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by dTal 3y ago
I unironically am. Humans are not responsible enough to control a cheap material that doesn't biodegrade; it's everywhere now, including our own blood stream, because we took a material of near-infinite durability and used it for
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by dTal 3y ago
Assuming this is a serious question, Gryffindor. https://www.404media.co/new-openai-ceo-emmett-shear-was-mino...
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by dTal 3y ago
>The designers say the issue isn't necessarily one of cost, pointing out that their pylons are made out of the same material as a regular pylon, simply put together in a different way. I feel compelled to point out that any "ar
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by dTal 3y ago
>many adults could still recall when products were being sold "from the cracker barrel" What does this mean? It's impossible to Google, thanks to the restaurant chain by the same name.
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by dTal 3y ago
The illustrations are gorgeous and thought provoking. The text wildly overstates its own importance and boils down to "simple chaotic systems are cool (and everywhere (and occasionally isomorphic))". Verdict: good to flip through
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by dTal 3y ago
Not to be rude, but did you read it? He's hardly ambiguous: >As for the first question: Why are we fighting and opposing you? The answer is very simple: (1) Because you attacked us and continue to attack us Followed by an extensive
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by dTal 3y ago
On a modern computer, programs that wish to draw on the screen do not interface with the hardware directly (aside from games). Instead, they communicate with another program that does the drawing on their behalf. This other program is calle
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by dTal 3y ago
Definitely not anything like that. You need dozens of calibrated images, long training time, and - until Gaussian Splats - non-realtime reconstruction. This is something relatively trivial that runs in realtime on nothing more than stereo p
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by dTal 3y ago
I would imagine by calculating a depth map from the stereo pair, then reprojecting onto that. This would give the "Minority Report" look described. No mention of artifacts in the article, but unless some clever AI infilling were d
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by dTal 3y ago
Really ought to be the other way around - they have to declare purchases a month in advance.
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by dTal 3y ago
My day-to-day experience is that a 12 gigabyte dataset will not fit into 8 gigabytes of RAM no matter whose logo is on the case. A byte is a byte.
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by dTal 3y ago
That doesn't make any sense. If you installed Linux first, there would be no Windows partition for GRUB to autodetect when it was set up. And GRUB doesn't probe for operating systems automatically on boot, only when you run "
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by dTal 3y ago
"EMoCMS"? It's "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping".
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by dTal 3y ago
I don't get it. He has a 500 gigabyte monthly quota, and the single page linked here is 270 megabytes (!) according to another comment (I didn't check but it's full of unnecessarily hi-res movies in .gif format). Why does he
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by dTal 3y ago
As of this comment, there are 465 poll votes in total, but the poll itself has only received 76 votes. Odd that most people who considered it interesting enough to participate in, did not consider it interesting enough to reward or signal-b
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by dTal 3y ago
>for the sailors it feels like there is no wind, but the sails are carrying massive pressure The only way this is possible is if the sails are moving at a different airspeed than the sailors, which is only possible if 1) the sailor is ru
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by dTal 3y ago
Aha! So the light pulse could be riding a kind of naturally-occuring Alcubierre warp bubble?
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by dTal 3y ago
It can?
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by dTal 3y ago
For such a short amount of time, you could count the seconds - or note how far the turntable rotates in that time. Even with a digital dial, I doubt I would take the time to input 12 seconds - I'd just whack the +30 second start and st
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by dTal 3y ago
Why is that bad?
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by dTal 3y ago
For what it's worth, you can get the smooth behavior in Firefox by running it with "MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1". It's silly that it's not default, but it's there.
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by dTal 3y ago
I don't agree with most of those bullet points. Some of them don't follow at all, but in every category there is at least a 90th percentile change we could make that wouldn't be some terrible imposition. It boils down to clas
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by dTal 3y ago
>Linux has no support for pinch-zooming On Apple hardware, or in general? Because I pinch-zoomed on your comment in Firefox on Linux.
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by dTal 3y ago
SALOME is an OpenCascade frontend that nobody seems to know about, perhaps because it's pitched for CFD meshing. But it's basically a more focused and stable FreeCAD.
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by dTal 3y ago
While this is true and arguably of more importance, the thesis of the article was something quite specific: "the economic cycle that has led to the usage of a common computing platform, underpinned by rapidly improving universal proces
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by dTal 3y ago
As nifty as this gadget is, I wondered what the point of a portable phonograph was when you also have to carry the 10-inch records. However, the same objection didn't deter Sony, 64 years later: https://www.just-cd.com/
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by dTal 3y ago
They aren't "general" enough. Sure they're competent at solving problems represented in the training data, and can even in some cases abstract over them and find patterns. But they don't have "slow thought&quot
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by dTal 3y ago
I think the voice acting in the English dub is partially to blame, as well some inexplicably clunky script changes. I had a look at a translation of the original script and imagined it being performed in a peppier way than we hear and it do
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by dTal 3y ago
In the balance of power between citizens and the government they somewhat begrudgingly delegate control of their lives to, democracy and surveillance are directly opposite.
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by dTal 3y ago
You can only do that with a very small aperture - otherwise you're capturing the scene from slightly different angles across the aperture, and if you want all those images from different angles to "line up" you have to select

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