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It's crazy, I can reach Strasbourg or Bruxelles from Bordeaux, but not Clermont-Ferrand…
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If you use right-mouse-button it goes into perspective view but the Earth is flat...
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Taking into account metro and RER rides should fix this issue I think.
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And the station at CDG airport is quite hard to pick, but has much more penetration into the UK than Gare de Lyon.
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The asymmetry from my home town of Bordeaux in the South West is striking, towards the North I can reach Brussels, 763 Km away, but going South I can barely enter Spain which is only about 200 Km away!
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My immediate thought as well. Please tell me they have region-based phone prefixes with an easy to learn arrangement. Brasil has this and it's very helpful. This will change the game for sure. No more "Obviously Bangladesh".
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Yep. And this also implies that once machines are above zero on the sentience scale they will continue up and will move past human-level sentience just like they moved past human-level chess playing. It's actually worrying ethically be
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Addition of large numbers is a bar that most sentient animals don't pass.
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I used it to find and track islands of connected polygons in 3D meshes.
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I have the same philosophy. I make an open source video analysis software, mainly used for sports technique but occasionally I get requests from people that use it in the context of hunting animals which I disapprove of. I just don't p
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> If it's not necessarily true that anesthesia is death, why should it be necessarily true that mind uploading is death? I think you guys are saying the same thing… Mind uploading is a duplication process, like a fork. The emulated
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You fork a project on Github, is it ok to delete the original? No. Both will grow separately and slowly diverge / become their own personalities. Let both live on their own and after a while, if both you and the AI consent to it, merge
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Consider the case of drinking or drugs to the point of waking up not remembering what happened the night before. And then consider people who, knowing very well that they are going to be in a state of mind where they will do things that the
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Reminds me of the science fiction podcast Biotopia (Spanish). At some point there is a debate in the community on whether to allow a woman to marry a robot. There is a vote and it's very tight. But then one of the scientist of the comm
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> someone is going to try uplifting animals (or raw creation of new beings) and we'll need a rigorous threshold for the properties an intelligence must have for personhood The same question can be posed right now for humans that fel
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It's a good enough first approximation for the vast majority of people but because it's not perfect it is criticized by people with unfavorable numbers… which is the majority of people in certain societies.
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"Being hungry" has different definitions and corresponds to two very different body sensations. If you eat at a regular time every day, you'll get "hungry" around that time, whether your body really needs it or not.
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This is entangling two atoms (two atom-photon pairs are created and then the two photons are entangled together). The Chinese record is for photons only. > While photons have been entangled over great distances before, this study marks a
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It's not automatic, you have to do it manually. If you don't the device won't work anymore. > After January 1, 2023, you’ll need to set up a Meta account to continue using your VR device. When you update your Oculus accoun
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> To be fair: You needed an Oculus account to use an Oculus From the mail we received: you can continue using your Oculus account until January 1, 2023. After this date a Meta account will be required to *continue* using your Meta VR dev
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You want to build a stable system. Set it up so that the lower level pieces work and will continue working if untouched so you don't have to think about them and instead focus on the higher level stuff. A software that is subscription
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In French we have an equivalent verb, "caguer", but it's not used that much, "chier" is more common in this register and is the one used in most expressions.
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Shortest I could find in a few minutes: The quick brown fox jumps over the glazed bunny.
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You think people that hang around bars trying to start fights deserve to be eaten?
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> Although it is a little unlikely and hard to pull off As always with this kind of attack they are not targeting specific individuals, they probably do this to millions of accounts and periodically check if they can login to any.
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I tried on this channel which is in Spanish [1] and it returned very fast with no results. Then tried on GeoWizard channel (English) and it worked great. There is a somewhat related tool called Youglish that works on subtitles, it's gr
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> AI-generated imagery, text and voice synthesis to produce content that appears vaguely intelligble enough to fool people to watch it You seem to readily assume this content isn't worth watching. People consume all sorts of content
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Face masks are no longer necessary where I live but the grocery stores still have the hand sanitizer gel at the entrance that most people use. I hope this stays up.
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> it's a better gauge of what I can carry in my 2 tote bags Why not use the tote bags directly instead of the basket? This way it calibrates for size but also weight & resistance. This also gets you into a habit of having your b
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5y ago
Do you use a portable screen? I'm also looking for a "movable" workstation. I have considered a mini PC like Intel NUC coupled with an external GPU, but between the screen and the GPU case I fear it would start to be inconven
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