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Nothing fills my heart with such joy as negative Meta headlines.

Machine translation is not good at tone. So if a friendly fuck you is a different expression from one uttered in anger, I'd be very careful. Puns and slang only if it's established enough. By which I mean is been around for a while and the model could train on it. Hyperbole will also be tough because if it's devoid of tone how would the computer know? And even if you run instant spoken translation I wouldn't trust any assistant to get it right.

Wrong community. Nothing mild about that.

The Yahoo!tech writers went on a deep dive and watched a YouTube video.

Bah humbug that's obvs called schadenbetrug.

Yahoo!tech digging deep for a story there.

I'm not sure I understand the issue with fortifying the edges

Imagine a stack of papers on your desk. Clumsy you knocks over your coffee cup. Coffee hits all the papers, gets between them, everything is ruined. Now imagine it's got spine binding. The coffee will not get into all the pages. Now imagine, somewhat unrealistically, attached under the spine binding is a little halfpipe sunken in the desk. Most of the coffee now flows away on the pipe. The drainage acts a bit like an anchor keeping stuff in place on the side.

I recognize that this is perhaps the motivation of the tech's peddlers right now. It's not a foregone conclusion that this is what's going to happen.

Just from an economic angle, they need somebody to pay for all of this. It isn't self sustaining. If we have no more jobs, no more artists, and all live broke, hand to mouth, who is going to pay for all this processing hardware they bought on credit, let alone the services they try to push on us that don't work? Until they can plug us in like in the Matrix there's still hope.

So we need to find a perfect site, of which there aren't many, with some miraculously unbothered or even welcoming citizens and then built a facility to reinforce the natural defenses and keep our fingers crossed that nothing unforeseen happens? Got it.

Germany decided to phase out nuclear power plants and still hasn't found a final resting place for all the waste. Because nobody wants it in their backyard. I think it's not a easy as you think.

Fukushima Dai-ichi is next to the ocean and still couldn't keep the cooling chain up. They said 30m waves wouldn't happen. They thought they thought of everything. These risk assessments are too hubristic and the consequences when they're wrong too catastrophic. Climate change will bring more torrential rain on arid soil. More landslides. Droughts bring more fires. What we thought was a given in the past may very quickly turn out to be ephemeral. This river won't stop and then somebody upstream builds a dam. Or a surprise lahar happens. Couldn't happen like that 30m tsunami, right? We thought a big sarcophagus around a blown up reactor would give us peace of mind and then some asshole started a war or attrition in the area. You. Cannot. Plan. For. Everything.

Stop gap means you can still use it. I'm not in favor but I've repeatedly admitted it's better than fossil energy generation. I'd just rather we get out of it as fast as possible. Why don't we take the time and energy of finding these new, fabled, riskless disposal site with the kind people who dgaf, built out extra defenses, label it in such a way that future inhabitants don't unearth it and get sick, and just cover everything in solar panels? Until we have better batteries you're still allowed to split atoms to fill gaps renewables leave because god forbid we tolerate a brownout to slow this climate crisis! I'm not in favor of building new gas power plants like they're doing to fuel this so-called-AI psychosis. Split the atom if you cannot do something better. But really, do better.

If you want to shoot back one more time, I'll read it but probably won't reply;)

People would run into the oncoming traffic on the other side more often if the lanes are slanted inwards. And you have a single point out failure for the drain in the middle (e.g. blockage). Leaves will travel. I'm not an engineer but I play one on Lemmy: you don't want your road to get washed away in a storm. If the edges aren't fortified with a predetermined escape for water away from the road's foundation, you run a higher risk of erosion.

Not this again. For the love of God.

I am in Japan where they have just discovered a cartel of ice cream manufacturers pushing up prices. Supply and demand. This is capitalism, baby!

This is a lawsuit, right? It'll go through a few judges' hands on appeals and what not and by the time the companies get their slap on the wrist in 2-5 years they will have made so much money it doesn't matter.