wtf? if using a thing gives you advantage over not using a thing, then you use it, if both sides are using a thing then it’s just red queen race. lots of current war looks like it even if frontlines are static

But markets, unlike, say, chemical weapons, are not directly visible on the battlefield. Each side would suspect the other of using them despite the ban and might try to secretly use them as well.

and this changes what exactly? all it will cause is slight preference in targeting because there’s only so many drones to be given out, and drone operator has to do the everything else part of their job. dogshit reasoning

isn’t this the same crowd that like prediction markets and assassination markets

the bridges they will build:

except they will learn nothing from their failures

slightly more seriously: lots of lemmy users came from reddit, but mostly from older demographic (because of old reddit phaseout) and more FOSS-oriented, privacy-aware, tech-literate part (because of API shitshow/alternative apps blockage). there’s some barrier to entry (choice of instance) that would filter off the least technical users. there are some prominent programming oriented fedi servers (programming.dev, infosec.exchange). lemmy in general seems to be more lefty than reddit, less americacentric, and i guess that over half are linux users. i suspect that because of combination of technical skill and older age (compared to reddit) lots of lemmitors have well paying technical jobs (again compared to reddit) which allows/requires them to live in nicer parts of their countries (not specifically cali)

at least this operation won’t leave behind any e-waste, since it all will burn down when orbit maintaining engines inevitably fail

“People are planning 10 gigawatt data centers,” Schmidt said. "Gives you a sense of how big this crisis is. Many people think that the energy demand for our industry will go from 3 percent to 99 percent of total generation

I reasoned that the former Google executive might have bought Relativity Space as a means to support the development of data centers in space.

absolutely not peak of bubble type bullshit, please give microsoft-sized theranos more money, nothing weird or stupid is happening there

last time i’ve seen someone wanting to put compute in orbit it was cryptobros trying to avoid everyone’s jurisdiction, presumably to do some financial crimes there. turns out you can get away with this on earth, so it’s unnecessary

These are mostly combustion byproducts btw. Mercury emissions come from coal fired powerplants, PCBs are an old and long discontinued type of nonflammable coolant, HCB also isn’t even manufactured probably

I mean, they have to make new republicans somehow

wtf leaded gasoline is back too? (there are very few other uses for alkyllead compounds and it would be hard to make it accidentally)

no, all people here are 30-40 years old communist programmers from california

“what the fuck is exponential backoff” - someone writing software for these meters ten years ago

it’s also made worse by the fact that many appliances are turned on in blacked out areas, so when these are brought online, there’s spike in load power that then tapers off pretty quickly. this can be managed by powering on areas on in smaller chunks, as small as single blocks

this is PSA to turn off appliances off during blackout (biggest ones are things that deal with heat: mostly air conditioning/heat pump and all kinds of heaters)

also in Spain specifically some capacity was met by spinning generators from nuclear or hydro or gas powerplants, but also there’s a lot of photovoltaic generation, which doesn’t vary frequency with imbalances in load. after loss of power nuclear reactors that were running at that time are out for a day because of xenon poisoning, and it looks like first nuclear powerplant went online again only yesterday

maybe they’ll update inverters in at least some of generating stations so that blackstart with PV assistance would be possible in future, because from what i understand most of these are grid-following inverters. this might require policy changes and tighter control of PV powerplant by grid operator. hydropower is most useful in starting from complete blackout condition because all power that is needed is just what it takes to turn valves + some communications and remote switching to make sure it goes to other powerplants

for now no one knows what really happened, but i do hope that investigation will allow for figuring out what went wrong and preventing similar failure in the future

it looks like Portugal had it even worse - their power generation dropped to zero (until 15:00), disconnected from Spain, started hydro and pumped hydro to bring up gas and wind power (22:00 to midnight), then solar, then when they figured their shit out connected to Spain again and lent them a couple gigawatts (bigger grids are more stable so it’s good for both)

also they’re talking about quadriyudillions of simulated people, yet openai has only advanced autocomplete ran at what, tens of thousands instances in parallel, and this already was too much compute for microsoft

apparently this got past IRB, was supposed to be a part of doctorate level work and now they don’t want to be named or publish that thing. what a shitshow from start to finish, and all for nothing. no way these were actual social scientists, i bet this is highly advanced software engineer syndrome in action