This thread has echos of the speculation about what the Soviets were up to with Sputnik when it launched.

From TFA: “The very platforms that have led to our social isolation and being chronically online are now posing a solution to the loneliness epidemic,” said Meghana Dhar, a former Instagram executive who thinks AI friends will only make such problems worse. “It almost seems like the arsonist coming back and being the fireman.”

Weight from what gravitational field?

Jeez

Run google apps without google, using Micro G https://lineage.microg.org/

https://www.theguardian.com/en... But it is improving. https://au.investing.com/news/... The question is not whether its possible but whether its cost effective and actually happens. Similar to the abysmal plastic recycling rate.

For the majority of non-rich people that buy used cars, cars are not disposable. The 'battery outlasting the car' doesn't hold.. range and max current keeps falling off. Past that 100k / 8-10 year / min capacity battery warranty, people have to take on a risk that a cell / BMS / colling failure within the pack is going to render the battery unusable and this is where the ugly repair situation happens. The manufacturers still have no interest in battery repair options. There is no standard for cell modules .. every manufacturer or even model has different construction/packaging of cells, cooling channels, wiring, BMS. This could all be standardized at a few standard individual cell form factors, to enable an aftermarket battery rebuild industry to give used buyers confidence their resale/repair options isn't going to fall off a cliff; to make it possible for standard aftermarket module supply, and a battery construction designed for cell level repair within reasonable labor times. And then there's the complete disregard for battery construction that makes material recovery feasible. Some 98% of automotive lithium batteries currently end up in landfill, a rapidly expanding environmental disaster.

If only there was some free and easy way to Use Networks to host discussions instead of relying on private web-based discussion forums.

"GPS Data" being data from Replica .. an Alphabet spinoff .. who are not very transparent about how the data is sourced

Needs? What is this life of struggle to keep oneself 'entertained'?

How about applying your ample brain power to some real world projects to help your fellow human beings.

unless of course you use Pear oxygen free thunderbolt 5 cables.

Telemetry

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There's the latest commit I have.

IBM runs World Community Grid. It has hundreds of thousands of members but only a small percent are active, If generates about 1,500,000 results a day. Now the fastest supercomputer should be able to that in under an hour. But I think it is very expensive just to program for a supercomputer. That is why IBM continues to ask for volunteers to generate those results. It must take a lot of computing power just to download the work units and upload the results. The results are checked to ensure they are correct. I think they do this by sending the same work unit to at least two different computers and then checking to make sure they send back the same results. IBM used to generate close to 150,000 results a day but now it is around 15,000. I guess IBM switched over to apple computes and not enough of them have bothered to install the program on these new computers. IBM has been doing this for 15 years now and I assume that they have spent a significant amount of money doing this. I also assume that the amount of money is less than it would take to use their fastest supercomputer.