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  • ‘More harmful than helpful’: young people sour on AI

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  • Exactly, it's a tool. It's potentially useful, in certain situations, but I'll be the one deciding if I want it at all, if it's useful and what it's useful for, not some company. If they tell me to use a table saw to clean my teeth, I'm going to tell them to go fuck themselves. Nothing wrong with table saws, but fuck any company that tells me what I ought to be using a table saw for, because it probably isn't in my best interest.

  • What does the word data mean per se ?

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  • You have to start by understanding that for mobile phone companies, they are using an extremely specific and industry-focused definition of "data" that relates ONLY to the way mobile phone networks are implemented and billed.

    If you are trying to understand it purely from any sort of more general, widespread definition of "data" which is what most people seem to be describing below, there are way too many steps and details between that and what the mobile phone company calls "data" for you to wrap your head around in a single question.

    So I'm going to tell you what data means to a mobile phone company:

    It means ANY internet traffic you use (upload or download) on your phone (or if you are sharing your phone as a hotspot, any used by the hotspot) AS LONG AS all of the following are true:

    • That internet data is not for the purposes of sending and receiving phone calls to your carrier-assigned phone number across the carrier's own telephony network (ie, it is a "regular" phone call, you have no control over how the carrier routes its voice calls but even if they do route it across the internet, typically you will not be charged data for this)
    • It is not a SMS text message, and
    • You are not on WiFi at the time (the WiFi goes through somebody else's physical internet connection where the WiFi is connected to, not your phone's).

    There are exceptions and edge cases, but as a general rule, that's what a mobile phone company will consider "data". Anything you upload or download or stream on the internet almost always qualifies, unless you're on a WiFi connection like at home or work, assuming you have that WiFi connection enabled. Youtube is data. Netflix is data. Emails are data. Phone calls can be data, if you're using an "app" like WhatsApp or FaceTime or VOIP or any sort of video-calling feature.

    It is measured in millions (mega) or billions (giga) of bytes. Text and static images, like wikipedia and many other webpages are, use negligible and almost irrelevant amounts of data. Apps, app and OS updates, streaming audio and especially downloading or even just playing games and video content (movies, TV shows, video calls) use very significant amounts of data and can quickly use up the quota in hours depending on the quality settings.

  • US-backed microreactor reaches criticality in major nuclear step

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  • Bringing us one step closer to the day when I can have a nuclear reactor in my utility room to power and heat my house and swimming pool, like Maniac Mansion always taught me was a totally reasonable, safe and not at all unhinged idea.

  • On an emergency power supply with AC and DC electrical plugs, which do I use to charge or power appliances?

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  • Changing power types is inefficient.

    Batteries (which is what your emergency power supply uses) and solar panels are DC. They will be most efficient powering other DC devices directly.

    Rotating generators (powered by engines, turbines, wind, anything that creates movement through motion pretty much) are AC. They will be most efficient at powering AC devices directly.

    As soon as you're changing DC into AC, or AC into DC, you're losing power (usually a quite significant amount) in the conversion process. DC->AC requires an inverter. AC->DC requires a rectifier. Both are inefficient.

    The direct answer to your question is that your DC power bank will be most efficient powering DC devices, and less efficient powering AC devices.

  • PostgreSQL in-database durable execution

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  • It's a bait and switch, and you're taking the bait. Microsoft does not do anything that benefits others, they only do things that benefit themselves, and if you think they're benefiting you, that's the trap, and you can sniff around it all you like until you're convinced it's safe, eventually they're going to catch you, you're not smarter than the multi-billion-dollar trapper who has already caught and killed and stripped the pelts off so many others. You will be no different.

  • PostgreSQL in-database durable execution

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  • All you're missing is that I loathe microslop and will no longer extend them even a nanometer of goodwill. They deserve nothing but mistrust. They have burned all possible bridges. I'm entirely done with them, forever.

  • PostgreSQL in-database durable execution

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  • Ah, so we're trying to embrace, extend and extinguish Postgres now are we Microsoft? Good luck.

  • US Vice President JD Vance slams UK's 'enraging' handling of student murder

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  • JD Vance is enraging.

  • [Meta] Removing definitions from Decronym?

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  • i18n is definitely a real thing and it's often even used as an abbreviation in repos, folder structures and filenames related to internationalization/translation, I don't love it, but it is definitely in real world use. l10n is one I've seen before and is also a real thing, but much less common (and even less acceptable in my opinion). a11y is not one I've ever seen before.

  • [Meta] Removing definitions from Decronym?

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  • If this is about the bot I think it is, I haven't personally complained but I have noticed it's weird and often wrong, it seems to detect HTTP/HTTPS in every post (perhaps seeing links and URLs?) and it seems to maybe possibly be detecting any words with those strings of letters somewhere in them and presumably also doesn't care about case sensitivity? The short ones in particular like "AP", "CA", "CF", "HA" and "IP" seem to come up frequently almost every time it posts, and "NAT" and "IoT" seems common, and none of things seem to be actually mentioned in any of the comments that I see.

  • Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal

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  • Capitalism has cooked these people's brains. There is nothing of value left inside them.

  • 'Disturbing Trend of Lawlessness': UN Experts Denounce Trump's Coercive Brutalization of Cuban People

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  • Capitalism has cooked these people's brains. There is nothing left of value in these people's brains.

  • New York police investigate mysterious cases of people coming out of manholes

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  • Yeah, it's a wild idea, but the number of lives they've saved and extended far outweigh any danger. Sewer systems might actually be what increased average human lifespans more than almost anything else in history.

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    Gabe Newell asked Valve's top lawyer "What the f*** do I pay you for if that’s your opinion?" in heated debate over porn games on Steam, report says

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  • Financial censorship is a useful tool for people who want stuff censored.

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    Engineer builds AI laser defense system that wiped out every mosquito in his home

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  • "Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure" has always been my policy for spiders, mosquitoes and ticks, so I'm looking forward to World War 3 going nuclear. I'm just a bit concerned that the "from orbit" part implies I'm supposed to be up there when it happens, and while I understand the basic mechanics of how to get there, I'm not sure how I'm going to handle the logistics after that point.

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    Engineer builds AI laser defense system that wiped out every mosquito in his home

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  • Have it spray tear gas first. But wait, then the laser won't be able to penetrate the cloud. Maybe we could add a quadcopter drone to clear a path to the mosquito for the laser to fire. But then we'll need a system so the drone doesn't run into a human choking on tear gas, and the drone can't see because of the limited visibility, could we use infrared sensors I wonder? /s

    This is a stupid system. I love engineers, but they tend to uh... overengineer things like this.

  • Venezuela Orders Airlines to Pay Fuel Fees to US Treasury

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  • Very normal behaviors for an independent country. /s

  • Anthropic Files to Go Public, Setting Stage for Huge I.P.O.

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  • What's that sound? It sounds like fizzing... all these bubbles keep popping... wait, is the foam getting smaller or is it just me?

  • California Passes Backdoor Bill to Control the 3D Printing Hobby and Spy on Small Designers, Prototypers, and Hobbyists

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  • Us digital hippies just believe in free data and world peace, man.

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    cecilkorik @lemmy.ca

    Federated 3d printing design hub like Thingiverse?