Hirom
@Hirom@beehaw.org
- Comment on Solar Industry Says Senate Plan Would Cede Production to China 5 days ago:
Fossil fuel are getting progressively harder to produce, singe the easily accessible oil and gas fields were the first to be exploited, ans are (soon to be) depleted.
Renewable sources are getting progressively cheapet.
The EU is planning to enforce CBAM soon, and other may follow and tax import from country that have 0 carbon tax.
So even if they’re not motivated for dumb political reasons, they’re going to feel more and more financial pressure.
- Comment on Solar Industry Says Senate Plan Would Cede Production to China 5 days ago:
The years is 2025, and the USA is betting on early 20th century energy sources.
Guess what happens next.
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- Comment on Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.' 1 week ago:
A.non-zero number of employees scripted random daily prompts to keep maintain LLM usage stars.
- Comment on Sacrifices must be made for the greater good 2 weeks ago:
My knee after merely watching Adam Ondra do that dropknee www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3DGT6Qzktg
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- Comment on lik lik lik 2 weeks ago:
Murder mittens
- Comment on Reappraisal of the Geologic Time Scale: Evidence for a 6,001-year-old Earth 2 weeks ago:
Referencing this parody as if it’s a serious study should be ground the rejection or rétraction.
I wonder if journals and reviewers have tools to help detect fake and/or retracted study in references. Some already screen for the phrase “vegetative electron microscopy”.
- Comment on Going viral, I guess 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on British photojournalist hit during Los Angeles protests to undergo emergency surgery 4 weeks ago:
So much for freedom of speech.
- Comment on Pulling energy out of a hat. 5 weeks ago:
I guess the amont of enthalpy or energy required to summon a rabbit
- Comment on Pulling energy out of a hat. 5 weeks ago:
There should be more textbook exercices like this. Know I want to know the answer.
- Comment on 10 to 100 Times Faster than a Starlink Antenna, and Cheaper Than Fiber: Taara Unveils a Laser Internet That Could Shatter the Status Quo 5 weeks ago:
10 to 100 Times less reliable than WiFi
- Comment on Pocket is Saying Goodbye: What You Need to Know | Pocket Help 1 month ago:
The Android app has a decent read-aloud feature. Hope it will still works after the service closes. I don’t use it for article discovery, nor for sync.
- Comment on Former PlayStation exec says "$70 or $80" games are a "steal": "As long as people choose carefully how they spend their money, I don't think they should be complaining" 1 month ago:
I’m carefully spending my money by buying less games, mostly DRM-free indie games.
- Comment on Meta is making users who opted out of AI training opt out again, watchdog says 1 month ago:
This dark pattern seems similar to what spammy company do. After registering you’re automatically registering to 10 differents newsletters/spamlist. Clicking unsubsribe at the bottom of a newsletter removes you from 1 out of 10 lists. People either need to repeat the operation, or better, delete their account.
- Comment on Bitcoin mining is no longer profitable 2 months ago:
same on all chains. All have a proposal, discussion, implementation, waiting period (for code to be deployed), and activation
I though most of those steps didn’t occur on-chain in the case of bitcoin. But I could be mistaken.
Could you share a link with the equivalent information on bitcoin, ie its governance process and how each governance operation (proposal, vote, activation ) is handled by the chain?
- Comment on Bitcoin mining is no longer profitable 2 months ago:
Tezos would still require all nodes to upgrade to the code which contains the new algorithm. It can’t just automatically know what the new code is. It then can schedule these to activate at a certain block using a signaling system of some sort.
Code proposal, vote on new code activation of new code, are all Tezos on-chain operation. These operations include a hash of the new code to be deployed. There’s some off-chain work happening to update tools, which I guess include compiling said code. So you’re right, some off-cain action is needed for deployment www.tezosagora.org/learn#an-introduction-to-tezos…
My understanding is that compared to BTC governance, a larger part of the process happen on-chain. Also there is a relatively smaller portion of nodes (baker) involved in creating/verifying blocks that must update. This allowed various protocol changes without forks over the years.
- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 2 months ago:
Got no serious answer, so here are some results based on reverse image search:
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Rhinoceros. Credit: Chicago Zoological Society. Possible source: Black Rhinoceros Undergoes Portable CT Scan At Brookfield Zoo
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Bear. Credit: Kimberly Fornek / Pioneer Press. Possible source: Brookfield Zoo CT scan
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Humsters. Credit: unknown.
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Alligator. Credit: UF College of Veterinary Medicine. Possible source: Massive sick alligator given CT scan at University of FloridaFeel free to add more in your replies if you have time to search.
