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@HardwareGeek Ok. It's corrected now. I should've guessed trying to upload from mobile wasn't going to work. I had to email it to myself and then upload it via a "real" browser.
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@Arantor remember Amphioxus?
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
Mainly posting this because the headline is (scientists warn? And what can we do about it?)
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
Sounds to me like a probable instance of the third-cause fallacy.
I've got a spray that prevents that.
Is it branded _Biological Advanced Technologies_, and does it work for sharks, too?
Warning: Not water resistant?
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
An ingenious move. Now they can plug the money leak from desktop users, who used to be able to just buy a new keyboard if the old one failed. No more; a broken keycap now means they'll have to replace the whole system.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
Of course. Electromagnetism (the next weakest fundamental force) is what gives matter its solidity at all, among other things.
And the strong nuclear force is what makes a madman with 6000+ warheads a bit of a concern.
The weak too.
I mean, without the strong there wouldn't be a motive, but the weak causes the fallout.
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@topspin team work makes the dream work!
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@topspin Yeah. I think I can conclude that I prefer the pansy weak fundamental forces. For example, gravity is pretty neat - floating off into space uncontrollably would kinda suck.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
would kinda suck.
But at least you wouldn't have to worry about black holes!
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@LaoC said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
Mainly posting this because the headline is (scientists warn? And what can we do about it?)
Slow news day. It's not like there's anything else happening in the world right now...
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part of a calculated and secret scheme to find a loophole in the Jones Act, which was only revealed when the government received a tip from a third party.
What a great law, I'm sure countless people were harmed by this egregious abuse of some loophole that nobody gave half a shit about until some rando just happened to notice
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
part of a calculated and secret scheme to find a loophole in the Jones Act, which was only revealed when the government received a tip from a third party.
What a great law, I'm sure countless people were harmed by this egregious abuse of some loophole that nobody gave half a shit about until some rando just happened to notice
I mean, in theory this is a good thing. Either there's a good reason for this law to exist, then this loophole needs to be closed, or there isn't and once they come to their senses they can drop all of it without making them go for stupid round trips.
Yes, who am I kidding.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
part of a calculated and secret scheme to find a loophole in the Jones Act, which was only revealed when the government received a tip from a third party.
What a great law, I'm sure countless people were harmed by this egregious abuse of some loophole that nobody gave half a shit about until some rando just happened to notice
I mean, in theory this is a good thing. Either there's a good reason for this law to exist, then this loophole needs to be closed, or there isn't and once they come to their senses they can drop all of it without making them go for stupid round trips.
Yes, who am I kidding.It's old school protectionism. Needs to be gone 80 years ago already.
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My eyebrows don’t determine whether I’m a good mother or not
She's correct but between those and the lip liner it looks like she fell asleep at a house party and someone drew on her face.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
My eyebrows don’t determine whether I’m a good mother or not
She's correct but between those and the lip liner it looks like she fell asleep at a house party and someone drew on her face.
I mean, I absolutely feel the people who say the child is not safe with her. But then I skimmed a few words of the article: it's painted on, not tattooed, and she keeps doing it to piss people off. So while she has zero taste I have to give her props for that.
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@Boner said in In other news today...:
FFS, how is this in anyway child abuse or neglect?
I think it is is ugly and takes away from her face
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
how is this in anyway child abuse or neglect?
It's not, obviously, and it doesn't seem realistic that social services would do anything. But stupid busybodies are stupid.
I think it is is ugly
Very. But apparently it's intentional; she's rebelling against conventional beauty standards.
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Remember how games have the doors you just can't get through? Not even armed to the teeth? Well, apparently those exit in real life ... at least when you're in the Russian army:
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@cvi He needs a wooden plate.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
how is this in anyway child abuse or neglect?
It's not, obviously, and it doesn't seem realistic that social services would do anything. But stupid busybodies are stupid.
I think it is is ugly
Very. But apparently it's intentional; she's rebelling against conventional beauty standards.
I don't think it matters that it is intentional. Her baby doesn't care.
I've had experience in foster homes and group homes. In my opinion all edge cases should default to the legal parents.
This isn't even close to an edge case.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
My eyebrows don’t determine whether I’m a good mother or not
She's correct but between those and the lip liner it looks like she fell asleep at a house party and someone drew on her face.
I mean, I absolutely feel the people who say the child is not safe with her. But then I skimmed a few words of the article: it's painted on, not tattooed, and she keeps doing it to piss people off. So while she has zero taste I have to give her props for that.
I like to think she says "my eyebrows are up here!" all the time.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@Boner said in In other news today...:
FFS, how is this in anyway child abuse or neglect?
I think it is is ugly and takes away from her faceI do wonder what the kids' relationship towards clowns will turn up to growing up.
Filed under: ICP.
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Included in the theft, the group claims, are schematics and source code for drivers and firmware.
"We decided to help mining and gaming community," Lapsus$ members wrote in broken English. "We want nvidia to push an update for all 30 series firmware that remove every lhr limitations otherwise we will leak hw folder. If they remove the lhr we will forget about hw folder (it's a big folder). We both know lhr impact mining and gaming."
LHR works by looking for specific attributes of the Ethereum mining algorithm. When one of those attributes is found, LHR limits the hash rate, which dictates mining efficiency, by around 50 percent. "We designed GeForce GPUs for gamers, and gamers are clamoring for more," Nvidia officials wrote when unveiling LHR.
