We're in agreement on lies catching up to people. They already have caught up to your types in music. Suno.ai won. Anti-AI liars lost. Relevant Majors are now all invested in AI. Mainline artists all use Suno for everything from figuring out a specific tune, to testing out how certain things could be done with specific voices under specific conditions. It's done and there's no going back.

We're well in progress of same being done the same to movie industry and gaming. Every single one of the activists will have to go back to Burger King. You can arrange all the bluesky cancellation campaigns and take back awards as you please. For a couple more years.

Meanwhile Expedition 33 guys will just have to wipe their tears with their fat wads of cash from product sales, while sitting at McDonalds. And then pay you in those salty, wet bills in your new, productive employment as a burger flipper.

Welcome home.

I've had some inside access to this tech in recent past. The main problem is efficiency. It's horrendous. You lose tremendous amounts of energy doing this, and you need quite a bit of energy to maintain the compressed state. We're nowhere near mainline chemical batteries in terms of efficiency numbers, and whatever numbers they're claiming on their website are likely specifically negating some critical losses. I've seen efficiency numbers as low as 20-25%, through they can really struggle to push into upper 30s for long term storage, and can probably get above 50 for very short term (i.e. minimal compressed state maintenance costs). Still nowhere near the required efficiency numbers to competitive with chemical batteries of current gen. These people claim 75%. Odd.

And it's completely unsuitable to any kind of "long term storage". This is very much a potential energy capacitor, and maintaining compressed state requires constant energy burn (which is one of the parts of it having awful energy efficiency). They claim "long term storage". Doubly odd.

Finally there's just basic physics. From memory, CO2 goes supercritical at just over 30C (liquid and gas phase become effectively indistinguishable no matter the pressure you put it under). Last 10 degrees or so before that, pressure needed to maintain it it liquid form goes from something like 50 bar to around 80 bar if memory serves me right. And as gas passes through turbines and such, it picks up impurities, increasing need to compress it, and often lowering supercriticiality point. This is why it's generally difficult to do this sort of battery as an actual battery (CO2 going all the way both ways), because it picks up a whole bunch of impurities quickly.

So you're constantly fighting your compressible medium, trying to keep it purified and cooled. These people claim no cryogenics, which is 100% impossible claim. When you pressurize the gas, it heats up. A lot. You will need an incredibly powerful cooling system to keep it under that supercritical temp unless your "charging" is hilariously slow. Also this will suck up power.

With this in mind, I started looking. First, the project page. It has all the markers of ESG green credit mill. It has a page that has a lot of pretty renders, a lot of outrageous claims about efficiency and readiness for deployment, and a lot of famous big company names participating to show that green credits are indeed available from this project.

Next is the website. No operating principles, no actual numbers, no relevant paper links, no direct phone contact to the rep, nothing. Just renders, slick page with basically no details, and a general contact form. Doesn't matter if you click "buy", "rent" or "contact" button on one of the several pages on the website. They all lead to that same form. Again highly unusual for an actual company, and completely normal for an ESG green credits mill.

Another marker of this being just another green credits scam is typing their address into google maps. Their headquarters is supposedly in Milan. Building shows that it's office building of Edison (one of the older energy companies in Italy). Meanwhile, they also have a separate legal office is another small residential building in Milan centre.

Neither building shows this company on google maps as having an office there. Odd for a company listing to have upper two to low three digits on staff, but completely normal for ESG green credit mill. ESG green credit mills basically hire existing experts that already work for power companies, as their primary focus is producing reports for the purpose of generating said credits for various green credit schemes and mechanisms that exist globally. I.e. people who already work in the field pick up part time work generating necessary red tape. And company will claim that them working at their actual employers office = being company office.

Finally the name of the head of the company. I'm going to just straight up quote Barclays, who calls him a "serial environmental enterpreneur". That is indeed what someone who runs many ESG green credits mills would be titled to be both truthful AND not reveal what he does.

Overall, this could be not just an ESG green credits mill. There's a tiny chance they're some kind of a tiny company too small to feature even their headquarters on google maps that actually have some kind of unique tech that actually did what none of the power majors who really threw everything into this in US and across Europe could do - make a viable compressible gas battery without complex cryogenics, with high efficiency, reliability and throughput.

But there's a lot of evidence pointing at it being just another ESG green credits mill, and very little evidence of it having such a breakthrough.

The best part about this denialist screeeching is that it doesn't matter even if you manage to claw back some of the progress and temporarily stall it.

Chinese are coming. They already showed how good they are. And they're all in on AI, just like all of the good studios are. And as we've seen with your ilk publishing the "very optimized, very efficient decolonization simulators" like the latest installment in Assassin's Creed that killed not just the studio that made it, not just the franchise, but got the entire parent company chopped up so that everything that is still of value in it could be sold to... Chinese.

Welcome home.

You can rage. You can moan. You can scream. You can deploy SIGN (Shame, Insults, Guilt, Need to be right) language. None of it matters. Consumers have already chosen. All the elite pressure groups you can muster cannot change it.

Good studios that deploy the latest technologies and build on good vision will stand. The rest will die to lack of income because their raging hatred will be unable to even break even to pay for their time spent ranting here and on bluesky.

