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Womble

@ Womble @lemmy.world

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  • Italy to require VPN and DNS providers to block pirated content

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  • So by going harder on blocking content that China? Because that's what they do but most of the big providers get through after a day or two of downtime each time the government make a change to block them.

  • France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes

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  • It would be more productive if you said how you think im wrong. Just saying 'youre wrong' doesnt really add anything to the discussion.

  • France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes

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  • It produces about the same power per cubic metre as compost does, which is pretty crazy when you think about it.

  • France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes

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  • Inertial confinement doesnt produce a "stable reaction" it is pulsed by it's nature, think of it in the same way as a single cylinder internal combustion engine, periodic explosions which are harnessed to do useful work. So no the laser energy is required every single time to detonate the fuel pellet.

    NIF isnt really interested in fusion for power production, it's a weapons research facility that occasionally puts out puff pieces to make it seem like it has civilian applications.

  • Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills

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  • Let me try with another example that can get round your blind AI hatred.

    If people were using a calculator to calculate the value of an integral they would have significantly less diversity of results because they were all using the same tool. Less diversity of results has nothing to do with how good the tool is, it might be 100% right or 100% wrong but if everyone is using it then they will all get the same (or similar if it has a random element to it as LLMs do).

  • Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills

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  • That snark doesnt help anyone.

    Imagine the AI was 100% perfect and gave the correct answer every time, people using it would have a significantly reduced diversity of results as they would always be using the same tool to get the correct same answer.

    People using an ai get a smaller diversity of results is neither good nor bad its just the way things are, the same way as people using the same pack of pens use a smaller variety of colours than those who are using whatever pens they have.

  • Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills

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  • They in fact often have word and page limits and most journal articles I've been a part of have had a period at the end of cutting and trimming in order to fit into those limits.

  • Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills

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  • Literally everyone learns from unreliable teachers, the question is just how reliable.

  • The government doesn't use SQL

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  • There was also a Harvard paper that was the main justification for austerity in the UK given its conclusion that past a certain GDP/debt ratio al sorts of bad things happen.

    Turned out to be an excel error skipping 1/4 of their data and when re-run with the whole set the effect vanished. Horrible abuses of excel and csv files are by no means limited to any one country.

  • 'Key kernel maintainers' still back Rust in the Linux kernel, despite the doubters

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  • Ha no, I just have an extension to automatically add that to wiki links as I dislike the newer skin. I totally forgot it was there!

  • AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds

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  • Its nice that you inform people that they cant tell if something is saving them time or not without knowing what their job is or how they are using a tool.

  • 'Key kernel maintainers' still back Rust in the Linux kernel, despite the doubters

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  • Balcony solar taking off: 1.5M Germans have them there must be something in it

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  • The article says they cost 400-800 Euro and the poster at the top says they generated 380kWh which is about 100 Euro's worth so seems more like 4-8 years. Still likely worthwhile of you can get that and they last significantly longer than 10 years, but not a no brainer everyone should buy.

  • Tesla's sales plummet across Europe

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  • If you want to be like that then "people" love trump and musk everywhere and its not unique to the UK. Saying "people here love trump and musk" when for example 55% of people in the UK have a "very unfavourable" opinion of him is very misleading. More people are very unfavourable than unfavourable, neutral, favourable very favourable and don't know put together.

  • Tesla's sales plummet across Europe

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  • TIL that the US is #10 in foreign aid per capita.

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  • The US some how manages to spend more on public healthcare per person than countries with universal coverage, then spends even more than that on private healthcare on top.

  • A new government memo feels like it’s straight out of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

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  • If you dont understand the difference between trying to start by winning a mayoralty of a town of 10,000 people then some state legislature seat and trying to win the president of the USA without an existing power base I dont know what to tell you. I cant break that down to being any simpler for you as to why starting with the later before you've managed the former is pointless.

  • A new government memo feels like it’s straight out of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

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  • So do what I literally said before, build up a party, take places that you have a realistic chance of winning, build your parties power base and then take larger constituencies. That's how a an organisation actually interested in political power would go about it with multiple years out. Not trying to jump to the highest level office in the land where the mathematical reality of the system insists that that one of the top two candidates will win.

  • A new government memo feels like it’s straight out of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

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  • Ah yes I'd forgotten about all those elections in a winner takes all system where a candidate was polling at 1% the day before election turned out to win it. Your obnoxious posting style really helped me remember that absolutely true fact.