NaibofTabr

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[–] NaibofTabr 24 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

So check this out:

Lazard - Levelized Cost of Energy

This is an industry study that gets published every year by Lazard, for the past 18 years. It is focused on the US market. They put in a lot of effort to assess the whole cost of various forms of energy generation, including government subsidies.

[–] NaibofTabr 1 points 18 hours ago
[–] NaibofTabr 13 points 1 day ago

Here we go, found it in the Health Impacts article:

There is experimental evidence that very slim fibers (<60 nm, <0.06 μm in breadth) tangle destructively with chromosomes (being of comparable size). This is likely to cause the sort of mitosis disruption expected in cancer.

And here in MECHANISMS OF ASBESTOS-INDUCED CARCINOGENESIS

It is somewhat more difficult to understand the “chromosome tangling hypothesis.” We recently found that asbestos fibers including crocidolite are actively taken up by several different kinds of cultured cells. Furthermore, those fibers enter both the cytoplasm and the nucleus. In this situation, asbestos fibers may tangle with chromosomes when cells divide. Whether there is a specificity of tangling for any chromosomal region is the next question to be addressed.

So not quite down to the DNA level, but basically chromosomes can get wrapped around asbestos fibers during cell division.

[–] NaibofTabr 13 points 1 day ago

help desk -> sysadmin -> CISO -> goat farmer

[–] NaibofTabr 11 points 1 day ago

"AI" is basically mass theft of culture, knowledge, and agency from the entirety of human record. It's no surprise that the robber barons are willing to pay people extremely well to expand its scope and efficiency.

[–] NaibofTabr 34 points 1 day ago (13 children)

We asked 100+ AI models to write code.

The Results: AI-generated Code

no shit son

That Works

OK this part is surprising, probably headline-worthy

But Isn’t Safe

Surprising literally no one with any sense.

[–] NaibofTabr 63 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yeah, it's a crystal structure and it's really a shame that it causes so many health issues because it's kind of an amazing material otherwise. It's lightweight and strong enough to make bricks with but you can also make flexible fabric out of it, and it can hold up to really impressive amounts of heat. As the poster above said, it is still in use in some industrial applications because in some situations there is no effective alternative.

Of course the problem is that if you damage an asbestos brick or bend an asbestos fabric you get lots of tiny little asbestos fibers that come loose. My understanding is that the fibers are so small that they pierce cell walls and damage DNA strands, hence the cancer.

[–] NaibofTabr 11 points 1 day ago
[–] NaibofTabr 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"It's a brand new day
Yeah the sun is high
And all the birds are singin'
That you're gonna die!"

[–] NaibofTabr 2 points 1 day ago

shoot the messenger

[–] NaibofTabr 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The first modem just transmitted data over the analog phone network as a series of beeps, a function which the phone system was never designed for.

Computer networking is kludges all the way down.

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Windows RG (www.youtube.com)
 

My introduction to this was through the video, so it felt appropriate to share here. I'm sure this is a reupload and I saw it somewhere else earlier than 2012.

You can actually play with it on the creator's website:

https://www.jamesweb.co.uk/windowsrg

 

Using only pieces from the original set.

 

This popular successor to the original Turbo Encabulator has now been itself succeeded by the impressive Hyper Encabulator. There seems to be no end to clever innovation in the important field of encabulation.

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Rejected (www.youtube.com)
 

Don Hertzfeldt

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