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Re:Gemini AI tells the user to die on Sunday November 17, 2024 @06:38AM (#42163595)
Every time I use Gemini I'm surprised by how incredibly bad it is.

It is fine-tuned to say no to everything with a dumb refusal.

>Can you summarize recent politics

"No I'm an AI"

>Can you tell a rude story

"No I'm an AI"

>Are you a retard in a call center just hitting the no button?

"I'm an AI and I don't understand this"

I got better results out of last year's heavily quantized llama running on my own gear.

Google today is really nothing but a corpse coasting downhill on inertia

Re:Why did people rub snow on frozen feet? (2017) on Saturday November 16, 2024 @02:40AM (#42155098)
An idiot taking advice from Bear Grylls. He forgot to chug some piss to warm up after trying to give himself frostbite.
Re:Why did people rub snow on frozen feet? (2017) on Saturday November 16, 2024 @02:29AM (#42155053)
Because people were fucking stupid, and they still are.
No one will win a malpractice lawsuit over lost sleep, different story for lost lives.
Re:On Building Git for Lawyers on Thursday November 14, 2024 @11:31AM (#42137856)
We should build Gitmo for lawyers
Being an influencer requires very little actual competence, same goes for AI influencers.

The goal of influencers is to influence the segment of a crowd who cares about influencers. Meaning retards and manchildren looking for an external source to form consensus around.

Trust the science! Is this peer reviewed?

Lmao

Re:U.S. Sets Targets to Triple Nuclear Energy Capacity by 2050 on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @05:15AM (#42124720)
You suggest buying 100 million metric ton of aluminium when the global annual production is 70 million. And magically you'll get it delivered as a pre-installed global power grid as opposed to ingots.

Just like when you go for a cup of coffee at a cafe and you only pay the commodity price of coffee beans, which at like $5 per kg and 20 grams of coffee per cup means a cup at starcucks is just 10cents. Right?

Re:U.S. Sets Targets to Triple Nuclear Energy Capacity by 2050 on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @04:20AM (#42124364)
>"If we buy nuclear power plants on Temu we can have a 1GW reactor for $1000, but most likely it will be on sale (lucky us!) so it's actually more like $400 per reactor. And if we use green thorium then the fuel is $2.50 for ten years"

I reconstructed your argument to be in favor of nuclear power, and because I mentioned Temu as a source it actually have an infinite amount of more ties to reality than your story did.

Wow no wonder people like to argue for green energy if it's this easy to make up arguments for it

Re:U.S. Sets Targets to Triple Nuclear Energy Capacity by 2050 on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @03:56AM (#42124199)
"Thousands of miles of big wires are free"

Why don't we just assume that power will be free and infinite and plug our grid into that assumption? We can even write it down on the socket and paint it green, based on how these arguments always read out that's the only thing needed to maintain electrified high tech society.

Re:U.S. Sets Targets to Triple Nuclear Energy Capacity by 2050 on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @03:49AM (#42124126)
"Solar is viable if we depopulate the temperate zones"

Great argument for an energy source

Re:U.S. Sets Targets to Triple Nuclear Energy Capacity by 2050 on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @03:45AM (#42124094)
Thanks for proving my point Mr Commie-sar
Re:U.S. Sets Targets to Triple Nuclear Energy Capacity by 2050 on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @03:28AM (#42123982)
Make a cost calculation of how much solar and battery you need to keep your lights on during peak summer and then do the same calculation for how much solar and battery you need to keep the lights on in the middle of winter when a large scale 5 day blizzard.

Pretend you are a metal foundry.

Good luck.

Re:U.S. Sets Targets to Triple Nuclear Energy Capacity by 2050 on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @03:15AM (#42123903)
If you don't publicly believe(and it is very much an issue of faith) in climate change and many other current things the thought crime commissars will have you flogged.

Any communist era smuggler of western goods would also praise the virtues of communism if publicly asked.

Re:Two Upstart Search Engines Are Teaming Up to Take on Google on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @03:00AM (#42123828)
The solution is to force feed all affiliate linked sites into a living archive LLM that digests them into a summary stripped of all links.

You run this bloated mass as a co-engine to your search. If you stumble upon any of the digested sites or articles you just have the site-eater blob regurgitate a html re-creation locally. They get no traffic, you get whatever they wrote purged of all links and with optional formatting to remove the fluff BS copywrite that many of these sites pad the tiny core of usefulness with.

