toasty228

"Content" is usually a perfectly good term, at least in most contexts people use it for, shapeless slop that fills the void of the empty vessels most people are

I don't see anyone talking about Trump, ICE executing people in the streets, the insane level of US politics, the slow build up of the surveillance state, etc when discussing claude or openai

Sure, but there is a reason we came up with growing degree days, wikipedia is one click away

I just don't understand how someone could think we're going back to a pre-LLM world.

That's not the problem, the problem is that for every hour of dev saved society will lose 10 hours on fake data, fake bug reports, automated scams, needlessly convoluted email, etc.

According to Gemini this city is much colder than Essex, and yet

And according to science Fribourg offers more growing degree days

https://weatherspark.com/compare/y/45015~56049/Comparison-of...

You can even see the asphalt "waves" pushed by the buses stopping here over and over again

Fishes are polluted

Wait until you learn how 99.9% of cows are treated lol

the only positive response in this thread and I get downvotes lmao what the hell people.

Because it's not "positive", it's "techsolutionism", which at this point is basically a cult... let's keep shovelling more shit on the gigantic pile of shit and pray it gets smaller

can make

It doesn't matter what it "can" make when what it does make is 99.999% boomer certified slop

I'm amazed how easily people dismiss this.

Why? What's its value? I personally wouldn't watch a video/movie/show that's entirely clanker generated, I see no point in it.

All AI fanatics can talk about is cost, productivity, money, efficiency, ... no wonder they can't understand art or even basic human emotions

Don't you love it when gemini quotes an AI generated video with 83 views as a source of truth

It's 2026 on a self proclaimed big brain forum and people still don't understand basic things like tax brackets... A sight to behold

Yeah that's what an inverter does

No, that's not what an "inverter" does, not most inverters at least, you need grid forming inverters and batteries for that... which is my whole point, you don't just take them out of the crate and plug them in the grid, that only works if most of the grid is powered by legacy plants stabilising it.

Do you describe nuclear power plants as "just putting two rocks next to each other and plugging them in the grid"

It's bad, just not "We ArE LiTeRaLlY RuSsIa". But I guess it's the logical conclusion of the last few decades of critical thinking erosion and people not being able to form any kind of nuanced opinion

but 16 is nearly adult

On paper yes, biologically not really

The scale is completely different. It's like arguing a bomb, a gun and a knife are exactly the same thing and we shouldn't bother thinking about where we draw the legality line

Sure, but meanwhile they've been using your lungs as a particulate filter for coal byproducts for decades, and these things will fuck you up even in the best case scenario.

Coal plants also produce radioactive material btw: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...

Not to sound like an ass but that's your typical HNer hot take on a topic they don't know anything about (which is 99% of topics outside of tech).

I know that I don't know jack shit about the topic, but I can already tell you that if you do what you describe you'll quickly learn about why grids have frequencies, what generate these frequencies, and what happens when they drift.

the Fukushima disaster

Germany doesn't experience magnitude 7+ earthquakes on the regular... or at all for that matter. It 100% is manufactured fears

Just follow the gas pipelines...

Well yeah, and that's why we use a third party app instead of having each website implement their own half assed solutions. That's like the entire point of this thing...

Do you have to present this ID for every purchase you make or every website you visit?

Basically yes, your mobile connection is attached to a name, your landline is attached to a name, your adresse too, the card you use to pay online too.

as intrusive if not more than say: Russia.

Ping me when people are physically tortured by police for facebook posts, because that's what happens there.

You already can't do any of these things without some kind of governmental issued ID which already has your birthdate on it.

idk why people are so scared of it, do you really believe they don't know what you do on your personal internet connection linked to your name and payment data ?

Like yeah sure if you pay everything in cash and never use internet OK that's a big problem, but for the average HN shitposter who's already terminally online it really doesn't change much

I love how "they" wanting to know your age is a big conspiracy, but zuck &co hiring the best behavioral and addictions scientists to get yours kids into doomscrolling brain rot as soon as possible is a fact of life and we shouldn't do anything about it

And what do "they" want? It's not like they don't already know your age, name, ID number or your browsing history

The question is why they're pushing it onto everyone. I did not consent to this, neither did you.

The representatives elected by Europeans did though: 483 votes in favor, 92 against

Why? We basically broke evolution and purposefully make the specie more dysgenic. At that point we need life long drug treatments to keep people from overeating because they have less self control than pigs and literal cattle. Surely there is a middle ground

Humans idk, but wildlife in general is getting fucked

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

The Holocene or Anthropocene extinction[3][4] is an ongoing extinction event caused by human activity during the current geological epoch,[5][6] impacting diverse families of plants[7][8][9] and animals, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians,[10] fish, and invertebrates, as well as both terrestrial and marine species.[11] It is sometimes also called the sixth extinction

High energy use is exactly how prosperity happens

Yeah I guess if you don't account for any of the side effects and externalities sure... We might as well start using asbestos, leaded gas and other magic prosperity products again.

We're so focused on short term numbers that we forget about the past 3b years and anything that will happen after the next 10 years. Don't conflate prosperity and brain dead productivism/consumerism