It's worth noting that this seems to be another step in current US admin largely accepting that other nations have done some things better, and they should be copied.

This seems to copy how PRC treats internal party apparatus tech needs. Where you create a separate unit that ensures that technological workers within Party structures have mostly unified requirements and if applicable, training.

In wake of US Navy launching Shaheds off LCS, Air Force starting to talk about cheap drones, there may be hope that some form of actually competent IT force could be employed instead of another "skilled workers need not apply" welfare boondongle. Because it seems the realization of "we can't do even the simplest things in the most ludicrously expensive way possible and maintain edge in international inter-imperial competition.

No one who matters cares about AI being used, because AI is a tool that almost everyone uses at this point.

As for consumers, we care about games being good for purpose at a reasonable cost. Expedition 33 was great. "But we're going to cancel you after the fact" crowd are all going back to Burger King, McDonalds, etc after their jobs at their hilariously inefficient multi-thousand head studios who see it as their primary purpose to "subvert whiteness" and "decolonize gaming" instead of making games people want just go away. All of their jobs should go away. Save the next brand, don't let it become another Assassin's Creed, or another Dragon Age.

Meanwhile actually creative people will keep on winning as AI will let them scale their creativity even further with less need to take on these mentally ill freaks. And I mean that literally, as pretty much all of them list mental illnesses in their bio on the far left asylum that is bluesky. We'll have more Expedition 33s.

The future is bright, with few talented people being able to push their talent even further with AI, while talentless freaks trying to subvert games into far left propaganda will finally be amputated from this business.

This change cannot come fast enough.

Rust touts its amazing memory safe etc, but then it appears that to do much of anything (especially replicate existing non-rust code functionality) then rust reaches for allowing "unsafe" code. So, what was the point?

Let's break down how these thousand "technologists" will be tasked during their two year stint:

All of them will spend the first one or two months waiting for their super duper secure smart cards with FIPS compliant crypto. Add another month for waiting for keys/certs to be reset a couple/three times.

In the remaining time:

About 30 or 40 of them will take a month or two to do something cool and practical in a sandbox environment where it isn't actually useful in practice.

And then they will wait the remaining 18 months for the other 950 or so of them to check all the compliance boxes, consult all the lawyers, make sure all the private sector contractors aren't being unfairly competed against by government employees, that properly written requirements were duly announced on Fedbid, etc.

Oh and also allow a couple months net downtime for mandatory windows and office updates breaking everything.

Good ol' government IT.

About 30 of them

RE the divorces comment, that's a feature not a bug when you realize that what's being uncovered is 100% deeply dishonest behavior.

Personally I don't know why DNA testing at birth isn't mandatory even if it was only to confirm paternity and then disposed.

You can always tell boomers because they are obsessed with asset value.

Who cares if your battery gets swapped out? Whenever you get low on charge you swap and it's a neverending cycle. They already have this in China, an advanced country, for electric scooters. The batteries are all the same and when you get low you can recharge or stop at a swap station and put your current one in and get another fully charged one out.

Fair enough. In a line-disciplined clock, the accuracy is contingent *only* on setting it correctly *once.*

But back to my original point: what kind of moron can't set their alarm clock once?

Back in the bad old days, $20 radio shack alarm clocks would be synched to the line frequency.

It's a thing you don't notice until it's gone. Bought one that runs off a USB power brick a while back and it lost hours after a few months. And it's not like stable oscillators are expensive. A $5 wristwatch will keep good time. Someone just cheaped out real stupid.

My coffee maker too. Keeps horrible time. No excuses since it's literally plugged into 60hz AC to run the heater strip.

Speaking of...remember the Juicero...which literally advertised itself as refusing to squeeze packages past their arbitrarily set use-by dates?

Some people actually seek out the nickel-and-diming as a status symbol. Black cards, subscription boxes, all of it.

Fuck, Bernie Madoff had people begging him to handle their money knowing full well the cut he took.

What kind of moron buys an internet-connected alarm clock at all?

Why aren't you cheering? The Trumptards are getting what they voted for, good and hard. Oh, how we will all laugh the next time a hurricane blows down the McMansions of these racist science-hating rebels

. We can even have FEMA mark any house with a Trump yard sign off-limits and refuse to give federal disaster assistance, like they did under Biden.

trumptards don't believe in welfare, remember?

I wasn't taught plenty of stuff I knew by the end of college. I learned it as a consequence of getting my work done. Occassionally from friends/classmates/roommates and sometimes just for fun.

Example: I took exactly one full semester class in java (it was the early 2000s) and one half semester class in C freshman year. There was a "build blinkylights with microcontrollers" elective I took junior year which was kinda fun, but if you didn't fill in the gaps between "this is C" and "here's where the pointer to the isr goes on this microcontroller" (i think it was a motorolla chip) by yourself in the time between you we're going to do that well even in the academic sandbox.

More applicable example to the working world: I was never "taught" x86 assembly or how to write a kernel module for Linux, or even how to do threads and shared memory or a gui main loop. But I'm sure glad I figured it out on my own by the time I needed it at work and it actually counted.