Well-done, funny stuff!

Amen.

Nuclear energy is never good news.

Solar energy can boil water too. At much lower cost, 10x faster build times, and MUCH less waste … none that has to be guarded for centuries.

Never safe, never clean, never too cheap to meter. The exact opposite of the sales pitches. Rarely built without taxpayer dollars. Name the companies willing to insure one.

That’s not how capitalism works.

I suspect that it’s always been the case that bigger customers are able to negotiate better prices. 1 car a year vs 1000 cars a year? 200 pounds of bread a year vs. 200 tons of bread?

Oh yeah! But not so many people can handle that option.

Absolutely … smart thinking! Each brand is likely to have different ways to lobotomize it, might take a while to decide which is easiest/best return, then start stocking up.

I heard a talk a few days ago, and the fella said that if you want a non-smart monitor, you’ll need to pay somewhat more for what he called an ‘industrial monitor’. He said the ‘smart TV’ is cheaper because of all the data it’ll collect, and they can sell that data to make the price-to-the-user lower. (Don’t know for myself, my old Samsung monitor’s only smarts were to send data out to one URL, and I was able to change that URL to a site that doesn’t exist.)

For 30 years I watched the fossils downplaying, lying about, covering-up the facts about free solar energy (‘oh that’ll never work’), wind ('oh that’ll never work) and other green tech. Now they see the writing on the wall, and they’re buying because that’s the way the wind blows … because They’re rapacious motherfuckers, and never have enough money. They started in the US cutting down all the ancient forests, they’ll forever rape whatever looks like dollars.

I’d never ask a friggin machine to do coding for me, that’s MY blast.

That said, I’ve had good luck asking GPT specific questions about multiple obscure features of Javascript, and of various browsers. It’ll often feed me a sample script using a feature it explains … a lot more helpful than many of the wordy websites like MDN … saving me shit-tons of time that I’d spend bouncing around a half-dozen ‘help’ pages.

Damned good question, and I played stump-the-search-engine for 15 minutes and it’s like they’re AVOIDING that question

But fossil fuel companies don’t want energy storage, right?

Stockholders and aalesmen make them put that towards the end… to make investors feel dizzy I think

It is the case that posts people make on HN can quickly be moved from the front page to the 2nd or 3rd. This may be algorithmic or a moderator decision. A valid point is that there’s no way of knowing why this happens, apart from careful reading of the site’s guidelines. Some users will be bad-jacketed. Some posts can be flagged or simply go ‘dead’, also not transparent.

LOL I would NOT be surprised !!

What if some civilization in the past already had something like this, and there are ‘plates’ or pieces of rock out there (under sand dunes? written in the sides of those vases from ancient Egypt?)

Could they make portable readers that can at least spot old pottery chunks that are probably FULL of videos?

Manipulating the atoms in a crystal to store info is extremely high-precision, as is verifying the accuracy of the write). So is reading positions down to a few nanometers, But consumers wouldn’t need a $6000 reader to get, say, 10GB dumped to a hard drive … you’d carry your crystal and 16GB drive down to the corner store and user their reader to dump sector 37BJ to the drive. No need to trust them with your platter … but are you exposing all 360TB to potential damage from the machine?

Encrypted text is pretty much worthless to LLM. The hard part is getting decrypters to potential readers. RSS could get the text to readers; it could even get decrypters to readers as well … if someone was working on this problem.

Shhhh… just a little secret between us … but most of today’s shit-ton of house music is VERY VERY, uh, discoish

Sounds like a ripping good way to keep corporate data (and government secrets) from the public radar.

That way we won’t find out whose hands public taxdollars (or public-owned structures rented to corporations) wind up in.