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This is the kind of AI that will change the world, not the word salad machines that burn through massive amounts of compute to sound kind of intelligent. The ability to train an AI model to identify problems is incredibly useful, whether it’s sewer blockages or cancer cells.

“AI-powered” and “20 foot robots” are not phrases that should be used in the same sentence. Also, surely leasing an autonomous robot for $20k a month is more expensive than leasing a regular machine and hiring a worker or two to operate it. Construction workers aren’t paid anywhere near $240k a year, and you’ll need someone with an emergency stop button watching the autonomous robot anyways.

I’m so glad I deleted my Instagram account.

It’s a good plot for a book, but as for actually happening in the real world haha no way.

That comes out to a speed of 7.5km/h or 4.7mph, barely above a brisk walk. Good to know if I ever need to outrun humanoid robots it won’t be hard. (The self-driving cars are another matter).

Robots are a lot more energy efficient than humans. Human muscles are around 25% efficient while robotic motors can be >90%. However they lose massively in energy density. 100 grams of carbs has 1.7 MJ of energy, which is equivalent to 2-3kg of lithium batteries. A human can run for hours on a kg of calorie dense foods, while a robot would need a bulky battery or constant battery swaps/recharges.

It’s certainly better than using a random online service, but I still find the idea of being emotionally dependent on a computer algorithm deeply unsettling. I hope someday you can find a real girlfriend to talk to. :)

A small test reactor paves the way for bigger, more practical reactors. You can’t start with a full-sized gigawatt model; you need to test and validate your designs at a small scale first.

Let me guess, the old “change the text background to black” redaction trick? A classic.

Minecraft itself is really easy to pirate; if you don’t mind it not being open source you could just do that.

The photo, taken on March 13, shows the students from the city of Görlitz on the Polish border making the so-called white power salute.

The gesture, common in extremist circles, is not illegal in Germany, unlike the Nazi salute.

Not the salute I was thinking, but a bad one nonetheless.

Nice, not worth $150 though lol.

Dang, everyone else here has 4 or 5 figures while I’m sitting at $101. And I know for a fact 40% of that was Kerbal Space Program.

I’m guessing how that goes is you pay them, they do actually make you a page, it gets quickly deleted for not meeting Wikipedia’s standards, and then they go “sorry no refunds”. Step 0 to getting a Wikipedia page about yourself is to be notable enough for one, which >99.9% of people are not.

New tariffs could raise iPhone prices by about 40% in the U.S.

Apple’s overpriced phones have quite a high profit margin; surely they could absorb most of the tariff costs while still making a profit? Or would that not be greedy enough for them?

That is usually how males and females of a species are differentiated in general: males have the small gamete and females have the large one. (As you said, some individuals may not produce gametes so it only applies in general).

Of course humans are a lot more complicated. We have a concept of gender which doesn’t necessarily align with biological sex, and many people modify their sex characteristics to match their gender, so applying generalizations blindly gets you nowhere.

Making Win 11 even harder to install is a bold move from Microsoft. Most average users are content with using the OS that comes with their PC and upgrading it when necessary. But if the option is to either buy a new PC or fiddle with registry settings in hope that Win 11 will work, I think a lot more people will start looking at Linux instead.

Wouldn’t the immunity also work in reverse? A bacteria with opposite chirality wouldn’t be able to digest chiral nutrients from regular organisms (sugars, lipids, nearly all amino acids, and more). Seems like that would limit the damage it could cause to existing organisms.