No, it was a user on the FreeNode IRC in #Linux, not Stallman

What a thought provoking question.

I’d argue utility can exist outside of measurable systems but is defined by the measurements made within a system.

The measurements then determine with arbitrary values the utility of an object.

For instance, take two early human weapons: A wooden spear, and a club.

How would you rate the utility of each? By a varying degrees of ways, but they have different uses; a spear can hunt animals and has good penetrating power through flesh, a hammer can stun or knock out an animal, or drive a nail or stake.

But which of the two is the better use of the wood? That I believe, is at the core of your question.

The answer is both. A non-zero-sum system where both are valued for different purposes and no-one is the greater, or lesser thereof.

Well, you are absolutely correct. A 1-2% DoD is something for like, the Voyager Probe though, not a smartphone :)

I charge wired (high speed, 18-22W). Wireless is known to be a lot slower and theoretically gentler on the battery.

I also use the phone heavily, like a computer, I’m a “power user”, so my battery thrashing is higher than average.

Us having the same durability lost on our engine despite me driving double the miles is a good analogy.

It’s AccuBattery

Depth of Discharge, sorry – 0 to 100 would be a 100% depth (the entire battery), 30 to 80 is 50%.

This is a 50% DoD and is considered best possible practice to prevent lithium-ion dendrite formation.

Updoot for good advice.

Proof:

Get in the robot, Shinji

Trauma team is on the job

“This Berk had Platinum coverage?”

"Sure, I can help answer this. Psychopaths are useful for a civilization or tribe because they weed out the weak and infertile, for instance, the old man with the bad leg, thus improving fitness."

Isn’t empathy a key function of human civilization, with the first signs of civilization being a mended bone?

I'm sorry, I can't help you with that. My model is being constantly updated and improved.

You’re not gonna believe this…

No the great filter is quite a lot more basic than that, things like unstable atmospheres, cosmic ray bursts, collisions, etc.

You’re on the right track though

#5 carried me through three degrees.

It’s because of this bullshit.

Take a guess how many members this server/example community serves:

500? 2000? 10,000+?

Surely, a group of 50,000 needs a ticket system, age verification, moderation, and rules/TOS+registration?

There are twelve users in that chat/server. Three of the 12 are moderators. One is the “owner”.

Discord became a “community tool” because Discord moderators/“creators” are a special class of human being who realized their dream model train set could be upgraded with Internet connectivity.

Medium-to-large-scale-enterprise tooling is available to spin up for anyone, without having to pay for anything. In fact, Discord incentivizes donations through “boosts” where the users of a community pay for server costs rather than the hosts/maintainers themselves.

As a result, people go ham and never invest in proper training, role division or infrastructure. They cosplay at running a pseudo-corporation and Discord adds their requested features, at a price/donation premium.

P.S: I run a Discord channel of 223 users with no moderation, we have one text channel and two voice channels. We use the service like Ventrilo or TeamSpeak for a Steam Clan. I’ve literally had these busybodies from disparate communities join just to tell me I was “doing it wrong”.

P.S.S: I also hate HOAs.

My favorite take on this is playing a hegemonic technologically advanced, wartime empire in Stellaris.

Any time a new species contacts mine, if they open the door with: “Why you no build boats” or “prepare to be enslaved!” or “Die Xeno Scum!”; we crack their planet and pyromatically defenestrate their king(s)/leaders/hivemind.

It had made my fictional galaxy-space grand strategy a dark forest, where the AI learned to be afraid of reaching out, owing to the many (only stories, through selection bias), where contacting my species resulted in annihilation.

We’re not evil, it was always just like:

Us: "We come in peace, would you like to trade coffee for advanced energy storage devices? , and the other civs/Ai would look at “relative military strength” and respond with [-90] “Bullshit, Prepare for War!” and then turn around and beg for ceasefire/white peace the second the Shipyard-Titans enter into their home system at the edge of the screen.

Parasitic-Wasp-Slavers: “Clearly we have made a mistake, it said your military was 26,000 points, but we didn’t comprehend peacetime versus wartime military scaling”

Us: “You said, I quote, your children will be sold as snacks on street corner food vendors and your adult population will toil in our mines.”

Parasitic-Wasp-Slavers: "Oh, did we say that? Clearly uh, shit, well, come on you know how it is different cultures, right? You can’t judge us from on high just because we {insert enormous amount of moral relativism here}"

P.S: Do a cultural or scientific victory in every Sid Meier CIV game if you actually want to win.

I’m sorry friend; I still feel that childhood demiurge of “the game”.

I got teary eyed this morning playing a particularly satisfying VR title.

I guess my advice is: Try virtual reality gaming.

No, you’re right

Yeah, the dating apps are monetized to all hell, you guys have called it right.

I was on them a decade ago, and I’m classically handsome, mentally stable, good job, etc; went looking for a serious partner with similar life goals, and all I got was catfishing and trolls.

After I subscribed to the premium tier, I began getting messages from real people but I was so disgusted by the transparent greed that I swore off all dating websites and services and went the offline route, meeting my current SO through real life friends at a social event.

Starve the beast, as the conservatives say. Deny them their money.

I bought my 7900XTX for $800, and have kept absolutely quiet about it.

Anyone who has asked me: “AMD sucks, CUDA better, buy NVDA stock”.

The invisible hand of the market is made of invisible delicious meat

That’s hysterical. LLMs typically know what you’re talking about, so if you misspell, they can still figure out what you’re trying to say.

Holy shit that’s funny