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by Sporktacular 1y ago
This doesn't make sense. If we can form logic circuits from biological matter we can create functionally equivalent circuits from other technologies - in hardware or software. They might have quirks but the way we know AGI is possible
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by Sporktacular 1y ago
This guy thought deleting his posts would make a difference... but he's sure it's Palantir. They've been doing this using all sorts of social media OSINT tools for a decade or more. Okay, he's annoyed but that's not
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by Sporktacular 1y ago
Great teardown. Can these things remove HDCP altogether? It seems like if it can report that the sink is HDCP2.x then it can do so even if it has no compliance at all right? So that would mean it streams an encrypted stream to something tha
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by Sporktacular 1y ago
“In the perfect world, the drone should take off, fly, find the target, strike it, and report back on the task,” Burukin says. “That’s where the development is heading.” That's the problem in a nutshell. A few years back, few would arg
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by Sporktacular 1y ago
Yes. The private knows he can be punished for getting it wrong.
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by Sporktacular 1y ago
Written when the tariff on Chinese phones was only 54% and later 10%. Ah, those were the days.
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
It's true. An amazing feat of manual, analogue artistry in our age. It's almost criminal, but definitely heartbreaking they didn't pick up season 2.
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
It's a portent. Donald J. Trump must be bringing the greatness back.
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
This article just kind of assumes the reader should prefer US firms succeed in making these magnets over Chinese firms. I'm not sure why I should prefer that if China do it cheaper and better. Some nationalistic readers or those concer
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
Why don't you just answer the question? A lab leak makes China look incompetent. It means sick animals infecting lab staff. It doesn't make it look malicious, it doesn't mean engineered bioweaponry, actively playing with fire
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
No it wouldn't imply that at all. The same animals ending up in wet markets could have ended up in labs. Nothing to imply it was engineered, which is a whole other level of culpability. Sucks that so many people are itching to make thi
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
And the difference between 480 and 1000 Hz is perceptible?
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
Because it's per month and not per hour for a specialist consultant.
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
Yeah, but they aren't an input device with an amp wired in the right direction and an A/D converter to read it out.
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
Why does the refraction appear instantly below the bottle rather than taking time for the light to propagate there?
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
On an M1/2/3/4 processor. Not Intel.
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
This is one highly confusing sentence. Nothing motivates who? Saudis? Arabs or Muslims generally? Or do you mean Brown people?
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
Because those are the only two choices.
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
Shocking and depressing how easily they've been able to find overcharging consultancy firms and willing spruikers ready to hype up what is obviously a stupid and unrealistic vanity project. At 1% of it's planned length, it's
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
"an official said on Monday." Why would a chief investment officer lie about a wildly overhyped project?
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
"They have scaled it down considerably" Right, so it's no longer "a 150km or so project". It's actually a 1.5km project. This doesn't need more hype. So many people said this would be BS and they were righ
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
I love that it calls itself decentralized, yet "All messages are sent via the servers". However P2P networks are "Single or Centralized networks" because "they are not federated - they operate as a single network&qu
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
"Preserving the privacy of your metadata — who you talk with — protects you from Manipulation of elections" That depends highly on who is using the app for privacy, the voters or the manipulators.
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
If your choice depends on features, your priority isn't security.
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
When the wall fell I recall thinking how nice it will be now people can stop trying to create a panic around communism and 'communist' as a slur against others in democratic countries. I had hoped we could go back to using the wor
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
So much wrong with this rant. To be so dismissively anti-activist is bizarre. If we listened to them decades ago we could have developed all these improvements earlier - and with fewer mouths to feed. But apparently then, as now, they are j
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
I think youtube-dl is no longer under development. Any suggestions for an alternative?
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
Perhaps you mean states. The nation-state is a political entity with overlapping ethnic boundaries. There aren't meany of them (Japan is sometimes cited as an example).
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
How about disabling the unpinch to zoom out to the tab overview? Happens accidentally all the time and reloads tabs/hogs RAM when it does. Or fixing the erasure of URLs from older tabs? Impossible to easily reload (but Translate to...&
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
Why does this require an article?

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