deltoidmaximus

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by deltoidmaximus 8mo ago
Was it Sony that had the patent on a device that would require the watcher to say the product name out loud to the microphone to continue watching? The product to my knowledge doesn't exist but the patent for it did.
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by deltoidmaximus 8mo ago
See the Mattel lead painted toy scandal. The end result was congress passed regulations that manufacturers had to have their toys tested for lead and then made large companies like Mattel exempt from it because they were deemed large enough
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by deltoidmaximus 8mo ago
Some one up thread pointed out about:translations is where it seems to be hidden. Also a fan of this feature. It's actually been around awhile but I think the Asian languages are a more recent addition.
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by deltoidmaximus 8mo ago
Wow, didn't know about this thanks. The translation feature should be entirely offline and actually predates the AI everything push. I think it's a great feature.
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by deltoidmaximus 8mo ago
I felt like part of Google's success was that the simple search bar loaded fast in an era where I often had slow internet. Yahoo's portal page had to much on it to distract or slow me down from doing what I came there to do. Later
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by deltoidmaximus 8mo ago
As wealth inequality and corruption based economic policies push people further and further into a corner the state will have a greater need to identify any nascent organization of political movements that threaten the status quo earlier so
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by deltoidmaximus 8mo ago
They wouldn't pull out of California. It's 1/5 of the US economy and would leave a gaping opening for a competitor to gain a stronger foothold there. You're right it's about money not principles but that's exac
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by deltoidmaximus 8mo ago
Not sure how common it is now, but based on repair manuals my TV's wifi is provided by a standard m.2 wifi module and can be trivially removed. That wouldn't stop them from changing the TV's OS to nag or otherwise disable its
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by deltoidmaximus 8mo ago
They probably didn't want a news article drawing attention how creepy and pervasive their facial recognition system is, even if it was actually used for a good cause for once.
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by deltoidmaximus 8mo ago
Athens actually had part of the legislative body chosen by random lot. It makes some amount of sense as a check against entrenched power structures.
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by deltoidmaximus 8mo ago
What is the mechanism behind that? All that springs to mind as a theory would be lagging effects of testosterone surges.
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by deltoidmaximus 8mo ago
If you're my FIL you just put kerosene on the log first.
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by deltoidmaximus 8mo ago
Maybe you could put a camera up there to check for snow. Not sure how you'd power it if it was wireless though, not a lot of solar energy in an attic.
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by deltoidmaximus 8mo ago
Maybe some one walked up the steps with packed snow on their boot and it came loose on that step and then froze and was snowed on after.
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by deltoidmaximus 8mo ago
Now they'd just pass a law providing only themselves privacy, like how chat control in the EU always has an exemption for those in power.
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by deltoidmaximus 9mo ago
I use firefox translations pretty often since the models are run offline.
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by deltoidmaximus 9mo ago
I was going to say, wouldn't following through on this mistake require you to not just spend a ton of money on pills but also take tons of them a day? I'd like to think this would give even the dumbest of people pause just because
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by deltoidmaximus 9mo ago
This was a trick to block Windows updates at one point, but then they started force reserving 7GB or something with a later update. It meant that some devices with small disks that supported Windows 10 no longer met the system requirements.
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by deltoidmaximus 9mo ago
I never really could get into the Cameron/Joe romance, it felt like it was initially inserted to get sexy people doing sexy things onto the show and then had to be a star crossed lovers thing after character tweaks in season 2. But whe
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by deltoidmaximus 9mo ago
Telemetry said a lot of people were using notepad so if they shove AI into it the AI usage number goes up.
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by deltoidmaximus 9mo ago
The purpose isn't to actually predict age with any accuracy, it's really just a cover to get you to cough up PII. They'll slowly turn the need-verification knob so that everyone eventually has to do it.
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by deltoidmaximus 9mo ago
Did unreal have 16-bit color software rendering? Most software renderers back then that I recall only did 8-bit color and ran choppier than the 3D accelerated renderers on the hardware at the time. This made a pretty big difference especial
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by deltoidmaximus 9mo ago
There are 3 Precogs in the film, but in reality the female one is the most powerful and the twins seem to only function as amplifiers. It's revealed that there is sometimes/often a disagreement between their visions and that they
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by deltoidmaximus 9mo ago
My wife is fond of swearing profusely in Québécois and it amused me how detailed this wikipedia entry was when I looked it up. Apparently, it was used to the fullest extent by her father recently in response to a broken toilet.
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by deltoidmaximus 10mo ago
> I think Microsoft delegated all marketing decisions to AI. Not even joking. I actually think AI would have done a better job of this. And Microsoft being atrocious at branding predates AI mass adoption by about 2 decades, arguably more
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by deltoidmaximus 10mo ago
And then they left the overclocking back door wide open by giving the celerons a 66mhz FSB.
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by deltoidmaximus 10mo ago
IIRC Celeron cache being on die was actually faster as it was on die, this was mitigated on the Pentiums by there being more of it. It seemed like in games the faster cache performed better. Another thing that helped the Celeron overclockin
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by deltoidmaximus 10mo ago
The wildest dropped Arc were the absolutely horrifying mind control parasites. But like that the warp core speed limit I see why, you'd have to change the whole tone of the show if you wanted to keep them as a consistent threat.
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by deltoidmaximus 10mo ago
> Should they have cameras in every room of your home just in case? Given that most children are abused by some one they know that might actually be a more effective way to prevent it than whatever they're doing here. I'm sure
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by deltoidmaximus 10mo ago
I'm having trouble finding it now but I recall a mostly dead physics forum using LLMs to make new posts under the names of their once prolific users. So this has already happened at least on a small scale. It seems nuts to me sharehold

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