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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What's the deal with using phonetic symbols here on Lemmy?
422·13 days agoIf you don’t want to see weirdos you have picked wrong timewasting site
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Technology@lemmy.world•Linux Kernel Developers Consider Adding AGENTS.md To Help Guide AI/LLM AgentsEnglish
105·14 days agoAgents md file doesn’t actually do anything except using more tokens https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.11988
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The difference between drugs and medicine is the lab coat. The difference between malware and a personal AI agent is the brand.
1·15 days agois equation group prestigious enough “brand” to you?
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there?
11·16 days agoMusk believes in a sort of secular mormonism except instead of magic he has money so he tries to eventually, after millenia to spread his progeny over the entire known universe
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is there something like join-lemmy.org that doesn't list tankie instances?
14·17 days agoYou can join from voyager app, and the three instances aren’t listed by default, or so it seems at least
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Expensive petroleum will make USA switch to liters
23·17 days agothey’ll just tape 1 in front of display
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•What are we going to do when there's no gas and no fertilizer?
283·22 days agowho is “we”? as of now, there’s still oil being extracted and fertilizer being produced, just a bit less of it. if you live in a western country you don’t have to worry too much about it, except higher prices of food and everything that gets transported. if you’re a subsistence farmer in a place like bangladesh then you’re to some degree fucked
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•AI bots “Timmy,” “Ren,” and “Jackie” are flooding social media with slop: They ask for permission to create accounts … and provide a thank you for running MastodonEnglish
5·27 days agohumans start breathing only when 3 years old, don’t you know?
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Can I do something with this?
2·2 months agortl-sdr uses the same chip as dvb-t tuners, but the everything else part is completely different
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Do you think politicians purposefully make the world worse so that their lawyer friends have more cases to make money from?
5·2 months agolol as if they could plan this far forward
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•If someone's injected with cancer cells, they develop cancer. Could at least part of the increase in cancer be to do with people getting other people's cancer cells inside their bodies?
2·2 months agocancer is in large part an old people disease, if you avoided dying of cholera you’re more likely to die of something else. also now there’s a lot of people who were exposed to carcinogens decades back, and we got better at treating pr preventing some other common causes of death like stroke or heart disease
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Technology@beehaw.org•A Finnish town is heating itself with 2,000 tonnes of crushed rock: its giant “sand battery” can cover almost a month of heating demand and has cut district heating emissions by 70%
4·2 months agothat’s no problem at all, systems like that are in use
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Technology@beehaw.org•A Finnish town is heating itself with 2,000 tonnes of crushed rock: its giant “sand battery” can cover almost a month of heating demand and has cut district heating emissions by 70%
6·2 months agoIt’s easier to freeze water than to cool rock borehole
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World News@lemmy.world•Saudi wealth fund scales back ‘fantastical’ plans for NeomEnglish
2·2 months agoSaudis parked fuckload of money in ai startups
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Technology@lemmy.world•More Renewables Lead To Lower Demand For Methane In EuropeEnglish
1·2 months agoThis will continue as long as there are CCGTs used as baseload, then it will drop as CCGTs (and biomass + waste burners) will cover the gaps
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Technology@lemmy.world•More Renewables Lead To Lower Demand For Methane In EuropeEnglish
4·2 months agomethane cracker? that’s a very unusual unit that outputs hydrogen and carbon. i could find info about opening of ethane cracker in 2025, but that’s for plastics, next to shutdown of another similar unit


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