Readit Newsinfthi commented on Nano Banana Pro blog.google/technology/ai... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
this already exists. its called 35mm film camera.
Can't wait for a machine printing images on film by exposing it with a laser.
The nominal group in power should be able to deny/allow communication from the space above their country though.
The precedent seems to be that anyone can broadcast anything without caring what territories can receive your broadcast (see Voice of America broadcasts during the Cold War or GPS jamming in the Baltic nowadays). This seems to be extendable to broadcasting from space.
The nominal group in power may ban/jam _receiving_ equipment on their territory though.
infthi commented on The cost of turning down wind turbines in Britain wastedwind.energy/... · Posted by u/bashy
The idea behind it is that everyone who supplies energy gets paid the same
E.g. it would be unfair to pay wind farms 10p/kWh and gas turbines 20p/kWh when the electricity they supply is the same and fungible
If there was enough grid storage this wouldn't be an issue, but because there isn't, there are always times where we need gas turbines to top up and those turbines won't turn on for less than it costs them, which is a lot
The upside of this is renewables are very profitable and incentivised
>it would be unfair to pay wind farms 10p/kWh and gas turbines 20p/kWh when the electricity they supply is the same and fungible
It is not the same, supply from gas turbines is more flexible/predictable, this might be worth an extra premium.
> The iphone 16's camera bump is 3.5mm.
Why even have a bump? Make the phone thicker by exactly that amount and increase the battery. Then the phone is flat and has a better battery life. Are there uses who actually prefer a bump?
Motorola did some A/B testing in 2011 with Droid RAZR and Droid RAZR MAXX. They had identical hardware, but first one was the thin one with a camera bump, second one was uniformly thick (thus no bump) and put an extra battery there (which doubled the capacity).
Given that 3 years later they have stopped producing phones with bumps, I guess people really prefer battery to bumps ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
infthi commented on The day someone created 184 billion Bitcoin (2020) decrypt.co/39750/184-bill... · Posted by u/lawrenceyan
I think it's US$21.7 trillion? That's now about 15% of the total global money supply.
So, it's good that the transaction was undone, or 15% of our planet would now be owned by some hacker.
(To be real: if they had not undone the transaction immediately, then the price of Bitcoin would have collapsed, and probably that would have been the end of Bitcoin)
Hackers could have redistributed their coins to the existing wallets in the same ratio their balances were at the time of attack, keeping some coins (say, 1/21) to themselves as a reward. The outcome would've been: the hackers become owners of 1/21 of all bitcoins ever; Satoshi either keeps his 1/21 or is left with 1/184000 (depends on the implementation); everyone else sees their balance increase 20k times overnight. bitcoin/fiat exchange rate drops the same 20k times, so noone has lost any fiat value. Block rewards immediately become essentially worthless; mining becomes 100% fee powered.
Imo not great, not terrible.
"If we had a cellular modem, we could get the time from the cell towers, which is broadcast through a protocol called NITZ. This is how phones auto-update when you enter a different timezone, but it's somewhat unreliable depending on the carrier, and overall worse than using GPS. And I really don't want my clock to have a sim card."
Just out of curiosity, what can you do with a cellular modem but no sim card? Can you get the time?
One possibility is to call 911 and ask what time is it.
Even if I'm thinking of an Indiana Jones-like character doesn't mean I want literally Indiana Jones. If I wanted Indiana Jones I could just grab a scene from the movie.
if someone gets Indiana on the suspiciously detailed request the author provided and it appears they wanted something else, they can clarify that to the chat bot, e.g. by copying this your comment.
I have a strong suspicion that many human artists would behave in a way the chat bot did (unless they start asking clarifying questions. Which chatbots should learn to do as well)
Search about Microsoft/google/amazon projects for nuclear powered data centers or for AI training
Those still seem to be projects years away from completion (and they also have projects for fusion powered data centers - which are 30 years away, I guess?), yet I've interpreted the chain of comments as "Nuclear workers which were laid off _now_ can easily be absorbed by data centers almost immediately".