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gumballindie··on Tesla owner adds 4000 watt solar panel roof to his car after company wouldn't
Instead of wasting time on failures such as self driving, Tesla could design car bodies made of solar cells. They may not be super efficient, but would add some extra power.
gumballindie··on The growing inequality of who gets to work from home
Most people that want to work onsite are the people without an inner voice. They need someone to talk to compensate for it.
gumballindie··on Nightshade: An offensive tool for artists against AI art generators
Exactly, and the higher the degree of influence the closer to theft. Ai cultists obsessed with stealing property somehow think that’s ok.
gumballindie··on Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections
I would advise against using popular or well known protocols as those are prime targets. I’d use disguised protocols instead.
gumballindie··on Many AI researchers think fakes will become undetectable
> the authentic entity will speak against it and the society will rectify

Society is already speaking against stolen content and fakes produced using it. How are we rectifying this?

gumballindie··on Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client
This. Period.
gumballindie··on Google search is losing the fight with SEO spam, study says
Yeah it’s not even spam that concerns me, i can filter those websites out. Literarily searching for one term and getting results for a different term is what bothers me. Shows that there is a fundamental flaw lurking deep in there.
gumballindie··on Google to invest $1B in UK data centre
My apologies - it was a knee jerk reaction on my part. I am sorry.
gumballindie··on Nightshade: An offensive tool for artists against AI art generators
This is excellent. We need more tools like this, for text content as well. For software we need GPL 4 with ML restrictions (make your model open source or not at all). Potentially even DRM for text.
gumballindie··on Google to invest $1B in UK data centre
Whoa. What’s so bad about “hiring people from there”? Now that east european skills have left it takes two to three locals to get the same job done, if they even figure out how. Have to bring people with expertise from somewhere. Only issue is that Indians are visa bound and underpaid, unlike east europeans that companies competed for and drove wages up - contrary to what the clay of the land thought.
gumballindie··on Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel
I think spending hours calmly in front of a debugger is the reason programmers become angry at people.

Stress builds up and needs to be released somewhere.

What I learned over time is that it’s better to get angry at the debugger and be nice to people. Not a day goes by without cursing that hecking tool that does whatever the heck it wants again, but I smile at my neighbours and try to help whenever I can. I also use HN as a means to let some of my craziest thoughts run wild, so I wouldnt have to torment those around me with them.

Programmers are humans and humans rely on emotion. Got to control the flow and pressure somehow.

gumballindie··on Google to invest $1B in UK data centre
I am not the decision maker, unfortunately. The UK is on track to solving the cost of housing, by tanking the economy, but people still won't afford said housing since they won't afford the mortgages. Hope the NL finds a better way to solve its issues.
gumballindie··on Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client
Stealing content is not the type of rule breaking that phreaking was about.
gumballindie··on Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client
HN has sadly become a bit of a #warezcentral. People demanding free stuff, either to train their ai models or for personal consumption.
gumballindie··on Google to invest $1B in UK data centre
If you look into the job market a lot have moved to the Netherlands. The UK is gradually becoming irrelevant. A 1 bil $ investment is negligible in the grand scheme of things. If you spoke with people in finance then you’ll learn things are bad. Really bad.
gumballindie··on System76 Thelio Major Powered by AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 Series Performance
Sounds like a nice place to work at.

> the fans are going 100% always

Can this not be configured via the bios? I imagine there should be a fan curve setting somewhere in there.

gumballindie··on Ask HN: Can the black border atop the HN mourning header link to who died?
And _that_ will replace software engineers?
gumballindie··on A pair of DeepMind scientists talking with investors about forming an AI startup
Prior to Brexit the go to place for tech in Europe was London, UK. Likely Google would have expanded their offices there, and probably move them where everyone else is. From _the_ place to be London is now the place to avoid. 80% of the brightest people I know have left the UK. What we are left with is with those that need at least two more like them to get a job done.
gumballindie··on Firm develops jet fuel made entirely from human poo
And they will convert seats into toilettes. Still no legroom.
gumballindie··on Will Japan see more marriages with Tokyo's taxpayer-funded AI-driven dating app?
> population decline is the lack of finances to marry and raise children

Sounds like Japan suffers from the same issues as the western world. Raising kids is extremely difficult when hosing is unaffordable and people are required to sit in offices.

gumballindie··on A pair of DeepMind scientists talking with investors about forming an AI startup
In France. Seems like the UK has become completely irrelevant. Well done!

On a serious note, they should leave Google. That company is on a steady decline, as seen in their products.

gumballindie··on Mourning Google
Downloading copyrighted material and using it, let alone for comercial purposes, is theft. I am not allowed to download movies or music. Nor am i allowed to resell them if i did download them. Which is what openai did for some of its content. It is appalling that some people defend their crime. Not sure for what reason.
gumballindie··on Water ice buried at Mars' equator is over 2 miles thick
There seems to be a stream of people that strongly against colonising mars. Why?
gumballindie··on Surveillance-by-Design in Proposed Amendments to the UK Investigatory Powers Act
Other than ai companies and ai workers no decent engineer or company would agree to these changes. The UK government seems desperate to alienate everyone.
gumballindie··on Altman seeks to raise billions for network of AI chip factories
Cant steal chips sadly. He must be bummed.
gumballindie··on Water ice buried at Mars' equator is over 2 miles thick
> this is kindergarten level perception of reality

An interesting projection.

gumballindie··on Water ice buried at Mars' equator is over 2 miles thick
Not so fast. People thought living in orbit would kill you, yet here we are, some having lived up there for over a year. Think of Mars as a premade space station core, of masive size, with premade shields against asteroids, a gravity generator, resources within reach, energy, and water.
gumballindie··on Water ice buried at Mars' equator is over 2 miles thick
> The soil can't grow anything

Didn't we think Chernobyl would be a dead zone yet things are growing there? Not that I expected to be able to grow stuff on Mars' soil without processing the ground.

> You would need to live in a clean room on Mars because they build up in your system and slowly kill you

Aren't we getting slowly killed by _everything_ here on earth? Why wouldn't we be able to build planet wide sealed structures, starting with a small region, and growing to surround the entire "liveable" surface? Of cource it's not a trivial task, but the planet already provides relative shelter from space, has at least _some_ gravity and provides some of the resources needed for survival (water it seems, metals that we can easily access, metals, some minerals, and so on).

gumballindie··on Water ice buried at Mars' equator is over 2 miles thick
I wish, just like all nations have a budget for defense, that they all have a budget for space exploration. Colonising mars would be the ultimate growth driver. Think interplanetary trade, tourism, asteroid mining. Not to mention population growth and diversity.

Discovering water in large amounts means establishing a colony is increasingly possible and viable.

gumballindie··on Mourning Google
Those would have to be some rather corrupt courts to agree to such theft. What's next? Agreeing that if you are out on the street it's fair game to be robbed?
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