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  • How about oriented (not orientated!)?

  • Like "Weekend at Sam Altman's"?

  • I find it very hard to believe that anyone vetting a spouse in such a way cares about the spouse being a nerd in and of itself.

  • This just hurts my brain. I don't get what "Linux" here is supposed to represent. Wealth, intelligence, fidelity, fanatical devotion to Free Software?

  • I think with all the footage of Trump, and his shallow personality, an AI will be trained to impersonate him and we'll never be rid of him. I'm sure techbros are working on their animatronic Trump right now.

  • In my house in North Carolina, I put up radiant barrier foil in the attic. It was cheap and made a huge difference in the upstairs temperature. I stapled it to the joysts so there was an air gap on both sides of the foil, and so that the hot air would rise out of the roof vents.

  • I had a nice pergola at another house I grew grape vines on. I sure do miss it.

  • Quantum states are incredibly fragile and can be disturbed with even the slightest interaction with the environment (called decoherence). These devices are cooled and isolated to the most extreme degrees possible and still at present decoherence severely limits the computations that can be performed.

  • A quantum computer using current technologies can't scale to that size. Enormous advances over what is now currently possible would be required to get it to that number of qubits, and then the whole issue of cooling can be revisited.

  • CAPTCHAs are solved by consensus. Whatever the CAPTCHA thinks a bicycle is depends on what people before it selected. Sometimes it doesn't know and just uses your answer to set up future CAPTCHAs. So you should be thinking: what would other people (or bots) select for the CAPTCHA.

  • I just took a Core i5, 6 GB RAM laptop from 2011 and reinstalled Linux Mint and put in a 1 TB SSD. The difference between that and Ubuntu 23.10 and a 750 GB 5400 RPM drive was like night and day.

  • It's a big improvement from making them from straw.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world

    Is this a boondoggle or is it actually useful investment?

    www.epa.gov /newsreleases/biden-harris-administration-announces-20-billion-grants-mobilize-private-capital-and
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world

    The eclipse shadow travels on the ground at about 2300 mph, so you could follow it with an SR-71.

  • Some military devices help prevent conflict and minimize its harm. A lot of modern warfare is increasing situational awareness. For example, radar, night vision, surveillance, reconnaissance, electronic warfare, tactical communications, and signals intelligence. Of course, these technologies can be used in a way that harms as well. But the alternative is a blind slugfest that probably harms a lot more civilians and friendly fire.

  • An English-Latin phrasebook, a survival manual explaining how to recognize plants, grow food, handle livestock, set traps, and make simple shelter, e-reader loaded with modern books and a usb solar panel, a multitool, sewing kit, a small dagger, cerium/magnesium flint, first-aid kit, antibiotics, water treatment (Sodium Dichloro-S-Triazinetrione), preservative and neutralizer (sodium metabisulfite), salt, potassium chloride, peanut butter.

    But I'd probably be quickly ambushed and killed nonetheless, or hauled off to the slave markets.

  • The problem is that ceramic and glass dishes often chip if they are in contact with each other in the dishwasher.

  • https://www.aipac.org/ is an influential lobbying organization. Your elected leaders listen to influential lobbying organizations.

  • I listen to classical, WETA or WFMT or WCPE by default. Sometimes I listen to college radio to hear stuff I don't know about. Today I listened to a concert by Tom Waits in 1977.