> “He laughed with a booming abandon that made the whole restaurant turn around and look.”
Don't the people in the restaurant actually turn around in this sentence, whereas they didn't in the original, because it's just describing a kind of loudness with an example?
> “He laughed with the kind of booming abandon that makes the whole restaurant turn around and look.”
I feel like people are sleeping on Kagi FastGPT, its their amazing search combined with their summariser and a llm model that gives me the answers directly without having to search myself.
I was a teenaged boy when I first started playing Counter Strike. Maybe I’m a Luddite but the game is still fun; I feel like you don’t have to gamble or buy 48 cosmetic collectibles to enjoy it.
It's explicitly not aimed at children being rated M / mature and with obvious themes implying as much. Obviously children still play it, but there has to be some level of responsibility on the parents here.
Whether or not children play CS:GO/CS:2 is irrelevant. It is a game where 50% of the time you play as terrorists shooting law enforcement, it's very obviously not aimed at kids.
The only way for kids to gamble in CS at all is to either steal a credit card, which is obviously not Valve's fault, or for them to have a Steam gift card. If anything is to be done about the children, I think Valve should just 1) require a users to have a credit card on file in order to buy lootboxes, and 2) require re-entering the full credit card details if the user makes several purchases in a short period of time, in order to stop kids who, for example, memorized the CVV of a card already on file in Steam.
Keep in mind that uploading a government ID would have issues, seeing as in the US a driver's license is not universal, not to mention IDs all across the globe. Maybe there's an alternative form of ID that would work that I just can't think of, but anyways, I'm against needing to upload a government ID to access anything unless it's specifically for governmental purposes.
Ok but as a society we’ve settled on letting fully grown adults partake in some forms of gambling. Are we really equating loot boxes in a mature rated game to casinos that will empty your kids college fund in the span of 12 hours?
My point is that the "think of the children" angle is redundant and reductive. We simply don't need to go there to have a discussion on the pros and cons of lootboxes.
True, but a bit of a moot point if both search engines will indiscriminately route you to those websites anyways. It's not like I'm opting-out of that issue by using DuckDuckGo right now.
When the magnet is moved below the flake, the flake stands up, meaning it is being repelled. This is the case for every magnetic material, but what they do in the video is flipping the magnet around so that poles are reversed, a normal magnet would be attracted = flake flat on the surface but instead it is also standing up. This shows that the material is a diamagnet at least = it always creates an inverted magnetic field to the magnet.
So here's why this could be big: Not all diamagnets are SC but all SC materials are diamagnets.
Basically, just push more and more electricity into a coil of superconductive wire. Because the wire has no resistance, the electricity just loops around forever.
Most power loss in a computer comes from MOSFETs, not resistive loss. Which isn't to say that RTP superconductors wouldn't open up wild new possibilities.
Much of the power consumed, and heat dissipated, by conventional processors comes from moving information between logic elements rather than the actual logic operations. Because superconductors have zero electrical resistance, little energy is required to move bits within the processor.
Obviously this isn't much benefit since the vast majority of applications can't be liquid nitrogen cooled (and computing has followed "what consumers will buy" on progress).
That changes substantially if superconductors will keep working when put in my pocket.
If yesterday's comments were correct, you can strike the power transport and storage use cases, as this material has a pretty low electric current density.
Not only less power consumption on Computers but a 100x improvement in clock speeds, a 500GHz CPU would be absolutely insane.
Whether or not we can manufacture/shrink the superconductor circuits enough to be competitive with semiconductors is another question, but my naive interpretation is that if you can make the superconductor circuits 100x larger than a silicon circuit, it is still going to have significant advantages.
> A global power net. No solar power during the night? Just produce it on the other side of the planet.
This sounds like it has interesting ramifications for global politics. At the beginning of the Ukraine war, one major lever the Russian government had was to enable blackouts in Ukraine. Makes you wonder how a global power network could work in light of international conflict.
Wouldn't less power loss not just mean lower power consumption, but the ability to run it at higher speeds while keeping the same cooling technology we current have?
There is a mod for Skyrim where someone piped together multiple AI models. It goes like this: You speak into your microphone and ask a NPC something. This gets transcribed (voice to text) by Whisper AI. This transcript gets send to eg. GPT-4 with a pre-prompt engineered to give background, current information and the "personality" for the NPC you are talking to. The output of this gets piped back to a Text-to-Speech solution like eleven-labs with the original NPC voice.
People also seem to forget that the power plants have to be removed after their lifecycle. The safe decommission of a nuclear power plant takes decades and costs billions again.
Don't the people in the restaurant actually turn around in this sentence, whereas they didn't in the original, because it's just describing a kind of loudness with an example?
> “He laughed with the kind of booming abandon that makes the whole restaurant turn around and look.”