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bawng t1_j9uyrlk wrote
Reply to comment by Sharlinator in The book Why the West Rules—for Now states that there are only 148 species of mammal on the weigh over 100lbs. Is that accurate? by MorrisCody
> Only one extant horse species
A lot of people consider Przewalski's horde a separate species, although some consider it a subspecies of the Wild Horse.
bawng t1_j8wlsvt wrote
Reply to comment by krum in Microsoft officially blesses Parallels as a way to run Windows on M1, M2 Macs by ActivePersona
I've been running Windows 11 for a while, and it's a serious productivity killer compared to 10 so it's not that big of a loss for you.
bawng t1_j7mrsyn wrote
Reply to comment by loercase in New battery seems to offer it all: lithium-metal/lithium-air electrodes by nastratin
Another day, another ignorant comment about battery technology.
Over the last decade or so, battery density has more than tripled, while at the same time become both cheaper and more long-lived.
Today's batteried in your old Nokia would give you months of use on a single charge.
bawng t1_j56889u wrote
Reply to comment by thorpay83 in Lower-emissions aircraft developed by NASA team by nikesh96
Efficient aerodynamics are useful whatever the fuel.
bawng t1_j2bd9q3 wrote
Reply to First table-top meson generator for exploring muon-catalysed fusion described by Swedish researcher by efh1
This seems absolutely insane. I don't know what the energy requirements to produce H(0) are, but unless they're astronomical, this basically means table top fusion reactors.
Since there isn't more buzz about this, I have to assume there's a catch or a big systematic error, but I look forward to discussions on the topic.
Edit: I looked up the author. He's a cold fusion crackpot and the existence of H(0) hasn't been replicated by anyone. https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/36064/is-ultradense-deuterium-real/75183#75183
bawng t1_j1871jl wrote
Reply to comment by Youvebeeneloned in Apple’s self-service repairs expand to desktops like iMac, Mac Studio by s1ngular1ty2
You're comparing Apple to Apple only. Even if they became marginally better they still suck compared to the competition (at least for computers) and both they and the competition suck in terms of the environment
bawng t1_iz6flfr wrote
Reply to comment by geetarzrkool in Ashkenazi Jews Have Become More Genetically Similar Over Time – A new study of skeletons from a cemetery in Germany reveals a hidden history of Jews in the Middle Ages. by SebRLuck
Why does genetics matter?
bawng t1_iz09zme wrote
Reply to comment by artbytwade in Google says they have made a significant advance in allowing humans to communicate with robots using natural language, and claim an "order of magnitude" increase in capabilities over previous approaches. by lughnasadh
It was great in the beginning but back then they had actual humans who transcribed what they heard to train the model.
When they stopped having human operators and started trusting the model everything went to shit.
bawng t1_iz075ln wrote
Reply to comment by artbytwade in Google says they have made a significant advance in allowing humans to communicate with robots using natural language, and claim an "order of magnitude" increase in capabilities over previous approaches. by lughnasadh
The other day I asked it to start a timer and instead it played a song on Spotify that was called something similar to "Timer" and when I asked it to stop, it turned off my TV.
bawng t1_iyzkv8e wrote
Reply to Google says they have made a significant advance in allowing humans to communicate with robots using natural language, and claim an "order of magnitude" increase in capabilities over previous approaches. by lughnasadh
I hope that advancement finds its way into Google Home soon because that piece of shit is getting worse and worse.
bawng t1_iwqlrwo wrote
Reply to comment by Bournvitta2022 in Overhyping hydrogen as a fuel risks endangering net-zero goals by filosoful
But unless you count the first EVs a hundred years ago, hydrogen cars have been around for a lot longer than modern EVs. We had a hydrogen car push in the 90s or something and there was a lot of public and private investment into building a hydrogen distribution infrastructure. But the cost never fell. When the first modern EVs started coming around, they were already cheaper.
bawng t1_ivahmaq wrote
Reply to comment by Jaysnewphone in U.N. urges Musk to safeguard human rights at Twitter by marketrent
Of course not, that's ridiculous.
They're emeralds.
bawng t1_iu4w96m wrote
Reply to comment by darth_nadoma in Forget the Humanoids, Industrial robots will transform the world by darth_nadoma
> The earliest known industrial robot, conforming to the ISO definition was completed by "Bill" Griffith P. Taylor in 1937 and published in Meccano Magazine, March 1938. The crane-like device was built almost entirely using Meccano parts, and powered by a single electric motor.
Yeah I probably read a bit too quickly. 1937 was just the first robot that met the ISO definition, but it was not a real industrial robot.
bawng t1_iu4haor wrote
I can't read the article because of paywall, but industrial robots have been a thing for roughly 85 years or so (1937 according to a quick googling), so I'm actually surprised there's only a few million of them.
bawng t1_iu098in wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in How can the chicks breathe in their shell? by You_Smiled
I usually boil mine for 8 minutes and I don't think I have ever had any of them crack.
bawng t1_itp6q4v wrote
Reply to comment by zxcvb94105 in At least three Palestinians killed in Israeli raids on Nablus by DavidMalony
But that is not what they said lead up to this.
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Reply to comment by [deleted] in 250,000 protesters take to the streets against regime change| Israel by LengthExact
They can make it fascistier.