The trend is of homophobes luring homosexual men to be attacked using the app Gr*****r. It’s been gaining steam since Trump won the first time and has escalated again after the latest win. In many places it will not be prosecuted unless it gains media attention. And most gay men in those kinda of areas don’t want to be out, so don’t even report it. So it’s becoming more common.
The original versions, but not necessarily the later, more well known versions.
Two ways to process voice, on device or on server. Device-based solutions either are very basic and just detect differences between words or need training data based on your voice or they need lots of processing power for more generalized voice recognition. So is your battery draining and phone is often hot because an app is keeping the mic on and keeping the phone from slowing the processor? Other option is to stream the data to the server. This would also increase battery usage as the phone can’t sleep, but might not be as noticeable, but more evident would be your phone using a lot more bandwidth than is reasonable while you aren’t actively using it.
I mean, the way you dress isn’t really connected to sexuality. It may be somewhat connected to gender presentation (not gender overall, but the way society interprets gender through presentation), but gender and sexual preference are not directly connected either. I dress fairly feminine at times, including exposed bras, fishnets, and dyed hair, but I’m not really interested in men.
To Trump and most of his followers, anyone with a non-Western-European name or isn’t Christian is an “immigrant”. Doesn’t matter if their families have been in the country for a hundred years.
Problem is that there is currently no actual place to put the stuff so it’s not localized. If a war broke out or a serious terror campaign, the first thing to be targeted would be the locations of power infrastructure and this waste. Not to mention natural disasters or them just being ignored for too long like global warming has been. In a few decades the amount could easily double or more. There’s plenty of it that if it were to reach a major river or other waterway it could spread significantly.
My point is, why risk it when this technology doesn’t even produce as much energy as we could produce with renewables with comparatively little risk of pollution? The only reason it looks good on paper is that no company expects to exist long enough to care about the waste, so no money is set aside to deal with it. Just like no money is set aside to deal with climate change. And even if it was set aside to deal with the current waste by pitting it in long term storage. That storage isn’t long-term enough to actually keep it until it’s safe. Sure it will be safe for a long time, but eventually it will leak and if no one knows it’s there or the tech to deal with it isn’t there by then, it will spread and if will spread far and wide over the hundreds of thousands of years it has to spread. And sure the US is landlocked and may find a place that the tectonic plates never split the continent. But in a million years it’s unlikely that Europe will look the same do it’s likely the Atlantic will get contamination and Japan is a volcanic island so it’s pretty likely it will leak into the Pacific. I’m saying there’s enough in existence already for the majority of the world to get contaminated. And if life hasn’t already been wiped out by climate change or war, it likely will face an existential threat from this. So why use it if there are alternatives that are really not that much more expensive to construct? It’s only because those are less expensive to maintain and thus less opportunity for extracting profit from those services.
Yep, I’ve never had a job that allowed me to take off time for a vacation. Only sick days, things I have to do but can only be done during the day during the week, and emergencies. Taking more than that is highly frowned upon and would cause me to lose any opportunity to move up. I take a week off once a year to get the things done that pile up that aren’t as urgent. Though this past year I ended up getting really sick that week and didn’t even get that opportunity.
What incentivize do they have? The vast majority of their customers have no choice but to be their customers. They just need to keep the companies that companies contract with to set up benefits happy. That’s a very small pool and most aren’t customers of theirs. And especially with the anti-regulation party coming into power, there’s no reason to fear government intervention. But even before that, it wasnt really a threat.
I’m not saying the Fukushima event will have any lasting effect. I’m saying that the type of materials that were released (I.e. nuclear fision waste) are exponentially more dangerous than any naturally occurring radioactive materials. And that is evidenced by the fact that it’s detectable with all of the other naturally occurring “background” radiation in the ocean already. The fact that such a tiny bit, watered down by such a huge amount of water and animal life, is still detectable means that if a fraction of the current US stockpile of 90,000+ metric tons of material were to leak into the ground water, it would be unimaginably more problematic.
You’re talking about radiation like it’s a single thing. Like, oh because these few types of naturally occurring radioactive materials that are composed primarily of low energy alpha particles exists like radium or U-238, that PU-240 or U-235 or any of the other high level waste coming out of reactors, especially if we start up the old reactors to power AI that produce more weapons grade materials than the more modern ones. There’s a reason you can’t just dig up uranium and build reactors or weapons to use it. It has to be enriched and concentrated.
You really should take a class in basics of radioactivity before considering yourself knowledgeable about the subject. I spent a year studying it in the Navy, and although I didn’t really use it practically that much, it’s always been an interest, so I’ve studied it quite a bit. It’s not as simple as this is radioactive and not that bad so all radioactivity must not be bad. We’re talking tens or hundreds of thousands of times more energetic between some of these things.
They won’t have a choice. That’s what he meant by ending it in a day. He’ll likely agree to allow Russia to use extreme measures on what the US will then officially consider Russian territory without risking retaliation from the US since it will then be Ukraine who is the aggressor on paper if they don’t withdraw and stand down. And the if NATO refuses to acknowledge the new agreement it will just give Trump the excuse to withdraw from it like he keeps threatening.
Yeah but only a tiny bit escaped from Fukushima into an ocean that covers a large part of the world and it’s still detectable. And there’s a big difference in the effects of things around you being irradiated and things you eat and drink being irradiated.
