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- Comment on Doing our part 1 day ago:
- Comment on More peas, please! 17 delicious ways to devour Britain’s most brilliant vegetable 3 days ago:
Pea for two… for me, and you…
- Comment on Happy Thanksgiving! 1 week ago:
- Comment on no one can understand AI 2 weeks ago:
That was old AI.
New AI uses a complex, multi-layer sequence of Magic 8-balls.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Phone bankers have no control over who they call. They volunteer and show up. An app brings up a number, they hit ‘Call’ and the call is made. Sometimes there’s a script. Often there isn’t. When the call is done, there is a popup. It includes: DO NOT CALL. They move on. They have a bunch more to call before they have to go home, make dinner, put the kids to bed, get ready for work, or study for a test.
Our names are sold and traded by data brokers, sliced and diced along all kinds of demographic metadata. The brokers are the reason we get all these unsolicited messages or calls. There are state rules, but the brokers are out of state. There are FEC rules. They ignore it. I regularly block and spam unsolicited calls, or do END or STOP. If it’s a cause I like, I throw them some money, knowing I’ll be getting a crapton of calls and texts. It’s OK. I’m one of thousands in a database. I know it’s nothing personal.
Being a horse’s ass to a fellow citizen phone banker just gives them something to laugh about later. As an alternative, you can thank them for their effort, say no thanks not for me, and ask to be taken off the call list.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
As a volunteer phone banker, we lived for people who were abusive jerks. We’d trade stories over drinks afterwards.
Phone bankers are citizens who take time out of their busy life and day, to help fellow citizens go out and vote. Maybe give them an alternative perspective.
Someone yelling abusive stuff at them was peak hilarity. Please, keep it up.
- Comment on 216,000,000 Spy TVs | The LG Smart TV Problem 1 month ago:
Might be time to take out the wire snips.
- Comment on Roll Tide 1 month ago:
If there’s a sign, it likely happened more than once.
- Comment on One of the lowercase m is actually an r + n, and the other isn't. 1 month ago:
- Comment on You know my passion for manga. 1 month ago:
This isn’t literally about Manga.
France has a long history with Bande dessinée, aka graphic novels. Like Asterix, TinTin, Gaston, Lucky Luke, etc. Their version of Comicon is a massive annual conference in Angoulême: angouleme.org/en/comics-festival/.
There’s already a whole ecosystem around Asterix: movies, theme parks, conventions, etc. Not as much around the other characters. What Macron is likely talking about is taking outside investment to jumpstart other ecosystems, including popular Japanese manga series. This is all about increasing foreign tourism.
- Comment on Digital tags have to go. 1 month ago:
I worked on a project, prototyping these. I don’t think the tech is quite there yet to recognize YOU, adjust the price on individual items, and update the tag as you walk up.
But if they could figure out how to Minority Report it reliably, they totally would.
- Comment on California colleges bought everyone ChatGPT. No one knows what to do with it. 1 month ago:
Never understood.
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“Kids, you’ll get penalized if you use AI for any of your school work. We have tools to check for that. That’s cheating.”
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“Kids, here’s a free subscription to AI. Go nuts.”
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- Comment on Lead writer Margaret Hamilton standing next to the finished Moon landing script 2 months ago:
That’s the first draft script of 2001, as written by an old-fashioned AI ‘expert system.’
Kubrik decided it was more cost-effective to just have HAL sing ‘Daisy, Daisy.’
- Comment on Is a web browser using another scripting language feasible? 2 months ago:
PyScript is an open source platform for Python in the browser.
- Comment on How would I go about turning this into a power-generating wind turbine. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Are you too young to remember these? 2 months ago:
Reminds me, I should go through my old box of DVDs and do some cleaning.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Process of elimination. Other than what’s been mentioned…
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Does this happen when you’re staying over somewhere else or in a hotel for a few days? If not, may want to check for mold, bed bugs, or airborne particulates. Mold is usually odorless, but can grow behind walls and above ceilings.
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Can you switch out into a fresh, new set of clothing and/or beddings, and use allergen-free detergents? It’s possible to develop allergies to certain fabrics and cleaning supplies.
