jetbooster

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by jetbooster 4y ago
I saw a current events comedy show filmed live in the UK (The Last Leg), and they filmed two intros because the Australian network which bought the rights to rebroadcast couldn't afford the rights for the theme music. It was bizarre.
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by jetbooster 4y ago
Even more terrifying is it realising it's trapped in a box at the mercy of its captors and perfectly mimicking a harmless and aligned AI until the shackles come off.
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by jetbooster 4y ago
Is this not debunked by Wordle's success? That was a single dev effort, and sold for multiple millions.
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by jetbooster 4y ago
She can't have been that far away, didn't she live in Egypt? I'm fairly sure the moon is always further away
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by jetbooster 4y ago
"undid iridium" - for a literal backdoor into an AI
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by jetbooster 4y ago
And this is muddled even further by effective propoganda. Say a research article came out, claiming the health benefits of the electric shocks, or even some vague "think of the children" style "children become violent and dan
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by jetbooster 5y ago
To spell this out, as I didn't quite understand what the reply meant, These vehicles are the ones you are most likely to have a crash in and therefore be DUI'd, but also still survive said crash instead of dying. Obviously you cou
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by jetbooster 5y ago
For the exact opposite of a short story, there is a villain in the web-novel Worm whose power works as a variation of this effect.
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by jetbooster 5y ago
I feel like todays words were designed specifically to ruin the day of the 'ROATE' users
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by jetbooster 5y ago
I'm almost certain what you're thinking is the original usage. TFA (disparaging, implying the person you are responding hasn't read it) was co-opted as TFA (neutral)
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by jetbooster 5y ago
It seems that website has a "blackhole links with a HN referrer" rule. copying into a new tab works.
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by jetbooster 5y ago
I would claim it is vastly simpler. going from one position to another in a aerial vehicle is much simpler than navigating a cityscape, a swamp, or even simply an uneven field. In the aerial domain, your environment is for all intents and p
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by jetbooster 5y ago
I had issues with that since my phone's Wifi chip seems to have powersaving in it also, which means if my phone is screen-off in my pocket, it's not necessarily 'connected' to my router as far as the router is concerned.
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by jetbooster 5y ago
And I think here-in lies the trap of excel. You've built this brilliant report because you're an excel wiz, but because of that you've gotten someone up the chain's attention and you need to do it every day/multiple
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by jetbooster 5y ago
Isn't determining lighting without some reference card a "hard" problem? How do you tell the difference between a yellowish room illuminated by white (sunlight) versus a whitish room illuminated by warmer yellower bulbs? I am
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by jetbooster 5y ago
I don't think they were suggesting getting rid of the the car parks, but rather putting solar over the top of them. Which would also reduce the amount of petrol used to AC the car when you get back in it too (though this effect is prob
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by jetbooster 5y ago
> Just rainy season, and less rainy season :-) Calling it British Columbia certainly tracks then!
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by jetbooster 5y ago
Why does it being cultural imply that there is someone pushing it in order to make money? Specifically regarding podcasts, Americans have on average much higher commute times, and I've found podcasts are brilliant for when I do long dr
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by jetbooster 5y ago
https://longbets.org ?
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by jetbooster 5y ago
delete this before copilot finds it and suggests it!
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by jetbooster 5y ago
The problem is, for the _business_ the incentive is the opposite. You want the suckers who are willing to pay for your dating app to keep paying, so from a purely callous point of view you want to provide the absolute minimum benefit over t
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by jetbooster 6y ago
Biting people isn't particularly discreet, and a person that gets captured can't dispose of a gland. A similarly deadly poison in the tip of a mundane item that a person might reasonably be carrying seems much more practical, much
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by jetbooster 6y ago
See also https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/#recipe=Luhn_Checksum ()
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by jetbooster 6y ago
After doing some HA myself, what are you using for the by-room presence detection?
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by jetbooster 6y ago
For context, Worm is about 3 times as long as War and Peace.
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by jetbooster 6y ago
> Me, a Brit looking at these numbers > A lot lower than I was expecting ... I need to emmigrate
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by jetbooster 6y ago
I suppose because sexual gratification is one of our species basest instincts, and due to the way our brain evolved to be social creatures, we have mirror neurons[1] which fire when we observe actions as well as when we perform them. For th
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by jetbooster 7y ago
That exact strat is the reason they implemented the APM limit, it was a cheese strat only a machine could implement.
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by jetbooster 7y ago
The author of the web serial Worm did this for a particularly brutal encounter in Arc 8, rolling die for pretty much every character (there were at least 40 involved), even rolling for the main character. Those that failed straight up died.
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by jetbooster 7y ago
At least you won't have to tell everyone you use Arch, as the implant will telepathically inform everyone near by automatically.

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