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billwashere

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  • TIL that a small swimming pool in Exmouth UK, uses a data centre to heat it.

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  • It’s not really. Sell a solar powered hot water heater that just happens to be a small DC in a box to people with stable fiber connections. Make them subsidized and voila … distributed data centers that are cheaper, more efficient, energy reducing, and much less problematic.

  • Researchers find a way to reliably spot AI writing

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  • Millions of college students silently scream.

  • Trump says he’ll ask Supreme Court to rehear birthright citizenship case

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  • Yeah this bullshit that you can’t appoint a justice in an election year and then ram one through in the last second just because your republican is infuriating. Fuck Mitch McConnell…

  • US House to vote on bill to make daylight saving time permanent

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  • TIL in 1974 the U.S. tried permanent DST during an energy crisis … it saved little energy, fuel use slightly increased, and public support collapsed after one dark winter, so the law was repealed within 10 months.

    God forbid we’d learn from past mistakes.

  • US House to vote on bill to make daylight saving time permanent

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  • I tried to have the conversation of just doing away with time zones all together with my wife once. She could not understand that the number associated with when it gets daylight and when it gets dark is arbitrary. Instead of getting daylight around 6am it would be getting daylight around 10am (if we adopted UTC for example) or gets dark around midnight (12AM). The weird thing is she lived in Alaska far enough north that during the summer it didn’t even really get dark at night. I also wanted to talk about the alternative calendars like the IFC or the Gormanian but I’m pretty sure I would have broken her brain. She’s pretty sharp but apparently abstract thought about concrete things like dates and time are a bridge too far.

  • US House to vote on bill to make daylight saving time permanent

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  • Because of existing time zones aren’t we already different from the rest of the world? You make other good points but the rest of the world comparison seems odd. If anything just picking one is more consistent and safer regardless. I mean if you wanna talk about weird, the entire mainland china is one time zone, China Standard Time.

  • Trump Secretary Says Bike Lanes Are DEI

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  • More and more everyday. I don’t normally wish ill will on anyone but I sure ain’t gonna complain if it happens.

  • Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear asks Sen. Mitch McConnell to give a public update on his condition

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  • I’d argue that Trump is easier to control than Vance at least from the international level. Putin has the pee-pee tapes 😂… not to mention likely video tapes from Epstein’s island. As much as I dislike Vance I don’t think he’s a kid diddler.

  • Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear asks Sen. Mitch McConnell to give a public update on his condition

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  • You know they will do the exact same thing with Trump… it'll be weeks after he's dead before we know

  • America’s greatest idea is still under threat. As the United States turns 250 years old, we have work to do.

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  • As long as we get things like the NCR and the Brotherhood…

  • Anthropic Uncovered Claude's "Consciousness-like Workbench": The Mysterious J-Space Hides Hidden Unspoken Thoughts

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  • No but it was definitely implied by the headline. A word prediction machine, no matter how useful, is never going to be an AGI. And don't get me wrong, I find LLMs very useful for lots of things. But the model they are chasing is never going to be an AGI, no matter how much info you feed it.

    I also wouldn't predict against an LLM helping to create an AGI either. I have this analogy in my head…

    I hammer is a useful tool. It can do many things. It can even put a screw into a piece of wood through a very brute force method. This does not make a hammer a screw driver. Could you use a hammer to help in construction of a machine to build a screw driver? Most definitely, likely even required.

    Anybody suggesting they have an AGI built from the current process is a tech bro looking for funding.

  • Anthropic Uncovered Claude's "Consciousness-like Workbench": The Mysterious J-Space Hides Hidden Unspoken Thoughts

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  • Repeat after me. LLMs. Are. Not. Intelligent.

  • Meta's AI Data Center Caught Infecting Town Water Supply With Deadly Bacteria

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  • Cool. Charge Zuck with Attempted Murder.

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  • I always chuckle thinking about taking a 1TB Micro SD back in time and watching people’s heads explode.

    I remember being in college in the very early 90s and a friend got a machine with 2 2gb hard drives and wondering what he was going to do with all that space. Now I have a NAS at home with something like 100TB and it’s almost 75% full.

  • If Europe has started experiencing over 40°C heatwaves frequently, then this planet really is fucked

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  • Well more like Sous vide

    Edit: I hate when I think I’m being clever only to keep reading and someone else was just as clever but quicker.

  • Ga. teacher gets nearly $300K in settlement over Charlie Kirk social media post

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  • Wow… so 10 years salary… /s.

  • The Death of Renee Good Has Yet to Be Properly Investigated / Six months after she and Alex Pretti were shot on the streets of Minneapolis, little has come of the probes into their killings.

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  • Nobody in normal law enforcement is ever held accountable, so why would these brown shirts.

    The whole lot of ICE should be blacklisted for every job ever… well except maybe as a day laborer on a farm somewhere where some Hispanic guy is his supervisor.

  • Gavin Newsom turns on the press for asking Trump softball questions

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  • It’s because Donpedo doesn’t allow anyone in the press core who will actually ask real questions and press him on anything.

    I’d love for that to happen in the air on Qatar Force One where he just can’t walk away. He’d cower in the bathroom the whole time. Although I’m pretty sure he does that anyway.

  • A new plan to keep the Reflecting Pool clean – including annual purge of ‘nasty’ muck | CNN Politics

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  • Well … now that you mention it, yeah … exactly like that.

    Fuck around with a working system and break it because the black guy did it and he thinks he can do better. Then he makes it worse and they go back to the original solution after spending a shit ton more money. Yep sounds about right.