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Cake day: May 31st, 2020

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  • In my experience, it’s often the other way around. They’ll say that because everyone else is going to replace certain jobs with AI, they’ll have to do it, too, to stay competitive. If they don’t stay competitive, they might need to fire workers anyways.

    In theory, I could imagine someone employing AI, while from a moral viewpoint supporting a ban of it. One problem is that such a ban would need to be universal for it to not put anyone at a competitive disadvantage, which we can’t achieve with national laws.
    Well, and the other problem is that most people who argument this way then get massive bonuses and also pay bonuses out to investors, so that completely undermines any potential for morals.



  • Well, for storing it for the night, I typically hear that battery or saline storage is much more efficient (something like 60% efficiency for the whole cycle of storing and retrieving).

    So, unless it’s much more expensive to build this battery/saline storage, it seems like it’d only be economical to blow it on hydrogen, if you’ve got your storage filled up for the night + somewhat of a buffer.
    I guess, this theory might be void, if companies are willing to pay a lot of money for hydrogen. Some industries do strictly need hydrogen for chemical processes, so I guess, those would pay…


  • I’ve usually heard that hydrogen is not worth it for storing energy, because the conversion is really lossy, so I thought maybe they want to export it. And then the article says that exporting isn’t worth it either. 🫠

    I’m sure, there’s niche use-cases where hydrogen really is the best solution, but I don’t know, is South Australia really that close to cracking that ‘conundrum’, just because they’ve got a lot of spare energy? You’d still want to be reasonably efficient with how you use that spare energy, to get the most value and/or money out of it…








  • On KDE, there’s actually a separate feature which provides essentially virtual desktops with changing wallpapers (and widgets and a few other things), which is called “Activities”. You can also then use multiple virtual desktops per Activity.

    I think, that’s kind of the main reason: Many people use virtual desktops differently.
    For some folks, they represent different larger topics, where the Activities feature would match very well.
    For others, virtual desktops are more like a second monitor, so they just want to see different windows, nothing more. In fact, some desktop environments like GNOME, create and destroy virtual desktops per demand. They couldn’t really remember the wallpaper for those workspaces.