The UK has at least 20x as much wind power available than its current electricity consumption.

Where do you get that figure from? That sounds high, probably like a multiply-total-land-and-sea-area-by-energy-density kind of figure, and then build to the maximum density under optimal conditions.

Note that the Seagreen 1A (deep water) is about 0.1x the power density the power density as the London array (~25m deep). Your figures are I reckon predicated on everything built like the latter.

I think more realistic figures are somewhat smaller than that, though still above our current generation capacity. Maybe comparable to current generation plus automotive.

Renewables are undeniably a good idea. The energy is just right there.

Sure they are not without problems, and in a country the size of the UK, there's not enough to be energy independent, but even with that we should build more.

In this case, I mean literally... literally. You can find citations trivially. Everyone should know this by now. If you want to talk about Nazis, you should know something about Nazis.

"Remember, Na-Zi means National SOCIALIST, and that's that fascism is."

Remember, the Nazis literally called themselves socialists to fool stupid people, and you also don't know what either socialism or fascism is if you think one is a type of the other.

He wasn't a Nazi but George Washington did a genocide and was named "Town Killer" for it. And before someone points out that was his father, no, his father (who was also named George) ALSO did a genocide and was called the same thing for the same reason.

NT existed when IBM brought out at least two major versions of OS/2 without such features while NT had them, so... No.

No, but it would let people who care know, and it would let people who potentially care google and find out.

I would tend to assume that if you pay you get more, so it's just a trial version, and this is just an indirect slashvertisement.

I don't think creating a centralized world ID database is going to be a win at this point.

OS/2 had no security features needed for multiuser support. It might as well have been classic MacOS. Citrix had a multiuser version of OS/2 with security tacked on, but it wasn't a realistic solution and was never popular. Building an OS without security was the moronic decision that killed it. Plus IBM never did anything meaningful to promote it so nobody cared. That it was used anywhere (especially in ATMs) was a horrible decision itself because of the lack of security features and has created untold woes. Maybe nobody ever got fired because they bought IBM, but they should have.

It's wrong. The processor has a feature. People will reasonably assume they can use that feature. Then they find out it's disabled.

If that declaration is not in the largest font size used in the materials then it's hidden.

Yeah 100%. As an advancement in ML (or AI, I'm not bothered by the term for reasons I'm happy to explain) it's really impressive. 100% agree it being sold as a prod ready tool is bad, an the hype ad outrageous claims just poison everything.

Because it's not impressive. it's actually quite shit really.

But it's not though and this makes me sad.

Look, come at it from an academic perspective. After years of research into canine linguistics. somebody created the world's most eloquent talking dog. And darn it that dog can paint too. This is really really really cool! Compare what we had 5 or 10 years ago, it's really impressive. A dog! And it can talk! go play with the doggie, it's fun (to be warned it's a bit racist and might bite). Also you know it's a dog. It doesn't have many opinions you can genuinely say are its own. But you know what do you expect from a dog?

It is one hell of an impressive little mutt. Good dog. Have a biscuit.

What I have a real problem is that suddenly a lot of people are raking in a lot of money telling me this dog is actually smarter than people, and an army of talking dogs will replace all human thought and take over the world. Oh and did I mention yet those people are making a lot of money and now influencing national and international policy. And they're putting these dogs into places that matter and they're making a dog's breakfast of it. Etc...

So yeah it makes me sad. It's cool tech in the way many papers are cool tech. AdaBoost was like woah. The Viola Jones face detector was cool and impressive. The first SLAM systems were cool and impressive (you can do that???). Binary features? Whaaaaat. ColMap? Oh Yeah. AlexNet and subsequent advancements were cool and impressive. CLIP loss? Nice! GANs? Oh those are fun, especially cyclegan. Stable diffusion? What fun! Tranformers? Neat-o. Have play! You know that recent one where someone trained a network on minecraft and it made this game so cursed it's actually hilarious and entertaining for a few hours. All this stuff is cool, nerdy fun or at least it should be.

But all this massive fuckery around AI is just such utter shit. This should be (is!) cool fun stuff, especially for those nerds who have been in the field or adjacent to it. The the fuckery pisses me off no end and that poisons the fun.

And that makes me sad.

Dismantling White House, rebuilding in his own image - why not, I kind of like gold.

How about really tacky brass or maybe bronze? Carved by a person!

Yesterday I got down modded for suggesting that the Anti-vax movement while lately embraced by MAGA; is hardly unique to that brand of politics,

No you didn't. Saying "but sure MAGA is the problem" is implying MAGA isn't the problem.

You got modded troll for implying that this brand of stupidity is largely on the other side when it's recently become a major plank of the MAGA movement. Speaking of which it's something of a fringe (not a small enough fringe but a fringe nonetheless) of Democrat voters, but have you noticed that MAGA currently have the 3 branches of the government in their control?

And they've just put a prominent antivaxer in charge of vaccinations.

So yeah MAGA very much is the problem here. Not the only problem with antivax foolishness, but the biggest problem in the room by a long shot as of today.

So yeah that troll mod was 100% fair.