I’m so glad I deleted my Instagram account.

It’s a good plot for a book, but as for actually happening in the real world haha no way.

That comes out to a speed of 7.5km/h or 4.7mph, barely above a brisk walk. Good to know if I ever need to outrun humanoid robots it won’t be hard. (The self-driving cars are another matter).

Robots are a lot more energy efficient than humans. Human muscles are around 25% efficient while robotic motors can be >90%. However they lose massively in energy density. 100 grams of carbs has 1.7 MJ of energy, which is equivalent to 2-3kg of lithium batteries. A human can run for hours on a kg of calorie dense foods, while a robot would need a bulky battery or constant battery swaps/recharges.

A small test reactor paves the way for bigger, more practical reactors. You can’t start with a full-sized gigawatt model; you need to test and validate your designs at a small scale first.

Let me guess, the old “change the text background to black” redaction trick? A classic.

All you people casually interspersing regular posts with porn in your feed scare me. My account had NSFW disabled when I made it, and I’ve never turned it on.

Nice, not worth $150 though lol.

I’m guessing how that goes is you pay them, they do actually make you a page, it gets quickly deleted for not meeting Wikipedia’s standards, and then they go “sorry no refunds”. Step 0 to getting a Wikipedia page about yourself is to be notable enough for one, which >99.9% of people are not.

The atmosphere is mostly transparent; see the table near the bottom of this Wikipedia page for some numbers. At an angle of 45 degrees from vertical you’re getting 91% of the energy, and at 60 degrees you’re getting 81%. A bigger problem is seasonal variation: during the winter at high latitudes you get very little energy. My city, at around 47 degrees latitude, sees the Sun peak at less than 30 degrees with under 10 hours of daylight for a quarter of the year. A solar array isn’t as useful if it produces almost no power for much of the year, especially when people need a lot to keep warm.

New tariffs could raise iPhone prices by about 40% in the U.S.

Apple’s overpriced phones have quite a high profit margin; surely they could absorb most of the tariff costs while still making a profit? Or would that not be greedy enough for them?

I made a calculation a few weeks ago with the data available at the time, which put the odds at 1.94%. That same calculation now gives 3.7%, so I guess I did a pretty good job.

Fingers crossed it ends up impacting, that would be quite the sight to behold.

As someone in a similar age bracket I can relate to experiencing something similar, but over a longer time period (several weeks/months). I’m a cis male so I’d guess it’s not hormones (not sex specific ones, at least). Unfortunately I have no idea what it actually is, but I hope you can figure it out!

Even so I think it would be totally reasonable for them to block web scrapers, as they provide better ways to download all their data.

Yeah but the traffic from scraping other instances is going to get noticed real quickly, whereas a small instance federating with everyone else isn’t really suspicious.

Yeah that’s true; real anonymity would be something like 4chan where users aren’t distinguishable. Here you can tell who people are, but not necessarily find out their real life identity.

It’s too small to bother with?

Dear CEO of antifa, I’m the CEO of the NSA. How do you pronounce “antifa”? We’ve been really struggling in our meetings. Best regards.

That is usually how males and females of a species are differentiated in general: males have the small gamete and females have the large one. (As you said, some individuals may not produce gametes so it only applies in general).

Of course humans are a lot more complicated. We have a concept of gender which doesn’t necessarily align with biological sex, and many people modify their sex characteristics to match their gender, so applying generalizations blindly gets you nowhere.

Seems like a massive overestimate; my quick calculation got a number an order of magnitude lower, and that’s assuming 60% of the world’s population fully charges a smartphone every two days.