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by kats 2y ago
The biggest use of voice cloning will be callers from foreign countries taking money from grandparents. Expect encryption like RCS and WhatsApp to go away by popular demand, because when phishing gets too good, the only solution will be a s
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by kats 2y ago
Nobody is actually hurt by this. It's just the media getting upset on purpose. But some Googlers will probably freak out and neuter the product's actual usefulness to please the whiners.
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by kats 2y ago
Fail them.
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by kats 2y ago
https://archive.ph/6Mxw6
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Opinion | How smart campuses are preparing for another wave of Gaza protests(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by kats 2y ago|1 comments
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by kats 2y ago
Wow this looks really nice. Great work and thanks.
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by kats 2y ago
Don't move fast. This is the C programming language. The foundation of all software. Each new feature will interact with everything else, because C is connected to almost everything else. Making C larger is actually a really bad thing.
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by kats 2y ago
Good for Google.
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by kats 2y ago
Nice!
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by kats 2y ago
The point is for companies to buy these to start trying it out and developing on it.
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by kats 2y ago
I was having trouble understanding what they are. Summary: It's a password manager on your phone. You sign into your password manager with something easy like biometrics or a PIN. Then all the 'real' passwords for sites are a
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by kats 2y ago
If Teams and Outlook become clunkier because of the EU, that will be a really irritating problem...
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by kats 2y ago
> Soldered CPU What altenative would you like to see?
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by kats 2y ago
Do something meaningful. The people I know who make the most money, do absolutely asinine stuff that they don't even bother explaining to other developers. They just hide behind the phrase 'I work at X.' A lot of the best peo
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by kats 2y ago
One suggestion is they could make the thread_sleep() function always yield. Then have a lowest-priority task that actually sleeps.
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by kats 2y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/11/nsa-americans-...
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by kats 2y ago
Probably 95% of raspberry pis are sitting unused on a shelf, so it was was an excellent choice to make these boards lower cost w/ microSD cards.
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by kats 2y ago
fyi, MEMRI is a media outlet literally founded and run by Israeli intelligence officers.
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by kats 2y ago
This is something the repair shops don't want to admit. When the customer comes in, they want their laptop fixed in a few hours. If the shop doesn't have the part available, will the customer want to wait a week for it to be order
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by kats 3y ago
Sorry, do you mind if I ask what model of car and laptop do you usually use at the moment.
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by kats 3y ago
didn't notice before, but the CNN article has a link to a PDF report that gives a lot more details. https://www.daihatsu.com/news/2023/report_1_E.pdf Here's the longer description of the same thing. It s
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by kats 3y ago
https://www.daihatsu.com/news/2023/20230428-4.html > Daihatsu has confirmed that in the side collision tests of the [Toyota Yaris, Perodua Axia, and Toyota Agya], the inside lining of the front seat door was im
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by kats 3y ago
No it's not the only thing. The same thing is mentioned in the article: > In fact, he even said Intel could surpass the pace of Moore's Law at least until 2031 and has promoted "Super Moore's Law," a strategy to
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by kats 3y ago
Intel isn't even one of the top 3 semiconductor companies anymore. You've got Nvidia, Apple, AMD, Broadcom all ahead of them. Intel can whine about Moore's law, but AMD not only has many chiplets in one processor, but has dif
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by kats 3y ago
it's funny because just yesterday I posted: > soon as it's out, a whole bunch of extremely privileged ML people will throw their hands up and say, "oh well, cats out of the bag." https://news.ycombinator.co
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by kats 3y ago
That's not really true, most scammers have a male voice with a heavy accent. When they have tools that easily disguise their voice, scammers can reach many more elderly people.
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by kats 3y ago
This is really harmful and unethical work. It will be used to hurt millions of elderly people with scams. That's the real application that will happen 100x more than anything else. It's unethical and harmful to release tools that
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by kats 3y ago
As soon as ML generated voice becomes really good, call scammers will use it against elderly people. That's going to be the #1 application far and away from anything. And as soon as it's out, a whole bunch of extremely privileged
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by kats 3y ago
Meta should do a ChatGPT clone just like they did a Twitter clone.
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by kats 3y ago
What a rude response. I doubt you have ever built any electronic products, or you would not say that.

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