So throw all caution out the window in the absence of evidence? What kind of logic is that?

Thanks. So it sounds like it probably has the same effect as other microplastics? Chemically inert, but can physically cause damage.

I believe the harms that are well known are the environmental impacts and that on people involved in its production. Weighing all of that together, I’ll maintain my policy that I’d never buy a non-stick, but if I happen to have one, I’m not going to toss it and create more waste than is necessary. I mainly keep mine around because other people (e.g. parents) like to use them sometimes when they visit.

Everyone else in the comments are saying Teflon is harmless to consume. Who do I believe?

Probably not someone that a consumer would want to do unless they’re interested in the challenge.

I forgot about the absence of PCIe connectors until jj4211 mentioned it in another comment. That would also be problematic for consumer use. I know it’s possible to do the conversion as I’ve looked into it in the past, but it doesn’t come cheap.

Existing in this world

He punished published a book about the first segment of his journey, and there are people just throwing money at him because they want to see someone do this.

The datacentre GPUs are also useless for consumers. They don’t have video output.

Not even if it’s a career she genuinely enjoys?

Not even if it’s a career she genuinely enjoys?

Oh, so much. I’m still trying to figure out how to actually complete things.

Tolerance is tangential to humanization. You can be tolerant of a human. You can also be intolerant of a human.

but once I’m done, I close them all

Same. But I also have a continuous stream of new projects that never get finished.

Whenever I see the term “consciousness” in a paper, it automatically gets flagged in my head as non-serious. But I work in AI, so maybe that shouldn’t apply to whatever your field is. That brings me to the next problem: I can’t figure out what your field is supposed to be from this paper. It’s lacking the background and prior work sections that would serve to position your work into the greater context of existing work.

Do you use this for physical machines too?

Depends on how reliable you need this system to be. For example, do you need to handle the scenario where an adult verifies their age to access a website, then lets a minor use that website in their place? That would be a much harder problem to solve than if you just need to verify that an adult was present on the other end at one point in time. For the latter, device-based age verification seems to be trivial to set up from a technical standpoint while fulfilling that criterion.

There are people who are fully owners and don’t do any labour, and those who subsist entirely on their labour and don’t own anything. Would it be fair to say that the middle class is anyone who works but still owns a non-zero amount of appreciating or revenue-generating assets?

Easy for computers doesn’t mean it’s easy for humans, and vice versa.

But you cannot defy the laws of thermodynamics, so if you make anything colder, you need to absorb the energy to do so and vice versa. First time using this power and you accidentally made something too cold? Sounds like you just burned to death.

In the eyes of the universe, everything is simply an effect. There are no side-effects, so nothing you can redo despite having that ability.

Depending on the person, this might be a bonus.