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calcopiritus

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  • Switzerland dug a hole the size of two soccer fields to install the world’s most powerful underground battery, able to output 1.2 GW within milliseconds.

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  • I don't think the multibillion price tag is about the physical battery itself.

    It's probably the cost of the entire project. Which includes:

    • Project management
    • Engineering
    • Digging the whole
    • Security
    • Maintainance
    • Environmental impact analysis (among many other analysis)
    • Reducing the environmental impact
    • Permits (and a LOT of bureaucracy)

    The list goes on. Notice how I didn't even mention the battery itself.

  • Women in Brussels 'filmed without their knowledge' by men wearing Meta smart glasses

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  • Calculating the AR locally doesn't mean that you won't be sending the recording to Facebook.

    They don't collect data because it is necessary for the technology they use. They collect data because they sell it.

  • America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance

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  • He literally paid people to vote for trump. In the open.

    Nobody needs to be convinced of that. That is a fact. What you need to do is convince the people in power that that should be a punishable offense. But he put the people on power on power, so why would they punish him.

  • Women in Brussels 'filmed without their knowledge' by men wearing Meta smart glasses

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  • For AR you need to be recording. If you are recording, it is being sent to Facebook servers. You accepted Facebook's terms and conditions, not me.

    If you don't want to be punched, you should advocate for laws that make the glasshole glasses ugly through non-avoidable methods of detecting if the glasses are recording.

    For example by requiring every glass hole glass to have a physical cover that physically covers the view of the camera, and it should be a bright color to easily see if it is covering the camera or not. The contour of the camera should be painted with an equally bright color, contrasting highly with the cover. So you can easily see if the cover is covering it completely.

    A led that turns on when recording is not enough, it's very easy to remove a led from a device.

    If you want to not use glass hole glasses for evil, you should want it to be mandatory for other people to see if you're using it for evil or not.

  • 32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 minimum — AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building

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  • You can't pirate ram though

  • Google requests permission to release 32m mosquitoes in California and Florida

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  • Do they get to release the legitimate interest mosquitoes if they aren't given permission?

  • Waymo Pulled Its Cars From the Freeway After One Fled Police With Horrified Couple on Board

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  • An emergency stop is better than nothing, but they should ALSO have an emergency "let me take control". Sometimes stopping does not decrease the danger.

    Example: the waymo enters a rail crossing with flashing lights, and the barriers close with the car inside. The waymo sees the barriers so it stops. What you want in that case is accelerate and get the fuck out of there. If you have a baby in the backseat, there may not be enough time to get the baby and get out of there on foot.

  • #NULL!

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  • Not if the maximum is due to the database being configured to have a maximum space of 2000 bytes for that field.

  • #NULL!

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  • Easy. Just use utf-32 and make the text field a maximum of 500 letters. That will be a maximum of 2000 bytes, doesn't matter if the user is french or Chinese.

  • Zuck defends monitoring employees to win AI race in purported leaked audio

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  • Disagree. You can easily degooglify for the most part. Except android. But you won't get your friends and family to contact you via anything other than Whatsapp (except in america).

    And teens without Instagram just don't exist socially. Maybe with TikTok now. But not like TikTok is any better.

  • Police boast of hacking VPN where criminals "believed themselves to be safe"

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  • Why shut it down though? Just take over it and intercept the traffic. If you shut it down, a new one will just be made.

  • Kind of impressive when you think about it

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  • Microsoft acquired GitHub way before LLMs existed.

  • Making a difference, one date at a time.

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  • I've heard people argue in both sides of "is 0 a natural number?". But I've never before encountered the "there are no natural numbers" argument. It's like flipping a coin and having it land sidewise.

  • Microsoft BitLocker-protected drives can now be opened with just some files on a USB stick — YellowKey zero-day exploit demonstrates an apparent backdoor

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  • Backdoors are features, not bugs though.

  • Why do native UI frameworks suck so much?

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  • That's called immediately mode gui (or imgui). It has nothing to do with think about elements or pixels. You do have elements, it's just that they're rendered directly (immediately) instead of stored.

    You have a panel+border+text "primitive" drawing functions. Nothing is stopping you from creating a single function that calls all 3 of those. You probably should, since it's probably a common pattern. You could call it DrawBoxedText. There is no difference between a DrawBoxedText function and a BoxedText element with a draw() method.

  • Why do native UI frameworks suck so much?

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  • The first problem is a you problem though. There's nothing stopping you from dividing your global god-class into smaller ones. For example, you can have one state struct per windows. So windows wouldn't have access to the state of other windows.

    The second problem is also the reason I don't often use imgui. Imgui is great for introducing UI to applications that would re-render every frame, like a video game. But for every other application, it feels like a waste. If I wanted to waste resources I would write it in python or JavaScript.

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    Lithium deposit valued at over $1.5 trillion discovered in the U.S.

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  • So if you are that dude with the mining rights, you would sell them at the same price before and after discovering the gold right? Since the discovery of gold hasn't changed its value.

  • Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead

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  • Their app being so bad is the only reason third party apps were even a thing. The official reddit was just unusable on mobile.

    It is the only social media that had a significant user base using third party apps.

    The same is true for the search. You had to use their party (google) search engines to search for something on reddit.

    Not even the desktop website is good. I don't even remember the name of the extension, but that one extension that every power user had brought many simple features that reddit didn't add after years of existing.

    Their multiple redesigns were universally hated. The reason they haven't shut down old reddit is because a non-insignificant amount of traffic uses that frontend, even though it is 2-3 redesigns old.

    Basically anything that reddit did was shit. It only was popular because the core features worked and were free with very little ads. And it had a massive (and active) user base that posted content, so basically every google search contained a reddit link with a decent answer.

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    Lithium deposit valued at over $1.5 trillion discovered in the U.S.

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  • Let's do one with raw material in the ground:

    There is a mountain that is 99% made of solid gold, but none bothered to check. Some random dude has the mineral rights for that mountain.

    Suddenly one day, that dude wanders in his mountain and makes a 1m deep hole and finds the gold. He has not yet extracted a single gram of gold.

    So you say that mountain has no value?

    Or has the analogy have to be lithium now?