knodi123

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by knodi123 3y ago
really? But isn't it an entirely online contest?
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by knodi123 3y ago
another casualty of the covid era, I assume /s
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by knodi123 3y ago
They're trying to avoid the embarrassment of a retraction in case someone invents interstellar FTL travel and finds a counterexample.
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by knodi123 3y ago
sure- parks and such. maybe "swath" is bigger than I pictured....
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by knodi123 3y ago
Huh. Never heard of those. The internet sure has a lot of dark little nooks and crannies.
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by knodi123 3y ago
are you referring to things like CliffNotes ?
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by knodi123 3y ago
ah, nice tip! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00945...
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by knodi123 3y ago
> Say as a professor of English literature? I'd probably be fired when they found out I hadn't read anything written since the 70s....
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by knodi123 3y ago
Yeah, I can't remember the show, but it was some time travel thing, and one of the tech guys isn't as excited as everyone else at the prospect of visiting great moments in history. They ask him why, and he says, "well, I&#x2
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by knodi123 3y ago
> the past is a foreign country It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
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by knodi123 3y ago
isn't regolith microscopic and sharp? A sealed ball that rolls around is one thing, but wouldn't a non-sealed ball just get its motor shredded pretty quickly?
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by knodi123 3y ago
Yeah, considering how much inspiration he got from it, I bet he could legitimately deduct the costs from his taxes!
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by knodi123 3y ago
> no longer of much interest Except, of course, it's of huge interest to the target. No different than before.
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by knodi123 3y ago
I've heard AI used to describe the early versions of things that perform the duties that we always imagined an AI would. Like how Siri is basically just an expert system with some NLP, but if we had a genuinely intelligent helper, it
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by knodi123 3y ago
My dog recognizes different cars by their noise profile. So he'll wake up from a nap and get excited whenever my wife pulls onto our street, but stay down for any other car. It probably helps that we're the only prius on the bloc
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by knodi123 3y ago
> Their very own Google Cache They permanently disabled that recently.
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although in both cases, Trust is very important.
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by knodi123 3y ago
> Very memorably, the "bus stop" was just an intersection with a dirt road, with (1) a phone booth (2) a brothel. They mentioned that in the article a couple of times. I wonder if it's still that way? Sometimes Vegas see
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by knodi123 3y ago
"Finally, I'll be able to automate turning a short science paragraph into a 10 page story with human interest content!"
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by knodi123 3y ago
Oh, I missed that! Seems like those drives ought to have been more carefully regulated then.
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by knodi123 3y ago
aim a bit to the left.
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by knodi123 3y ago
In the book series The Expanse, that was pretty much the only unrealistic technology that the humans had, which allowed them to colonize the solar system. Sure, there was some might-as-well-be-magic alien stuff later in the book, but by pa
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by knodi123 3y ago
although he still disables right-clicking on his site. So he's still putting some effort into the sisyphean "uphill slog"
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by knodi123 3y ago
Net Neutrality made it possible to do that, but the motivation was more about advantaging certain businesses to entrench monopolies and scare away newcomers. Abolishing it was plenty bad, and you look silly making up straw men to whitewash
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by knodi123 3y ago
Can the same point be made without casual homophobic references to anal rape?
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by knodi123 3y ago
I don't know about good , but I can think of political advantages to doing so. If I put on my "evil politician" hat.
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by knodi123 3y ago
I don't know where your neuro-jack is installed, but if it's not in the skull then I don't know how you even connect to the all-mind.
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by knodi123 3y ago
> are they just going to demand that their current iPhone/iPad apps be supported by the developers for free With what leverage? You can't just "demand" something of a developer that you've already paid.
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by knodi123 3y ago
Sciaky goes higher quality at slower speed. The tech in the OP is not impressive because of the finished product, but just because of how quickly it prints.
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by knodi123 3y ago
> Which says: > A login cookie isn't an API key. You.... googled your own comment, and cited it as evidence that my google result was wrong? I guess I'm done here.

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