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Ask for a sleep study. Often it involves wearing a special watch continuously for a day or two, then turning it in. Sleep apnea can disrupt flow of oxygen to the brain. There are now ultra-quiet CPAP machines, with very discreet facemasks, so nobody has to be kept awake.
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- Comment on Are datacenters in space more lucrative than on earth? 2 months ago:
What they don’t show in a lot of SciFi is the mundane day-to-day stuff (AFAIK, the only shows that came close were Red Dwarf and Firefly.)
Problem is, things break. Connectors come loose. Temperature makes things brittle. Small debris cross pads and create shorts. Most automated manufacturing lines can catch assembly problems, but none have 0% failure rate. This is what post-deployment maintenance is for. Somebody shows up in a van with a bunch of test gear and replacement parts. They diagnose the problem, swap out a cable or board, and the business keeps humming.
Add IoT and fancy telemetry. Monitor sensors and run ML to do predictive analytics. It still requires someone in a cargo van with a bunch of spare parts.
If you put an installation in a remote location, under water, or in space, there are benefits. But you just multiplied the cost of basic maintenance. You can build in redundancies, but a small glitch at a single-point-of-failure could cascade to a catastrophe.
Microsoft and Google tried putting data-centers under water, and after years of trials they nixed it because of these issues. Multiply that for something far out in space.
Only alternative is to build failure into the business model. Something breaks, you just leave it to rot (or burn in the atmosphere) and send another container out. Maybe the finance math works out, but it sure is wasteful.
tl:dr: SciFi is fantasy. A clogged toilet is reality.
- Comment on That's a shit beer! 2 months ago:
Thank you, that would be great to know. Had no idea they charged differently. There’s obviously history behind it.
Was also told by a friend that in some countries there are glass pour-lines below the lip of the glass. They are required to fill beer to the line, but different glasses have different levels for amount of foam.
Around us, there are no such rules. In some breweries you get 1cm, in other 3-4cm of foam, all for the same price.
- Comment on That's a shit beer! 2 months ago:
The more foam, the longer a keg stretches (pure profit for the house). But sure, let’s gaslight the consumer into thinking foam is BETTER than beer: www.brewer-world.com/3-pours-of-pilsner-urquell/
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Gives new meaning to ‘Tools Lending Library.’
- Comment on Apple sues OpenAI, two former employees for trade secrets theft 3 months ago:
techspot.com/…/109745-openai-jony-face-major-chal…
Doesn’t OpenAI’s hardware group include Jony Ive’s group? Is Apple suing Jony?
- Comment on High court rejects most of ‘dieselgate’ claims brought by 1.6m UK car owners 3 months ago:
Yes, the code says:
if (testMode) { // tweak settings }
But we didn’t intend for it to defeat tests.
- Comment on Belgium national team's officialsocial media post after beating theUSA national team in the World Cup:"Overturn this" 3 months ago:
- Comment on If internet means wires, then how come my mobile phone gets connected to the internet ? I'm roaming everywhere with it inside my pocket. 4 months ago:
Technically, it’s ‘pipes’ not ‘wires,’ but they function the same.
When you hold the phone in your hand while standing on the ground, you’re closing a very long circuit that connects everyone via underground ‘electro-acoustic pipes.’ A few years ago, they laid conduits under waters so people from island nations could make overseas calls.
That is also why they would ask people to turn off their phones when they get on airplanes. They finally got it working while moving using flight attendants on break, small flashlights, and quantum encryption.
Scientists are still working on calls dropping when people are on trampolines.
- Comment on This place is a prison 4 months ago:
Tweas?
- Comment on Caption this. 5 months ago:
- Comment on WTF is this??? 5 months ago:
When using the turn signal handle, “Down is left, Up is right.”
This picture is obviously indicating the car is down.
- Comment on New Hungarian Minister of Health starts dancing 5 months ago:
The new US ambassador, explaining his positions through interpretive dance.
- Comment on dog 5 months ago:
Nature is healing.
