Syonyk

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by Syonyk 4y ago
Interesting. I've not seen that behavior, but I'm willingly in a pretty rural backwaters. I'll keep my eyes open for it, thanks!
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Yeah. Except, we've gotten rid of those large bills we used to have - which included the $5k bill. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_denominations_of_United_... Cash is terribly inconvenient to the powers that
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> I don't understand how we've gotten here, or why people aren't more concerned. Iterated "Well, sure, the other team's guy is going to abuse the hell out of that power, but my team's guy will only use
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by Syonyk 4y ago
You're not the beneficiary of the "features" of it. Your local, totally trustworthy, benevolent government that just needs a teensy tiny little bit more data to deal with terrorists, child pornographers, and crypto ransom gan
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I'm very much in the rural mountain west USA.
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by Syonyk 4y ago
The local Mahindra dealer also seems to be doing a brisk business with their Roxors - they're almost literally a 1950s Jeep with a modern diesel engine in them. It's the same market niche - small, off highway use, utility vehicle
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> Snow tires don't hold a candle to... Yeah. They do. I've driven pretty much every combination of FWD, RWD, 4WD, and AWD, with and without snow tires, in a variety of winter conditions. The "other tires" were reg
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I would just call that "civilization." "In the matrix," to me, refers to a reference to The Matrix (movie from the 90s), in which humans are kept around as energy sources, with the entire world being a simulation genera
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I expect the end result, and I think this is happening quickly, will be a rough splitting of humanity into the "onlines" and "offlines." The onlines will live in their feedback chamber of AI generated content to stoke th
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by Syonyk 4y ago
How are you defining "in the matrix" such that it applies for the past couple thousand years of recorded human history? That seems rather at odds with how I would define it, "The computers create a customized compelling reali
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> In theory, I could imagine an AI which learns the exact type of music you like and generates songs precisely tuned for your brain. We've tried it with social media (a feed generated and tuned to keep your brain clicking on ads),
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by Syonyk 4y ago
If you've not played with mynoise.net, you might give it a shot. It's one person's passion project to do exactly this - more or less infinitely variable background noise. Each soundscape has a range of samples (typically 8-
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by Syonyk 4y ago
The capability of "Deep fakes" or "AI generated actors" or whatever you want to call it continues at a rapid pace. How long before we get back to some modern version of "key signing parties," in which you check
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Record labels panic as A.I. generated song becomes ‘hit single’(darkfutura.substack.com)
120 points by Syonyk 4y ago|181 comments
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> How crippled does the device feel? Is it usable? Not. And yes. I did some analysis of it when it came out to figure out what all is blocked and such: https://www.sevarg.net/2022/07/20/ios16-lockdown-mo
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by Syonyk 4y ago
It's really more "by physics." You can pick how you want to run a tungsten filament and end up with either a long life bulb, or a high(er) efficiency bulb, but not both. The ~1000 hour goal was, at the time, an attempt to o
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by Syonyk 4y ago
As far as I can tell, it's state by state, so... you want to cite some sources?
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Why People Hate Tech: A Response to Tech Entrepreneurship and Shifting Sentiment(sevarg.net)
2 points by Syonyk 4y ago|0 comments
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Where does the law require both types? I'm not aware of any housing codes specifically requiring photoelectric types, and any house I've looked at, including mine, came with purely ionization types. Though it's been a few y
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Now, if you're annoyed by the false positive rate on your actual smoke alarms, go replace the one nearest your kitchen with a photoelectric type, not the standard ionization type that's cheaper, the default style installed, and
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I love reading posts like this. I try, very hard, to write posts like this for my blog. It's deeply knowledgeable about an area, communicates it clearly, without surplus yackery (though I'm a bit prone to my mini-rants about thin
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I'm aware, this is why I pay someone local to do my taxes, instead of using TurboTax. They pay for prep software, but it's not TurboTax (Drake something or another).
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I don't suppose any of that staff will be able to get around to what most other countries do with taxes, which can be summed up as "This is what we know about you, is it correct? If not, please correct it." As opposed to the
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I'm aware of some auto engine conversions - the 13Bs out of the RX-7s and related could do it, the older Subaru engines (EA81) would do it, but they're just a small aircraft engine in a car, design-wise... Looking over the Viking
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by Syonyk 4y ago
It really depends on the engine, but almost all the general aviation engines you'll find (Lycoming and Continental 4s, and the smaller 6s) are rated for continuous operation at full power, and if they're flown regularly, will typi
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by Syonyk 4y ago
If it's an aviation engine, it'd better be able to!
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> How is this revolutionary motor being outdone by a mid-range sedan engine? Go ask your Camry engine to make 100% rated power indefinitely, and see how long it holds up. That's the difference. A typical car engine is designed to
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Presumably, be too busy with their collapsed economy to really care what's going on elsewhere in the world. Or have moved onto generating a lot of electricity from their rather copious amounts of desert land. Also, you won't get
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by Syonyk 4y ago
You didn't read my post, because I very specifically mentioned that - that one gains something from efficiency of use with some, , but not all, uses of fossil energy. The problem with heat pumps (I have one, I'm quite familiar
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> It looks to me OPEC has always been making decisions that negatively affect the US/Western economy? Or maybe only the bad news get the attention? You seem to forget here that the OPEC countries have their own goals, their own mo

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