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    TIL A 2018 study of 2,304 women, reported that once genital stimulation began, women reached orgasm in an average of 14 minutes during Partnered Sex

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  • a lot of it is rooted in lack of sexual education

    True. And who's job is it to educate a grown woman on sex? Are you so sexist that you think women can't be responsible for educating themselves?

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    TIL A 2018 study of 2,304 women, reported that once genital stimulation began, women reached orgasm in an average of 14 minutes during Partnered Sex

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  • What a sexist comment.

    • Man does everything when it comes to sex.
    • Woman says "Sex is your responsibility"
    • Woman doesn't want to contribute at all.
    • Man makes woman cum every single time for the last 10 years.

    You:

    It's your fault, because you are a man and complaining about a woman not putting in effort is sexist.

    Of course you didn't know any of what is actually happening, but because I'm a man, you instantly assumed that I must be doing nothing. That is incredibly sexist of you. Check your privilege.

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    TIL A 2018 study of 2,304 women, reported that once genital stimulation began, women reached orgasm in an average of 14 minutes during Partnered Sex

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  • Honestly, the penis in the vagina is sometimes the least exciting part about sex with that arrangement of genitals.

    The same is true the other way round too. Which makes it all the more frustrating that a lot of women think their whole contribution to sex is to lay there and provide a vagina.

  • She won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals.

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  • Of course. That's why we trust it. My point was that a tool doesn't need to have "understanding" (whatever that exactly means) to be useful, it needs consistency.

    The compiler doesn't understand. It converts, following strict rules. There's no "thinking" or "understanding" in the process. It's a pure one-to-one conversion. That makes it consistent. If I run the same code twice through the same compiler I will get the same output. It's an output that I can trust and thus using a compiler is helpful.

    If an AI was able to consistently, dependably, provably convert my natural text input into a correct program, then I'd also be able to trust it.

    The problem is that this is technically impossible, because the whole point of using natural text input is that I can use vague, unclear and incomplete language to describe what I want. With an ambiguous input there cannot be an unambiguous output.

  • She won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals.

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  • A compiler also doesn't "understand" like a human does, but it's so accurate and reliable, that collectively we decided that a programmer doesn't need to understand the output of the compiler any more. We can trust it, because it works perfectly reliable.

    So the question isn't so much whether AI "understands" the way a human understands things, but instead whether it will become reliable enough to be trusted. And I don't see any evidence towards that yet.

  • She won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals.

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  • Yeah, he likely will. The whole department management is in a gold rush here.

  • She won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals.

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  • But, you know, my boss can now finally code himself. He could never get his head around coding, but now he finally can code. Who knows, maybe he won't need us expensive software developers anymore when AI gets better, then he can do it all himself.

  • She won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals.

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  • That is correct, but it's also kinda beside the point. A compiler doesn't "understand" anything either, it's just a program, but it's still very useful. So useful in fact that most programmers nowadays trust it unconditionally to the point where we say "a programmer doesn't need to understand the code the compiler outputs".

    But AI is just really not trustworthy, and the question is whether they will ever be trustworthy enough that we can say "The programmer doesn't need to understand the code the AI outputs".

  • She won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals.

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  • And yet, that's all my boss wants of me. "Does a dev really need to understand the code if the AI understands it?"

    That's frustrating.

  • US firm validates 1.1-GW nuclear fusion plant design to deliver 400 MW electricity

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  • So we only need 23 of them to power that one new data center in Utah.

  • Americans Have Grown Dramatically Anti-Data Center in Just Months, Survey Finds

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  • What's even crazier: Only 20% of the world's oil production is affected. That means 80% are still available.

    It would be trivial to save 20% of oil, but we just don't want to.

    People are driving just as much. There's no push to home office. No push to make people stop buying crap they don't need. No push to decrease flying or anything at all.

    Instead, offices are still uselessly illuminated all night. Useless ad screens are playing at any time of day, burning precious fuel for no purpose.

    We still throw away 30-40% of the food we produce. We still don't have a massive push to pivot to renewable energy.

    Collectively, we don't care about energy shortages, and politics and companies don't either.

    Instead, we just price the poorer nations out of competition. We can afford gas at €2/l, and we don't care that entire nations are collapsing right now because they can't afford fuel at all.

  • 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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  • There is Wikipedia in Simple English, but they don't cover all topics.

  • Pwnd Blaster: Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it

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  • At first, I thought it was an attack using audio only. That would have been crazy impressive.

  • 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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  • That's pretty much the job, except a billion times as large.

  • 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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  • Yeah, the downside of hydro though is that you need to have a fitting space to build it. You can't just excavate a random field somewhere and plonk a hydro dam right there.

    In most places all easy spots for hydro are already taken.

  • 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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  • Correct, the typo is mine, not from the article.

  • AI agents lag far behind human workers. Why are tech companies laying off the humans?

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  • Because it's not about efficiency, or getting things done, or anything like that. And it never was.

    In corporate environments it's everyone for themselves and everyone has different goals that often conflict with the overall goal of the company.

    The CEO wants to get their bonus, so they do whatever's in their KPI, no matter how dumb it is.

    The managers want to make themselves look good, so they do whatever they can to look better than the other managers. Even if it's stupid and hurts the company, all that doesn't matter. Even if they know it's stupid.

    Workers want to either make themselves look good to get promotions, or they want to look like they are doing enough to keep their job.

    Nobody has the actual long-term success of the company in mind, as long as everything runs good enough that they don't lose their job.

    Fireing people is something investors like, because it makes money in short time. And if you can figure out an excuse that makes it look like you are doing this to create long-term profit, then you are a genius. No matter if it's actually long-term profitable.

  • Looking for some advice regarding extruder/hotend combo

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  • I put an E3D Toolchanger that I got for cheap from Aliexpress on mine, with 2x E3D v6 and Trianglelab TBG-Litle direct drive extruders. The TBG-Lite is amazing. It's got so much grip on the filament, that I didn't even end up setting up a TPU profile at all, I just used a PLA profile for it.

    I ended up switching over to a Snapmaker U1 earlier this year, and the only thing I miss are these TBG-Lites.

  • 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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  • The headline looks wrong, but it actually isn't.

    The article specifies:

    • Total capacity: 2.1GWh
    • Peak output: 1.2GW
    • Ramp up time: a few milliseconds

    That's what the "within milliseconds" in the title refers to.

    Every power generator has a ramp up time. Think the time it takes to start the engine in a diesel generator, until it spins up and is able to output peak power.

    Nuclear reactors can hare ramp-up times of hours, in some conditions even days.

    This thing here can go from zero to peak output within almost no time, which makes it perfect to balance the sometimes erratic and unpredictable generation fluctuations of renewable energy production.

    For comparison, coal or gas power generators usually have large flywheels that, once spinning, react almost instantly to power fluctuations in the network by converting their motion to electricity or the other way round. If these coal or gas generators aren't running, they can't be used to balance the fluctuations in the network, so battery solutions like the one in OP are required to actively manage the network stability.