"Hey everyone! We're living in an authoritarian hellscape, we're all living monuments to the disgrace we've participated in against our ancestors who fought for freedom! Isn't that fuuuuuuunny?"
The amazfit bip s is as close to the pebble I could find without having crippling design flaws that would cause it to die prematurely.
Smart watches need to get their heads in the game with respect to battery life.
(Gadgetbridge is an open source interface so you don't need to use their dodgy software)
Smart watches need to get their heads in the game with respect to battery life.
(Gadgetbridge is an open source interface so you don't need to use their dodgy software)
The original xbox was the best console forever because Microsoft are incompetent at security.
"Oh, we'll just buy the product" great but the company went out of business or changed strategies and now you can't even install your legally purchased copy of the program anymore
oh nevermind there isn't even a copy of the program since it's all cloud based and the company has decided to make the free product paid and if you need to ask how much you can't afford it nevermind we changed direction the product is gone
oh nevermind there isn't even a copy of the program since it's all cloud based and the company has decided to make the free product paid and if you need to ask how much you can't afford it nevermind we changed direction the product is gone
Pure willpower and "Stop eating you fat bastard" does work for a little while and can be a way to get to a target weight in the short term, but other than hollywood actors whose only job is to get ready for a part and they have people for everything else, most people have other responsibilities and you have to balance your self control between all your responsibilities. I speak from experience succeeding and eventually having life happen.
People forget that there's a lot more to life than one thing. Besides weight, there's other health, there's family, there's friends, there's work and career, there's other commitments, and running around starving yourself forever isn't sustainable in such a world.
People forget that there's a lot more to life than one thing. Besides weight, there's other health, there's family, there's friends, there's work and career, there's other commitments, and running around starving yourself forever isn't sustainable in such a world.
It's important to reasonably think about scenarios that could happen. Refusing to think about a bad thing because you don't like the idea of it happening is more dangerous than thinking about a scenario where something bad happens.
According to public sources, the payload of America's nuclear weapons from 1.3MT to 0.01MT. There's about 5,000 armaments, and a total payload that's potentially around 2,000MT, or 2GT.
2GT is a lot. It'd cause a lot of damage. It would increase background radiation levels for generations. It would decimate a huge amount of land and depending on how it was detonated it could send non-hardened technology back to the dark age in a blink of an eye.
On the other hand, I'm not sure it's enough to destroy humanity. Humanity has detonated the Tsar Bomba with an potential yield of 50MT, and this is a mere 40 of those.
The largest non-nuclear release of energy I could find was the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora, it looks like that energy release was in the Gigatonnes of TNT range, released over 3 days. Since it was a volcano, it also ejected large amounts of material into the atmosphere. This massive release of material and energy lowered global temperatures for the next year by 0.4 to 0.7C, and did lead to many additional deaths, but did not end the earth.
The other thing about that eruption is that unlike a pure release of nuclear energy, many of the effects of the eruption were related to the fact that it was a volcano, which was spewing material from within the earth. I think it's reasonable to assume that less material would be ejected by a nuclear explosion, fewer chemical compounds such as sulphur dioxide would be released. On the other hand, we don't know how long World War 3 would be. Maybe the energy is released over hours, maybe days, maybe weeks.
So yeah, really really bad but probably not the end of humanity.
According to public sources, the payload of America's nuclear weapons from 1.3MT to 0.01MT. There's about 5,000 armaments, and a total payload that's potentially around 2,000MT, or 2GT.
2GT is a lot. It'd cause a lot of damage. It would increase background radiation levels for generations. It would decimate a huge amount of land and depending on how it was detonated it could send non-hardened technology back to the dark age in a blink of an eye.
On the other hand, I'm not sure it's enough to destroy humanity. Humanity has detonated the Tsar Bomba with an potential yield of 50MT, and this is a mere 40 of those.
The largest non-nuclear release of energy I could find was the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora, it looks like that energy release was in the Gigatonnes of TNT range, released over 3 days. Since it was a volcano, it also ejected large amounts of material into the atmosphere. This massive release of material and energy lowered global temperatures for the next year by 0.4 to 0.7C, and did lead to many additional deaths, but did not end the earth.
The other thing about that eruption is that unlike a pure release of nuclear energy, many of the effects of the eruption were related to the fact that it was a volcano, which was spewing material from within the earth. I think it's reasonable to assume that less material would be ejected by a nuclear explosion, fewer chemical compounds such as sulphur dioxide would be released. On the other hand, we don't know how long World War 3 would be. Maybe the energy is released over hours, maybe days, maybe weeks.
So yeah, really really bad but probably not the end of humanity.
Does anyone have any video of organisms from the genus Archaea? I've been on a microbiology kick and seeing video of the other forms of life at that scale is really cool, but I can't seem to find the newest addition to the record.