And sure in 10,000 years things will be different, but eliminating the possibility for all large animals to survive in a part of the world for a million years after 10,000 seems like a bad plan. And if humans aren’t around or don’t remember, it will be a particularly horrible way to die off when the radiation does start to escape and slowly spread out from each of the dumps across the world.
Great solution. Poison the ground in ten thousand years so you don’t have to care. You realize there’s enough to make the entire world unlivable for nearly a million years, right? And we’re still producing. A little tiny amount escaped into an ocean in Japan that covers nearly half the globe and it is still detectable in the US, that watered down. Now imagine hundreds of thousands of metric tons seaping into the soil and water table for hundreds of thousands of years from mines all over the world. You realize the deepest mine we’ve ever created barely scratches the surface of the Earth, literally, right. We don’t have the technology to dig deep enough for it to be safe once the encasing cracks.
I don’t get it. Why not just remove divorce from the courts?
One of the primary requirements for my latest project moving a bunch of stuff to self hosted is that if it has a GUI that is going to be internet facing, it either has to support OIDC or it has to be something low risk enough that I feel comfortable setting it up without much security and just setting up a single basic auth login with traefik. A few apps I had trouble finding, but worked most of it out.
It’s just how HR does stuff in the US. Most applications have to go through an automated system for filtering before reaching a person, unless it’s a pretty small company. That system usually requires very specific criteria to get through. Like I remember applying for a seasonal job at Target, around the end of 2010 when I was laid of, and having to fill out a really detailed application online and take a bunch of personality tests. Turns out I scored too high on leadership and had too much professional experience to be a stock person/cashier, so I was rejected before it was sent to the store manager.
It’s not an accident or unintended consequence kind of thing either. It’s how they can have a job position “open” and have hundreds of applications, but still be understaffed and thus force workers to work what should be extra people’s jobs for no extra pay. It’s just how the mega-corp culture is in the US for the most part.
As for the software and some other very technical industries, it’s a similar cultural thing, but on top of that, most recruiters are not technically literate and so don’t know how to judge a technical person, but are made to filter applications before passing then on. My last job had a position open the entire 10 years I worked there and there were no interviews at the hiring manager or team level in all that time. It was an analyst position and I would have hired basically anyone who had the one bit of specialized knowledge if it was up to me. But I did the job of two people the whole 10 years and was never able to move up I the company because of it.
Only reason I didn’t leave sooner was that I didn’t have the funds to get a degree when I was younger and fell into a time when the crazy unsecured loans were not as much of a thing, and most companies filter out software related candidates without a degree up front, regardless of experience. Finally got a degree when I found a program that I could handle while also doing two peoples’ worth of work.
You do have to factor in waste for that long because it’s only background radiation if it’s properly stored. When the coffin cracks on the Chernobyl core, it will be dangerous AF. Also, as all the Russian soldiers who were stationed there and exposed because they don’t know about the history of the meltdown at all, much less that it was there. It’s not hard to google the half life of the materials. And if you think concentrated, enriched uranium or plutonium is the same danger level as natural uranium, maybe you should build a reactor yourself and get rich. Sorry to say, the energy output by enriched uranium, even the spent stuff, is exponentially higher than the stuff in the ground.
Finally, you may want to research the difference between alpha, beta, and gamma radiation. Just because the news only talks about gamma because it’s the only one that would hurt you from outside your body, doesn’t mean that the alpha and beta aren’t way more deadly if they get into your body through your water supply, or into the ground and thus into the plants and animals you eat. And it’s cumulative, you can’t get rid of it easily and the longer it’s in you, the more damage it does.
And this is just the very basics. I was trained by the Navy in all this stuff. It’s not like I’m talking out my ass. Not to mention you can get it all from the NRC, NIH, and energy.gov websites if you want among many, many other resources as much of it is public knowledge outside of the specifics.
I think maybe you should take your own advice. All of the data is on the NRC and energy.gov websites. There’s about 90,000 metric tons of waste in temporary storage in the US alone and the half life of the waste is around 20,000 years, meaning it will be about 1 million years before it’s safe. There are no functional long term storage facilities and there’s no permanent solution that will last 1 million years. Most are designed for about 10,000 years, which again, don’t actually exist, just designed.
Edit: oh, and it was the US government who taught me all this information as I had training as part of my job in the Navy.
What are you talking about. The description in the parent site of the one I linked says specifically, “Currently, most spent nuclear fuel is safely stored in specially designed pools at individual reactor sites around the country.”
And no sh*t it’s not a long term storage method. But it’s where most of our waste is right now in the US.
And no, I’m starkly anti-fossil-fuel, but nuclear is 100% not cleaner unless you ignore the waste entirely. There are so many renewables and other options for cheaper, cleaner energy. But companies don’t count waste disposal as an operating cost (only short term storage), so nuclear looks cheap to investors because 1 million years kind of longterm isn’t part of their investment strategy. And that’s how long we need to be able to store a lot of this stuff unless it’s fully reprocessed down to safe levels of radiation, which has proven totally unprofitable in the short-term (decades-term), so it’s never been done.
What??? Spent Fuel Pools (SFPs) are the most common place it’s stored. They’re what ended up getting flooded and spilling into the ocean in the Fukushima disaster.
No it sounds like it didn’t copy itself to another server, nor does it understand what that means or entails. It just said that’s what it would do given the hypothetical scenario. This is likely because of some dystopian fiction it was trained on. The system doesn’t have the capability to do these things and any program should never be given that capability whether it’s “AI” or not. If any software has that capability then the only one that would benefit from using it would be hackers.