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Comment Re:It's not lost (Score 1) 71

If it's radioactive enough to be a problem I would imagine it's easily detectable, considering that there are solid state sensors that can detect as little as 1 nSv/h of radiation and are apparently sensitive enough to be sometimes triggered by bananas.
If it's so radioactively inert that it can't be detected, then is it really a problem?

Comment Re:And then there are dog pictures (Score 1) 92

I forgot to mention that although it is possible to set some content rating based restrictions on some sited, there isn't any browser level standard. I think ideally what you would want is a way you could set your browser to be in "PG" mode for example, and then all websites (or content on websites) would be filterable accordingly.

Of course some websites might not choose to apply ratings to their content, or would apply inappropriate ratings to the content, but search engines could quickly down rate mis-rated content so it doesn't turn up in searches.
  It also goes without saying that the content filtering should be completely at the control of the individual user, with parents being responsible for setting appropriate filter levels for their kids, but only having to do it at the browser level, not each individual possible site their kid might visit.

Comment Re:Who are these people? (Score 1) 42

I would love it if there was some kind of mirror site for YouTube that would convert all the long video tutorial type videos into well formatted text with appropriate illustrations extracted from the video where necessary.
scanning the transcript sometimes helps, but it's not in a very easy to read format.

It's especially frustrating when I want to see how to do something or other in say, Unreal Engine, and nearly all resources available are YouTube videos instead of reasonable documentation or written tutorials.
Even playing the video at double speed to scan for the meat of what I want only goes so far to reducing this problem.

Of course it would be far better if there was just good documentation and example, but that's probably wishing for too much.

Comment Re:And then there are dog pictures (Score 1) 92

While it's true that you can't keep kids from seeing content that mabey isn't appropriate, social media companies haven't exactly done themselves any favours by failing to have any kind of rating system for their content.

I think a far better solution would be for content to be rated, with controls in place so rating filters could be applied, similar to how tv has ratings for content, and in some cases has the ability to set a parental lock for some content.

For sites like youtube, which has so much good educational content, as well as a lot of stuff that mabey you don't want your 12 year old kids to see, it would be far better than an outright ban if you could set a filter to only show say, G or PG rated content, and you could be sure your kids weren't going to be exposed to clips of people getting blown up in a war or something.
This might mean that all content would have to be rated "Unrated" until it was reviewed and rated by either a human or sufficiently accurate AI bot, but this should be something that be increasingly possible to do.
For comments, it might be be necessary to disable them, or similarly have them get rated in real time by a bot.

Comment Re:Stop now [and just give up] (Score 1) 117

Nuclear fusion is already taking over, with it being the cheapest power available. Best of all it's readily accessible with most homes only needing about 20-40 sqm of fusion energy collectors and about 40kwh of storage to capture enough energy to be completely off grid energy independent.
There will of course be some areas this is not fully practical, so grid connecting homes and allowing the power to be shared across longer distances will reduce localized fusion energy power fluctuations.

Comment Re:Living Coral (Score 2) 44

Dead coral isn't under threat from climate change.

Yes it is - the increasing amount of CO2 concentration in seawater causes it to become more acidic, which dissolves calcium carbonate, the main component of coral, as well as the shells of many crustacean species.
Reefs begin to dissolve when pH gets to 7.8 or lower.

Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, ocean pH has dropped from 8.2 to 8.1, and by the end of the century, it is predicted to drop below 7.8, and at that point the rate of reef dissolving will be faster than the rate at which it can be increased by new coral growth, and of course existing old coral that doesn't have living coral on it will just dissolve.

Comment Re:Just imagine (Score 1) 184

I would imagine that one difficulty of using a blimp for delivery is that wind turbines tend to be sited at locations with great wind domains - which aren't exactly friendly regions for blimp handling, and there's also the problem of balancing ballast while dropping off 80 tons of turbine blade. The biggest blimps currently available have a maximum payload of about 50 tons, though the cancelled CargoLifter CL 160 was supposed to have a 160 ton capacity.
By comparison, the Antonov An-225 Mriya, which was used to transport turbine blades for several installations before it was destroyed at the beginning of the Ukraine / Russia war could carry 250 tons, so it makes sense to build another aircraft like that for these kinds of jobs, though of course it can't do the final leg of delivery.

Comment Re:Looking put the windows may do the same (Score 2) 14

You are right - cancer does suck - but the OP is correct to ask for quantitative information.
As someone with a brother whos busy dying of stage 4 esophagus cancer, I can assure you there is an unlimited amount of bullshit theories and unsubstantiated therapies out there.
My brother's been strict keto since the initial diagnosis (against his doctors advice) due to various videos on places like diary of a CEO, and has also had unqualified but all knowing diet advisors having him take various green juices, and enough herbal supplements to choke a horse, all at the expense of him being able to get actual nutrition in while his capacity to actually eat solid food rapidly declines due to the cancer choking off his esophagus.
Now he is spending hugely to do hyperbaric treatment, red light therapy, vitamin C injections, deep heat thermal pad treatment, and any other therapy that they push his way with clinics that only have online doctors and questionable qualifications.
  I would a few good sessions at the gym to be the cure, but there needs to be actual data backing it, especially considering the multiple surgeries and compromised abdominal muscles and hernias etc from all the laparoscopic examinations and other medical procedures that patients like my brother have already been through. He was a 6'6" 130 kg fairly athletic guy, whos now down to 76 kg over 10 months and for the doctors have told him he shouldn't be lifting anything heavier than 5kg.

All those diets pills, potions and vitamin c / d / whatever injections don't seem to be stopping the cancer yet, even though the people pushing them all reckon it's the one true cure. I drew the line at him chugging blended apricot kernels or the poor bugger would have ended up giving himself cyanide poisoning.

I do notice clinics like "hope for cancer" aren't offering a money back guarantee to your estate if it turns out their miracle 50k to 100k treatment doesn't keep you alive for at least 5 years though.

Testimonials about some therapy aren't sufficient - dead people don't leave testimonials saying the treatment didn't work.

Alternative therapies need actual data to back them, or they are bullshit.

Comment Re:I don't want a humanoid, I want my laundry done (Score 1) 92

Now I am basically semi-retired, I do the laundry and cooking in my household, while my wife earns the big bucks, and I spend the rest of my day writing games that probably no one will play.

Hurry up and invent a laundry bot already! If it can put the dishes in the dishwasher and empty it again and take out the trash too, so much the better. If it can also do tiling and painting, it'd be really awesome, because my last bathroom tiling job cost $2000 in tiles but $12000 for someone to lay them - and frankly, this is the sort of thing humanoid robots will end up moving into.

That's a long way away though, because from my experience of previously working in robotics with even traditional 6 axis robots, the planning algorithms for working in an unstructured environment like a typical house or construction site, and the difficulty in planning movements for handling non rigid materials like cloth, and working reliably in wet and /or dirty environments make these tasks extremely difficult.

Comment Re:So, then (Score 1) 81

My phone came with samsung's browser installed. I installed chrome myself, because I wanted to use that browser.
Same with my PC.
I could have continues using edge, but I generally found using Chrome a better experience. You may have your own preferences.
Neither of these situations makes chrome a monopoly.

Comment Re:Dunning-Kruger effect live. (Score 2) 128

Wouldn't brain uploading suffer the same philosophical problem as the teleportation quandary?
The uploaded copy of you might have a seamless existence that feels like everything worked perfectly, but the original you is still going to be facing death either naturally if the scanning is not intrusive, or more likely turned into a million salami slices so each slice can be scanned and digitised during the scanning and uploading process.
Is it still you in the end?

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