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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Just flared
for a few hours
25000 years agoIn interstellar timescales, 25000 years is pretty much this very instant.
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The fingerprints of over 1 million people, as well as facial recognition information, unencrypted usernames and passwords, and personal information of employees, was discovered on a publicly accessible database
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@lolwhat said in In other news today...:
Hmm...
As temperatures in Dallas climbed to 103 degrees Fahrenheit (39 Celsius), the Electric Reliability Council of Texas issued an emergency alert
That makes for an emergency alert in Texas? Here in central Utah we've been getting temperatures like that all summer.
I'll bet your humidity is a lot lower, though. TFA also said:
This week’s price spikes also underscore how dependent the region’s power grid has become on wind farms, which now make up about a quarter of the generation capacity in Texas. Lackluster breezes contributed to the higher prices, said Flannan Hehir, a power analyst at energy data provider Genscape.
Wiki says Utah's wind power is only about 2.6% of in state generating capacity.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I'll bet your humidity is a lot lower, though.
Yeah, probably. Good point.
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The original headline, as indicated by the url slug, was "Researchers discover location-based dating apps can find exact location of users"
:surprised_pikachu:
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Just flared
for a few hours
25000 years agoIn interstellar timescales, 25000 years is pretty much this very instant.
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-startup-boom-raises-questions-of-exaggerated-tech-savvy-11565775004
Documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal and several people familiar with the company's operations, including current and former staff, suggest Engineer.ai doesn't use AI to assemble code for apps as it claims. They indicated that the company relies on human engineers in India and elsewhere to do most of that work, and that its AI claims are inflated even in light of the fake-it-'til-you-make-it mentality common among tech startups.
Our job is still safe
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This week’s price spikes also underscore how dependent the region’s power grid has become on wind farms, which now make up about a quarter of the generation capacity in Texas. Lackluster breezes contributed to the higher prices, said Flannan Hehir, a power analyst at energy data provider Genscape.
Also,
$9,000 a megawatt-hour
$9.00 per kWh, wholesale. Just for comparison, the average retail cost of electricity in the US is $0.1331 per kWh, with the highest rates in the country being in Hawaii, at about $0.33 per kWh.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
the company relies on human engineers in India
Intelligence, artificial or otherwise, is scarce.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
This week’s price spikes also underscore how dependent the region’s power grid has become on wind farms, which now make up about a quarter of the generation capacity in Texas. Lackluster breezes contributed to the higher prices, said Flannan Hehir, a power analyst at energy data provider Genscape.
It's all right! All we need to do is convince Aeolus to crank up the breeze whenever we need it.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-startup-boom-raises-questions-of-exaggerated-tech-savvy-11565775004
Documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal and several people familiar with the company's operations, including current and former staff, suggest Engineer.ai doesn't use AI to assemble code for apps as it claims. They indicated that the company relies on human engineers in India and elsewhere to do most of that work, and that its AI claims are inflated even in light of the fake-it-'til-you-make-it mentality common among tech startups.
Our job is still safe
Obligatory:
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@Mason_Wheeler said:
When you do a task by hand, you can technically say you trained a neural net to do it.
Only if you got better at it during the task. Otherwise you've simply employed a pre-existing neural net to tackle the issue.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
The fingerprints of over 1 million people, as well as facial recognition information, unencrypted usernames and passwords, and personal information of employees, was discovered on a publicly accessible database
Looking forward to these "please change your face and fingerprints" emails from the bank....
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
AI Startup Boom Raises Questions of Exaggerated Tech Savvy
Researchers discover that marketing bullshit is bullshit, full story at 11
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@ixvedeusi The fact is often lost to Gell-Mann amnesia for domains other than you work or take interest in, so it is useful to occasionally remind people.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@ixvedeusi said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
The US Navy will replace its touchscreen controls with mechanical ones on its destroyers
It's sad that people had to die in order for someone to realize how fucking dumb an idea it is to use touch screens for any kind of safety-critical control, let alone for a several-thousand ton warship.
It gets worse. I am pretty sure none of the aviation authorities would certify touchscreen for anything critical in an airplane and colleagues who worked on some projects for railway say that the railway authority would similarly never certify touchscreen at the engineer's station. Which means the Navy's quality certification sucks.
Apples and oranges. I'm rather sure that touchscreen-only control is not allowed on civilian ships either. But militaries are by and large above the regulations of petty
mortalscivilians. Other examples of this include U.S.A.F. aircraft not carrying "black boxes" until very recently.
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@acrow It's not apples and oranges. Comparing civilian and military requirements is valid, and in these cases shows failure of military to adopt the civilian requirements that would make sense for them as well.
