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by johnyzee 3y ago
Then why are you even commenting.
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I know a relatively successful author and screenwriter. Said person is abondoning their current projects, because apparently their friend is very successful selling books on Amazon, produced with the help of AI. The friend will, apparently,
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Can you quote the relevant parts then, since you have apparently read all the prospectuses? I am wondering the same thing. Will they publish the custody addresses?
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Salt was also valuable in economic terms, more so than the article seems to imply. There are entire regions in northern Europe that have been deforested due to salt production. It was an important and valuable industrial product.
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by johnyzee 3y ago
It is a massive seismic shift. Almost any project in the works right now, that involves visual content, looks like it will be antiquated in a very short time. Including some that I am working on :(. The new possibilities though... Breathtak
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by johnyzee 3y ago
The free speech thing is a red herring. Musk said 'freedom of speech' but not necessarily 'freedom of reach', which seems reasonable. This is not the problem. The problem is that the algorithms simply don't work. Th
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by johnyzee 3y ago
Sam Altman's OpenAI was a local optimization for the ChatGPT use case. The more resources diverted towards that, the less chance of progress on real AGI. With that distraction out of the way, perhaps OpenAI can actually make progress o
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by johnyzee 3y ago
Looking at that full set of 33 engines burning almost brought a tear to my eye (and the controlled cutoff). That more than anything else tells me they've made it.
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Still very impressive. We all know that adding more resources to a project does not necessarily make it go faster.
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I always found it interesting that Iceland has no indigenous population (like the inuit), prior to Scandinavian and British immigration. Like, what if it's because it is regularly buried in lava or something.
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It's remarkable in Denmark. Arguably shouldn't be, but none the less.
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The most remarkable thing in this case, to me, is the extent to which the press colluded with the intelligence officials. The press is supposed to check and balance, but in this case they walked hand-in-hand with the agencies. The article s
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Opium production in Afghanistan drops by 95%: UN report(unodc.org)
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He should try to make the scammers pay a small fee for 'premium support'.
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by johnyzee 3y ago
Anyone remember the anti-scammer phone bot that pretended to be a senile old man ('Lemmy' or something)? It waited for the scammer to stop talking, and then said some statement (either a question or some really long rambling story
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by johnyzee 3y ago
Did we fly to the moon too soon? Did we squander the chance? In the rush of the race The reason we chase is lost in romance And still we try To justify the waste for a taste of man's greatest adventure Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satel
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by johnyzee 3y ago
Censorship is rearing its ugly head again. Can't have the wrong opinions. I feel like this really took off with the Corona virus pandemic, again with the Ukraine invasion, and now this.
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> I do think we'll hit a soft ceiling in the not too distant future ... it's going to plateau and progress will become substantially more gradual. I don't think this will age well. It's a matter of simple compute powe
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by johnyzee 3y ago
I believe it changes the wavelength of the reflected light, producing the observed color.
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Apparently, structural color is also a lot more vivid (in the paint example, it reflects back almost 100% of the light, vs. 50% for pigment).
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> The secret behind the vivid blue coloration of our tarantula lies not in the presence of blue pigments, but rather in the unique structure of their hair, which incorporates nanostructures that manipulate light to create this striking b
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by johnyzee 3y ago
All cash, too. Splunk was like, Cisco equity? Nah.
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by johnyzee 3y ago
What? He was a Canadian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardeep_Singh_Nijjar
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That you can choose.
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This got me wondering if it could be made to be entirely mechanical. Like, the approaching ball triggers something to move in front of the magnet 'switching it off', then slides away again when the ball has passed, ready for the n
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by johnyzee 3y ago
Kind of... https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/29/world/europe/amsterdam-uk...
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by johnyzee 3y ago
As described in the sibling comment, a glass with a fifth of vinegar, same amount of water, and a drop of dish soap will do the trick fine. No craftsmanship needed. The flies drop instantly when they touch the liquid. Most people cover the
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by johnyzee 3y ago
There are solutions that redirect actual sunlight from outside, into dark interior spaces. They use them in many modern metro stations, and they work pretty well to get the feeling of actual overhead windows. AFAIK some of these solutions s
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> The perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are capable of retaining over 90 per cent of their initial performance after 600 hours of continuous operation 600 hours, so like 25 days? That doesn't sound like a very high bar. How does it comp
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> Most developers IME actively reject these diagrams because they are quickly outdated, or require constant changes to keep up to date Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. The act of diagramming things up front is useful t

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