speaking of oracle, they recently loaded up on debt and got into deals that are all but impossible to fulfill, and in a couple of years their survival will depend on openai making profit. (not revenue) put a pin in it and come back to that in a year or three
where i live it’s a part of building code that hot water has to be hot enough that legionella doesn’t survive in it. depending on the place it might be different and whether building is up to code is a separate thing entirely
legionella dies after 2min at 60C tho
depends on your buildings construction, if you have steel piping then it should be fine as long as you boil it. if it’s chlorinated then it shouldn’t even matter too hard
that’s not a waste of energy, but i bet there was also other habit that is: unless you want to specifically evaporate water, things will get boiled just the same on low or high heat. (heating up to boiling point is most economical using high power) there’s zero reason to keep thing boiling on high heat then add water. also, using hot tap water. water heater is much better at heating water than open gas flame, yet i see people insisting on heating entire pots and kettles of cold tap water
i hope he’s not remembered at all, like his cause (someday)
mormons got it covered lol. there’s a fair bit of survivorship bias here
this is not something unusual, it’s like saying “how china’s manufacturing industry fuels microplastic crisis”. it so happens that manufacture of many APIs (active pharmaceutical ingredients, especially generics on account of lower profit margin) got over time outsourced to china and india. what else do you want? cut off entire countries from opioids import? there are legit importers everywhere and it’s that countries’ regulators/customs/etc job to figure it out
technically pv panels are also heat engines. this is why they need cooling
the steam part is in the rest of hydrological cycle
bindeez 2007 recall would be close. tldr childrens toy contained plastifier that turned out to metabolize to ghb, this in turn was put in there as an unauthorized cost cutting measure by manufacturing subcontractor. within 2 weeks of the first incident there was a global recall. note that nobody died and there are no expected long term medical consequences. new batches had added bitrex and undergo qc for this specific contaminant, and brand name was changed
noted, fixed
just unroll the cardboard
man if there was a common household chemical, like plastifier, that causes psychosis after couple months of use in small segment of population, you would absolutely hear no end of this [1]. but you see, now it’s an app, oh we’re just throwing hands, can’t do anything about it and it’s but one of inconveniences that we all have to pay for Progress and Glorious Technocratic Future
[1] i’m thinking here of things like phthalates, bisphenol A, PFOA or paraquat, herbicide linked to increased risk of parkinsons and banned in some countries. their harmful effects need a lot of time to show up and are nowhere as dramatic
Altman has been claiming chat gpt made him feel dumb since 4.5
perfectly believable tbh
that mmwave radar would have to be attached to a drone, because their manned aircraft are unbelievably obsolete. it means smaller size meaning low resolution, and as starlink emits pinpointing them would be very easy when active, much easier than any passive sat dish, and starlink is still in use. i’ve seen some advice on hiding starlink that includes turning off starlink wifi and using wired connection, because irgc is looking for 2.4 ghz signal (from ground?) and not for 14-ish ghz uplink, so they probably dont have a lot of flying ew/radars
i’m not saying that iranian air force has definitely none of that, but i would be decently surprised if they do have more than 2
at least they haven’t crammed ai into it (so far, i guess)