bitofhope

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[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 10 points 8 months ago

At least corvids are smart. Better that than some birdbrain's progressive matrices.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

If I only have about fifty embryos, can I pay $50k to have them scanned now and have another 50 embryo scans left on my account or do I have to have all of them on hand immediately?

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

"O Cent O Pence (R)" is an anagram for "Necropotence"

Trump is clearly campaigning on the critically overlooked black draw engine platform, possibly to spite blue voters.

Edit: "One Percent Co." was right there! It's all coming together now!

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 6 points 8 months ago

God forbid you go out of your way to do something nice without some most entitled asshole in the world giving you shit for it.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 13 points 8 months ago

Twice in the last week I’ve had Claude refuse to answer questions about a specific racial separatist group (nothing about their ideology, just their name and facts about their membership)

The unspecificity is damning. "Facts about their membership" might range from "what racial separatist group is Skum Shitt (R, NC) a former member of" to "am I eligible to join The Brotherhood of Untarnished Ejaculate".

and questions about unconventional ways to assess job candidates.

That's an interesting example to pair up with the one about racist hate groups. Unconventional in what way, motherfucker?

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 5 points 8 months ago

This is what the BDFL model is all about.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 6 points 8 months ago

Wouldn't a goth prefer heavy mode?

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 6 points 8 months ago

The more I read, the more I'm convinced SMRs are to clean energy as gadgetbahns are to public transit.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 12 points 8 months ago

Fortune named Enron "America's Most Innovative Company" for six consecutive years.

Some Wikipedia editor has a nice sense of comedic timing, placing this right before the article picture and the infobox before dropping the

At the end of 2001, it was revealed that Enron's reported financial condition was sustained by an institutionalized, systematic, and creatively planned accounting fraud, known since as the Enron scandal.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 8 months ago
[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I give it slightly higher odds than AGI.

Edit: or cryptocurrency replacing fiat

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I don't claim to be an expert on nuclear power, so take what I say with a grain of salt, but from what I've seen, smaller reactors don't seem to make much sense. The trend seems to be towards bigger reactors with bigger power output. Some of it thanks to the bureaucracy of getting permits per reactor, but also the physics, engineering, real estate and economics involved. Conventional (i.e. existent) reactors are typically a fairly small part of a nuclear power plant's footprint, so no matter how much you miniaturize them you will have the overhead of security, operations, cooling and electrical infrastucture.

If someone can fill me in on the benefits of smaller, more modular nuclear reactors and how they might outweight those of large installations, I'm interested.

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