I like mainspring but I can’t get my corporate outlook account to work with it

Honestly with how prevalent misinformation is these days I’m glad it’s the top comment

lol I’m too used to DoE referring to Department of Energy I didn’t connect that it’s the same acronym.

The current admin is also attacking the department of energy because they do a lot of climate and renewable energy research. But that’s among many, many other things they do.

I hope whoever is considering cutting the DoE realizes that among the many, many things they do is nuclear weapons research

I was under the impression that Disney had significant creative control over the development of the most recent seasons, but I could be wrong. I guess I was just thrown off by the fact that every ad for the latest season I’ve seen has a Disney logo on it, and I assumed it went the way of so many American shows and franchises Disney has engulfed.

Dr. Who is now owned by Disney so it’s effectively a US show now

I will absolutely pick up other peoples trash if it’s somewhere like the wilderness. They should have picked it up themselves but I’m there now and that trash shouldn’t be there.

I was able to quiet mine with a bash script until eventually a software update changed the fan control to keep it quiet for me.

I just got two asking for money from different accounts within 5 minutes! Also mine have the spaces that make it hard to read.

I should really just keyword filter all headlines with the word “slammed” in it.

The purpose of fancy PCs is to run Minecraft with shaders and a bunch of mods

There are advantages to getting server-grade hardware. It’s designed to run 24/7, often supports more hard drives, ram sticks, processors, etc, and often is designed to make it very quick to replace things when they break.

You can find used servers on sites like EBay for reasonable prices. They typically come from businesses selling their old hardware after an upgrade.

However, for simple home use cases, an old regular desktop PC will be just fine. Run it until it breaks!

A lot of this is kinda already happening.

Score could be kept with citations.

This is already something people brag about / look at as a measure of success. There are plenty of free websites to keep track but the most popular one is Google Scholar.

Perhaps competing labs could both receive citation credit if their results essentially showed the same thing.

When I find multiple good papers that have the information I need, I cite all of them, and even feel happy about it because citing a lot of papers can make your paper look like you put in more work.

If nobody could scoop anyone else’s work, then cooperation may be encouraged over competition.

It’s a bit hard to completely do away with scooping. A possibly more practical way to increase cooperation would be to eliminate the idea of the “first author” getting the majority of the credit. It’s really annoying when like 5 people heavily contributed to the paper but whoever’s name is listed first ends up getting 90% of the credit because that’s what people look for.

The idea of doing things in a wiki format is interesting though.

That’s assuming the user knows that and didn’t just buy a prebuilt tower from Costco, and that it isn’t a laptop or something where changing the motherboard is much harder if not impossible.

Slack

??? Slack works just fine on Linux

Things like lectures I agree are actually better online than in person, but there’s a lot about university learning that can’t really be replicated online.

The most obvious thing being physical demonstrations and hands on projects, which I had in several physics and engineering classes.

Also I think in-person works better for discussion sections or office hours, where talking it out and writing it on a board is often easier to do in person than online (although there are tools for these things online).

Another big thing you’d miss out on by studying online is the whole social aspect of living away from your parents and with other people your age and making friends and going to parties and such.

Honestly I don’t really want a smart context-aware Siri, I just want something I can give simple, straightforward voice commands to, and get predictable, reliable results.

For very large AI purposes people use GPU clusters, and a GPU is already very close to a tensor-product-optimized ASIC. There also has been recent work on even more specialized AI chips.

For applications that need to run on a smaller scale, people can and do run things like neural networks on FPGAs.

If that really is the bottleneck I’d expect them to use FPGAs or customized ASICs instead of a common CPU.

There were toys with good enough lidar to do rudimentary navigation 20 years ago. The first and most computationally expensive step of video-based navigation is often turning the image into a depth map. Meanwhile, LiDAR just gives you the depth map directly.