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  1. Re:Scotland's homes don't use much electricity on First Floating Wind Farm Delivers Electricity (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but someone who needs AC when the temperature is 85F is probably an idiot.
    I'm to lazy to look it up, but 100F is body temperature (37C). I would not activate any AC below something like 130F.

    OTOH my GF is a Thai, she cools down her car to 16C. I got a bladder infection because of driving to much with her. Now I always have a thick jacket in her car.

    Most places on earth that I visited, where people were using AC don't need AC.

    Either you simply construct better buildings (e.g. as in Germany or UK or for that matter: Spain) or it is actually not "that hot". The idea that you need AC (which implies you are inside of a building) is just overrated or just utter nonsense most of the time.

  2. Re:Digits! on Slashdot's 20th Anniversary: History of Slashdot · · Score: 1

    I guess it is the fact that you still have 5 digits instead of 3 or 2?
    On the other hand, the programmers could be fair! Just confess that you use an 64bit integer as id, display the leading 0's and we are all equally low idded.

  3. Re:Political Stories + Bad Modding + Posting Limit on Slashdot's 20th Anniversary: History of Slashdot · · Score: 1

    I browse at 2 or 3 ....
    I metamod ... I actually can not remember when I saw a -1 post that was worth reading.

    And ... your name seems to ring a bell, I guess I have read about 10,000 -1 posts of you.

  4. Re:And the biggest blunder of a comment award goes on Slashdot's 20th Anniversary: History of Slashdot · · Score: 1

    because everything had to be tagged
    No it had not.
    I(t?) was just organizing by directory structure and file name at that point.
    Exactly! And how else would you organize albums?

    Looking at your previous post: everyone I know who bought an iPod loved it ... fastest most intuitive interface ever.

    I don't know anyone wo ever tagged anything in his iTunes library, why would you when everything is already perfectly laouted?

    Sure ... Prince is and TAFKAP (or how he actually called himself) are not in the same directory ...

  5. Re:Rachel Carson vindicated... sorta? on Flying Insects Have Been Disappearing Over the Past Few Decades, Study Shows (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    DDT also accumulated in the food chain.
    And is super dangerous for humans in the end ...

    DDT is basically a variation of Dioxin(s)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  6. Move to a country where food is cheap.

    E.g. Thailand is my top spot on the list of nice countries.

  7. Re:Rachel Carson vindicated... sorta? on Flying Insects Have Been Disappearing Over the Past Few Decades, Study Shows (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    40% - 50% of all food produced is thrown away.
    Most of it does not even reach the super market, and plenty of it is not even used as food for livestock.

    The planet easily can hold up to 50B people with nature intact if we would get rid of "greed capitalism".

    Poisoning the planet with CO2, because it is cheaper than renewables ... by what metric? Dollars?
    Exploiting the Oceans instead of sustained fishing and "working" sea farms. Yes, we have sea farms, but "greed capitalism" makes them more harm than good and the food from there is close to unacceptable.

    However it would be easy to farm the sea without destroying everything.

    The idea that we have to scale down the population to 2B is utter nonsense. And if you ask "who", the answer is obvious: USA, Qatar, Kuweit ... ooops, my mistake. The later 2 are so small, they had no effect.

    Anyway, it is probably just 20 years till the population on the planet will be on a plateau and then decrese slightly.

  8. I guess you are well aware about the correct response? "This proposal is acceptable!"

  9. The cat food bowls are happily accepted by raccoons.

    I wonder if the prevalence of catfood bowls creates similar booms of feathers all over the yard.
    And yes to that! Some birds are so perky to try to steal food from the catfood bowls!

  10. Re: Insulate miles of Under Water delivery on First Floating Wind Farm Delivers Electricity (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If only there would be ways to make things water tight ...

  11. Re:Scotland's homes don't use much electricity on First Floating Wind Farm Delivers Electricity (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, it does not really make sense to use the peak output of a power plant and the 'assumed households number' it can supply to calculate the average power consumption of those households.

    Your mind gymnastics was for nothing. Of hou had tried to take a capacity factor into account it would have been more fruitful, but still not leading to the goal :)

    See here: https://www.ovoenergy.com/guid...

