Note that shutting down all nuclear plants would also have the counterintuitive effect of releasing more radioactives into the environment as well.

Fossil fuels don't burn clean, as they are often contaminated with other minerals and are only refined enough to where they can burn (and reducing can release emissions of it's own). While this is clearly true for coal it also applies to oil to some degree. For this reasons, coal power plant emissions are several orders of magnitude more radioactive than you get from nuclear power plants due to uranium and other ores that are mixed in. A drop in nuclear usage is likely to be compensated by an increase in coal or other fossil fuels.

Even if the slack in electricity production is taken up by renewables, the radioactives pulled up from mining the materials for constructing solar panels, batteries, or wind turbines are likely to be left in contained in tailings piles that will be washed into rivers as opposed to the strict containment nuclear facilities need to apply to their radioactives.

I disagree. I find GPT is not at all like an inexperienced programmer. GPT is like the most experienced programmer ever, but is used to doing everything by rote without any understanding to ground it. All it seems to know are stack overflow posts and maybe some other bits of code.

It doesn't even understand language, it just pattern matches. So that means that unless you engineer the prompt, you'll probably get stackoverflow style answers, just because that was the most common relevant pattern in its training. So for code completion you may want to tell it to begin it's response with "I am a software engineer at , and...". That way you match more against the corpus where people at least claimed to be above average. Not that I believe that when I see people say that on stackoverflow posts, but surprisingly the ones that do are better than average.

I follow one of the devs on mastodon. They've written quite a bit about the work. They looked at traces from MacOS, but there was also a lot of trial same error to figure out the protocol, message structure and offsets for each firmware version.

They first wrote a user mode driver in python for rapid iteration and then once it was stable ported the code to Rust and moved it into the kernel.

The article is also about metallic hydrogen. Specifically metallic hydrogen with some additives to reduce the pressure required for superconductivity.
I would not be surprised if both articles were from the same line of research.

Funny, last I checked Brave was mostly Chromium, and Google does at least 90% of the work on Chromium. Google pays for Chromium. Ads pay for publishers to run websites.

If you don't want ads or tracking, that fine. Put up the cash and pay for content that's useful. Otherwise you're just a leech living off the contributions of society, just waiting until the tragedy of Commons kicks in and destroys what's left of the free (as in speech) and open Internet.

As for DuckDuckBing....er...DuckDuckGo, with the kinds of capital they're raising recently (and their reliance on other company's search stacks), how long do you think it will be before some investor forces then to start monetizing more aggressively?

Google already had different pay brackets for different regions, so moving could raise or lower your pay.

The issue here is that people transferred with the promise of a certain amount of pay/equity and then Google changed the policy after they've moved. I don't think they got pay cuts, but I've heard that annual raises and equity refreshes were well below inflation for such people

If you combine this with everyone working from home and the continued deferrals on return to office, many people are finding that not only did they miss out on thousands of dollars of salary by *relocating according to the timeline required by Google*, but their projected future earnings are much less than was expected.

Add in that there are almost certainly some people who may have actually "unofficially" relocated but "forgot" to get HR approval and thus have kept their same salary...

Google had created time crystals, try to keep up.

Time crystals, instead of showing a regular lattice in the spatial dimension, show it in the temporal dimension. It sounds cool, but that just means they were able to create a relatively isolated system that goes through a cycle of transitions with negligible entropic losses.

I read the article. Still think it's a hoax, or at the least not news.

A man who has unable to get scientific support for his theories and can only get funding for unrelated work suddenly find something that looks a little bit like his theory in a simulation he is doing. Fire up the presses! This can't be a case of pareidolia, it must be aliens!

In other news, my the year old found a cloud that looked like a bunny so I took a picture and put it between the piece of toast with Jesus' face and the potato shaped like a man.

Don't hold the kid for 2 hours crying. You're just extending the pain for both you and the kid. Make it clear that a) you love them and b) you understand they are upset. Then send them to a "safe spot" (which they chose when they weren't upset) until they are calm enough and non-violent. If they won't go the first couple of times, then you may need to carry them to their safe spot. Don't continue a conversation when it gets repetitive -- children need to learn to accept no for an answer.

If that doesn't work, get a behavioral therapist to help. If your child is autistic then this should be covered by insurance (also check if the local school has any programs -- some places have special programs for eligible for kids 3 and older).

It's an encrypted tunnel from the client to the egress server. Sure if the ingress servers and the egress servers collude they could see your browsing history, but it's not in the egress server's best interest to do that. Typically they're a CDN, so this is a side hustle for them and not worth the publicity risk to their main business.

There's a difference between not claiming the vaccines will stop disease spread and claiming that vaccines will stop disease spread.

Scientists, the government, and vaccine providers do not claim that the vaccine will stop the spread. That's because they don't know for certain. It is very likely in theory and based on the data so far seems even more likely, but that's not something they've run a trial on. So they can't honestly claim the vaccine will stop the spread.

It is disingenuous and dishonest to spin this as admitting that the vaccine will not stop the spread. That's very much not what is being said.

Simple, the difference is that Republicans haven't broken this yet.

In a lot of places the system is rigged to make it hard to get on and stay on public assistance. Staying on welfare becomes a full-time job, so there is no time to look for a better job.

I know someone who was denied disability assistance for over a year despite having medical issues requiring more than $1000 a month in medication and not being able to lift more than 15 pounds or focus for more than 4 hours a day. He was eventually able to get assistance, but he had to sue the state to get it. At the hearing the judge was not impressed by the state's case of "but I think he can get a job" when that same agency had also made no progress finding a job he was physically capable of doing. Of course that would have been cold comfort if he hadn't gotten the support he needs privately (assuming he lived that long).

You're right. 1000 a month is enough for food. What it doesn't pay for is medical care, rent and utilities. So if you can manage to keep a permanent address (to collect your payments) and never get sick, you can live off of this (on the street eating all the food raw because you have no kitchen to cook it with).

If you're using lynx on a vt100 for privacy then you're doing it wrong. There's probably only two people that send out that user agent on every request. I'm not sure they could realistically avoid being able to track you.

You're better off using something mainstream and hide in the crowd. Use common commodity hardware and software (yes that likely means something Chromium based diet the browser). Use one or more VPNs based in the same country. Don't install extensions or local fonts. Run the browser maximized or at one of a few sizes. Only visit one web site at a time (per profile) and close the browser when done so you start fresh.

I know Chrome also has an implementation of sharded third-party state (which is the technical term for separating caches and cookies [and socket pools] by first party site). I even think they started working on it first, but it's still in the experimental stage as it breaks too much to deployed by default.

I think it mainly breaks advertising, but causes problems with other embeds -- and what's the point of YouTube premium if you still see ads on embedded videos?

That said, good job for Firefox. It's not easy separating stuff out like this, as you effectively have to change every map to use 2-3 element tuples as keys instead of a single string. And if you keep in mind all of the different caches and storage browsers support (HSTS, favicons, pages, fonts, cookies, indexDB, service workers, etc) it's quite a bit of work.