InputZero

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nuclear⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly the easier way to switch from solar DC to grid AC is to just have a flywheel between the grid and the solar power plant. It might not be as efficient as a capacitor bank or super capacitor bank but it’s dead simple to implement and it’s extremely reliable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interesting analogy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They probably looked a lot more like birds than reptiles too because taxonomically speaking birds are actually dinosaurs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How was trying to get a job different THEN vs NOW⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  While there are no laws that really stop an AI from doing whatever, there are already laws to stop someone from doing that. It might be difficult to find a corporation like UHC guilty of fraud when they use a faulty AI to refuse health care, it’s pretty easy to go the other way and charge a person for using a corporation’s AI in a way they did not intend.

  A corporation causes a million deaths, no one bats an eye. Steal a million dollars from a corporation and everyone loses their fucking minds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the funniest programing bugs ever. Gandhi’s code was meant to be the least aggressive AI in the game, but if something made Ghandi become even less aggressive it could overflow backwards and set his aggressiveness to max. This creating a Gandhi that wanted to always be at war.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Funko, BrandShield speak out about itch.io takedown⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Corporations are trying to set the precedent that they can not be held responsible for what their AI does. If it required an employee action to follow through then there’s a point of liability. Zero oversight isn’t a bug of AI, it’s a feature. It puts more distance between the people at the top and any liability or consequences they might face.

  ‘Why I could not have known this software was wrong 90% of the time, I’m not a computer scientist. It’s beside the point that all those mistakes AI from the company we contracted were in our favor. Regardless that’s in the past, the new generation of Artificial Intelligence will correct those mistakes and will detect 10% more fraud. It’s wonderful that we finally have a tool to combat the rampant fraud and bad actors that has taken over this country.’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perspective⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh for sure, enough kindling has definitely been set down to start a new world war. Adding all the sparks people are making and it seems like history might repeat itself. The next world war might have even started as far as historians will be concerned. I just think that if full mobilization actually happens the prepers are as screwed as the rest of us. The only way to actually survive that with a fragment of our old ways in tact is to already be rich and powerful, should the worst happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perspective⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand might have been the spark that caught the fire that started WWI but there wasn’t a single cause. It was all the back-room alliances between nations that was the kindling that spark caught, and a long build up of new weapons no one had put into total mobilization yet, and a bunch of other things.

  If Archduke Ferdinand wasn’t assassinated WWI might still have happened. Though history will never know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I screwed up my units a bit and did gigabytes and megabits. You’re right. It would be a little shorter than an average ruler.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Damn, "Thoughts and Prayers!"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not just parents dying but kids too. It was this guy’s responsibility to make sure the people who managed the company would refuse as much life saving care for children as possible. I do not endorse anyone to commit murder ever, but I won’t be shedding any tears when a monster like that is shot down. I do think it’s okay to feel some sympathy for his kids, but they’re wealthy. They’ll probably be okay in time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just doing some napkin math, if you took Baulders Gate 3 and burned the entire game to CDs, it would be around one meter long. That’s no mods, just the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1+1=⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So this maybe kills the joke, which made me laugh. In my personal experience, most engineers are part scientists, and scientists who study engineering are part engineers. I can say that at least a small handful of the scientists I’ve met who study engineering may not really understand why engineers use a specific safety margin for a specific purpose, they understand practically that it’s because no one wants to come close to a things tolerance. Especially when public safety is concerned.

  It’s a joke though. It’s hyperbole, and I thought it was funny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh no⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Any body of water, so lakes, swimming pools, the ocean are packed with parasites. Food, a lot of it has parasites in it, we just cook them to death first. Worms in the dirt. My own bed. The list goes on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions our energy sector⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anon isn’t dumb, just simple. Nuclear energy can be the best solution for certain situations. While renewables are the better choice in every way, they’re effectiveness isn’t equally distributed. There are places where there just isn’t enough available renewable energy sources year round to supply the people living there. When energy storage and transmission methods are also not up to the task, nuclear becomes the best answer. It shouldn’t be the first answer people look to but it is an answer. An expensive answer but sometimes the best one.

