Advance warning - please locate your towel. I repeat, please locate your towel. International Know Where Your Towel Day Is approaches. Also the Glorious 25th of May.
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Ariaflame
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mastodon 4.7.2I'm interested in clean #energy, #SFF media, #languages, #craft, #games (She/her). I live in #WesternAustralia. I did my degree in #Physics and I focus on energy reduction, storage and clean generation now.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social And if you had the opportunity to vote in a way that would have prevented him from winning and didn't. Ditto.
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@KittenKoder@mastodon.social @benroyce@mastodon.social We understand that they prioritise their moral high ground and intellectual purity above the wellbeing of their fellow citizens.
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@dcoderlt@ohai.social So google earth is no longer an authoritative source of information.
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@MongooseStudios@hachyderm.io @drewph@ieji.de @evacide@hachyderm.io The most that can be said is it's a lot easier to opt out of the AI stuff.
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@fringemagnet@sunny.garden Dang, I've got his autobiography/memoir somewhere. I should finish reading it.
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@jamoquanty@mastodon.social @jrdepriest@infosec.exchange @smutmag@mstdn.social You appear to be conflating machine learning with generative AI. They are adjacent but not the same thing. One of them has uses to help people, the other just takes resources, doesn't produce anything viable and turns people into mental babies.
Turns out the advice from strangers on the internet may have been correct about using nail polish to fix my roomba's sweep brush
I failed my will save and bought myself a packet of milk chocolate digestives.
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@BoydStephenSmithJr@hachyderm.io @quixoticgeek@social.v.st That's the approximate peak illumination at the peak of the day. 9am-3pm have reasonable illumination but most commercial panels have efficiencies in the low 20 percent it's a reasonable way of telling if they're bullshitting. You probably won't get that much because of the effect of heat on efficiency mind you.
Batteries and renewables - making a difference even with rising demand. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-30/renewables-batteries-drive-down-fossil-fuel-use-/106622772
#Renewables #batteries #Australia
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@hgrsd Or worse, they diminish themselves or change themselves to fit in. (I'm reminded about something with a rainbow fish)
Oh, James Valentine has apparently died https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-23/james-valentine-made-radio-look-easy-brave-generous/106598372 I honestly didn't know anything about the radio, but for Australians who were kids when I was, he hosted the little crossover bits between the TV shows we all watched after school.
#Australia #RIP
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@Amorpheus @Verovitry @mxchara @geekysteven It would be good if the various cultures didn't foster that sort of behaviour in men. It's not intrinsic to them biologically. It's very much an cultural thing. Some escape the programming, but it would be good if more did so.
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@Verovitry @mxchara @geekysteven Nothing is safe. https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/monks-behaving-badly-explaining-buddhist-violence-in-asia/ And yes, there are the equivalent of sexual predators in the ranks there too.
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@sheddi@mstdn.party @ossobuffo@triangletoot.party @petergleick@fediscience.org it helps if the installers are professionals that don’t mount the panels somewhere shaded.
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@benjamin@piaille.fr @freya@social.highenergymagic.net @MisuseCase@twit.social @JulianOliver@mastodon.social I wonder if those sites you can bet on world events - could we make bank on betting they don't happen?
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@PhoenixWright@ieji.de @mcnado@mstdn.social The moment someone says 'both sides are as bad as each other' I know they're someone not worth listening to.
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@liklyhood@mastodon.social @Lana@beige.party You like being lied to. It makes you feel good about yourself.
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@davidtheeviloverlord @aby Good to know, I didn't want to fall into the trap of assuming that USA rules applied everywhere. Can silence be used as evidence though? Do we have the equivalent of the 5th?
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@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social Ahh, so they're gish gallop generators?
Though it may require some additional testing. If that doesn't work then the next step is the dental floss
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@lothar@social.tchncs.de @cmconseils@mastodon.social Tangent lines are always perpendicular to the curve at any point along it. The tangent in the right angle triangle is because it's a nice straight line. and you can work out the angle from rise over run, like you could on a graph.
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@vicgrinberg@mastodon.social Admittedly white dwarfs exploding usually require some other star to come along and add mass or merge with it.
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@devnull @howking @broadwaybabyto So it wasn't to do with the fact that they were overrun because it was a freaking pandemic and that applied equally if not more so to staff working at hospitals likely to catch it? What's a sentiment in your opinion?
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@QCCEChris@mastodon.social @cmconseils@mastodon.social I once heard of someone who said 'it's within an order of an order of magnitude'
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@littlealex@infosec.exchange What proportion of them voted for Trump compared to their parents?
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@the_wub @ChuckMcManis @GeePawHill My bank messages me when I spend something with my card/phone. If we got messaged any time someone put something on our account, it would be a lot harder. In fact just today I had to approve the bulk billing of my flu vaccination via the doctor's app in Australia where we have universal health care.
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@ossobuffo@triangletoot.party @petergleick@fediscience.org Wow, things are so expensive in the USA. A standard install in Australia is much much cheaper than that.
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@liiwi@mastodon.social @raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie @futurebird@sauropods.win Like a crutch is a tool for a person with a broken leg. Not much good to someone who should be walking on their own though.
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@smutmag@mstdn.social @jamoquanty@mastodon.social @jrdepriest@infosec.exchange There are some instances of pattern recognition which can be created by machine learning and neural networks that may have some use (provided they are tools to be checked by people rather than considered replacements of people), but LLMs don't fall under this category for me, since they are not generally used by experts and provide little of value.
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I had a largish lunch, since I knew I would be short on time this evening. Still feeling full.
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@amackif@mastodon.social @ozzelot@mstdn.social @saxnot@chaos.social @algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu So we want anti-AI measures to much up their AIs?
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