Many years ago, I used to have huge phablet that I could only carry in the largest pockets of my jacket. It was also ridiculously thin, and made of glass, which made it very fragile. As a result, I was so worried about bending it or breaking it, that those ideas started to sneak into my dreams! Getting rid of it was a relief.

E=mc^2 should cover it, proper physicists can give you a better answer. Either way, it’s a big boom. Wolfram says, it’s about 90 PJ, which is firmly in the nuclear weapons territory.

If you press the universal terminal button, type in the command for spawning a black hole, set the mass to 1 kg, you get something very spicy. It’s so small, that it evaporates pretty much instantly, which means that all of that energy gets released as hawking radiation and the end result resembles an explosion.

Web 2.0 was such a nice idea on paper.

That’s a very good point. Also, the later comments don’t get seen by many people, and that’s why they don’t get many votes either.

Obviously, sorting changes all that, but I don’t think many people sort posts and comments by new. If you don’t touch the settings, things are sorted by hot.

Most people aren’t into thread necromancy. New post and comments get more replies than the old ones. They aren’t completely forgotten, but the difference in attention is massive.

If I built a system like that, it would become really complicated, since I would just have to include all sorts of convoluted unicode trickery in it.

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Back in the day, when forums were still a thing, I dumped a bunch of binary into my signature and waited for someone to figure out what it says. Eventually, someone did go through the trouble of converting it to hex, ASCII, HTML, ROT13, BASE64 or whatever random conversions I had access to at the time. Anyway, one day I got a message about it, and I was so delighted.

Oh that. Thanks! I was aware of the concept, but didn’t know there was an acronym for it. Such an American thing to do. Pretty much anything and everything has an acronym these days 😃

I’m out of the loop. Why do I see so much taco stuff in various discussions all of a sudden?

Why would anyone use them when you can keep your opponents on their toes? Driving is essentially a full-contact sport, and you don’t win by playing it safe with turn signals. It’s all about the element of surprise!

Seriously though, some people see traffic in a really weird way. You can expect them to do the exact opposite of what you would do.

Does the scrolling make you feel like we’re doomed? If so, it’s doomscrolling.

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Did you know that HTML has something similar.

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The amazing thing is, there are so many ways the metals could have ended up in the coins. For example, iron is pretty simple, you just heat up the rocks and molten iron begins to leak out. Aluminium is really weird, because finding it in a metallic form is very rare. However, there are aluminium containing minerals pretty much everywhere. Turns out, you can dissolve those rocks with some chemicals, and separate the aluminium from all the other junk with electricity.

There’s plenty of variety within that term. Also, recycling some of them requires very precise conditions.

In the beginning, things would suck, because low prices come from economies of scale, and the petrochemical industry certainly has scale. Once you’ve ramped up glass, paper and metal packaging factories, it should be tolerable.

There are also new materials such as biodegradable plastic and even mycelia. That would be useful.

If we also ramp up various carbon capture technologies, you could technically turn that carbon into plastics, so you won’t need any more oil. Obviously, that wouldn’t solve the climate crisis. You need CCS for that. Probably not going to happen within the next century, but it’s technically possible.

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Fortunately for you, LLMs are obnoxiously friendly, so why not generate a few slops of happiness for Meta every now and then. As a bonus, you’ll be polluting their next model too. It’s a win-win situation!

I’m going to ignore clinical depression for now, and focus more on milder symptoms like doomscrolling induced sadness, hopelessness and mild anxiety. Some people are resistant to these effects because they practice some form of optimism or stoicism. Other people just close their eyes and ignore the horrors around them. Either way, neither of these approaches tells you anything about intelligence.

I’m sorry, we are currently in a superposition of being simultaneously at home and elsewhere. If you’re here to sell something, the superposition will collapse into the state of not being at home. If you’re here to rob us, we definitely are at home and ready to call the cops.