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Necoras t1_ja9os4f wrote
Reply to comment by Undernown in This “Climate-Friendly” Fuel Comes With an Astronomical Cancer Risk: Almost half of products cleared so far under the new federal biofuels program are not in fact biofuels — and the EPA acknowledges that the plastic-based ones may present an “unreasonable risk” to human health or the environment. by nastratin
Hydrogen is clean (assuming it's green and not blue), but it's remarkably inefficient. For home heating, you need almost 6 times as much renewable energy with a hydrogen furnace compared to an electric heat pump. And that's with a middle of the road heat pump (COP 3). The newer high end ones can reach a COP of 4 or 5, which is more than twice as efficient as a COP 3.
Hydrogen may very well be our best bet for air travel, but for things on the ground it's not a very good solution.
hoovervillain t1_ja9or2k wrote
Reply to Magnetic pole reversal by Gopokes91
The migration patterns of birds and some marine life most likely follow magnetic field lines; we're not certain on how (is it field strength, density, orientation, etc). So assuming there are any of these animals left that we haven't poisoned to death, their patterns will change as well, along with the environments where they stop along the way.
KreamyKappa t1_ja9ooqj wrote
Reply to This “Climate-Friendly” Fuel Comes With an Astronomical Cancer Risk: Almost half of products cleared so far under the new federal biofuels program are not in fact biofuels — and the EPA acknowledges that the plastic-based ones may present an “unreasonable risk” to human health or the environment. by nastratin
Why the hell do they get to hide which chemicals their refining process puts into the air? The most their competitors could do with that information is reverse engineer the process and use it themselves. If Chevron is doing anything particularly special then they should patent the process. If they're not doing something they can patent, then it's not something their competitors won't also figure out because there are only so many ways that you can turn plastic into a flammable liquid.
IcebergSlimFast t1_ja9ohfj wrote
Reply to comment by trajectoriously in Magnetic pole reversal by Gopokes91
Can confirm. Spent many, many hours making updates: very real problem, incredibly boring solution.
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Reply to comment by Blu_Cloude in Magnetic pole reversal by Gopokes91
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Crivos t1_ja9o8v1 wrote
Reply to comment by who519 in Limitless Possibilities – AI Technology Generates Original Proteins From Scratch by CelebrationDirect209
I second this notion.
jedi_tarzan t1_ja9o85n wrote
Reply to I have a high amount of anxiety surrounding the future of my job and AI by Business_Pin4533
The fear mongering is what you see with any new tech. I genuinely, to my core, believe that there is no near future where LLMs or AI replace engineers.
However, Engineers who make use of AI will replace Engineers who don't.
Look at something like Co-Pilot. The future is AI-assisted programming. We are not anywhere close to general AI that can actually code for a human. They hallucinate with regularity, and the more obscure the required knowledge, the more BS they make up to cover for it.
I work in devops, and the confidently wrong manifests it writes for Istio are... hilarious.
OA998 t1_ja9o6lo wrote
Reply to I have a high amount of anxiety surrounding the future of my job and AI by Business_Pin4533
AI will not be developing features in enterprise applications and submitting pull requests. It will have a sidekick role to the developer providing aside such as code completion and saving you trips to Stack Overflow.
Feature requests and requirements are never so immaculately specified that the resulting code is objectively perfect. Edge cases, unconsidered situations, or integration flaws will always cause iteration and rollback in the development lifecycle. Identification of these defects and gaps will be a human exercise and the person in charge of correcting the software will be... the software engineer.
Whether you're using VSCode or VSCodeGPT, the code deployed and maintained for a business will be the responsibility of humans. They just may be more efficient in doing so because they leverage evolving tools such as AI.
ConfidentBench9 t1_ja9o2tx wrote
Reply to comment by booherm in I have a high amount of anxiety surrounding the future of my job and AI by Business_Pin4533
Lmao that’s real tough right there
[deleted] t1_ja9nfpp wrote
Reply to This “Climate-Friendly” Fuel Comes With an Astronomical Cancer Risk: Almost half of products cleared so far under the new federal biofuels program are not in fact biofuels — and the EPA acknowledges that the plastic-based ones may present an “unreasonable risk” to human health or the environment. by nastratin
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[deleted] t1_ja9nakt wrote
Reply to comment by brandude87 in Magnetic pole reversal by Gopokes91
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Zestyclose-Ad-9420 t1_ja9n82n wrote
Reply to comment by chasonreddit in Opinion: Mining on the moon is no longer a loony idea, and Canada can capitalize on it by Gari_305
Its not a bootstrap problem. You just start at the Moon :P
Rofel_Wodring t1_ja9n7kk wrote
Reply to comment by Lord0fHats in The Desert of the Virtual. The metaverse heralds an age in which hardly anyone still believes that tech firms can actually solve our problems by Maxwellsdemon17
>Wild ideas about services that don't actually service anyone or anything but the insiders who are designing them and imagining a need for that service from whole cloth.
