In his opinion quashing the subpoenas, Schiltz lambasted the government for their “extraordinarily broad” request examining materials “that largely if not entirely relate to constitutionally protected conduct.”

You don’t see enough “lambasts” these days, it’s all “slams” or “blasts”

Homemade ranch with fresh herbs, garlic, buttermilk and fish sauce is amazing.

You wouldn’t, but that’s what governments are effectively asking be done, lending validity to the analogy.

The article is about AWS data centers not AI compute specifically. That’s the cloud infrastructure for a lot of the web. The comparison to agriculture is about scale, not the importance of the Internet vs. agriculture. Using 0.011% of the water as the farms in Kansas to power 25% of the Internet is nothing.

The average for farm land is around 500,000 gallons per acre per year. Using the same amount of water as 5,000 acres of farmland to run >25% of the nation’s cloud resources isn’t enormous. Not that they couldn’t do better.

It is still far from commercially viable yet.

Solid-state sodium is still in the laboratory stage. People assumed Donut was claiming to have developed a solid-state sodium battery due to their “no lithium” statement, but they never specifically claimed they were using sodium.

All solid-state lithium is a bit further along. Korea has pilot plants producing full-sized EV batteries that are being used for testing before they do the final scale up to production. Chinese manufacturers are also basically at the same stage. Those will likely be available in production EVs by 2030.

I was thinking about those red states where they’re now eliminating the last remaining black districts. In so many red states the real election is the Republican primary, since whoever wins that will win the general no matter how abhorrent they are. So why don’t all the now effectively-disenfranchised voters start voting in the Republican primary for the least-awful Republican? I can’t imagine the reaction of Louisiana Republicans if busloads of elderly black people started showing up to “their” primary after church on Sunday.

You can screw my corpse too, if that’s your thing. I’ll be dead and won’t care.

I had no idea eating grass was an option.

Vietnam is like 90% scooters and they dominate transport in pretty much all the other countries there except for maybe Singapore. There’s no way SE Asia as a whole is only 22% if scooters are included in cars. It’s a weird omission.

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If you haven’t already done this: wipe all the apps and run the cache-cleaning or whatever it is in the system menu. That should get it back down to where the memory and storage aren’t at 100% and fixes most of the problems. I’ve kept my 2017 Samsung usable that way. Also, if you have a pi-hole you can set it to use that as the DNS and block the advertising domains, retaining most of the smart functionality without all the crap.

Nuclear is the best btw.

What’s the LCoE of new nuclear? What’s the LCoE when you add the cost of the storage mentioned in your meme?

In order to be able to read and replicate a journal article you really need an advanced degree or to do all the work it takes to get one. That demographic skews fairly heavily in one direction. Masami Tsuchiya only had a master’s degree and he built an entire functioning chemical weapons factory on a fairly limited budget. That was way back in the 90s too. The worst things you could do now are 10x easier and could wipe out millions or billions.

He’s saying we should codify war crimes as crimes in the constitution so in order to not commit war crimes presidents would need the precision targeting Palantir would provide. That’s the exact opposite of what the title implies.

It’s transliteration not translation, the original post says “티라노미수” T-ra-no-mi-su

As is often the case, the EU has placed appropriate guardrails on driver monitoring systems, which the US and others would do well to follow;

Driver drowsiness and attention warning and advanced driver distraction warning systems shall be designed in such a way that those systems do not continuously record nor retain any data other than what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed within the closed-loop system. Furthermore, those data shall not be accessible or made available to third parties at any time and shall be immediately deleted after processing. Those systems shall also be designed to avoid overlap and shall not prompt the driver separately and concurrently or in a confusing manner where one action triggers both systems.

There’s absolutely nothing in the specifications about contacting police or keeping black-box recordings. The only outside contact functionality was EMS contact when the vehicle had to pull over to the side of the road due to unconsciousness and detected other signs of a health emergency. Even that had loud audible warnings and a countdown timer before dialing.

If shitty governments take something that would save tens of thousands of lives globally every year and turn it into a surveillance system that’s the fault of those governments. The manufacturers entire focus has been on reducing fatalities and injuries among road users.

I worked on this a bit. Some of the tricks they had were changing the AC to blow colder air when drowsiness was detected, increasing the blower speed, increasing brightness on the dashboard, and turning the volume up or turning the radio on. They even had turning the radio on and selecting music to combat drowsiness. So I guess you’d get sleepy and then your car would automatically started blasting house music.

https://www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/articles/nominal-versus-actual-a-history-of-the-2x4/