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The entire camera weighs less than 3 pounds and contains a few grams of copper and less than a milligram of gold.

A lot of them seem obsessive about work. Musk is a good example. Claims to work long hours, although how much of that is spent shitposting on X is hard to say. But he claims he does, and seems to expect everyone else to as well. In reality he seems to contribute very little beyond being a good liar and hype man, and having some financial sense. He also uses drugs to enhance his performance and to relax, an option not available to most plebs.

Massive drought and wildfires, leading to flooding when it does start raining this week and the ground can't absorb it.

We may have to start looking at desalination, like Middle Eastern countries. Certainly we need to get much better at storing water from the winter. The UK is particularly bad for that, because we sold off publicly owned water utilities and they didn't bother investing in storage, they just paid out massive dividends for shareholders. Decades later and we are being hit by climate change too.

That's why it is so dangerous.

When ambient temperature equals of exceeds body temperature, your body can no longer radiate heat. The only way to shed it is via sweating, which risks dehydration. When it's also very humid, you can't even sweat it off, and you die.
That's assuming you are healthy, it's worse if you aren't.

It's also why in Europe you usually can't be made to work in an environment about around 32C, and even that is borderline.The laws vary but generally that is around the point where doing anything other than relaxing or seeking shelter from the heat starts to have very negative consequences for your health.

Microsoft in Japan, a country with notoriously long working hours, just tried a 4 day working week: https://mashable.com/article/m...

They found that productivity increased by 40%. So it's not the same pay for less work, it's the same pay for more work.

I used to work in this area for a short time, so I have some insight.

The company made what the newspapers called a "fish disc", basically flashing lights and speakers placed underwater to drive fish away. There were also UV lights to stop stuff growing on them. They worked but were problematic. Difficult to install and in need of a lot of maintenance. Not 100% effective either, the nuclear plants they were protecting still needed filters and regular cleaning, just less of it. And of course when one was hit by lightning and knocked out temporarily, the plant was in trouble.

Fighting nature tends to be a losing battle. Much better to try to integrate with it. If you are building say an offshore wind turbine, you just need to accept that stuff is going to live on and around it, and design it to deal with that. Fortunately it's not that hard with a stationary turbine, but for a nuclear plant that relies on fresh water for cooling, dealing with stuff living in the water and the water itself heating up is a major problem.

Oh yeah, some of those French plants shut down because the water got too warm in the heatwave.

IQ is bunk because it is influenced by education and practice. Therefore it is not a measure of raw intelligence potential.

Can we be sure that the open source code is what they are running on their website though? Because it feels like e.g. Elon Musk's posted get boosted more than others, even if his own Grok AI usually debunks them.

RF control drones are nowhere near dead. Even DJI Mavics are still used daily for recon missions, nothing beats their combination of price to video quality.

This is a love tap, fists will be thrown later. One thing can and should be done, we need to start adding aerosols into the atmosphere, the higher the better. Adding Na compounds to jet fuels would introduce just enough aerosols in order to start reflecting a tiny amount more of solar radiation than what makes it to the surface of the planet. 1-2% reflection is all we need to start reducing the temperatures. Of-course we will have to keep doing it until we figure out a more permanent solution.

While the institutions who employed him bare most of the blame, the media circus wasn't justified either. He wasn't the first and won't be the last one to get caught out fabricating stuff like this or stealing other people's work, but for some reason there was an excessive amount of coverage of this case.

Well, not "some reason", we know why. Black man hired to help with a lack of diversity and opportunity at Cambridge. Culture war bullshit.

Last year, America's automobile exports were worth $54B.

This problem needs to be solved by references, ask AI, people, is this program safe before installing.

Google is now adding more rules to make sideloading more difficult while Apple never provided a way to sideload an app in the first place. People need to be able to build and load their own apps without permission from the OS manufacturer, a phone is a computer with specialized hardware, we do have ability to build and run apps on our own hardware.