I claim the Isle of Wight.
I claim the Isle of Wight.
I only purchased this toothbrush because that was the only way to get the water-resistant Corporate Surveillance Device that I wanted for the bathroom.
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christ
I love Miles’ work. Hes one of the few people of approximately my generation speaking openly and directly about the actual, observed risks involved in AI without hype or drama, and that in a very accessible way.
AI told me the Pope shit in the woods and that bears are Catholic.
Enshittification happens because there is a lucrative incentive to sell access to users by cannibalizing the user service itself.
Is it because humans treat black- and white- sounding names differently?
Edit: It’s because humans treat black- and white- sounding names differently.
Schrodinger’s rhetorical question is when you decide whether your question was rhetorical or not based on people’s reaction to it.
“Tools for moderating IMAGES now?! When will you beehawists stop with the entitlement?!?!” -lemmy devs, probably
If I understand correctly, a gerund is the noun form of a verb- a verb turned into a noun. “A building is building” the first building is a noun, it is the thing being built. The second is a verb, the act of being built. Google tells me gerunds are supposed to end in -ing, but “reddit is an enshittifying” doesn’t quite sound right, so I used an adjective form. It’s very possible I don’t understand correctly.
I think enshittification can be a gerund too, like building.
“Reddit is an enshittification.”
fucking. why. if new reddit is soooooo fucking good just stick with it.
Yeah, I was imagining it would probably work better with water instead. Sand can’t be pumped (or turbined lol), and I noticed those many enormous trucks carting the sand around underground which seems to introduce an enormous efficiency loss to the system. Good to see the fundamental concept works well in practice, thank you.
I wasn’t suggesting that a turbine could be used (directly) for sand, I hope you didn’t get that impression, I was just trying to address that commenter’s point of confusion about generators and turbines.
To your question, a flow is cause by a difference in energy potentials between two connected points in a system; Potential energy causes the gas or liquid to flow through a turbine. The more potential energy, the higher the speed, or pressure (depending). Also, not all turbines drive generators. The output could drive anything where you need rotational input, including a vehicle’s transmission. For a lot of reasons, that isn’t usually done.
If I understand correctly, the idea is to store something heavy up top, send it down below using the weight of the sand to somehow (unspecified?) generate electricity, then send it back up when there is an excess supply of energy generation, leaving it available to use again when energy production is reduced. Battery really describes this system better than generator, because it’s only a hole in which to dump excess energy and then pull it out (which, in a roundabout turn of events, the “hole” in this instance is above ground, and then you “pull it out” of the hole by sending it back down.).
All that said, this seems like a boondoggle. I think there’s a lot in this press release that is unsatisfactory, and I’m extremely skeptical that this makes good sense until I see definitive independent proof otherwise.
The turbine is the part that turns potential energy into rotational energy. The generator turns that rotation into electricity.
that thumbnail tho
for that bot-infested shitposting dump?
Very on-brand move from them.
4chan?