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Womble

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  • Yes I am aware of recall, and that it is only available on specific AI focused PCs (copilot+). Dont get me wrong its a been a complete clusterfuck in they way they have done it, but if windows was using regular windows installs to gather screenshots and then phone them home it would be both incredibly stupid on Microsoft's part (for a huge amount of companies that would be a deal breaker) and be very discoverable.

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  • its not grabbing screen grabs and and key presses as you do them, its logging things that you interact with in the background and then packaging that up as a telemetry package to asynchronously send off to a server.

    No it doesnt have no impact on resources but it negligable compared to what the previous poster mentioned about making everything dependent on network services and introducing latency that way.

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  • They 100% are spying and not even hiding it. That isnt what makes a system laggy though as its just a background process snitching on you once and hour or so.

  • Australia struggling with oversupply of solar power

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  • Germany has more than 3 times the population of Australia, and the article linked needed to be able to generate 30GW peak so likely required more installed capacity, and solar is only 1 element out of 5 required in that scenario.

    Again it does seem to be feasible to get renewable only in Australia (or close to) but I dont think that tells you much about elsewhere

  • Australia struggling with oversupply of solar power

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  • Austrailia is one of the best places in the world to do that, but it should be pointed out that the article you linked wants 120GWh of batteries (costing ~12 billion USD at current Li-ion prices) as well as building more than 38GW of wind power and 30GW of solar power in order to meet ~25GW of average demand and that still needs pumped hydro on top and more than 9GW of fossil fuel power to make up the gaps.

    It's just about feasible in Australia with excess sun and wind, plenty of empy space, low population density and terrain amenable to hydro storage. But it isnt realy generalisable to most other places.

  • ChatGPT is right-wing and Gemini is left-wing: Why each AI has its own ideology

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  • That is what the big AI companies do, though they are actually just packaging up American corporate norms as "neutral".

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  • maybe missing out on a few games but that is probably a tie with Linux

    As some one who runs both: no, not even close. Mac has more direct ports than Linux true, but proton vastly outweighs that. I have dozens of games that show up on steam on my mac as unplayable where as I dont have any that wont run under proton.

    Five years ago you'd probably have been right, but Linux is far superior to OSX for gaming now.

    (E: assuming you're talking about an apple silicon macbook, IDK the status of proton on x86 macs maybe it works there?)

  • Trump wins.

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  • That must be why Trump won huh? Because of all the dissent and "demanding better from him" that he got from his supporters.

  • What are your plans to replace first past the post voting in your state after the election?

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  • Its not true, but the only time a Republican presedential canditate has got a majority of the votes in the 21st century is GWB in 2004. In the 20th century the winner in every election was the one who got the most votes, D or R.

  • Feds: Critical Software Must Drop C/C++ by 2026 or Face Risk

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  • Is this particularly worse than when Medium was filled with artisinally hand crafted slop before AI was a thing?

  • Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media

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  • It really isn't, you just go the way the recent EU laws have gone and write them such that only large services (with over x million users or similar) are under obligation to comply and implement age gates and the like.

  • Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts

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  • AI has been the name of the field for 70 years at this point, it isn't something Sam Altman came up with as a marketing wheeze.

  • All-optical switch device paves way for faster fiber-optic communication

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  • It is, it confused me too. It is refering to an optical only on/off switch which can also be used as an xor gate. Many levels down from a network switch.

  • Self-documenting Code

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  • Good code is not “elegant” code. It’s code that is simple and unsurprising and can be easily understood by a hungover fresh graduate new hire.

    I wouldnt go that far, both elegance are simplicity are important. Sure using obvious and well known language feaures is a plus, but give me three lines that solve the problem as a graph search over 200 lines of object oriented boilerplate any day. Like most things it's a trade-off, going too far in either direction is bad.

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    What beliefs or hypotheses do you hold strongly despite not feeling confident that you can necessarily prove or evince it?

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  • If you take standard cosmological assumptions (the universe is infinite and homogeonous) then the odds are 100% as everything that is physically possible happens infinite times.

    unless you mean the observable universe, in which case we dont know, but given the vast scale of it is likely very close to 1. We cant calculate it without knowing how likely life is to form in the first place.

  • ‘AI-Mazing Tech-Venture’: National Archives Pushes Google Gemini AI on Employees

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  • Given that photocopiers can do a scribes job (copy the text on this page onto a new page), more quickly and accurately to boot, I presume you are part of a pressure group to pay them pensions.

  • ‘AI-Mazing Tech-Venture’: National Archives Pushes Google Gemini AI on Employees

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  • Should we also insist that archives dont use photocopiers and instead have scribes copy everything by hand?

  • Reasoning failures highlighted by Apple research on LLMs

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  • Thats actually quite interesting, you could make the argument that that is an image of "a pure white completely flat object with zero content", its just taken your description of what you want the image to be and given an image of an object that satisfies that.