One show I saw suggested that China has 300 nuclear weapons. I'm not sure that 300 nukes in America plus however many would be sent back would be humanity destroying. Especially since there's mitigating factors like the fact that China isn't going to launch every nuke they have at once, and they probably couldn't if they wanted to.
The Soviet Union vs. the United States was two nuclear arsenals of thousands of weapons pointed at each other, that was MAD. I feel like if China actually deployed their weapons all they'd do is make the Americans MAD.
The Soviet Union vs. the United States was two nuclear arsenals of thousands of weapons pointed at each other, that was MAD. I feel like if China actually deployed their weapons all they'd do is make the Americans MAD.
And hydroelectric. It has a short term environmental impact since it does change the environment, but can provide inexpensive massive scale electrical power for centuries.
That sort of energy source ends up displacing fossil fuels by default because it's cheaper to use electricity than to burn fuels. That's what cheap green energy actually looks like.
That sort of energy source ends up displacing fossil fuels by default because it's cheaper to use electricity than to burn fuels. That's what cheap green energy actually looks like.
The government pretends that it cares about the little guy, but any time a law that could help out the little guy comes up it's like "no we can't possibly let people who aren't megacorps get ahead!!!"
What's odd is that shoops are old news. The only thing that's new is they're automatic now.
I just posted about this concept -- that's the way it's done! Distributed platforms are only useful if they're distributed. If everyone piles into one mega instance then they might as well stay on twitter since you're just taking the keys from one admin and handing them to another. If you host it yourself, your organization has the keys.
Seems like nobody actually learns, instead of creating an instance, many of these big orgs and celebs fleeing Elon musk just dogpile onto the biggest instance, setting themselves up for another Twitter episode.
Historically, quarantine happened typically at national borders. Is there a point at which quarantine becomes an unacceptably restrictive policy in your view? Travelling within ones own country is apparently acceptable grounds for quarantine if you cross a provincial border. How about a city border? How about leaving your house? How about changing rooms in the same house? How about crossing the same room in the same house?
Not that it matters, authoritarianism won. Hard. So any discussion is academic.
Not that it matters, authoritarianism won. Hard. So any discussion is academic.
I'm an old guy at this point. My first PC was an 8088, and I would tie up the phone line to dial into text based services, and later I would tie up the phone line to dial into the Internet and stick around for hours waiting for crappy websites to load.
I inadvertently predicted the explosive potential of smart phones around 2002 when I conceived of a device you could carry around with you and bring the Internet with you, and that if such a thing existed a lot of people who were tethered to a desk would go out and do things since they could just use the Internet as required on the go. The important thing here isn't that I predicted the entirely predictable, it's the reason why I thought such a thing would be a game changer: Smart phones get you away from the computer, away from the land line, and you can go out into the world and participate in life without being tethered do your technology. It would give you the power of the Internet on the go. I ended up being very correct when smart phones came around, providing the full Internet on the go. It was revolutionary and changed society, not entirely for the better.
By contrast, VR by definition tethers you to the device. You end up giving up your vision, your hearing, and you look kind of silly. You won't be playing VR and going for a drive, or going to the store, or riding a bike, or going to the club. You can't quickly flip between having a conversation and being in VR. you can't eat and be in VR. If you're in your VR world, that's all you're doing, and that's why it can't really be the next big thing the way some people imagine.
Now, even though Google gave up on it, I do think there's potential in wearable Augmented Reality technology. Unlike VR which locks you away in an alternate world, wearable AR could let you engage in reality while having some additional connection to the virtual world.
I think the future of revolutionary technologies will be ones that bring people back into the real world instead of drawing them deeper into virtual ones.
I inadvertently predicted the explosive potential of smart phones around 2002 when I conceived of a device you could carry around with you and bring the Internet with you, and that if such a thing existed a lot of people who were tethered to a desk would go out and do things since they could just use the Internet as required on the go. The important thing here isn't that I predicted the entirely predictable, it's the reason why I thought such a thing would be a game changer: Smart phones get you away from the computer, away from the land line, and you can go out into the world and participate in life without being tethered do your technology. It would give you the power of the Internet on the go. I ended up being very correct when smart phones came around, providing the full Internet on the go. It was revolutionary and changed society, not entirely for the better.
By contrast, VR by definition tethers you to the device. You end up giving up your vision, your hearing, and you look kind of silly. You won't be playing VR and going for a drive, or going to the store, or riding a bike, or going to the club. You can't quickly flip between having a conversation and being in VR. you can't eat and be in VR. If you're in your VR world, that's all you're doing, and that's why it can't really be the next big thing the way some people imagine.
Now, even though Google gave up on it, I do think there's potential in wearable Augmented Reality technology. Unlike VR which locks you away in an alternate world, wearable AR could let you engage in reality while having some additional connection to the virtual world.
I think the future of revolutionary technologies will be ones that bring people back into the real world instead of drawing them deeper into virtual ones.