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  • Both can be discussed. In fact many levels of this can be discussed, from the effect on individuals and families involved in the crash, the effect on the owners of the buildings, the effect on the airport, the city, the airline, the country.

    Just because they’re talking about the effects of a disaster like this on Air India, it doesn’t take away from what happened to the individuals. It shows the massive reverberations of an event like this.

    The airline still has individuals working for it whose livelihood is potentially affected. There are people making the planes that the airline is purchasing. It’s people who live in India who are in mourning over the individuals who died but also shocked at the impact to a symbol of national pride.

    If you’re not ready to think about the people beyond those directly affected, that’s fine. (I’m not being facetious. Everyone processes things in a different way. It’s really okay.) But a story like this is inevitably going to be bigger than those individuals and people will talk about different aspects of it. If it wasn’t that big, we probably wouldn’t be hearing or talking about it at all at this point.



  • Is there some kind of vendor that sells old batteries that don’t have much power in them? I was hoping to spend about $20. Maybe some sort of recycler.

    What part of Canada are you in?

    There are organizations that “recycle” donated electronics by getting old devices working and selling them at relatively low cost. One of them might have an old battery. Most run locally, or work through other organizations to get the devices to people who need them.

    You might be able to get a used chromebook off marketplace or craigslist for cheaper than buying a new battery. You might even be able to find a similar model to get the battery. Or you might be able to move the ssd/hard drive over to the new one.

    I only need enough juice to survive being unplugged for a few minutes without shutting down abruptly.

    The laptop will probably run without a battery at all. Do you really need it to run while unplugged?

    Is it possible to bypass the battery as a power source when plugged in so that they don’t get swollen in the future? I would rather just leave devices plugged in all the time.

    Computers should already do this. When the battery is fully charged they stop charging it and run directly off the ac power - unless of course something goes wrong and (for example) the battery stops reporting when it is fully charged. There might be a BIOS setting to bypass the battery completely, but it likely wouldn’t charge it either. As far as I know this is outside the control of the OS though.

    Is there a way to make the USB power more securely attached so it doesn’t disconnect at the slightest movement? Super glue?

    The port can probably be replaced by someone who knows how to solder. However, have you tried different usb cables to determine if it’s the cable or port that is the problem? If it is the port then you might be able to gently squeeze the female port with pliers to make it tighter. Don’t over-do it or you’ll fold it closed completely. I wouldn’t use super glue. At best it will scrape off and fall out, at worst you’ll get it all over the contacts and that will make everything worse.











  • I’m not trying to “win” anything, don’t try to dismiss me because you perceive you’re “losing” and you don’t understand word definitions.

    Do you even know what semantics is? Do you want me to give you the definition of that, too? If you’re going to use it as a pejorative, you better learn the meaning of the word.

    I’m telling you what the definition of simulation is so you understand why some of us are saying why Simulated Intelligence is the correct term, literally, since you seem focused on the literal. You’re the one who started arguing semantics (in your first comment), but got it wrong, by implying a simulation had to be the actual thing (“literally”) . Then I showed you that the definition of simulation is that it is an imitation, not the actual thing and you say I’m arguing “semantics”. Well yeah, that’s what we’re doing here, we’re both arguing the semantics of what it means to be Simulated Intelligence. If that’s not what you’re doing, then why did you comment at all?

    The whole point of creating a simulation is that it doesn’t take the same amount of work as the actual thing, but it can - and it doesn’t have to be perfect - make you think it is the real thing. If it was perfect, then you’re done, you don’t have to make the real thing, and it’s no longer a simulation.

    A flight simulator doesn’t actually fly. If it did, it would be an airplane.

    Simulated Intelligence doesn’t actually have to be intelligent. If it was, it would be (Artificial) Intelligence.

    You can say what we have is a bad simulation, but it’s still a simulation, and it’s a much better simulation than it is real intelligence. So Simulated Intelligence is the correct term.