Time is relative. A 5 year old piece of software is ancient. A 100 year old stone church is very recent. If you find a stone axe that isn’t at least 10 000 years old, you can toss it back where you found it.

Like self service checkout, but for restaurants? That’s wild!

That’s also true for many other skills. If you’ve built a house, you’ll notice all the houses that were built with skill and patience. On the other hand, you’ll also notice poor quality as well. There will be things that are invisible to others, but you just can’t unsee them.

Takes time, effort and skill. Occasionally, you may prefer to pay someone else to take care of all that + dishes. I think the middle man is actually doing something useful, so you pay for the food and the convenience. If it was just food and nothing else, cutting him out would make a lot of sense.

You could make them capable of eating plastic, but what would the byproducts be? You would need to make sure the byproducts aren’t toxic.

”Breaking news: Trump deported to Russia by the Trump administration”

Here are my privacy/security tips roughly in the order of importance.

Unique password that have upper case, lower case, numbers and special characters. Also, most passwords are at least 16 characters long.

NextDNS on my mobile devices for ad blocking and privacy.

Linux on my laptop + Firefox and uBock Origin.

No Whatsapp, or Telegram. I prefer to use Signal. If someone insists on using some spyware messenger, I’ll just SMS them.

No Meta, Xitter or other major platforms allowed. When using social media, I don’t share anything too personal. Also, no photos of me or anyone I know.

Wow, I’ve never had any issues with USB ports breaking on any of my phones. Which one of us is the outlier?

Every day, every second. You’re always moving closer to the exit. It’s a scary thought, so most prefer not to think about it.

Our current AIs are kinda pathetic, and might realistically only replace mediocre artists. However, people who buy art, can’t tell the difference between good art and mediocre art, so the financial impact could be felt by a larger number of people.

It’s a bit like comparing factory made clothes to properly tailored ones. We still have both, but machines have clearly won this race. Besides, only very few people appreciate tailored clothes so much that they are also willing to pay for them. Most don’t, so they wear cheap lower quality clothes instead. I think the same will happen to music and paintings too.

Ok, now I’ve finally come to a conclusion about this debate. When a human learns to draw or write in a particular style, there are no copyright issues. However, when a machine does the same, you need to compensate the people who made the training data. Here’s why.

The training data is an essential component of of the model. It’s like building a house with bricks you didn’t pay for. If you’re building something like a house, ship, software or a machine learning model, you need to pay for the materials that are required to build it.

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What if your character is designed to fulfill the role of a tank?

• 'Tis but a scratch.
• I’ve had worse.
• Just a flesh wound.

At that point, there will be no evidence of your disappearance, so legal details don’t even matter. Anyone who brings up such evidence, will also disappear.

You’re developing romantic attraction. It’s different from sexual attraction, but usually people think of them as one and the same.

They are shredded to small pieces. A magnet separates all ferromagnetic parts, like steel casings. There can also be other separation methods such as flotation. Various non-ferromagnetic materials such as zinc and manganese can be dissolved in sulfuric acid. In order to speed things up, leaching is done at an elevated temperature. By tweaking the leaching parameters, it’s possible to dissolve Zn and Mn selectively.

In the next stage, Mn and Zn are selectively precipitated as hydroxides using something like sodium hydroxide for example. There are other options too. You could also melt the batteries and separate the metals that way. If you use pyrometallurgy instead of hydrometallurgy, you’ll be using a lot more energy, and there can be CO2 emissions.

Ok, so what if you have basically another car battery there and discharge it at 10C or whatever? That should help with the fast charging of EVs, but it wouldn’t have a very long life span. Alternatively, you could have many batteries and discharge them at some reasonable rate. The problem is, you would need a lot of space for that. Maybe capacitors would take even more, IDK.

Interesting. Any ideas which kind of batteries they use?

What would you suggest then? Got something else in mind that can charge steadily while nobody is there, and then suddenly dump a whole lot of energy at 1 MW when someone needs it?

If 500 kW didn’t put plenty of stress on the grid, 1 MW surely will. How about you install a some capacitors in each charging station to balance the load?