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Interesting, hadn’t seen the edges yet. I did spot the fade on some of the dark green lines but I figured that was just some brush setting. I think I recall drawing lines like that.

The outline could be a fucky edge-detect but I’m not sure.

I wonder how long it will take before we truly can’t tell anymore.

What about this image makes you think it’s AI generated?

The reason for that is that surgeons are rated based on their success percentages meaning they’ll recommend against risky surgeries.

The upside of this is that surgeons aren’t operating willy-nilly on people and will make a proper risk assessment. The downside is that overweight people have an inherently higher risk of complications from surgery, so some surgeons will pass.

It’s not because they think these people don’t need it, it’s because they think it’s too risky. They’re usually not wrong about that, you just need to find a surgeon willing to take the risk or, if possible, reduce the risk by losing weight.

I mean several of them acknowledge it, but this guy at least seems to think it’s problematic.

I remember a project where someone booted Linux off of Google Drive. Cursed on many levels.

I know that nuclear and hydro can constantly cover it, the point is that when it’s very sunny out countries with good solar adoption will already 100% cover it (if not more). The nuclear power at those times has to compete with cheaper solar power, which it loses on price. And because the grid can’t handle more supply than demand, it requires shutting something off. The cheapest power is solar so you’d prefer to keep that on for economic reasons, but since nuclear is bad at scaling up and down you have to pick the more expensive option. This increases energy prices beyond what is really necessary.

This also becomes even less tenable as battery adoption increases.

Well that’s exactly the popular misconception. The constant part of the baseload is the demand, not the supply. The total supply should always match that of course, but given the variable makeup of the supply, where renewable power sources are simply cheapest and at peak moments will supply the full demand, any other source will have to be variable as well to economically compete. Otherwise it’s just making energy needlessly expensive.

I mean, they didn’t admit they were wrong. They’re saying they were basically “totes bamboozled” by Trump once he was elected, which we know is horseshit because half the country apparently did see this coming (and was quite vocal about it).

It shifts the guilt for what is going on entirely on Trump rather than taking an ounce of responsibility for their own role in the whole ordeal.

Except people will just purchase their own solar, because it’s cheaper than getting nuclear power from a battery. They won’t wait for demand to catch up, they’ll make sure their own demand is fulfilled so they won’t have to purchase power anymore.

It’s a simple economic rule, if there’s a cheaper option people wi shift towards it. You can’t force people to purchase your power. You can’t stop it unless you ban buying solar, which won’t be received well.

Nuclear fills a rapidly shrinking niche in the power mix of tomorrow, and it’s economics that’s squeezing it out. There’s no point in fighting that unless you want to pay more for power than is necessary (which nobody does).

Those agencies disapprove of plenty new medication as well due to side effects or lack of effectiveness.

Do you have any substantial criticism or is it just hot air?

Assuming you still need the nuclear power to fill those batteries that is. Given the rate of solar adoption, that might well become unnecessary.

Rooftop solar takes basically no extra space and it’s hard to get even closer to population centers than that.

True, there were several programming mistakes that caused undefined behaviour. Most of these the compiler warns about though, so they could have easily been fixed.

The issues were “masked” so to speak by the debug build (even if not fully gone, the game could still crash). But decompiling the game let modders fix those issues fairly easily, after which it could be recompiled with the proper optimizations.

He tweeted out criticism of JD Vance before. I doubt he’ll fold easily tbh.

He lived half his life in Peru as well, so I don’t think he’s easily influenced by the US government.

The problem with using nuclear as baseload is that people have the wrong idea of what is required from a baseload power source.

A baseload power source’s most important quality isn’t constant output, it’s rapidly adaptable output.

When it comes to cost, nothing beats solar. It’s cheap, it’s individually owned and especially with a battery the self-sufficiency basically means not paying for power anymore. So, people will adopt solar at greater numbers as the cost of solar panels is still dropping.

Solar and wind at peak times in several countries already exceed the demand. Nuclear, which is more expensive to run, now has a problem, because nobody wants to buy that energy. They’d rather get the cheaper abundant renewable power.

So, the nuclear reactor has to turn off or at least scale to a minimal power output during peak renewable hours. This historically is something nuclear reactors are just not good at. But even worse, it’s a terrible economic prospect: nuclear is barely profitable as-is, having to turn it off for half the day kills the economic viability completely. Ergo, government subsidies are required to keep it operational.

Flexibility is king in the power network of the future. That means batteries or natural gas plants at the moment. Nuclear can be useful for nations without those and with a lagging renewable adoption, but it will be more expensive in the long run. It will also become more important to do heavy industrial tasks during peak renewable hours, so that the demand better matches the output.

Yup, they shipped a debug build. Here’s a video that shows the build side-by-side with one that was compiled with compiler optimizations: https://youtu.be/9_gdOKSTaxM

It was quite laggy in certain areas, particularly the submarine sank the framerate quite considerably.

Meh, those are just the programmers that are remembered.

They did lots of dumb shit too. Mario 64 was a super-innovative game at the time with its free 3D platforming. There’s also tons of weird code in there, and the developers also fucked up by shipping a debug build of the game, costing a not insignificant amount of performance.

? I’ve seen plenty of talk about the situation in Ukraine, Sudan and Kenia. Maybe your instance doesn’t federate with the instances where those discussions happen?

Palestine is a notable one because it’s perpetrated by our “ally” and it’s also very high in civilian casualties. And I really don’t say that to minimise any of the other atrocities going on.

Accelerationism has historically never ended well.

I don’t quite understand your argument here, all of those crimes fall under the umbrella term of genocide as well.