  Also nuclear waste doesn’t have to be a problem. If anyone was willing to cover the cost of burning it in a breeder reactor for power or burry it forever. It just is because it’s expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't get this post!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was looking for this comment and I’m glad someone got this one in promptly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Withdrawal is going to make people go mad⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a gut feeling that his talk of tariffs is a bluff. Even if it’s not my gut still tells me there’s going to be exceptions for certain things that are big money makers for Trump and his allies. Trump’s administration is not going to tax themselves unless they can provide a loophole to get themselves out of it. Ultimately it’s the consumer who pays for tariffs, but they’re entire purpose is to slow down trade and if that costs Trump and his allies too much of their wealth it won’t happen.

  Trump is as predictable as he is unpredictable because he doesn’t stay consistent. He changes what he says and does to be perceived as best he can in that moment. Which makes understanding his actions a little easier, his past actions are irrelevant to his future decisions, it’s just about what’s in his head in the moment. Which is just a lot of words to say that Trump, his administration, and his allies are just chaos, and you never really know what chaos will bring except a change in the status quo. It’s not looking optimistic though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pump up the jamz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking Sabotage. Turn that scene from Star Trek Beyond into a reality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon misses his German Sheppy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That sucks bro. Losing a pet is always painful. I hope you can let another dog into your life someday. I know that it’s hard, I’ve lost many pets, and my puppy hasn’t been a puppy in a very long time. Sounds like you gave your girls the amazing life they deserve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'd have to hear her argument, but...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on the bacteria, when in it’s lifecycle half of it is killed, and what half is killed. To keep things short, the odds are in the bacteria’s favor. Suppose if half the bacteria in your gut died right now how long do you think it would take for the bacteria population in your gut to return to pre-snap levels? A month? A year? Decades? How about less than an hour. Bacteria reproduce exponentially and on average, a bacterial generation lasts 20 minutes. Meaning that every 20 minutes the population doubles, assuming there are no deaths in the population during this time. If there is space for bacteria to grow, they will.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Magic Mineral⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How difficult asbestos remediation can be depends a lot on the situation. Regardless of the situation people working near or on asbestos require respirators, bunny suits, many vacuums, and more to handle asbestos safely. Not the best conditions to work in but definitely not the worst.

  Where the work is being done says a lot about how difficult it’ll be. As an example take a single detached house, asbestos remediation wouldn’t be too difficult. The residents can leave the home so there’s less concern about inadvertently exposing the public. It gets a lot more difficult when the work is being done in say a train terminal for example. The terminal cannot be closed for a month so work must be done alongside the public. Now a whole system needs to be put it place. It becomes a lot easier to just leave the asbestos alone, as long as it’s not turned into a dust it’s not dangerous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hmmmm⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately there’s a bit of pressure to osbficate the core idea of a publication in academia. While the ideal academics try to hold themselves to is to freely exchange information, for researchers who are paid to study very neiche topics there’s an insensitive to put some resistance into others entering their field. There is only so much funding and one more team means more competition. So some researchers who find themselves in that position will intentionally complicate their published work as a way to create a disincentive to others from crowding their field. It sucks but the reality is that funding and money come before the faithful pursuit of knowledge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you have what it takes to become a geologist?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Asbestos definitely causes inflammation when tissues are exposed to it, I wouldn’t recommend that anyone lick asbestos. One exposure wouldn’t do much. That said I’m pretty sure the act of picking asbestos up and bringing it to your face and breathing it in would be the most dangerous part of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨puts hair on ya chest⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Star Trek Voyager

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where does the music go?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know enough to answer that, sorry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where does the music go?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So scientists are not entirely certain about the heat death of the universe. The heat death is the most reasonable prediction given what we know but there could be a force acting across the universe that may very slowly reverse the expansion of the universe that we have yet to discover and cause a big crunch over a ridiculously large amount of time. The fact is predictions that far in the future aren’t really very useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨50% survival rate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically 1 out of 1 people who undergo that procedure die, eventually. Same is true for people who elect not to have the procedure done, eventually.