tinwhiskers

One of the things that weighs me down is posts making me dwell on the things that weigh me down.

“Despite being so common in English as to be known as the “Chinese curse”, the saying is apocryphal, and no actual Chinese source has ever been produced.” - Wikipedia

I’m located in a van in New Zealand so I only use mobile data. I pay NZ$40 (US$25) per month for “unlimited” data, which is all I can eat but capped at 1Mbps. I can stream 720p barely, but I mostly torrent. I typically use about 60-80GB a month.

I think you’re right there. My bad.

They say the second layer retains 93% of the performance of the first using reflected light, making it 20% efficient, so, yes they are added in that case.

TLDR; the front side is 23% efficient, and the rear side 20% efficient.

They don’t actually give an overall efficiency but it implies a total of 43%. They compare this to typical panels also at 23% efficient, so it’s really remarkable if true. Other emerging solar tech is up to about 32% but if that could also benefit from multiple layers then total efficiency could become insane.

Seems a little too good to be true, really, but great if so.

Edit: Yeah, I don’t think these efficiencies can be added like that. I guess the overall efficiency will depend on how reflective the ground under the panels is, and they will extract 20% of that. Maybe that’s why they don’t give an overall rating.

I think it’s intellectually lazy to stick with the stochastic parrot line of thinking now. There’s a number of emergent properties that are appearing as LLMs scale that give them abilities beyond that paradigm. Check out the “Sparks of AGI” paper from Microsoft research - or more realistically one of the youtube summaries of it since its quite a big read… Here’s one from the horse’s mouth: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qbIk7-JPB2c

Anyone who isn’t at least mildly interested that you know Morse code isn’t someone you want to know :-)

Good filter technique.

No. I only use Android as my PC via AR glasses. Is there even any antivirus software for Android? Probably, but I don’t care I guess. Never had a problem.

FYI, you are able to edit titles on the fediverse in case you want to the missing word.

He said not from America.

For the love of God, no! It ain’t a host if it ain’t up. This will just end up being very annoying.

I’ve just been sorting my comments by highest score and replacing a dozen or so each day with something like “-> fediverse”. So far none have been restored. Most of the lower scored comments don’t have value to anyone anyway so I’m just ordering by most impact until I get bored.

Not participating isn’t the only choice.

On days I’m feeling particularly petty I go into discussions and vote down the good comments and vote up the bad ones just to make the signal to noise ratio worse. Yes, I’m that petty.

Presumably you can still edit your messages and replace the content via a script like people are doing on reddit?

For once I’m interested in hearing the tankies’ views on something.

The fediverse wars, begun they have.

If you make it to wherever you’re going, please let us know the story!

See this is a problem because some people think the fediverse revolves around lemmy. It doesn’t, and nor does it revolve around kbin (which is where this discussion you’re viewing in lemmy is originating from). We’re in the fediverse and any name should reflect that. But also, there’s zero chance I’m ever going to refer to myself as a kbinaut or fedinaut, or k-bean. That’s so cringe. It feels like snoo all over again. Kbinners is a natural and non try-hard name if you must refer specifically to kbin users but I don’t see any reason for establishing or encouraging tribalism within the fediverse. I haven’t seen a general fediverse or threadiverse name I particularly like yet. I’m kind of a fan of threader, threaditor or something like that though.

Lemmy is not the underlying technology anyway.

Really weird you would recommend just lemmy specifically. It makes me wonder if you understand what the fediverse is. ;-)
Regards from kbin.

Right. I saw some content I wanted to post but the magazines didn’t exist here yet, so I created them. I copied the existing rules and put a comment that any existing mods were welcome to take over. My motivation was that I wanted new people to find their familiar subs when they come here, but I have no aspirations of actually modding it myself if the original mods come along.

E: I do kinda think it wasn’t the right move now and that while we are small we should consolidate into less niche magazines, but what’s done is done, however it’s not a power play with everyone anyway.