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daedrdev··on The disappearance of Japan's animators
This means most of the profit goes to the consumer since every part of the retail chain has such little profits. Its common for retail to be as low as 3%
daedrdev··on U.S. science is in chaos
The US has DOUBLE its current power production in proposed expansions, mostly solar and batteries. In 2004 it had like 20%. The US grid is set to grow.
daedrdev··on Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?
Google has said to turn right at an intersection where you are turning left for years because it doesn't know about a T shaped intersection that tens of thousands use a day.
daedrdev··on Treating pancreatic tumours may have revealed cancer's master switch
Did Steve Jobs die from believing something similar (while skipping chemo)
daedrdev··on CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers
Basically the issue is often that gene therapies end up in the liver since its the livers job to detoxify, but that may cause a dangerous immune response if the immune system notices it in the liver and attacks the organ, since the person could die from the damage.
daedrdev··on Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass
I have met pacifists who say all war is bad* and thus the Russia Ukraine war should immediately end, without any ideas on how to get that to happen except a few who imply Ukraine should roll over and be consumed.

*or this is an inter-capitalist war

daedrdev··on Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time
Its especially egregious because 2 stair builds are easily and often designed with more distance between stairs and rooms than single stair builds are.
daedrdev··on Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time
The US has literally double its total electricity production in solar and batteries stuck in the now 5 year FIFO permit hell we require for grid additions that will cause most proposals to pull out before completion
daedrdev··on Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time
Firefighters are infamous for creating elevator regulations that require being able to rotate a stretcher, which lead to less elevators duet to the immense costs, which is both completely unnecessary and defeats the entire purpose of the regulations for safety since now they have to drag injured people down stairs
daedrdev··on Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time
supercapacitors are quite difficult because they can explode
daedrdev··on Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time
In power grids the system must be able to handle peak loads for weeks at a time. Either it will shed loads (aka shut off electricity) or things will explode. A black start cannot be allowed to happen as it would be catastrophic
daedrdev··on Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable
You get silently sabotaged for ML dev, Anthropic says so. For bio and cybersecurity it tells you
daedrdev··on Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable
I only said one year because I was thinking anthropic fans might downvote my post, I think they have a few months lead and are deluding themselves that they can get regulation to halt development and stay on top
daedrdev··on Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable
An emoji of a virus and an emoji of a DNA is allegedly a triggering phrase
daedrdev··on Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable
Specifically only ML research
daedrdev··on Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable
The strangest part is that it won't just reject ML research, which I can understand, it will sabotage it silently by using a worse model without revealing it is doing so.

It's just an insane level of deception and trust destruction for a company that at most is like 1 year ahead of its competition.

Edit; to be clear they tell you when they degrade it for cybersecurity and bio

daedrdev··on Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents
There is currently 2x us electricity production in solar and batteries stuck in permit hell due to the US requiring they pay for grid upgrades before connection in a first in first out line that has grown in length and costs.

We could have cheap and available renewables, but we instead destroy them in bureaucratic hell that nobody cares about.

daedrdev··on EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices
This is exactly what I’m talking about. The US and the European Union both allow chlorine in drinking water as in both areas it’s used kill bacteria. The US allows slightly more but both of them set it to safe levels and the chlorine and chloramane used do not make people sick
daedrdev··on EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/15/nx...

“The vast majority of chicken processed in the United States is not chilled in chlorine and hasn't been for quite a few years.

…

Less than 5% of poultry processing facilities still use chlorine in rinses and sprays, according to the National Chicken Council, an industry group that surveyed its members. (Those that still do use a highly diluted solution at concentrations deemed safe.)

Nowadays, the industry mostly uses organic acids to reduce cross contamination, primarily peracetic, or peroxyacetic acid, which is essentially a mixture of vinegar and hydrogen peroxide.“

daedrdev··on EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices
The United States has far stricter labeling standards than the EU. That's why US products appear to have more ingredients, they are required to say what their ingredients are mad from, even on identical products.

Many things that are well known memes are completely false. Not everything in the EU is better regulated. Everyone always complains about chlorinated chicken, not realizing that <5% of US chicken is washed that way as chicken now uses vinegar washes, and those that did were at concentrations deemed safe by the FDA.

daedrdev··on I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling
I think math bas be slowly transforming more and more into word problems and scenarios. You might think oh yeah this engages the student by showing them reality, but I actually found it incredibly boring and useless, it served as a distraction from the actual numbers that I think are important to learn too.
daedrdev··on A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)
Very few US prisons are for profit.

Like I said in my other comment, some are more likely to reoffend because their prison time, but other were already more likely to reoffend, especially multiple felons who commit an extremely high percent of all crimes.

daedrdev··on A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)
Theres obviously going to be a correlation, but it may be because the state effectively gives more evil criminals longer sentences
daedrdev··on A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)
The majority of people in prisons in the US are incarcerated for violent crime. 64% of violent criminals are rearrested compared to 40% of nonviolent criminals. It really looks like the US is being somewhat efficient here and just has a lot of crime.
daedrdev··on A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)
Reducing poverty only has a minor impact on crime.

I think some Criminals commit crimes because they know they will most likely get away with it, they are bad people

daedrdev··on Hormuz crisis side effect: a sharp rise in container shipping rates
Econ 101 often ignores side effects, but I don’t think economist has a whole ignore side effects. That’s like one of their main topics of study.
daedrdev··on Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM
The current situation, where students succeed regardless if they completely failed to learn and do zero work is also pretty bad
daedrdev··on That Methyl Methacrylate Tank
In California, this is absolutely not the case. Regulations are strict, chemical emissions are heavily restricted and proper disposal of chemicals via specialized companies at great expense. Chemical companies have no need of formulating new versions because everything causes cancer under prop 65. They absolutely have numerous permits for chemicals, your claim that they don't denies reality.

This case probably fell through the cracks, was grandfathered in due to military importance, or is a symptom of the utter lack of industrial knowhow plaguing modern US manufacturing because much US manufacturing is legacy work from decades ago with little ability to modernize, at a plant that likely existing long before the nearby housing.

daedrdev··on What Is Happening to Publishing?
Publishers loose money on most books and most advances they pay authors, and are simply gambling for the big hits.
daedrdev··on Dumb ways for an open source project to die
Or in the past code just sat unpatched via obscurity because fewer people were looking. After all there are plenty of exploits from injection to CSS that we have fixed or migrated away from for code from the far past
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