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by araes 3y ago
This seems very cannibalistic of their own business. That means somebody running Google or Microsoft (or really any web ads) only has a 10% chance to start with of getting served to an actual human (if they're not trying to block each
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by araes 3y ago
Taking a quick look at Tampa, at least one thing I'm noticing that I don't see in others, is that there's a significant focus on the FIRST competition, which gives the maker space a continued source of involvement and recruit
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by araes 3y ago
Because then the bot can hide its activity like the Facebook pixel, where it's visibly difficult for human users to detect (while being relatively easy for computers and scripts to detect). A lot of security is very similar. A camera
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by araes 3y ago
Not alone. Enough descriptions similar to: 'Neuralink’s macaque subjects were euthanized after suffering various complications, including “bloody diarrhea, partial paralysis, and cerebral edema.”' [1] Apparently Neuralink then gr
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by araes 3y ago
I used to work at NASA (contractor) doing this. One thing, get a job in the field. If you really want to, apply to Marshall Space Flight Center and / or Ames (Top500: Aitken [#85, 9.07 PFlops], Pleiades [#132, 5.95 PFlops], Electra [
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by araes 3y ago
Not the point of the article, as I have no serious opinion on the "AI" issue (might be a bubble). However, I did find one comment interesting, which is that from Doctorow's opinion, a lot of companies / humans prioritiz
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by araes 3y ago
So much worse. Luster? Huge portions of the Earth depend on the web as their only info source. News has turned into "somebody ran their mouth on (the symbol formerly known as Twitter)." Also, utterly false news: https:/&#x
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by araes 3y ago
You are what you eat, hear, touch, smell, see. ...all your life will ever be.
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by araes 3y ago
Agreed. I only get polygonal underwear (fetish?) images and women cut off at the neck. Can't even read about a TB hard drive without it being some Temu clever boob window shot with "cunting season" or similar written nearby
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by araes 3y ago
Other supplementary info: Steel Ind. Summary, 2021: https://www.trade.gov/sites/default/files/2021-03/exec%20sum... World Steel Production, Last 50 Years: https://elements.visualcapitalist.com
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by araes 3y ago
There are Torrents. They're not offered by the Card-Forge people, yet they're associated with the same website, so they must know about them. https://www.slightlymagic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=180..
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by araes 3y ago
Excellent. Read that entire article and still was not sure what Google was pitching. It actually sounds very useful and cool, I just completely did not get that from the article.
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by araes 3y ago
Apparently I am using hardware far worse than an M1 mac. Even Chrome gets 1-2 fps.
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by araes 3y ago
Interesting idea, yet browser cripplingly slow. (also Firefox) Edge is equally glacial. (nearly crashes the browser at 1.0 fps)
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by araes 3y ago
Just to see what it looked like, plotted the last 5 seasons of top language from RedMonk on the StackExchange / Github plot. Mostly ad hoc circling of language groups to get an idea of movement patterns. Kept changing their chart sca
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by araes 3y ago
MtG, mentioned earlier, tournament play is very similar. Unless they're draft, they usually devolve into all the decks everyone knew about on Top8 several weeks before release. People can say there's very conscious strategy or t
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by araes 3y ago
The issue is, it doesn't matter what it's "meant" to do. It matters how it's technically implemented, and what they can legally claim without the claim running afoul of the IRS (or other tax agencies).
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by araes 3y ago
Hmm. Based on the Wikipedia article, I can kind of comprehend this. They're making $921,146.95 / employee, yet somehow losing $236,200.71 / employee every year. Don't know where all their money's going, yet somet
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by araes 3y ago
The general issue is the same as fast food. McD does not in any significant way care about any of the 8,000,000,000 humans food preferences. Only aggregate. If your market is selling billions of something, making niche stuff that sells 10
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by araes 3y ago
Because you paid them for 2 years, and then had the movies on your harddrive, you're supposed to more at risk (based on your lawyer's advice)? That sounds like the real estate industry. The agent selling you the house is not on y
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by araes 3y ago
For those interested, other papers in this theme [1][2][3][4][5]. Number [2] is interesting, as it shows electronics biodegrading in relatively short time frames with experimental comparison. [1] "transparent paper electronics" (
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by araes 3y ago
There's a lot of existence that really feels like we just live in a hash code now. And its all malevolent for some reason. It feels like there's "supposed" to be something you did wrong, yet it's all malevolent ha
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by araes 3y ago
Couple thoughts on this, since I have also lost most interest I used to have. 1) It always feels like it's getting stolen and given to somebody wealthy's bank account. Kind of like this publication. [1] I tend to be honest and h
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by araes 3y ago
The TLDR is a little too short. - Decompile C# for Sparky bot [a], rewrite Sparky to be a substitute online opponent, connect Sparky vs you online as if you're connecting a human in a match, have Sparky auto-concede and jack your win r
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by araes 3y ago
Spotify's issues and costs are royalty payments. Of the €567 million increase in cost of revenue for the Nine months ended September 30, 2023, higher royalty costs were €534 million of that total. (~94%) [1] This delta is vs 7,159 to
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by araes 3y ago
Since the data was not provided, here are links to some by the American Historians Association. [1][2][3] [1] Data List - https://www.historians.org/jobs-and-professional-development... [2] "Where Historians Work (inte
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by araes 3y ago
Thank you. That's a clear description. I read through that whole article and still was not sure why it was not a Peltier cooler with oil flowing around.
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by araes 3y ago
Couple items. - input type="checkbox" - It would be nice if this wasn't so janky to have a different look / function to your checkbox. Like some secondary type you could just apply, such as: subtype="toggle" o
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by araes 3y ago
> Due to our work with the Department of Defense, applicants must be U.S. citizens and must be willing to undergo a background investigation. Some work may be performed at government customer sites.
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by araes 3y ago
Spent a while making this for the Library of Congress Friends' Choice Civics Video Game Challenge [1], so figured I'd note it here. Free to play, with open source required. The game is meant to be a combination of a match-3 game,

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