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China has never been one to care much about things like ethics or safety. While the west worries about climate change, China burns more coal than ever before.

China uses more energy than ever before, but out of big systems, they are easily in the lead when it comes to solar generation: they have higher production per capita than US, and have produced around 4x as much TWh than US in the second: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_by_country

It is simply a huge country of 1.1B people that's developing fast, which means that they need all the energy they can get.

Basically, their energy needs per capita are still lower than US, yet they produce more renewables — that's a counterargument to your point about them not caring.

Yes, but the point is that getting to a different representation from a natural one (eg. binary one with computers or a decimal one for human use) is going to have some "external" overhead which is likely to negate the savings.

Yes, sometimes a neat trick like the one in the article of replacing one multiplication with substraction appears, but that is not as universal.

A transit system has a different cost and is actually paid for by majority of users: the fact that few abuse it is not going to break it (as long as we keep it immoral to do so — note that there may be valid reasons to do it, when someone is in some sort of urgency and eg. ticketing machine is overcrowded or broken: it's not on us to judge even if we might be right 99% of the time).

Here, we are talking about things where it takes volunteer work to keep a thing you want going — I do not even want to imagine a world where a board game night is organized by a paid pro instead of the enthusiast, even if a status quo means that there is always an assymetry between hosts doing most work and guests never hosting themselves (maybe they do not have a big enough space though — they can still volunteer to help though).

I've realized this in high school and uni and started making conscious effort to sometimes do the social fabric things even when I did not feel like it, in order to continue benefiting from the social engagement.

You mean like those guaranteed-always-compresses-by-at-least-one-bit algorithm patents gzip page made fun of?

In your case, doing prime factoring is where the cost would be, wouldn't it?

Uhm, I am pretty sure kids do not require signed permission to go on a field with their friends and play basketball or football (either the European or American... or Australian one :). And you are likely to not even find out about it unless someone has broken something.

Signed permissions are needed for "organized sport", where there are other adults or companies that can be held liable in case something relatively usual happens (like broken bones in contact sports, but also pulled or ruptured tendons/muscles in non-contact sports...).

So the challenge is: how do we ensure kids enough freedom to do the things which they need to explore themselves, while ensuring no life altering harm of high chance (death/disability/going to jail...) comes to them or they instill on others — and do not have to have them tracked completely throughout their lives.

He has a daughter and thus does not want to worry about her online well-being yet (see article).

But I believe that's misplaced, because she will be vulnerable as an adult, and there was never a way to produce encryption which was not easy to turn to non-crackable encryption for those not wanting to play along with national laws.

As long as you have a computer that can run unsigned software, or software signed by yourself, this won't come to Linux as non-optional features: you can always recompile your kernel removing things you do not want like this.

Measure the change in full case electric resistance? Though I think it would be very small :)

People are different: my hands are big and on my preferred laptop sizes (13-14"), laptop edges cut into my palms when my fingers are on the home row. Others' anatomy might be different in other ways.

Perhaps you could claim I should be using larger laptops ad part of the "holding it wrong"), but then my preferred Thinkpad X1 Carbons do not cause the same issue for me.

(Nor the screen reflections, or mushy keyboards of my work Macs)

FWIW, I read their joke differently: you were the one who said "only 1.2%", and they turned that on you by asking for you to part ways with "only 1.2%" of your net worth.

They are not questioning money exchange, they are questioning the "only" part, claiming this is significant.

The data seems to be very noisy: men interested in not-just women was 27%, 19%, 18%, 20%, 22% and now 13% in 2020-2026: what statistical method yields a "it has not budged since 2011 at 14%" is beyond me.

How does one draw any conclusions from things fluctuating as much?

Not to mention that there is a whole masculinity-hinged-on-heterosexuality thread which seems backed by... wishful thinking?

Ok, so you are saying that a strand the size of the spaghetti made of snail's tooth would be able to hold a car without breaking — got it, so we are using the volume of a spaghetti but made of this strong material instead.

This makes sense but it was totally not clear from the quote (in the article and posted here).

But why a spaghetti? Why not your watch band? Or a shopping bag? Or your wedding ring? Or a spoon? Or kevlar strand?

I am talking about characteristics of a spaghetti strand all along, and wondering why was it chosen — does it compare in some way to a snail's tooth, like volume, weight or size?

It sounds like it is very arbitrary. Why would I even imagine it holding 1500kg in relation to a tooth.

So a snail's tooth can only hold a 2m deep worth of Olympic pool (sea)water, but it breaks before you get to a 3m deep pool.

What's the size of football fields in use for the Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) World Cup happening in USA (among others) right now?

Aren't there significant differences in allowed depth (from minimum of 2m to maximum of 3m)?

And how old is it? A B-segment vehicle has gone from 1000kg (or less) to 1300kg (or a lot more for EVs) over the last 20 years.

While I am totally with you on the bags of sugar, I am also unsure of the significance of a single thread of spaghetti!

Is that by weight? By volume? Are we comparing uncooked (brittle) or cooked (flexible)?

Even so, spaghetti strand is not known for strength or tension resistance even when considering the weight/size/volume.

I can't at all understand what this comparison is meant to visualize for me, so it is obviously failing.

While it is true humor is hard to grasp in text, it has been done that way for millenia in books, and it continued to work as it should. Actually, the fact that it is sometimes misunderstood as non-humor is for the better.

I believe most people here "get" that.

They have a problem with high quality production (more engaging due to production), low value content that proliferates on platforms like YouTube, and would rather see more high value content regardless of production quality, and Internet, in general enabled that if not for people starting to think about (ad supported) revenue first.

If it's tricky for people in software engineering (those still holding a job continue to have big salaries compared to most other industries) to have hobbies they are willing to pay for themselves, it's probably them finding excuses instead or living beyond their means.

Nope, there are still people doing this stuff to share what they are excited about, and they will continue to be people like that.

Economy has nothing to do with this — as mentioned, a lot of this comes out of university students and low rung staff, and they were never best paid.

Probably: I similarly go back to 2400bps modems (9600 and 14400 when dial-up internet showed up here — 33.6k was the time of soft/winmodems other than the ultra expensive US Robotics ;)), and I skipped the .tk domains too — probably already employed and in possession of 10 .org/.net domains by then.

They didn't say that either.

What they did say is that the school sometimes fails students to get more money — supposedly implying that this was not because they did not meet the passing criteria.

This does not preclude failing students when they deserve it.

It is ok to question of what makes them believe they would have passed the exams without this financial motivation for the school, but they were pretty clear IMO.

What if it's leveraging a zero day in your zip or https library?

But what about all the zero days in the payment processors ("buy")?

It is mostly meaningless and tautological claim: even every non-buggy feature of a software system has the potential to be used maliciously; a working system itself too.

Yes, maliciously used features should sometimes drive change (eg. in how to reduce or reduce impact of social engineering attacks), but as a claim it has no value.

I actually do not expect it to die down: as legitimate ones get fixed, LLM-based tools will continue finding other unfixed non-issues repeatedly, and overeager "researchers" will continue reporting them.

In "see (something) punished" you are seeing (making sure it happens) the "punishing", not "something".

I find it extremely uncomfortable when I see LLM-style English from a non-native speaker who generally expresses themselves in an entirely different, but personal, crude way.

It's like the person is gone, and the message is even less clear.

I would not be so confident, though I certainly hope!