Beryl

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[–] Beryl 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I guess this guy never heard about Popper and the paradox of tolerance :

If a society's practice of tolerance is inclusive of the intolerant, intolerance will ultimately dominate, eliminating the tolerant and the practice of tolerance with them.

[–] Beryl 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It works by using the processing power of your device (it can utilize both GPU and CPU) to run scientific calculations when you're not using it. It can detect if you're using the device or not and use its processing power accordingly, and you can customize what fraction of your device it can use and when. You can also decide what scientific endeavors (astronomical surveys, protein folding, etc.) are allowed to use your compute power.

That makes BOINC a great way to heat a room in winter provided you're not annoyed by the eventual fan noises (or if you're not in the room), since the energy used will also help scientific research at no extra cost for you. This also means that depending on your settings, it can melt a mobile device battery in no time.

[–] Beryl 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Do people really run BOINC on Android ?

[–] Beryl 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Ce titre d'article putaclic ! Ils auraient pu titrer "En Normandie, l'érosion efface les vestiges du débarquement", mais non, trop informatif sûrement...

[–] Beryl 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Oh I agree with you, but I wanted to alude to what's going on in other parts of the world as well, where it's not at the outright fascist stage. Yet. (I also called it dictatorial, so...)

[–] Beryl 55 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

There's really not much hope for humanity. Everywhere people are falling again and again for slightly different flavors of populist conservative corrupt assholes with a dictatorial liking. Like it's ever done the world any good before.

[–] Beryl 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Artist's view of bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria and look like this. They attach to the bacterial wall with these fibers that look like spider legs, and then inject their DNA into the bacteria by contracting the sheath that attaches to the DNA-containing head. They kinda work like a syringe.

[–] Beryl 37 points 9 months ago

So, the guy who will happily slender everyone and their dog doesn't like it when you attack his character?

[–] Beryl 66 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Juste because yours is genuine doesn't mean theirs can't also be. That's the beauty of LLMs. They're just stochastic parrots.

[–] Beryl 31 points 9 months ago

There's no such thing as a backdoor that opens only for the good guys

[–] Beryl 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's mandatory to display the price per kg or L in France, which makes comparing the value much easier.

[–] Beryl 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

"81% of the untapped coal reserves" It would be great if you kept it untapped . Also, lol at "100% of the Scottish wisky industry".

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