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Comment · 2 days ago
AFAIK, it is not really true. But you need several things to do a pumped storage: a big source of water (and it better to not be a salt one), a place where a reservoir can be made and an elevation difference between them. So I'd assume that the most of the places that can be easily used to make a pumped storage already have one.
Comment · 18 days ago
>just install the fucking extension

...and this is/was the true Firefox way. You don't need to get some other browsers on the same engine made by shady companies. You have powerful plugins.

Comment · 18 days ago
And Dongfeng EX1 is basically Renault kwid (but electric) so we have a Renault recursion here.
Comment · 18 days ago
>Oh wait, let's just look it up

You folks have some weird beliefs about the world and of course it always leads to conspirology. Usually you need to have intent to be accused (depends on the crime though, crimes of omission exist too). If you wrote a virus that causes damage it is a crime, if you wrote a bot crawler that accidentally DDoS'ed some company it is likely a civil case. And a virus is a tool that serves a specific purpose, like you can't say to a judge that a functional machine gun you made in your basement is a paperweight.

But "superintelligence that can casually hack government services while solving puzzles" is a completely new problem and of course crime codes don't cover it. What will be next? I hope AI tech lobby loses and "accidental AI hacking" will be criminalized.

Comment · 19 days ago
Yep, but "our bot accidently hacked your infrastructure" wasn't really a big problem earlier so there was no criminal laws around it. But things can change.
Comment · 19 days ago
But how long that "much longer" would be? 5 years? That is the time you usually need make at least some entry career. In the past you usually could say that career variants can be safe. But now is seems there are no safe variants.
Comment · 19 days ago
People in software engineering were delusional a lot time ago. There was too much talks about code and too little about SRE's place in software production.
Comment · 4 months ago
If they were sell it without margin people would buy it as a general purpose mini-PC.

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