[incurious, xenophobic dipshit voice] Uh, it's called innovation, sweetie. Do you hate progress or something?
ameofonte t1_ja9n3xq wrote
Reply to comment by Honigwesen in This “Climate-Friendly” Fuel Comes With an Astronomical Cancer Risk: Almost half of products cleared so far under the new federal biofuels program are not in fact biofuels — and the EPA acknowledges that the plastic-based ones may present an “unreasonable risk” to human health or the environment. by nastratin
Because they don’t expect most people to get past the headline
StomachReasonable459 t1_ja9myx5 wrote
Reply to Universal ethics/basic law for all people & global moral education: A new way to sustainability and peace? by fortin1984
Yeah, I guess that'd work; if we were like the Borg collective or something. But that's the problem with the world: everybody's got different ideas about what they want out of life.....
BigTitsNBigDicks t1_ja9mofb wrote
Reply to comment by Maxwellsdemon17 in The Desert of the Virtual. The metaverse heralds an age in which hardly anyone still believes that tech firms can actually solve our problems by Maxwellsdemon17
>if they were ever looking for them in the first place.
They werent. Lets not throw the baby out with the bathwater; this is good old fashioned greed, not technology that failed
Wozniaks are out, vulture capitalists are in
Rofel_Wodring t1_ja9mkfw wrote
Reply to comment by wwen42 in The Desert of the Virtual. The metaverse heralds an age in which hardly anyone still believes that tech firms can actually solve our problems by Maxwellsdemon17
>No, because democracy is dumb. Literally. Over 50% of the US read at a 6th grade level and you want them to decide how to innovate?
People say stupid shit like this and yet always whine about elites exploiting them.
As if there was some faction of Herrenvolk Loyalist Elites who, unlike every other elite that ever existed, will not ever betray their underlings to benefit their peers. Oh, if only these fictional Volkheit-promoting elites were in power, instead of the stupid masses or our corrupt leadership!
FalloutNano t1_ja9mjc7 wrote
Reply to comment by Baul in This “Climate-Friendly” Fuel Comes With an Astronomical Cancer Risk: Almost half of products cleared so far under the new federal biofuels program are not in fact biofuels — and the EPA acknowledges that the plastic-based ones may present an “unreasonable risk” to human health or the environment. by nastratin
Actually, we can quit burning jet fuel, but people don’t want the consequences of removing air travel.
Raynstormm t1_ja9meek wrote
Reply to Magnetic pole reversal by Gopokes91
Suspicious0bservers on YouTube will fill you in.
TLDR: the sun periodically micro-novas, the viscosity of the mantle becomes super slippery, and the entire crust rotates 90 degrees then flips back. 1000 mph winds and mountain high ocean waves when this happens.
blazinit430 t1_ja9m9xe wrote
Reply to Physically Demanding Work Tied to Male Fertility: Study suggests occupational factors associated with higher sperm concentrations and serum testosterone levels. by filosoful
Known benefit of strength training = increased testosterone in all genders as it is neccessary to induce muscle and bone repair. If you lift heavy you will naturally have more testosterone.
EDIT: source: I am a Certified Personal Trainer
Fishtank-Brain t1_ja9m8i7 wrote
Reply to comment by Zestyclose-Ad-9420 in Opinion: Mining on the moon is no longer a loony idea, and Canada can capitalize on it by Gari_305
that’s the only way to do it since it will be anchored in space
secretqwerty10 t1_ja9m8hq wrote
Reply to This “Climate-Friendly” Fuel Comes With an Astronomical Cancer Risk: Almost half of products cleared so far under the new federal biofuels program are not in fact biofuels — and the EPA acknowledges that the plastic-based ones may present an “unreasonable risk” to human health or the environment. by nastratin
i think i'd rather have pollution than poison in the air
brandude87 t1_ja9m7y1 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Magnetic pole reversal by Gopokes91
Lol, what?! Why would a shift in the magnetic poles cause any physical disruption of the earth? Where is the logic there?
matthra t1_ja9lti9 wrote
Reply to I have a high amount of anxiety surrounding the future of my job and AI by Business_Pin4533
Concern is understandable, but I don't think I'd lose any sleep over it. The truth is that AI won't replace developers, developers using AI will replace developers who don't use AI. Adapting or exiting the profession is nothing new for us, We work in a field known for massive disruptions, and AI will be one of those.
It's just like when IDEs made programming much more approachable, software devs didn't disappear, instead the opposite happened and the industry expanded greatly. AI will make our jobs easier, and give the ability to code to a much broader audience. However think about how much of your job is actual coding vs problem-solving and designing solutions, topics that a simple transformer like chatgpt won't be able to emulate anytime soon.
Intelligent-Shake758 t1_ja9ota9 wrote
Reply to Magnetic pole reversal by Gopokes91
magnetism is energy...energy can manipulate matter....matter is clouds, rain, and anything that has mass. given that point, a shift in the magnetic pole will have some reaction, probably affecting weather...the Tonga Tonga earthquake shifted the earth's axis...there are so many dynamic occurrences we'll just have to wait and see what happens. right now, the sun is going nuts and throwing solar flares toward the earth." " NASA scientists using data from the Indonesian earthquake calculated it affected Earth's rotation, decreased the length of the day, slightly changed the planet's shape, and shifted the North Pole by centimeters" It's crazy what is happening all the time.