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@Bulb It all sounds a bit like some admiral went golfing with a touchscreen saleman…
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@Bulb Comparing civil boating to Navy, or civil aviation to USAF are straight comparisons. As would be comparing civil aviation to civil boating, or Navy to USAF. But going straight from Navy to civil aviation seems pretty apples-to-oranges to me, unless you're talking aircraft carriers.
Militaries are historically slow and reluctant to adopt new ideas, especially at peacetime. Doubly so for ideas that do not directly contribute towards winning wars. This can be attributed to the average age of the leadership, as well as the criteria used for select advancement in rank. Also, militaries tent to train their own personnell even in specialist roles (e.g. pilots) from scratch, so there's no osmosis of ideas via people with prior experience. Thus, wider adoption of new safety standards largely won't happen unless mandated by the host government.
Some governments do require militaries to conform to civil aviation/boating/road regulations during peacetime, although mostly in Europe. It's by no means common. Although it should be noted that European (and U.S.) safety regulations are rather strict compared to the rest of the world.
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Pentium II is back
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Watch Out Google, YouTubers Are Unionizing
FakeEdit: Of course I am
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
FakeEdit: Of course I am
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
that could hurt its initial public offering.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
YouTubers Are Unionizing
Can they go on strike? Please? I promise I'll be ever so mean to them ahead of time if it will just get them to stop spewing shit on the internet…
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@Dragoon More proof that Android is objectively better in every way.
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What could possibly go wrong?
Filed under: Sci-fi writers obviously like to try out ideas, including those of the Animatrix
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
YouTubers Are Unionizing
Can they go on strike? Please? I promise I'll be ever so mean to them ahead of time if it will just get them to stop spewing shit on the internet…
My son might even accomplish something useful with his life if he's not distracted by a never-ending stream of new anime, Nerf, and cute animal videos to watch 24/7.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
new anime
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Nerf
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
cute animal videos
One of these things is not like the other...
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@Tsaukpaetra However, they are all similar in that my son watches them when he should be doing more important things (like going to school or finding a job).
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@JBert That's some Dread Empire of Praes shit. Like, do you want to permanently fuck up the planet? Because that's how you permanently fuck up the planet.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra Here's the actual video:
https://www.uni-due.de/agfarle/bilder/StandingWaveComparison_480_2x_30_c - Kopie.gif
I don't get it. What standing wave behaves like the one above? The outer maximums don't stay in the same place, and when it's U-shaped the wave seems to have a significantly longer period than in the opposite state.
Unless that's supposed to be a "perspective" thing?
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@LaoC Well, the envelope containing the wave is wave-shaped with fixed locations for maxima and minima, so it still looks like a standing wave, yet at the same the wave is clearly travelling within it. Which is weird.
The article mentions that it was a bamboozling phenomenon to the people who discovered it...
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@LaoC Well, the envelope containing the wave is wave-shaped with fixed locations for maxima and minima, so it still looks like a standing wave, yet at the same the wave is clearly travelling within it. Which is weird.
The article mentions that it was a bamboozling phenomenon to the people who discovered it...
Sure, the lower one does look weird. My first guess would have been that it's something pretty easy to get when you find the right ratio of phase velocity and frequency, but it seems to be more complicated than that.
What I was talking about was their representation of a regular standing wave, the one above. This (the red one) is how it's supposed to look:
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
t the same the wave is clearly travelling within it.
It wasn't clear to me...
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
What could possibly go wrong?
Filed under: Sci-fi writers obviously like to try out ideas, including those of the Animatrix
I suggest blocking the sunlight using solar panels.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
What could possibly go wrong?
Dyson sphere in three...two...one....
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Despite a long investigation, there have still been no remote-controlled copters in Gatwick airspace - apart from the police ones.
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Youtube Continues Shitting in Everyone's Mouth, Because There Is No Competition
As such if there was “unintentional” or “very short clips” of music playing in the background of a video clip, the copyright holder will not be able to earn money from ads placed in the video.
The copyright holder will have the option to leave the video up and block the creator from making money, or they can block the video completely, The Verge reported.It took them months if not years of R&D, but they've figured out a way to get the worst possible outcome for everyone involved.
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"CLIT"
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
I was going to make a joke, but I'm drawing a blank on vegetables or fruits starting with an I.
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@PleegWat Iceberg lettuce, but there's already lettuce on a BLT so that doesn't really work.
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@Mason_Wheeler I'd forgot about that one. My own brief google search did not turn it up, though I did get a couple of vegetables starting in Indian which I discarded for cosmetic reasons.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
I was going to make a joke, but I'm drawing a blank on vegetables or fruits starting with an I.
https://www.isbe.net/Documents/ffv_a_to_z.pdf
I: ivy, Indian fig, iceburg lettuce, Indian pea, Indian corn