On Tuesday, Lapsus$ modified its demand. Now, the group also wants Nvidia to commit to making its GPU drivers completely open source. If Nvidia does not comply, Lapsus$ says, the company can expect to see a new leak that would include the complete silicon, graphics, and computer chipset files for all its recent GPUs.
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@Zecc Odd, they got the source code, can't they fix it themselves?
:irony meme:
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@Zecc quoted in In other news today...:
We both know lhr impact mining and gaming."
LHR works by looking for specific attributes of the Ethereum mining algorithm. When one of those attributes is found, LHR limits the hash rate
Yeah, so it doesn't affect gaming, except potentially making a handful of cards actually purchasable by gamers. So fuck off with that.
Also, of course hell will freeze over before nVidia will open source their drivers, and criminal extortion won't change that. The OSS people would never look at a potential leak anyway because it would make all their code tainted.
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@PotatoEngineer said in In other news today...:
the work reveals that the process is as gradual as the melting of a snowman in the sun
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From the movie mashup category:
Eight Heads in a Duffel Bag
plus
Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
equals:I'd kind of like to find that someone named Alfredo Garcia is involved in this in some capacity.
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@Dragoon Going by the huge popup on top of that, I'm guessing that the pushback is done by using cookie consent forms?
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@dkf
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Local governments in states such as California, Indiana, Maine, New York and Virginia have imposed moratoriums on large-scale solar farms, as a national push for cleaner energy has collided with complaints about how the projects affect wildlife and scenic views. In one Nevada town west of Las Vegas, residents are trying to block a proposed 2,300-acre solar field.
“There’s only so much land on this planet, and right now those rooftops are doing nothing other than keeping the sun out and keeping the rain out,” said Johanna Neumann, senior director for the renewable energy campaign at Environment America, an advocacy group.
Thank you, captain obvious.
“The obvious best place to put solar energy is to integrate it directly into whatever you might be powering,” said Joshua Pearce, an engineering professor at Western University in Ontario, Canada, who has researched putting solar panels on reservoirs, parking lots and elsewhere.
It's like this is a real epiphany to these people.
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@acrow Meh. Scaling up (e.g. large farm) will help. Creating a ton of small installations has a significant overhead and will cost in terms of maintenance. Putting installations into awkward places (reservoirs and parking lots) will make that worse.
Setting up individual cells isn't the only way either. Mirror arrays + towers are an other option. Those you can't parcel out the same way.
Besides ... have these people been to Nevada et al.? () There's literally desert for miles. 10km² will fit in there just fine. Also ... tricky to find a 10km² parking lot, even in the US.
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@cvi "Desert" isn't as empty as you'd think:
To find some actually dead land, you'd have to go all the way to the salt flats.
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@acrow It's good that the article lists some possible locations as well (e.g., old mines).
But I'm not sure what people expect. Energy production will have some footprint. Even if you're burning renewable biomass, you'll still need to clear a bunch of land for growing that biomass in the first place.
Nuclear might have a smaller footprint (at least locally), but do you imagine the same people wouldn't oppose one of those in their vicinity?
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
Also ... tricky to find a 10km² parking lot, even in the US.
That's like, what, 8 pickup trucks?
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
Nuclear might have a smaller footprint (at least locally), but do you imagine the same people wouldn't oppose one of those in their vicinity?
Don't forget the waste storage. Literally nobody accepts that in their neighborhood.
Basically, no matter what you do you will have NIMBYs for everything. Most people would prefer some solar installation next to them over a coal plant, but that doesn't stop them from complaining about the solar either.
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@topspin Solar panels make most sense over the parking lots, large storage facilities, water reservoirs, sometimes combined with agriculture (half-shade is fine, and sometimes even better, for many plants in warmer climates) etc., not so much just taking up space just for themselves.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@topspin Solar panels make most sense over the parking lots, large storage facilities, water reservoirs, sometimes combined with agriculture (half-shade is fine, and sometimes even better, for many plants in warmer climates) etc., not so much just taking up space just for themselves.
Oh, I completely agree. Much better to use already developed space, especially in parts where it's actually advantaguous. (There were some articles about how putting them over artificial water canals also reduces evaporation)
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
But I'm not sure what people expect.
People expect a few square meters of panel. Maybe placed on top of a hill for good sunlight. Something that doesn't require chopping down hectares of the nature that it's supposed to save.
Even if you're burning renewable biomass, you'll still need to clear a bunch of land for growing that biomass in the first place.
Sure. But that biomass is much prettier while it's growing up.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
People expect a few square meters of panel. Maybe placed on top of a hill for good sunlight. Something that doesn't require chopping down hectares of the nature that it's supposed to save.
People are idiots then.
There's a slight difference in 100+MW powerplants (which is still-ish in terms of powerplants) and offloading a bit of energy production for your home's needs. The latter isn't worthless, but it also isn't going to cover the overall energy needs (industry especially).
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
People are idiots then.
Of course they are. If they were not, they would paint their walls and rooftops white in the warmer climates, instead of just pumping the heat out with AC.
Fraction of the cost of a solar installation. And would probably save half the power a small-scale rooftop installation would generate.
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@acrow Indeed.
That's a different interesting point with solar panels. They work less efficiently if they get too hot (and the optimal temperature isn't that high, i.e., apparently somewhere around 20°C-30°C).
Potentially something that's in favour of the the solar thermal plants like the one in the article you linked earlier. There you actually want to heat something as much as possible, to generate a large heat differential.