  12. Re:30 MW is good but not a lot on First Floating Wind Farm Delivers Electricity (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That's if the wind is blowing all the time.
    Which part of:
    a) Scotland
    b) offshore

    did you not get? Did you no notice that mentioned in the article or is your brain not capable to grasp the implication?

    Perhaps a look on google maps might give you some insights?

  13. Re:Drug Design and Climate models on DeepMind's Go-Playing AI Doesn't Need Human Help To Beat Us Anymore (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    A climate model takes an input state and computes an output state.
    That output state can then be used as input for the the next step.

    While that looks similar on the first glance like a NN, the computations behind are completely different.
    Algorithms in a NN are 'just running the NN' in other words: they don't really change depending on the topic where you want to use the NN in.

    A climate model is run by its equations, aka the algorithms change all the time when we know more or add another 'factor'.

  14. Re:Drug Design and Climate models on DeepMind's Go-Playing AI Doesn't Need Human Help To Beat Us Anymore (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    AI != neural network

    A neural network is a very specific kind of datastructure and algorithms.

    It can do amazing things, but bottom line that will always be a kind of 'pattern matching'.

    I see no way how something like this can be used to model chemical reactions or enzyme interactions aka modeling drugs.

    And modeling climate, sorry: no way at all.

  15. Re:Drug Design and Climate models on DeepMind's Go-Playing AI Doesn't Need Human Help To Beat Us Anymore (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Better at playing Go, but a neural network probably never will play Chess.
    And: AlphaGo only can do Go ... nothing else.

  16. Re:The Shine is Off the Apple on "Maybe It's a Piece of Dust" (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    So the money you saved is about 10h of works earnings?
    And you exchanged that for about 100h *every* year for maintenance and troubleshooting?
    Sounds like a bargain.

  17. Re:I haven't had _that_ problem... on "Maybe It's a Piece of Dust" (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    As far as I know, you can switch it back to normal ESC and F1 - F12 keys.

  18. Drug Design and Climate models on DeepMind's Go-Playing AI Doesn't Need Human Help To Beat Us Anymore (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I doubt there is any chance that a neural network can be used in a meaningfull way in drug design or climate modeling.

  19. Re:so it got dumber? on DeepMind's Go-Playing AI Doesn't Need Human Help To Beat Us Anymore (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    It feels nothing.
    It has no algorithms to 'feel' anything.

  20. Re: washing machine on ZTE Launches Axon M, a Foldable, Dual-Screened Smartphone (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would a front loaded machine use less water?
    And water usage hardly is an issue in the civilized world, as it costs next to nothing. Oh, I forgot about California ...
    Plenty if my friends are complaining that the washing stepp where only clear water is used to remove the soap uses not enough water ... hence rests of soap are in the cloth.

  21. Re:NO RADON INSPECTION REQUIRED ? on EPA Says Higher Radiation Levels Pose 'No Harmful Health Effect' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they are his neighbours kids?
    And he somehow simply forgot ...

  22. Re:so much research, so little real benefits on Scientists Selectively Trigger Suicide In Cancer Cells (scitechdaily.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course they are still dying ... and that probably will never change.

    After all Leukemia e.g. is caused amoung other causes by Plutonium in the bone marrow.

    While you can treat the actual cancer, you hardly can find that small dust speck of Plutonium and remove it.

  23. Re:Facebook tracks your MAC addresses as well... on How Facebook Outs Sex Workers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Show me the Android API then ...

    Sorry, cell pone towers have no names that an App can store in a DB and recognize later as: oh, I already was here.

  24. Re: I'm with Elon on Elon Musk Teases Reddit With Bad Answers About BFR Rocket (reddit.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes "it should" ... but it is not.
    Not even in medical magazines.

  25. Re: I'm with Elon on Elon Musk Teases Reddit With Bad Answers About BFR Rocket (reddit.com) · · Score: 1

    And you have to work on your nitpicking.

    We also all know that HIV virus is redundant ... but everyone says so.

    Accept the *unspoken* rules of your own language or join a language definition council and change your language.