https://www.statista.com/statistics/1445285/gallium-share-of-production-worldwide-by-country/
As of 2022, China basically produces all (98.4%) of the world’s gallium.
… Statista has much more great info, but unless you want to pay for a subscription or spend a day hopping through proxy IPs… yeah, good luck.
More on gallium and its uses:
https://techiescientist.com/uses-of-gallium/
AP did not attempt to explain why all of these rare and exotic minerals and metals and compounds are used in manufacturing…
…because there a bunch of them, explaining all the reasons for using just one of them would basically be the equivalent of a crash course in applied chemistry / manufacturing / physics / engineering, and if you want to get into why these materials are used in lieu of others, well throw logistics and economics into that pile of course work as well.
AP is reporting the news, not being an industry specific journal, or a comprehensive policy impact study.
I agree with you that it was a frustrating read… but having worked as a copy editor, and having provided many different executive reports to various businesses and non profits, I also sympathize with the writer.
This is the kind of topic where you can either do a broad level overview, or you can write a tome for those who really want to dive into all the details to fully understand it… there’s no effective way to do a middling approach on such a vast and complex topic.
Only the next 4 years?
How optimistic.
Well obviously I’d download 100 GBs of more RAM.
But uh, for serious?
DL everything I’d need to build Debian from bare metal… probably some select material from the IA, basic survival stuff, info on how to set up a solar power system… and all the I2P software and source code i can find.
If the Net goes down, but the physical hardware still exists, cables, radios, wifi cards… build your own Net.
Responding to the last comment in the image:
You could literally just do reverse Starship Troopers, the movie at least.
You’re a bunch of aliens and blam out of no where the nuclear launched manhole obliterates a holy site on your homeworld, your scientists track the trajectory back to Earth, conclude they must have launched it intentionally, and then launch an interstellar jihad against totally unaware Earthlings.
Its a fancy autocomplete algorithm.
That is crowd sourced.
And requires entire nuclear reactors to power only itself and nothing else.
…
… People were freaking out over cryptomining farms.
This is so much worse.
Did al-Assad flee with the Russians, or is that just a rumor?
Girl math!
Compulsive spending (often from someone else’s income) justified by a gaslighting gish gallop of illogical psuedo budgeting norms which make 0 mathematical sense.
(Yes I know this is a different scene, but its funnier, and Smith’s character arc is that he is a virus.)
True, you don’t need AI for security problems…
…but it is introducing tons of them, for little to no benefit.
About a month ago I saw a post for a MSFT led AI Security conference.
None of it, absolutely none of it, was about how to say, leverage LLMs to aid in heuristic scanning for malware, or something like that.
Literally every talk and booth at the conference was all about all the security flaws with LLMs and how to mitigate them.
I’ll come back and edit my post with the link to what I’m talking about.
EDIT: Found it.
Unless I am missing something, literally every talk/panel here is about how to mitigate the security risks to your system/db which are introduced by LLM AI.
Oh, they can spend long periods of time being inert, and then resume activity when conditions change to be more favorable?
… Like a tardigrade? Or a seed?
Oh, they cannot reproduce themselves on their own or within their own species?
… Like a obligate parasite wasp? Or a plant species that relies on a pollinator?
Oh, they do not reach a stable equilibrium within their ecosystem?
… Like humans?
I’ll give you that viruses never metabolize and are not capable of homeostasis… but they do not lack ‘any’ of the characteristics of life, they have some big ones.
They reproduce, evolve, and respond to stimuli.
Well dang, I’d never heard of that.
Thanks! I’ll try to give those a read some time =D
Boomers:
Why don’t I have grandkids?
Millenials/Zoomers:
You got cash up front for that?
We fucking don’t.
You sound like a gender/sex swapped version of me, 15 years ago.
I was a hopeless romantic as well, would have crushes on girls, do my best to be as respectful and cordial as possible while hanging out, asking out, or going out on dates with them… falling in love with a fantasy idea of them, huge emotional highs from any attention, massive lows from rejection, lack of contact, or them acting wildly unlike my wistful idea of them.
…
Sorry to tell you, but this guy likely just was/is not really that interested in you, or anyone, as a serious relationship partner.
If he was, he would have made time, would not have ghosted you.
…
He said he’s never been in an ‘official relationship’ before, asks you if you are single.
He makes sexual jokes when its just you and a few other people.
He enjoys seeing you in person, reciprocates hugs when you meet… but is always asking what you’re doing that night, that weekend, tries to get you over to his place…
He’s most likely the kind of guy that is not interested in serious relationships, and is really just looking for convenient flings.
Doesn’t make him evil. Doesn’t make him a saint.
Unless theres more to this story where you’ve already told him directly how much he means to you, how you really feel, where you directly said ‘Hey do you want to go on a date / be my boyfriend’…
… he probably has no idea that you are basically in unrequited love with him.
He probably doesn’t hate you, he probably just likes you as a friend and finds you attractive, a potentially bangable friend.
…
As for what to do next?
Well, first come to terms with the idea that he enjoys your company as a friend, and potential friend with benefits, but currently is not interested in a serious relationship with you, despite your efforts thus far.
Then, you could accept this, continue to be a more casual friend with him.
Or you could maybe write him an email that explains … hey you know I am actually pretty seriously enamored with you as a potential serious, long term relationship, and I’d like to know if you’d be interested in that.
It could be that it just did not occur to him that that’s what you’d like, and maybe he’d be willing to try!
Or… maybe not, and then hopefully you two can still be friends.
…
A lot of guys (myself included) are pretty dense when it comes to determining ‘hints’ from women.
And I say ‘hints’ because you never described yourself asking him out on a date, asking him to go steady with you, telling him how interested in him you are, doing or saying anything that would specifically indicate you want a serious relationship with him.
You often have to be pretty direct with a lot of guys, with how you feel and what you want, otherwise, they’ll miss them entirely.
We can do better than that:
Convince Mitt Romney to join the Democrat party and run him.
“The human organism always worships. First it was the gods, then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be the self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment.”
“The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms.”
“You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands.”
The Prototype AI ‘Morpheus’ from Deus Ex (2001)
Ferry.
Could be quirky, ensouled commuter boats (think the boat from Windwaker), could be that that they are Navi-like sprites or winged humanoids… but they always lead you somewhere, help you cross a threshold of some kind.
Why not?
Not a fan of the NSYNC ones, but it makes sense given the playlist’s origin, haha.
I like all the other ones… and would add:
It is a scam.
I’ve recieved similar texts from Amaz0n.
Not kidding about the 0 instead of an o.
The also use the ‘Wishing you a bright and sunny day!’ line.
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The url is bullshit, and nobody, literally no legit mail or pacel service is going to use bit.ly.