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cabirum··on Microplastics found in human ovary follicular fluid
Is microplastics the sole contaminant in otherwise completely clean and pure fluid? Or, like with all bodily fluids, it also contains traces of many irrelevant substances that somehow made their way there? Is the attention to microplastics disproportional? Who paid for the research?
cabirum··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
Trading in USD means that all your transactions become known by a third party (US). That is why everyone should be interested in cutting out the middle man.
cabirum··on We can, must, and will simulate nematode brains
I'm afraid a neuron may not be a logic gate with synapses serving as inputs/outputs and behaving exactly the same on every activation.
cabirum··on The Origin of the Pork Taboo
"They require less than half the amount of water needed by a cow or a horse, making them more drought tolerant" - it follows from the article that pigs help to conserve water
cabirum··on Amazon's self-driving unit just hit a major setback
Why don't companies try making autonomous trains, trams, etc - things attached to rails and with strict schedule - that would be several orders of magnitude easier to implement. Then move to self-driving cars - which are obviously not good enough atm.
cabirum··on US arms flow to Ukraine again as the Kremlin mulls a ceasefire proposal
Or unconditional surrender
cabirum··on US arms flow to Ukraine again as the Kremlin mulls a ceasefire proposal
War is peace, right?
cabirum··on US arms flow to Ukraine again as the Kremlin mulls a ceasefire proposal
Resuming arms delivery kind of guarantees no ceasefire deal will be made.
cabirum··on China's Homegrown EUV Machines Rumored for Q3 Trial Production
Finally. China's own EUVs prevent possible conflict over Taiwan, while some competition is always good.
cabirum··on Moscow-based global news network has infected AI tools with propaganda
Is all propaganda a "malicious distortion of truth", or just Russian? The US has vastly more resources to push its own propaganda via its controlled media, infecting the AI much faster and stronger?
cabirum··on The Five Year Old Test
So, the iceberg only has a tip, right? Everything under the surface is "second order effects" and unimportant. We should have the intelligence of a 5 year old and do as we are told.
cabirum··on How can I prevent my VPS provider from accessing my decrypted VPN data?
Look up confidential computing, some providers offer this feature
cabirum··on Are electric cars that much cheaper to operate?
As soon as burn cash and govt subsidies run out, with lithium and electricity demand rising, EVs will be far more expensive to operate.
cabirum··on Servo Revival: 2023-2024
Mozilla could run out of money in the middle of engine rewrite, see also: Netscape[1]. I think they just decided to play safe.

[1]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

cabirum··on Uncut Currency
Wallpaper?
cabirum··on [dead]
Make it 'a city charge'. $100 per day in the city. Ought to drive the poor and undesirable away.
cabirum··on Auto chip aging accelerates in hot climates
Chips should be standardized and easily replaceable. Have a replacement schedule during regular maintenance. Problem solved.
cabirum··on The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?
> thinker can access about 220 ≈ 1 million possible items in the few seconds allotted

Huh, no? No one is able to think about million items in a few seconds.

The 20q thinking process involves bringing an incomplete set of abstract categories and asking a question that divides these categories into two halves (binary search). You don't even start from scratch, using previous experience (cache) to reuse whatever worked best the last time.

cabirum··on How much do I need to change my face to avoid facial recognition?
Changing face doesn't matter. You will simply not be allowed to enter some area without a successful scan.
cabirum··on How I configure my Git identities
user.useconfigonly=true can also help
cabirum··on Charset="WTF-8"
How do I allow "stępień" while detecting Zalgo-isms?
cabirum··on Boeing overcharged the U.S. Air Force 8,000% above market for soap dispensers
How to tell a "real honest paperwork" apart from a money laundering scheme pretending to be justified by some opaque rules in a monopolized domain?
cabirum··on Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke
After the Nordstream pipeline attacked and destroyed, its reasonable to expect shortened lifetimes for undersea cables and sattelites.
cabirum··on Microsoft Edge is trying to forcefully get your Chrome tabs again
Does it also import saved passwords and then "safely" uploads to cloud storage?
cabirum··on NASA confirms space station cracking a "highest" risk and consequence problem
"tunnel that connects a larger module to a docking port" - reads like stress-induced metal fatigue, where it leaks a bit from every seam. It may not be a nice round hole somewhere.
cabirum··on Earth Is on the Brink of Breaching a 7th of Nine 'Planetary Boundaries'
They are just looking for funding that's all.
cabirum··on Leak claims RTX 5090 has 600W TGP, RTX 5080 hits 400W
Can I boil water for my tea with it already, or should I wait next gen?
cabirum··on NIST to forbid requirement of specific passwords character composition
From the employer POV, employees cannot be trusted to discover their passwords are compromised, so updating them limits the duration the leaked password works.
cabirum··on US House votes to bar new DJI drones
Free market lol
cabirum··on Closing factories will not be enough to save Volkswagen
Why not? Cheap energy from Russia, that came to an end. Cheap parts from China are not so cheap now because trade war and tariffs. Result: margins shrink, VW makes worse cars at higher price.
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