mormund

I agree with the layoffs and maximizing monetization. But I think so far they haven't actively killed any of their purchased products. It is in their financial interest to keep things running as long as possible to get their return on investment.

Anyone in Metal Gear Rising: Revengance of course!

How can you be "left behind" in art? I can make a cave painting right now and there would be nothing wrong or inherently bad about it.

Check out Hitler's paintings. He didn't get into art school, sure, but they aren't awful. It is certainly beyond anything the average person could just draw without practice. This is just garbage.

I mean pedo shit aside, that's a way shittier card and drawing than I imagined. A second grader could draw something more artistic, damn.

Oof three comments on the heating one and all are classic "oh no my economy" climate crisis denying dumb asses. Who would have thought that China was the only country giving me real hope for some reasonable outcome...

Nothing about what they are doing is open source. There is no training code, let alone training data. They're sharing blobs. That's not open source.

Not sure where they use docker but Windows will run in a kvm VM. But if the file system is mounted (which is likely) it is still risky.

How do these solutions apply the license for the Windows VM? Or do they just not use one? That's a quick way to a cease and desist from msft if it gets big enough for them to care.

Hm from reading more on it, I think it has more to do with droughts in the area. That is why they build the desalination plant in the first place. I assume using the residual energy of the saline gradient (+ the boost from the brine) to generate new freshwater is better than further draining the naturally occuring freshwater. But still just a guess.

Definitely not shitting on the tech, it's a really cool concept and definitely useful. I just wish news outlets would have asked how the cycle is beneficial. I don't doubt that it is, but I don't get it.

I mean the part in the picture is clear to me. But if we assume freshwater is freely available, why would they want to power a desalination plant with the generated power? Basically you can trade freshwater (or salinity gradient generally) for power or power for freshwater. But in a simple loop you'd only lose both over time due to inefficiency.