I think one of the silver linings of ai is that when the bubble bursts and/or they are able to develop more efficient models there will be a glut of power, which will make electricification cheaper.

I think there is some nuance here. Data centers are being put in cities that cannot support them at the expense of their citizens, this is a corruption problem in my opinion. Data centers could also be much more water conservant than they are, and significantly less polluting and I appreciate the public pressure they are on to improve here. The warm water being released can damage the local ecosystem as well.

I have definitely seen some absurd claims about water usage, but it also isnt totally unconcerning either.

Imo its a pr strategy, water usage is a much more solvable issue than the immense energy usage, and the ai companies would rather actovists attack them for that than for the significant power consumption.

I think the power usage is also going to go down, either because they make ai more efficient, or because they can’t make it more efficient and it continues to make no economic sense and mostly goes away. Hopefully that latter scenario leads to a lot of excess green energy to be constructed which would make electrifying the world a little easier. But that is probably wishful thinking.

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I don’t think any canadian politicians are implicated in the epstein files. The Ontario premier dealt drugs with/to his crack smoking mayor brother though so lump us in with the nacrotrafficers I guess.

Does your dishwasher not have a drying cycle?

Genuinely neat idea but you’d need it to be flexible, maybe a glove with a flexible display and the power at the wrist.

You could but it stinks, dog poop has a way stronger smell. Some people train their dogs to use the toilet which is a lot of work and doesn’t really reduce the number of walks you need to take.

By default windows does block unverified binaries. It’s pretty annoying. You have to click more info and then run anyway:

If you are a random stranger then probably best not to. If you have built a rapport like in the post above then you should know how they will react and do it if you think it won’t cause offence.

It is theorized that there is a hotspot beneath the region

‘Well, there’s speculation that it’s due to a mantle hotspot.’ --a geologist who’s trying to cover up the fact that they didn’t hear your question

Hmmmmmm

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a VPN does not prevent the fingerprinting google does.

IDK he might be, he certainly is a dick. but also you don’t usually get to read the whole script (definitely not the final script) before choosing to accept a role, they may only get a scene, maybe just an elevator pitch etc.

And then theres me who can’t understand the words of a song no matter the language.

I am not a doctor, I just find steel interesting. I also prefer leaf to hash. but I think it’s going to take more than 1000C to create the fumes osha is mainly concerned about, which would make the steel yellow with heat, Even for welders it’s the sort of thing that should concern only people who do it professionally. That said you are kinda directly huffing whatever is coming off it (hypothetically of course). If it’s getting red hot, then it might still be having some oxidation, but it probably isn’t getting into your lungs and it probably is going to stay put in the metal, Probably…

If it’s not glowing at all you are definitely good.

Chromium is only dangerous (in reasonable quantities) when its Hexavalent (meaning it has 6 missing electrons). Trivalent chromium (3 missing electrons) is actually essential in trace amounts. Stainless steel has trivalent chromium. Exposure to high temperatures (welding, plasma cutting, maybe grinding) can oxidize it from trivalent to hexavalent but your kitchen utensils aren’t going to be exposed to that. I’m not an expert though to be clear.

Here is a link to the tool that video uses. This isn’t a case of someone compromising an existing smart bulb to do sketchy things, but rather someone installing this bulb covertly in your house and using it for penetration testing. the same could be accomplished by an arduino in the bushes or a guy with a white van out front.

Also most smart bulbs use zigbee or zwave not wifi. The hub could be hacked i guess, but I have mine setup to only be accessible on the local network.

On private trackers thats pretty typical in my experience, if you’re getting that on public trackers and you see there are peers then you might not have port forwarding set up correctly.

Only cause you don’t go to your city council meetings.