Dear, @fossilesque@mander.xyz please credit the authors and/or sources of the picture you’re posting. Those most likely aren’t public domain, meaning credit is required (and possibly more). Also citing the source provide interesting background on the pictures.
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- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 2 months ago:
Interesting.
Did you take these pictures, or could mention their source? I want to make sure the author(same) get credit.
- Comment on Bitcoin mining is no longer profitable 2 months ago:
Good point, with BIPs the Bitcoin community is more adaptive than I gave it credit for.
It still doesn’t prevent soft nor hard fork. My understanding is that a change in consensus logic require ALL users/miners need to deploy the new software to avoid hard forks. That’s impossible in practice. So a BIP to change the consensus logic would necessary cause a hard fork.
Not all chains handle this the same way nor suffer from this. Tezos for instance made its improvement proposal system part of its core. Using Tezos means automatically accepting chain and consensus logic change if they are approve.
Bitcoin sure have more hype and higher price, but appears to have more difficulty evolving compared to others.
- Comment on Bitcoin mining is no longer profitable 2 months ago:
lol it can’t adjust on public approval. It’s software that runs.
It can. Software is written by people. Its authors can build it wigh an update mechanism.
Crypto currencies such have Tezos have a vote-based update mechanism and a community that periodically submits algorithm changes for approval.
Bitcoin doesn’t have a update mechanism that allows smooth change. Its take it or abandon it (ak hard fork). Peole can move away from it, and, it’s sad that so many people still haven’t.
- Comment on Bitcoin mining is no longer profitable 2 months ago:
The network was built to adjust
Then why doesn’t it adjust to avoid negative social and environmental effects? My guess is that it’s because it’s not possible to adjust bitcoin’s algorithm, and that miners don’t have enough intensive to abandon bitcoin for something less destructive.
My understanding is that bitcoin’s core algorithm, which include the difficulty and consensus logic, cannot modified nor fixed in any way.
A hard fork is possible, which means leaving the bitcoin network and setting up an alternative (hopefully better) network with different result.
- Comment on Bitcoin mining is no longer profitable 2 months ago:
Thanks for the refresher. I’m aware of the basics, but assumed the difficulty measured by the number of zeros could only increase. Apparently difficulty can decrease, and I’ve read it’s expected to decrease very soon to keep the system running a while longer.
Bitcoin’s creator was smart enough to design a system that automatically adjust to remain profitable for several years without intervention, but not smart enough to foresee social and environmental costs.
It’s a good example that illustrate why automated systems shouldn’t be left running unsupervised, even if it’s designed by the best of minds with the best of intentions.
- Comment on Bitcoin mining is no longer profitable 2 months ago:
The headline isn’t accurate as usual, but isn’t completely wrong either. We’re at a point where it’s no longer profitable for individual minors, even if we ignore externalities like the cost we’re collectively paying due to mining pollution and carbon emissions.
Mining is require increasing amount of energy and resources as time pass, so unless there’s a radical change in bitcoin’s algorithm or unless energy becomes free, we should expect mining to get non-profitable in more and more situations.
- Comment on Bitcoin mining is no longer profitable 2 months ago:
Given the current price of bitcoin, I suspect the marking still doesn’t know.
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- Comment on Google won’t ditch third-party cookies in Chrome after all 2 months ago:
If someone only agree because of a dark pattern or agressive/repetitive consent popups, then it’s not free and informed consent.
It’s pressuring visitors into accepting they wouldn’t otherwise accept, and it might not be compliant.
Clearly there need to be more enforcement of GDPR.
- Comment on Google won’t ditch third-party cookies in Chrome after all 2 months ago:
Those companies doing business in the EU should have been looking for alternatives since at least 2016 when GPDR was adopted.
It doesn’t seem realistic to rely on targeted advertising if that require opt-in, informed consent. I suspect only a small fraction of visitors would agree.
I hope contextual advertising and similar less-invasive approaches becomes the norm again. Contextual advertising have been used for decades in Newspapers, on the TV and radio.
- Comment on EU Commission Kicks Off 2025 With Yet Another Plea For Backdoored Encryption 2 months ago:
Police could focus on better using the data it already has. Rather than giving it the power to hoard more personal data and endangering public liberties.
Existing police record are riddled with errors:
- propublica.org/…/politic-il-insider-chicago-gang-…
- lesnumeriques.com/…/alerte-cnil-trop-erreurs-dans…
Piling more data on top won’t fix these errors. Putting more effort in fixing errors would make the records more useful to police, and would probably avoid ruining the lives of innocents people.