Re:'Smart' insulin prevents diabetic highs – and deadly lows on Saturday November 09, 2024 @05:26AM (#42093637)
It kick in slowly because standard administration is subcutaneous which isn't a very well vascularized tissue.

If you shoot up in your veins or into something more vascular you would have faster onset.

Re:Functional ultrasound through the skull on Saturday November 09, 2024 @05:12AM (#42093577)
>clearly not what you were implying by saying it is a minority of scans.

It is exactly what I was saying. And I say this because I work in a hospital with several non-preggo ultrasound labs that are booked overtime. To achieve the same load of pregnancy scans the hospital would need to hire more OB-staff for scanning and the region would need a TFR of 25.

Re:Functional ultrasound through the skull on Friday November 08, 2024 @04:10PM (#42090503)
In rural Rwanda, in 2008, for the duration of the study you linked after jumping at the first cherry picked example that your Google search found, they were the most frequently made examination.

But even according to that article, out of the 345 examinations only 102 were pregnancy scans, making them a minority of all scans made.

Re:Functional ultrasound through the skull on Friday November 08, 2024 @11:26AM (#42088071)
Through the temporal bone of most people you can catch some sparse doppler signals with average hospital gear.

The fontanelles enable good ultrasound imaging on an entirely different level. A highres greyscale image vs a few sparse blobs of doppler from major vessels.

Re:Functional ultrasound through the skull on Friday November 08, 2024 @11:22AM (#42088030)
Someone skilled in musculoskeletal ultrasound can do it.

But that's a hard skill to develop.

Re:Functional ultrasound through the skull on Friday November 08, 2024 @09:45AM (#42087217)
You want an ultra-low field MRI.

But that'll still be expensive to develop, slow and still potentially lethal if done sufficiently wrong

Re:Functional ultrasound through the skull on Friday November 08, 2024 @09:34AM (#42087129)
A modern clinical ultrasound probe have something in the range of 128 to 512 elements only. But despite that you get a real-time video stream at a lot higher resolution than a 512 pixel postage stamp.
Re:Functional ultrasound through the skull on Friday November 08, 2024 @07:31AM (#42086356)
Shockwave lithotripsy for the brain.

Sounds like a perfect way to find yourself dead with massive brain hemorrhage and someone jailed for unlicensed meme-medtech.

Re:Functional ultrasound through the skull on Friday November 08, 2024 @07:04AM (#42086201)
A commercial medical ultrasound imaging device in doppler mode can pick up and map onto the image plane some of the vessels in the brain through the skulls. But mostly just through the temporal bones(where the skulls is like 1-2mm thick). (The commercial machines run doppler on lower frequency than imaging signal so you get no s tructural image this way, only the color doppler map(unless you find a place in the skull where an emissary vein passes through the bone table where the image signal can ride through))
Re:Functional ultrasound through the skull on Friday November 08, 2024 @05:10AM (#42085719)
Ultrasound is safe at normal acoustic levels.

Infant babies frequently have their brain scanned through the open fontanels.

If you turn the volume up to 11 you'll boil water with or can use it to machine steel but the energy levels in clinical practice is safe

Re:Functional ultrasound through the skull on Friday November 08, 2024 @04:34AM (#42085572)
It's used for a vast amount of other tissue examinations.

Pregnancies are a minority of ultrasound examinations.

Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @08:08AM (#42061710)
I skimmed your first paragraph, noticed you mentioned fascism with capital F like 5 times and tuned you out long before you reached any point, just as the parent post you replied to suggested.

I'm a centrist, the way I see it you go into storytelling hour with a grinding monologue aimed to gaslighting yourself and any listeners into a position of "we should execute our political opponents for being fascists, maybe some communism banners would be chic too"

It's a caricature of ideology that even chatGPT would laugh at.

Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @07:58AM (#42061570)
You're saying "the Turd Sandwich is inedible. Everyone should order the Shit Burger instead."

Maybe you could leave the Poop Cafe and have something that's food instead lmao

Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @07:39AM (#42061311)
People are standing in line to vote for an actual literally Hitler because they're tired of gaslighting political takes like yours.

The more Hitlery you advertise them as the more likely they'll get votes. And you will think more gaslight is the solution when it was the root cause for the radicalization.

Enjoy the bed you made

Re:Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @02:23PM (#42054413)
The law was always there to step on the little man, the VIPs always had it easier. Stop thinking too much about it.

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