Everyone's talking about this like it's impractical. This is just the beginning! Scientific advancements often start as completely impractical processes!

I'm positive that over time, this waste-to-cookie process will be refined and refined until it includes not only plastic waste, but human waste as well.

The potential is there! We just need to collect the billionaires and get started!

Yes but so is powdered wood pulp. You gotta add that plastic, yeasty flavoring!

This unlock screen is Terrable.

Boltinhouse acknowledged the problematic posts in the complaint, but went on to claim that the real reason she had been dethroned is because of her identity as a conservative Christian.

I was willing to give her the benefit of the doubt right up until I read this.

The entire pageant circuit is entirely made up of conservative Christians! "Jesus" is every fourth word out of the mouths of those vanity worshippers.

Trained from early childhood with those candy necklaces that shrinkflation has reduced to bracelets.

Indirect water consumption via electricity generation made up more than 80 percent of the datacenter's overall water use

So 80% of this is total bullshit. Do we really care that data centers are causing mild increases in how much water a power plant is taking in from their local cooling ponds‽ That were built specifically for this purpose, so that potable water doesn't get used.

The real issue with data centers is how much power they use! Talking about their water consumption is a pointless distraction. It's a topic full of so much misinformation it just turns people away from the real problems once they realize it's bullshit. "If the water use reported in the media is bullshit, maybe the rest of it is too?"

I dunno. I think this ant is head and shoulders above the rest.

Yes, because the richest jerks in the world all got behind it the moment they were all convinced it will lead to AGI (soon). It's like a collective of the richest of the rich psychopaths decided that this was how they were going to compete with each other instead of just sucking wealth from the world in every way they think they can get away with (and screwing children on Epstein's island).

Then these assholes who everyone thinks are assholes somehow became the faces behind AI. Not only that, but they don't give two shits about what or who they destroy in order to obtain their AGI goal.

The good news is that AGI is a pipe dream that's not going to happen (with LLM tech). Any day now that "AGI hope" will collapse and Big AI is going to stop getting free money from investors.

Once the dust settles, memory and chip prices will come back to normal and LLM/Image AI tech will resume its normal, steady progress and become a tool that anyone can use effectively from their own damned PCs (not the cloud).

Coin-operated elevators sounds like a libertarian paradise!

Memory prices are currently 500% higher than they were a few years ago. So I'm talking 500% cheaper than today.

...assuming something else doesn't come along that suddenly requires enormous amounts of high speed RAM 🤷

Before AI it was cryptocurrency that inflated memory and GPU prices. Then came AI. When AI falls back, something else could very well take its place.

Catching up to the US in the wrong ways.

I don't have the answer, but I think everyone here is pining for that plant to survive.

I'm not involved in this community, but I browse "All" so I see everyone's stuff. So as a total outsider, take my opinion with a grain of salt but...

Brooke Strawberry Fields would be forever remembered 😁👍

Second place is Brooke Magnetic Fields which sounds both scientific and a medalist.

Third place would be Brooke Meadow Fields which sounds like a walking national monument 🗽

...and once you settle on a name, stick with it! Brooke No Argument!

Republicans lost their shit but not Donald Trump!

Because of the diaper.

...and then they all died of dysentery because that uneducated, unnamed boy was never taught proper sanitation because he pooped in the woods nearby and didn't bury it, resulting in shigellosis being spread to the entire family by the flies that landed in the poop transferring the shigella dysenteriae bacteria on to the food the family was preparing for the poor, sweet boy who they worried would drive his pole into their daughters just as surely as he would a pole into the ground.

Apparently the labyrinth really was the easy part.

If you do that urine trouble!

They have a bit of a case, but not really because "demon hunter" is a generic term that predates their band by hundreds of years (LOL).

If it's part of a fingerprinting lib, then they just fucked it up. Because the fingerprinting can be done in one ~16ms window of time when the script runs and then you can break down the audio objects and pretend nothing happened.

Honestly, this doesn't sound like spyware. More like absurd optimization. Here's why: Audio devices often go to sleep (to save battery) and can take a second or two to wake up. That's enough time that the end user will miss the first second or two of audio.

By keeping the audio outputting something (even if it's just silence), they can guarantee that their little (often hilariously terrible) product videos will play the way they expect (which is loud and startling, of course!).

This is just one of those stupid tricks that's bad for energy use but good for ignorant users who might complain that the first second of every AliExpress video is silent 🤷

The reason why I believe this to be the case is because there's really nothing unique or interesting to be learned from an audio output loop that's literally sending zeros through itself. If you wanted to use that to fingerprint a user, you wouldn't need to keep it active. You could pass a single zero (silence) through and be done.