Cethin

Partially probably yes. However, there’s also the issue of dealing with dynamic information. If you just need volume and AC controls, use physical buttons please. If you need GPS, media library controls, phone controls, texting, etc, which you don’t need at the same time, they can all use one screen, and that screen can have dynamic controls. A touch screen makes a whole lot of sense for that.

I love physical controls. There are some things that should never be replaced by touch controls. There are places where touch controls make sense though. Anyone who doesn’t realize this is choosing to be ignorant.

A slippery slope isn’t always a fallacy. Yes, that is a specific name of a fallacy, which people commonly point out, but it is also the form of a valid logical argument. If there is support that this will happen, it isn’t a fallacy.

I this case, a user-entered field is useless to “protect children” (being generous and assuming this is the actual reason for the laws). Children will just lie, as they have been doing for decades. The state will point to this as the law not fulfilling its stated goals, so they’ll need to verify age through other means. Even if the goal isn’t surveillance of people, this is still likely to be the result logically. This means the slippery slope argument is valid.

Nexi S.p.A. (“Nexi”) requested access to private data, which we understood to be specifically the usernames and passwords of our supporters. …relating to a general need for risk analysis.

I think they passed the risk analysis portion. Isn’t it more risk if they hand out usernames and passwords? That’s insane. They shouldn’t even have access to passwords.

Mine lasts several weeks. Also, it has a little light that turns red when it’s low (as in, needs charging within a few days). It can also be used while charging without much issue. When I see the red light, I just plug it in while I’m not using it or doing something like watching media. It’s really convenient. I have a mouse bungee, from when I had wired, and the cable just sits there waiting until it’s needed.

I don’t know, but I knew someone with alopecia and she got eyebrow tattoos. I believe that’s a pretty standard solution.

The question was specifically about home hydrogen. Yes, it makes sense for utility companies, as well as large vehicles, as I said before. It’s a great solution to turn renewables into a shipable commodity. Home use though doesn’t make sense. A regular battery has much better properties for home use.

What do you mean it isn’t true? It’s a well known fact. It’s just a proton and an electron, so it’s absolutely tiny. There is almost no way to seal it perfectly, especially in gaseous form. It’s always going to leak. Even for rockets this is an issue. You can make that amount relatively small, but it pretty much always has some loss.

Caverns may make sense for large-scale solutions, because the quantity is so large compared to the loss. Most people don’t have massive caverns under their house though, nor do they have a need for that large of a quantity.

Hydrogen gas is really hard to store. It is tiny, so it’s basically always leaking, no matter how good your seal is.

Technically it could work. However, traditional batteries make a lot more sense. Hydrogen makes some sense for a vehicle because it can be more energy dense (it actually only makes sense for large trucks). However, it has to be stored at cryogenic temperatures. In a place where you probably don’t care about mass or space much, other battery technologies are far better, without the added cost of cryogenic cooling and having to deal with hydrogen, which leaks through anything.

It’s important for full conversion of the grid, but for just cost of energy, it isn’t needed. While 100% of the generated energy is used during the day there’s nothing left to store. I think a lot of places are still in this situation. But yeah, the more solar you build the more important that cost becomes.

The title of this isn’t great when DS9 also has terrorist who are heroes, fighting against that fascist regime. It goes out of its way to show that terrorism is a tool, not a condemnation. It’s not the most precise tool, and it’s not the first you should reach for, but it is there. However, when the state commits these acts it isn’t considered terrorism, so Dukat likely wouldn’t be considered a terrorist, at least not while he was performing those actions.

Probably. At that point you might as well just copy/paste the existing compiler though. The temperature is basically the thing that makes it seem intelligent, because it gives different responses each time, so it seems like it’s thinking. But yeah, having it just always give the most likely response would probably be better, but also probably wouldn’t play well with copyright laws when you have the exact same code as an existing compiler.

You’re still correct. The thing about LLMs is that they’re statistical models that output one of the most likely responses, from the list of most likely responses. It still has some randomness though. You can tune this, but no randomness is shit, and too much randomness sometimes generates stupid garbage. With a large enough output, you’re statistically likely, with any randomness, to generate some garbage. A compiler is sufficiently large and complex that it’s going to end up creating garbage somewhere, even if it’s trained on these compilers specifically.

It’s funny you mention the VC funding. As far as I can tell, it’s only made it worse. Discord would have done great if they just kept expectations low. Instead, they’re now expected to create massive returns. That must come at the cost of consumers. I hope consumers get tired of it and leave, or someone else comes offering the simple service Discord used to provide.

I don’t like the idea that Q is aware he’s in a show. That implies that the show isn’t real. We know that it’s a show, but I prefer it to pretend that it isn’t.

Basically, all the small blocks. They aren’t all critical, but some of them are, and they’re all over the place.

I’m leaning towards satire or AI generated. Could be either.

Just in case anyone hasn’t seen it/doesn’t get this, it’s a Community reference.

If it does that, sure. It would create penalties at least.

You wouldn’t need another identifier though. On your 16th birthday, for example, your age range changes from <16 to >16. If the application checked every day and recorded it, then they would then know your birthday. The bins are larger, but switching bins is by the day. It doesn’t matter how large the bins are at that point.

Even with binning, it doesn’t prevent the date from being learned. All an application would have to do is ask for the bin every day. On the day it changes you learned their birthday. It only works for <18s, but isn’t that specifically who they’re saying they’re trying to protect?