I was thinking more in the sense of an exercisism.

No JavaScript, just HTML and CSS. Basically no images. The heaviest page dumps 50 rows of logs in a table.

It’s admittedly a fundamentally simple frontend, but we all know of frontends with a simple job and a not so simple frontend.

AJAX everything is icky. It’s part of what’s made browser tabs take more RAM than a typical desktop had in 1998.

I exercised all client side JavaScript from an app I maintain. It’s fast, clean, and the back button always works. I just checked on one of the more complicated pages, and according to Firefox’s memory profile, it takes about 2.6MB of RAM.

Where PHP really goes wrong is mixing HTML and code by default.

You’d be speeding, too, if you had to get home to make the ziti.

“Bizzare”? That’s pretty much what I expected of Gabe. I don’t imagine he has to work particularly hard. Most CEOs try to hide how much they don’t do.

It’s a disagree button. That’s how it’s used in practice, and we’re better off just accepting that.

How many fingering minutes is that?

Imagine you can’t use visa or mastercard. What other fucking payment card acceptance system are you going to use for payment processing in under 30 seconds?

This is one of the few places where I think cryptocurrency could be useful. It ain’t much, but there it is.

Because I’m not a right-libertarian who ignores how corporations setup coercive structures all their own in a perversion of free association.

Not really. In the US, the first amendment protects a lot. Just like with YouTube censorship, capitalism has created a more restrictive regime through financial pressure than the government does. This has affected the porn industry, as well (see another comment in this subthread on that).

It’s been like this for a while in the porn industry. In an interview a while back, Bree Mills says she gets more limited by payment processors than the government (though that might be switching).

Ever wonder why every faux-incest video goes out of the way to say everyone is a step family? Step father, step daughter, step mother, step brother, all somehow living in the same house, over 18, and no blood relation? The first amendment protects them from the US government, so that’s not why. Credit card companies are why. The old Taboo series was distributed differently back in the day. Can’t make that anymore.

This also applies to some of the more extreme BDSM stuff, like blood play or scat. Won’t find them on kink.com.

It’s worth noting that some data reporting issues mean OS X and macOS are sometimes split, even though macOS is the newer branding for OS X. When combined, Apple’s desktop presence is around 24%

If there’s higher redundancy, then they are already giving up on density.

We’ve pretty much covered the likely ways to calculate parity.

Not necessarily.

The trouble with spinning platters this big is that if a drive fails, it will take a long time to rebuild the array after shoving a new one in there. Sysadmins will be nervous about another failure taking out the whole array until that process is complete, and that can take days. There was some debate a while back on if the industry even wanted spinning platters >20TB. Some are willing to give up density if it means less worry.

I guess Seagate decided to go ahead, anyway, but the industry may be reluctant to buy this.

If burning oil and coal can be considered weather modification and geoengineering, then yes.

Let’s clear some terms. Intelligence and consciousness are separate things that our language tends to conflate. Consciousness is the interpretation of sensory input. Hallucinations are what happen when your consciousness is misinterpreting that data.

You actually hallucinate to a minor degree all the time. For instance, pareidolia often takes the form of seeing human faces in rocks and clouds. Our consciousness is really tuned to patterns that look like human faces, and it sometimes gets it wrong.

We can actually do this to image recognition models. A model was tuned to finding dogs in movies. It could then modify the movie to show what it thought was there. It was then deliberately overtrained, and it output a movie with dogs all over the place.

The models definitely have some level of consciousness. Maybe not a lot, but some.

This is what I like about AI research. We learn about our own minds while studying it. But capitalism isn’t using it in ways that are net helpful to humanity.

Thanks. There’s way too many people who don’t see the problems with rooftop residential solar. Commercial/industrial rooftop can work out, but fields are the cheapest electricity you can get.

My numbers were wrong:

https://www.nrel.gov/solar/market-research-analysis/solar-installed-system-cost

Hardware costs (module, inverters, etc.) are about half the price of the installed residential cost. The rest is “soft costs”, and labor is included in it, but it’s a pretty small fraction of it. The “other” soft costs are the big thing–stuff like permitting and planning and sales taxes. Better efficiency might somewhat lower it, but not a lot.

Notice that when things get to utility-scale, those soft costs shrink a lot. The best way to do solar is in large fields of racks, and it isn’t even close. The solution to this is community solar, where you and your neighbors go in on a field. Some states ban this, and that should change.

IIRC, this sort of thing has been floated before. The issue is that you can’t just focus that much light on the solar cell. It’ll burn out.

Honestly, we don’t need the technology to get any better than it is. It’s nice, but not necessary. Labor costs of deployment are the biggest limiting factor.