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by mgdlbp 5y ago
Could you not base a filter on whether a div contains text matching your list of groups and friends?
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(^ the Skynamic channel has a short behind-the-scenes video)
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I've thought for quite some time that questionable AI-generated content will lie at the heart of an forthcoming 'Infocalypse'. [0] Given the 2021 AI Dungeon fiasco over text-based AI-generated child porn, I shall posit that
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Evoked memory of these passages from Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312 , on the compounding of this by life extension: > this culture’s structure of feeling could also be called balkanized. Gender therapy and speciation were both parts o
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldschläger
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The Internet Archive has many historic games (and some of its other vintage software) available to run in various emulators in-browser. For example, a 1987 release of King's Quest in (F1 for help; note: sound!): https://ar
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There's a good record of phone imaging over the years to be found in a few devoted sites still comparing phone cameras with the Lumia 1020, the 2013 flagship of Windows Phones known for their camera hardware and naturalistic processing
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Though it might encourage some to consider str.len_extended_grapheme_clusters()
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( https://web.archive.org/web/2012/http://x264dev.multimedia.c... ) Tied as the leading implementation by 2006, pulled far ahead in SSIM in 2010, and all FOSS. Hat off to Glaser and Merritt! An interesting
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Internet Archive Wayback Machine – Web Pioneers (2001)(web.archive.org)
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FreeCAD's stable release is somewhat painful to use, but I'd say that when using a development build (I've personally had no trouble) and having gone through the preferences, customization options, and list of addons (altoget
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Three comments now pointing this out. I guess I'm still kind of new here, so I didn't know submitting the exact canonical URL was so valued. The main reason was that I noticed that the comments had been shuffled in a redesign, mak
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I was very impressed when I saw that Slashdot is one of few sites to have maintained redirects from all the way back (well, almost; they didn't include the CGI links from 1998! [0]). But I thought it'd be more interesting to see h
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Ask Slashdot: How Powerful Is Your Computer? (1999)(web.archive.org)
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Web Pioneers (2001)(web.archive.org)
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Solar particles become less of a threat, but the sun's atmosphere actually shields the solar system from some types of cosmic rays. Don't know what proportion of electronics faults stem from each, though.
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This effect can be very pronounced even in the naked eye. Stand behind a window and observe something large and distant. Then back away to the far side of the room; the same object now fills the window. I'm often reminded of this by a
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by mgdlbp 5y ago
A Chrome Experiment from back in the day that I remember fondly: https://experiments.withgoogle.com/dollyzoomjs (then found at https://web.archive.org/web/20140423002845if_/https://www.ch
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by mgdlbp 5y ago
Ah, they do also have trademarks for the military use and for the full phrase, just realized I stopped searching when I found the first one. https://trademarks.justia.com/search?q=mlrs https://trademarks.justia.c
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I thought so as well! 'MLRS is a registered trademark of Lockheed Martin Corporation.' https://trademarks.justia.com/759/79/mlrs-75979459.html But for some reason as trademark class 28, toys and sportin
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Huh, didn't know it was trademarked!
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Fascinating are the words of netizens of the time in guestbooks, forums, and homepages of sites large and small that have been immortalized in the Internet Archive [a]. The Internet Archive also has an extensive collection of televised news
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The original uses Markov chains, was usurped a couple of years ago by https://old.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/
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Seems closer to a form of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance
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As far as I can remember, I've never been able to use Discord at all as a guest through any device on my home network (always demands verification; never used Discord before through the ISP, and undoubtedly my dynamic IP has changed ma
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by mgdlbp 5y ago
Fun fact: The typeface Courier (New) we know today from PCs (esp. Windows) is the most enduring of the fonts designed for IBM typewriters that were named after agent nouns related to communication: Adjutant, Advocate, Artisan, Courier, Dele
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How about McMaster-Carr? Their catalogue, print and online, seems to have a very similar philosophy. Also: all but the most specialized items get same- or next-day shipping. https://www.mcmaster.com/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
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Quite a few languages can access their own ASTs, but I don't know of one other than C# (and VB.NET--Roslyn is the compiler for both) where the API is so deeply integrated and hence useful. The Roslyn SDK exposes its syntax tree, symbol
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Now this is a rabbit hole! There are far more of these than I'd thought, ranging in structure from blog-like to database-like, with some updated by the host and some allowing user contributions (with some of the latter using wiki softw

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