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by 13of40 4y ago
Just a guess, but it might have something to do with whether the brain is able to be saved vs. just the body.
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by 13of40 4y ago
I found one in a thrift shop in the early 90s, with no storage or other peripherals. Never got it to do anything by itself, but 17-year-old me successfully soldered the (white ceramic and gold) CPU into the TI-99/4a my dad bought in a
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by 13of40 4y ago
On a related note, I see a lot of amateur radio enthusiasts who use their call sign as a vanity license plate. If you do that you should be extra polite in traffic because if someone types that into Google they get your full name and addre
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by 13of40 4y ago
> amateur chemistry Ah, those were the days. Back in the 80s my parents bought us a chemistry set from a thrift store that was probably 20 years old already. It was actually set up to teach some practical chemistry by providing a myste
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by 13of40 4y ago
MS-DOS v1 didn't have an assembler in debug.exe (or was it .com?) so the only way to author machine code on a 5150 with no extra dev tools was to code it on paper, translate it by hand, and enter it in hex.
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by 13of40 4y ago
Counterpoint (true story): A few years ago I bought a drone, it turned out to be crap, so I sent it back and bought a DJI instead. Just like they track "people who bought A also bought B" I can imagine them tracking "people
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by 13of40 4y ago
The 3090 I had was actually somewhat slower than dreamstudio.ai, but the nice thing was the set of python tools I got with it was scriptable so I could do things like create an image, use that as input for another one, and so on, then make
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by 13of40 4y ago
TBH, I bought a 3090 and it broke after a week so I sent it back. It was about $1200, and I'm down about $80 on the web site at this point, so... I have been pondering a cloud solution though, but haven't done the math all the wa
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by 13of40 4y ago
Two thoughts I've had about Stable Diffusion: 1. The web UIs I have used are taking advantage of the same mental pathways as an electronic slot machine. Just like you can max out your bet on a slot machine and mash a button until you
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by 13of40 4y ago
I think the most egregious one of these I've seen is a digital multimeter I have that says there are no user serviceable parts inside. Pretty standard, but it implies that even the sort of person who uses a multimeter isn't quali
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by 13of40 4y ago
It could be an AV engine doing it. Some phishing attacks have switched to using QR codes instead of links as an evasion technique in the last couple of years, so the anti-evasion to that is decode it and browse the link to see if it's
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by 13of40 4y ago
The browser was a bit of an obvious invention at the time. We were cramming more and more functionality into BBS software, and rendering it into a WYSIWYG+WIMP client was a natural next step. If I'd managed to get off the couch that
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by 13of40 4y ago
I don't think we ever had the training budget for that.
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by 13of40 4y ago
Ah, I'm finally in my element here. I went through a few years in which I saw many anti-aircraft missiles, and there's nothing so unintuitive about them that a layperson would confuse them with, say, a cloud. In other words, it&#
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by 13of40 4y ago
"minimum viable product" I've heard a few folks use this term disparagingly lately, and I just want to point out that the spirit of an MVP isn't that you do the bare minimum required to huck your product to an unsuspecti
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by 13of40 4y ago
I'm convinced there was an illegal and violent coup attempting to overturn the 2020 election. It killed people. What was your thing again?
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by 13of40 4y ago
"for those scenarios where a non-GC language is required" C# code is out of scope for this discussion.
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by 13of40 4y ago
Seems like you could map it to something that expires on its own, like beer, to prevent hoarding.
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by 13of40 4y ago
Obviously you wouldn't want that for livestock, but this razor wire fits your description: https://shop10303.ldiiaceh.org/category?name=cbt%2060%20razo...
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by 13of40 4y ago
I'm not parsing this. Are the pointy pieces of wire every six inches or so not barbs?
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by 13of40 4y ago
I think I watched an extended version of this where the older car, lacking a crumple zone, basically pretzeled the driver's legs.
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by 13of40 4y ago
The king of England can't be arrested or sued, so that puts a huge amount of asymmetry into this situation. You get arrested for shouting during his parade, but he could (and please anyone, correct me if I'm wrong) shoot you in T
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by 13of40 4y ago
A couple of years ago I was playing with the King County (Washington) online parcel map and found out you can get pretty decent resolution aerial photography of Seattle and its surroundings from 1936. One of the things that struck me most
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by 13of40 4y ago
There's a YouTube channel called "CHRONOS-MEDIA History" that has a lot of archival footage from that era. A couple ones I found interesting were a clip with American and German officers casually working together to coordina
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by 13of40 4y ago
Reminds me of a book I picked up about twenty years ago called "Testing Computer Software". I think it must have been written in the 80s, because instead of having a bug database, it talked about filling out a hardcopy form descr
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by 13of40 4y ago
Find me a dentist who recommends flossing but who isn't one of those parrots that advise brushing or regular teeth cleanings.
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by 13of40 4y ago
I could be wrong, but I think back in the day the computer monitor was the whole system for debugging and viewing the state of a running computer (which is why the debugger on an Apple II is called a monitor, for example) but now we just us
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by 13of40 4y ago
One of my previous companies (in the US) had a policy of escorting you to the door immediately if you told them you were leaving for a competitor. In practice, we usually took them out to lunch, had a laugh about it, and all but one of us
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by 13of40 4y ago
I use 5G a lot when I'm "working from home", and my area has pretty good coverage. The one thing I've noticed is that unlike LTE there doesn't seem to be a correlation between connection quality and bandwidth. I c
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by 13of40 4y ago
I wonder how far you could go generating tons of images from human art "feedstock", having people select the best 0.1% of them, then using them as input for another round, and so on. Then replace the people with another AI whose j

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