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by anon_cow1111 3y ago
For an amusing but harmless example, see the Amelia Bedelia article. It's been long since reverted, but I'm sure there are many similar prank edits that survive to this day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:A
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by anon_cow1111 3y ago
So his whole deal is creating from live scenes, not photos, but in the painting on the right, here, https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2023/10/devon-rodrig... Am I seeing this wrong, or did he paint
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by anon_cow1111 3y ago
I heard something about this too, though I omitted it for the sake of brevity. Don't know the specifics, but yes I think it's also a drug precursor. I remember some CCTV footage of people stealing ammonia from large tanks on a far
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by anon_cow1111 3y ago
Well of course, but that only works once before you get traced and caught, might still be acceptable for the aforementioned crazy guy but I assume most others would rather blend in with the 50 million people buying gas on any given day.
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by anon_cow1111 3y ago
Yes, the difference is tannerite (by yield) is many times more expensive, and much easier to trace when someone buys hundreds of pounds of it from a sporting goods store. Similarly, a random individual buying a half ton of AN would probably
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by anon_cow1111 3y ago
I need to ask this question for any chemical engineers currently reading this. I'm seeing people in the comments talking about how this could be applied to consumer vehicles, not just industry like cargo ships and agriculture. If I, th
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by anon_cow1111 3y ago
The issue with hydrogen is that it has a fairly wide combustion range (meaning the ratio of fuel/air that can burn), I can't remember the numbers but it's several times greater than other common fuels. The other issue with
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by anon_cow1111 3y ago
Actually it's the reverse of the above nowadays, many third world countries have cheaper, faster internet than much of the US.
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by anon_cow1111 3y ago
If the videos were mp4/webm, the whole page would be about 1/10th the size. Gif format was never intended for this type of use. (and yes, thanks for pointing out several other horribly bloated websites, luckily browsing with JS di
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by anon_cow1111 3y ago
This is a nice project, but please don't hit people with 100+ mbs of gif images without a warning
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by anon_cow1111 3y ago
Also has an unnecessary 12 megabyte gif halfway down, presumably as a middle finger to people using a data plan. (oh and another 7mb gif below with extremely poor optimization)
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by anon_cow1111 3y ago
I don't think firefox could reasonably do this, just because a significant part of their funding comes directly from google. And maybe more relevant, having this be default behavior would just cause the cat-and-mouse to get worse, when
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by anon_cow1111 3y ago
This is what I thought immediately; "this... may be slightly ambiguous. They must have case records somewhere to give me an idea." If YOU were a judge/jury, would you really want to stake years of someone's life over wha
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by anon_cow1111 3y ago
Well, sheep were domesticated around the same time period in human history (9000+ BC), so it's conceivable that the wearers created some crudely woven foot-covering to accent their new utility-fashion trend, but... I know this is HN, s
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by anon_cow1111 3y ago
I'm very sorry but someone's going to have to translate this for me, please? bonus points for a successful haiku.
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by anon_cow1111 3y ago
Well... to be fair, I can't copy and paste your POGs as much as I want. And believe me, I would if I could.
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by anon_cow1111 3y ago
Is there any reason NOT to set the number of iterations/hashes as high as reasonable by default? From an end-user standpoint, it might take an extra second or two vs 0.1 seconds, but then you've increased the brute force time need
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by anon_cow1111 3y ago
Ok, was able to read it finally thanks to the archive link someone posted below. Yeah the "vaporizing" part is definitely wrong, as is the C4 comparison. It's pretty easy to figure out how much energy is involved. It's j
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by anon_cow1111 3y ago
Same here, you have any script blocking etc?
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by anon_cow1111 3y ago
(Pay/login gated article, by the way)
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by anon_cow1111 3y ago
>Edit: I looked it up. The human body almost instantly incinerates. It takes a matter of milliseconds. This is most likely BS- consider that a shotgun shell is made from a low melting-temp plastic and handles higher pressures and tempera
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by anon_cow1111 3y ago
I can't wait for the internet games of "jailbreak the call center Ai over the phone and get it to say offensive things or phone-sex you". No really it's going to happen probably the same day that the system is implemente
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by anon_cow1111 4y ago
Nine years ago the guy who made "Crush the Castle" did an ama on Reddit and said it was "kind of flattering" that Angry Birds completely ripped off his game and people enjoyed playing it. I wonder if he still feels the s
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by anon_cow1111 4y ago
Unfortunately the article does note one important (depressingly predictable) part- >A majority of the water tools developed by the team sit within Wētā’s proprietary simulation framework, Loki. ...Makes a lot of the advancements moot whe
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by anon_cow1111 4y ago
I'm tired of hearing the same exact bear stock sounds every time a bear appears on screen in any media. I swear the fx guys have been using the same 4 sounds for at least 30 years.
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by anon_cow1111 4y ago
THIS- if you want a laser reflector for some hypothetical scenario; Electroplate some mirror-polished silver onto a big ass heatsink bulk metal. Aluminum foil by itself isn't going to do shit for any high-powered attack; as soon as it
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by anon_cow1111 4y ago
>Well in my case I specifically mean hyper realistic deep fakes of people created without their consent. Seems reasonable on its face, but the real issue then becomes damage done-vs-effort needed to prevent it Your example is murder, but
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by anon_cow1111 4y ago
And now the hard part; how do you ban "AI"? it's so vague, and the law has a hard time with vague concepts. I'd like to ban "social media", but how do you define that in a way that kills what you want (eg twitt
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by anon_cow1111 4y ago
The odd exception being, halflife (1/2) Apparently those games have a ton of unused lore that actually does a realistic invasion scenario from a dyson-sphere level civilization. So in that case, it was called the "7-hour war"
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by anon_cow1111 4y ago
This is true but also... In my experience[1] a large majority of facebook-level romance scammers use the same copypasta messages when possible, because they actually are from (e.g.)Nigeria and really do have poor English. This is especially

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