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by bsza 2y ago
I feel obliged to point out that neither of those sound anything like a Gregorian chant (though still impressive for a model that is obviously not specialized in classical music).
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by bsza 2y ago
That could be very wholesome, but I doubt anyone would be willing to operate an unsupervised real-time generative AI that sings to random people.
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by bsza 2y ago
How we treat these animals is a blessing compared to how Mother Nature would treat them. We protect them from parasites, bacterial infections, malnutrition, rabies, predators, the weather, physical injuries and yes, ingesting things they’re
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by bsza 3y ago
Right, we don’t know that, but we have yet to hear of one case where a supply chain attack on a FOSS project resulted in someone getting arrested.
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by bsza 3y ago
This kind of demonstrates my point. Every single one of these headlines indicates the bad actor has been "charged" (with serious consequences in the case of Huawei). Has Jia Tan been "charged" with anything?
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by bsza 3y ago
I’m gonna cry survivorship bias here. How do we know how many similar attempts succeeded? How many of the ones discovered have been written off as honest mistakes? How can we know for sure that e.g. Heartbleed wasn’t put there by someone on
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by bsza 3y ago
> Leaving the franchisee without an ice cream machine, and potentially out of a franchise Their ice cream machines are broken so often that it’s already become a meme. They might as well not have them at this point.
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by bsza 3y ago
It will probably cost you a lot of money to figure out how to bypass the DRM though, assuming that’s even possible at all. That’s money you should never have to pay in the first place.
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by bsza 3y ago
Why do I need to be good at indenting when it can be 100% automated assuming the language has braces? I’m a programmer, not a typesetter from 1520.
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by bsza 3y ago
No, since the conversion is trivial in both directions and a plugin could do it automatically.
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by bsza 3y ago
One of the key advantages to a legal precedent is that the next time it won’t take 14 years.
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by bsza 3y ago
Because it's a less extraordinary claim than the contrary. Attributing intelligence to stuff willy-nilly is why we used to think solar eclipses were caused by sun-eating dragons.
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by bsza 3y ago
We write data into the tag's digital memory, not the pattern. The pattern is immutable. We use the pattern to mask the tag's private key. The tag authenticates itself with that private key (which is installed on the tag by the man
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by bsza 3y ago
Methane’s greenhouse effect is 80 times more powerful than that of CO2, so cutting methane right now would have near-immediate effects as it would convert to less potent CO2 in a matter of years. Whereas cutting CO2 would stop things from
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by bsza 3y ago
The way I understand it (or at least the way I'd design it), only the tag itself stores the pattern (or the AI-generated hash thereof), there is no external "registry". Then the pattern hash is used to access a private key (e
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by bsza 3y ago
Machines have replaced a lot of blue-collar jobs alright. It's just that most of it happened during the Industrial Revolution, so we aren't even aware of all the shitty (and not-shitty-but-obsolete-nonetheless) jobs that used to e
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by bsza 3y ago
Do you feel the same about the hard work of knocker-uppers having been devalued by the invention of the alarm clock? Or is it just the (relatively) highly paid intellectual workers that "cannot be allowed" to be replaced with mach
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by bsza 3y ago
Seems like this is already solved. "You can turn off memory at any time (Settings > Personalization > Memory). While memory is off, you won't create or use memories."
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by bsza 3y ago
You could replace "t+=.1" with "t+=.01" and 9986 with 9e3, then you'll have a ~45 second loop still within 256 bytes, though a bit of the bottom part of the screen will be cut off.
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by bsza 3y ago
IIUC, they have no issues with reading, they have issues with understanding what they have read. Meaning they likely also have issues with understanding information presented to them in other formats. After all, understanding speech requi
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by bsza 3y ago
> It should just be a library in a real language The last thing I want to worry about is having malware in an M5 bolt.
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by bsza 3y ago
Wouldn’t a concave dish made of holotiles more or less imitate the same effect? Step forward, you’re on an uphill slope, then the tiles kick in, move you back to the center, and keep you there. Stop walking, and you slide up the back of the
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by bsza 3y ago
Oh, right. Feeling no force feedback when you stop. Yikes. Must feel like trying to walk on ice.
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by bsza 3y ago
If it’s running at a constant speed, it shouldn’t be any different according to Newtonian mechanics. Perhaps seeing the environment stand still is weird, but in VR (which I understand would be the main application here) that’s a non-issue
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by bsza 3y ago
The same is true for a treadmill, and that doesn’t feel really weird to walk on. Though omni-directional treadmills for VR have been tested before, and IIRC it’s the starting and stopping that feels weird.
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by bsza 3y ago
> Consider the absurdity of the question “who am I?”, uttered by an amnesiac In that context, that question would just mean "what was my life like prior to losing my memories?", wouldn't it? So in this instance, the missin
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by bsza 3y ago
> And the intuitive notion of personhood (on which your definition depends and which you haven't in any way reduced to physics) is intimately connected with the idea of a more-or-less uninterrupted stream of first-person conscious e
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by bsza 3y ago
> You can't use the physical definition to dispense with other notions of personal identity if you need those very notions to bootstrap the physical definition Now that you mention, I don't need to. "I" simply means &
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by bsza 3y ago
> The 'why' question is just used to gesture at the relevant non-tautologous and apparently non-physical fact Yeah, but to clearly define what that fact means, you'd have to introduce a bunch of intermediate definitions, a
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by bsza 3y ago
> According to what you just said, everything we ever experience is talking about "not the real world itself" I don't know how that follows from what I said. When someone says "the floor is slippery", that refers

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