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by kombookcha 3y ago
Near my hometown, there is a particular crossroads named Light-Pipe-Cross. It's on no map, but everyone has called it that for centuries and it appears in old documents as a supplementary colloquial name. The story goes that because th
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by kombookcha 3y ago
This is the wrong kind of cyberpunk, I was assured there would be USB-key knuckledusters so I could punch 1337haxX into corpo terminals.
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Cloning isn't the same thing as gene-editing.
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Confusingly, Danish counting is also a mix of old norse counting systems (based on tens) and medieval ones (based on twenty) for maximum chaos. For instance the word for 40, fyrretyve (sounds like four-twenty), is derived from old norse fyr
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You'd need some way to rapidly get around Venice to prevent it just being a walking-and-gondola simulator. Perhaps some sort of parkour-esque mechanic? ;)
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What a cool field! Early cryptology, cloak and dagger stuff, renaissance Venice... it's got it all.
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It certainly helps a lot, but I wouldn't call it a non-issue. It deteriorates the user experience. From the scammer's point of view, with a low barrier to entry, they don't need very many people to fall for it before some num
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This still translates into being a worse state of affairs for the store, and for the consumers who now have to contend with more scams that are harder to detect before pressing "buy".
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Massively higher potential output. It's the difference between sending spam e-mails out by hand and having a bot do it.
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Ironically, with the way production scales, if more people were willing/able to go for the high quality products, they'd probably wind up being somewhat cheaper than they are now. Different case when we are talking deliberately ex
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Hey, two out of those three things are kinda scary!
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The shoggoth is also in the neighbourhood. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoggoth
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Well this is just fascinating. 280 million years is a lot of time if you only really need one instance of reheating/hydrating to grow for a bit and reset before settling in for another long sleep. >When cultured and exposed to ioniz
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Well, I don't mean to imply that they're ignoring problems, but I think they're being very charitable about Hammond's part in the shitshow. Even before everything goes sideways, it's clear that the animals aren&#x27
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Hard agree - it's fun to go back as an adult! On rewatch I kind of took Hammond to be either so swept up in the romance of his dinosaur-revival that he didn't notice the glaring safety risks in the nuts and bolts of the operation,
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Isn't this hampered by the old 'needing a universe-sized supercomputer to run a fully accurate 1:1 simulation of the universe'? It seems like the complexity of this kind of reverse simulation would be enormous and grow bigger
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Perhaps I misinterpreted your original post, but I do think there's a difference between not intellectually 'getting' that a computer isn't thinking in the same way a human is thinking, and this anthropomorphizing that w
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The "meal replacement" industry is exactly what I am thinking about. I know some of them are marketed as essentially premade low-caloric meals, that theoretically make it easy to do calorie-counting. At least that has some kind of
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HN is a site where you hear people unironically talk about how they listen to audiobooks and podcasts at higher speed to optimize how many they can take in. Thinking about what that implies about how these people engage with art is kind of
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I don't think this is really down to people understanding what a computer is, but more down to how humans interact with nonhumans. We anthropomorphize animals and objects all the time. A computer program is ultimately a (complicated) o
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Now it's getting a bit overengineered. Both of those are already committing violent crimes and aren't gonna be squeamish about physically preventing you from entering a non alcohol-locked vehicle.
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Surely this hypothetical is not actually any worse than the same robber clobbering you with said bottle to achieve the exact same outcome today?
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I strongly feel that this is where the really destructive potential of military LLM applications lies. We've already seen examples of faked images, voice clips and videos being disseminated of prominent political figures. It's not
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Agatha Christie is not remembered for being a literary darling, but for being a huge commercial and pop-cultural success. She wrote mystery thrillers, and towered over the genre for decades - and still does in many ways. But the quoted bit
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I think growing up with a smartphone in your hand makes you extremely well attuned to presentation and sensing how every little data point will be perceived by others. Maybe you need that to navigate today. But I think that acute awareness
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For anybody looking to read up on this, the official name for the internal investigation of 'kabelsamarbejdet' is Operation Dunhammer (translated to Operation Typha). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Du
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>The difference is that their actions here seem within the law? The law allowed them to drag out the process for so long. I wouldn't blame them for doing so. There absolutely should be reforms to the system to make this impossible,
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You absolutely should blame these players. 'If I can get away with it, it must be morally defensible' is the thought process of a psychopath. What they're doing is knowingly stealing out of the pocket of the taxpayer, and it
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For classic cars and other large pieces of vintage machinery, "barn finds" have been a common source of weirdly well preserved specimens for many years - especially in dry climates. Now that we live in a world where many elderly p