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simmerup··on A Rant About “Technology” (2005)
How is it hard sci-fi? It was basically magic
simmerup··on Why Is Everyone Trying to Build a Solid-State Battery?
if it’s the same range for less weight you have more room for munitions and other gadgets
simmerup··on The Strongest El Niño Ever
You didn’t answer my question, but it’s understandable why you wouldn’t want to if you believe that.

I know magnetic poles shift.

simmerup··on The Strongest El Niño Ever
You really don’t see how they’re related? Fair enough.
simmerup··on The Strongest El Niño Ever
So you think this climate change is caused by the magnetic poles shifting?
simmerup··on The Strongest El Niño Ever
I don’t think it is, and I don’t think it’s repeatedly pushed back

I just think the science is still being worked out.

But the world is getting hotter, and the scientists know it’s not good for us when the earth heats past a certain point.

But we’re still burning that fuel regardless.

simmerup··on The Strongest El Niño Ever
If it’s always varied in intensity, why are the ten hottest years on record all after 2015?

Surely we’d see random hot years all over the map.

simmerup··on The Strongest El Niño Ever
Have you seen that some of these things are so loud they’re damaging to health? But they’re loud at frequencies we can’t hear so it’s not easy to tell without specialised equipment
simmerup··on The Strongest El Niño Ever
And it varies in intensity because human activity is putting more energy into the system
simmerup··on The Strongest El Niño Ever
Like an alcoholic saying drinking isn’t bad because he’s been drinking since his twenties and still hasn’t got cirrhosis

By the time it’s an issue it’s too late.

simmerup··on Young adults are poor despite every metric which suggests otherwise
I guess you’re not British either then?
simmerup··on AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
I’d be concerned as it throws into doubt their entire accounting mechanism
simmerup··on $100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol
Why would you want to make a video like that though, it’s soulless slop
simmerup··on The 3-degree limit could be exceeded as early as 2050
The population problem was solved by some chemical reaction using fossil fuels to create fertiliser so crop yields could increase

What’s going to be the tech solution this time?

simmerup··on Europe's new climate in seven charts
Replace 'normal' with 'optimal for humanity' then.,

I'm sure the lizards will love the new normal though.

simmerup··on Re: I'm Begging You to Leave Your AI Note-Taker at Home
This is my experience with it refining meeting notes. Important context is washed out because the ai converts stuff to super generic terms instead
simmerup··on Re: I'm Begging You to Leave Your AI Note-Taker at Home
Are you a guy or a girl?
simmerup··on China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes
Only if you get caught and someone in power doesn’t like you
simmerup··on U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations
Stuff like:

https://apnews.com/article/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-co...

Trump is using sanctions and started a trade war with Europe.

Europe would be mad to entrust their digital ecosystem to such a country

simmerup··on U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations
We're only dependent on American services because we trusted America

Trump has ruined that, so now we'll be moving to build our own alternatives

simmerup··on Not everyone is using AI for everything
But no one will pay me to watch tv all day
simmerup··on WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants
You may as well argue for bringing back slavery also
simmerup··on Aliens.gov Live
Trump fired everyone who told him it was a bad plan and put fox hosts in their place
simmerup··on Aliens.gov Live
They would literally invade Iran before doing that
simmerup··on DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode
And the customer of his site gets a bunch of AI generated rubbish

Could be correct, could be not, who cares?

simmerup··on Greek swimmer only athlete to beat world record at controversial Enhanced Games
Wonder how many of the current world records are secretly doped anyway
simmerup··on Breakthroughs for batteries could soon make them better
Electric helicopters come with the advantage that they’re much simpler to maintain surely.
simmerup··on AI has a multiplying effect on existing technical skills
The problem is it’s impossibly hard to test all the edge cases

Which is probably why so many random buttons in microsoft/apple/spotify just stop working once you get off the beaten path or load the app in some state which is slightly off base

simmerup··on The Climate Crisis: Illusion of Action in the Age of Green Capitalism
A focus on conciseness would help this article
simmerup··on Google's AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back
Well, I suspect the non-LLM ones will become much more expensive than they are now due to the specialist knowledge they’d require to make combined with the smaller pool of people willing to pay for the difference
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