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Comment insufficient no knowledge of subject (Score 2, Interesting) 57

Senators who have no idea what secure means specifying the means of security.

It is a hard problem, how do you incentivize companies/hospitals/whoever to take security seriously ? It's an expense and they will always try to minimize it. I mean given the number of breaches if they are not taking it seriously at this point they never will.

plus any other information that the HHS secretary deems necessary.

Great, can't wait to see what the incompetent idiot Trump appoints as Secretary of HHS deems necessary.

Comment water is often high in chlorine (Score 1) 136

Bought a carbon filter for drinking water simply because it was possible on some days to smell the chlorine in it and on most days able to taste it. I believe that's due to periodic "shocking" with high levels of chlorine (don't know why and ).

ozone and UV are both alternatives to chlorine but in the US whatever is cheapest is ALWAYS the right answer.

Comment what exactly are those 500M using AI for? (Score 2) 81

I'm not on FB - I know hard to believe.

such as the Meta AI chatbot that is now used by more than 500 million users every month

Serious question, what are they using it for ?

Is this just shit that marketing is making up ?
are those 500M simply reading AI generated ads ?
is the AI summarizing news stories while adding in new conspiracy theories free of charge ?
what the fuck is he talking about ?

Comment continue to burn up the planet for this crap? (Score 1) 36

Writing Tools" will help you summarize notes, change the tone of your messages to make them friendlier or more professional, and turn a wall of text into a list or table. You'll see AI summaries in notifications and emails, along with a new focus mode that aims to filter out unimportant alerts. The updated Siri is signified by a glowing border around the screen, and it now allows for text input by double-tapping the bottom of the screen. It's helpful stuff, but we've seen a lot of this before, and it'll hardly represent a seismic shift in how you use your iPhone.

LOL. A seismic shift indeed.

I wonder how Apple's plan to reduce GHGs is doing ?

Comment blockchain ? (Score 1) 56

Meanwhile in August, Stephenson's blockchain-tech startup Lamina1

Well - it's supposed to be an open system to do something something for creators.

I guess it might be a good thing ?

The fact is with AI pulling down anything and everything and the money behind it preventing any sort of legal repercussions , it does seem like it's something that's needed.

Comment reasonably cost efficient (Score 3, Interesting) 69

100MW sounds like a lot but if it's a $2B project that is $20/W which is somewhat expensive.
However at 400MW that's $5/W which seems reasonable especially for the capability of 24/7 generation.

It becomes particularly attractive for the small footprint. Solar panels to generate 400MW would take up a lot of space.
I believe that modern wind turbines are on the order of 1-2MW per install, so that's 200 wind turbines that do not work 24/7.

This seems very cool.

I'm unclear on why it needs to go 13,000 feet down. You would think a couple of thousand feet would be good enough to get you some boiling water.
Also aren't pipes 13,000 feet long really likely to break or have problems ?

Comment Re:5G itself means very little (Score 1) 47

And the bars _should_ tell you something but it is completely dependent on the manufacturers implementation of what's called received signal strength.

These days that calculation should really be the same (due to the modulation and HW used - which has become extremely uniform), however there is some amount of averaging going on and that can potentially have a large effect on the value. Averaging _should_ be done, it's a question of how much.

Signal strength varies wildly based on the path. Local nulls are a thing and can wipe out a signal in the space of a few meters. Interferers can cause problems even when the signal strength is high, hence the reason you might be getting poor reception with high signal strength.

If manufacturers know they have a HW problem and need to release the HW to manufacturing or have already released it, they are definitely not above lying on the reported back numbers to make their phone look good. Generally it takes a while to figure out how good a receiver is, and the only accurate way to do it is with a hardware debug link to the phone.

Comment couldn't we just build stuff out of wood? (Score 1) 143

Wood is a fanstastic construction material. There's been some really interesting research as to how to make it even better.
For example.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticle...

Not sure, might be too energy intensive, after all if you use 90% of the carbon savings processing it into a higher strength building material that's obviously not a great plan. However further research can perhaps find a better way.

Can you make 100 story skyscrapers with it ? No , but I would argue we shouldn't even be building 100 story skyscrapers.

Meanwhile it could be used for a LOT of construction and that would lock it up nicely.

It's so very human to think about just turning it into garbage instead.

Comment habitat destruction (Score 4, Interesting) 40

There's little doubt that pesticides are taking their toll, but habitat destruction is every bit as bad.

At least you can stop using pesticides, altough, as usual, the chemical industry is excellent at getting government to sell out the environment and cheaply.

The problem with habitat destruction is it's very difficult to undo. What do you do about recovering fields when there's now a subdivision there ?

One way is to educate people to make their yards insect friendly, starting with not using pesticides, and to try and make it habitat.

Gardens, and I mean food gardens, seem to be excellent habitat. I see bugs that I've never seen before hanging around when tomatoes or brocollini or some other plant in the garden is blooming.

Comment glass is half empty (Score 1) 13

This is great, I guess, because the fact that intervention is required at all says that we are in a fuckton of trouble.

The real problem is that the goal posts are moving. Whatever magic genetic strengthening they managed to get in this round is going to be completely insufficient in another decade never mind anothe 5 decades.

Coral reefs are now on a multi millenium long recovery path.

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