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- Comment on Breast Cancer 3 months ago:
our brain is a black box, we accept that. (and control the outcomes with procedures, checklists, etc)
It feels like lots of prefessionals can’t exactly explain every single aspect of how they do what they do, sometimes it just feels right.
- Comment on Breast Cancer 3 months ago:
AI and machine learning are very similar (if not identical) things, just one has been turned into a marketing hype word a whole lot more than the other.
- Comment on The worst pick-up line I've ever gotten 4 months ago:
hermione was criticized a lot by pretty much everyone when she tried to free the house elves and made badges etc.
- Comment on Wildlife Protections Take a Back Seat to SpaceX’s Ambitions 4 months ago:
The first ift launch throwing concrete everywhere sucked for everyone involved, birds and spacex. They have a real working launch pad water deluge system now, and the second tower will have a flame trench.
I am not a fan of elon musk and his disregard for authority, but realistically, traditional aerospace companies (nasa, boeing, ula) have been slowly plodding towards the overbudget disposable mess that is SLS for the past 2 decades, while spacex has designed, built, and flown an entirely new and different rocket, with crazy (but potentially doable) goals, in the past couple of years. It’s hard not to be excited for them, even though they really should care more about the state park they are next to.
- Comment on Why are quantum computers these gorgeous golden chandelier 4 months ago:
lots of fun techniques, a common one for getting down low enough where other methods become practical is stirling cryocoolers, and those are even on ebay for a few thousand (cascade refrigeration systems, and joule thompson coolers are also used), way down past that theres stuff like weird magnetic coolers, and dilution coolers All very interesting, reading about exotic cooling methods is fun.
- Comment on The problem with GIMP 5 months ago:
the author of the article wrote an article a while ago about how they think steam is enshittifying and becoming bad because they got rid of mac support and some people didn’t like steam in the 2000s, so I think this person just takes controversial opinions randomly and writes about them.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 6 months ago:
it simply wouldn’t trust the client with anything the player shouldn’t know, to minimize cheating potential. valorant does this, and made a blog post about it. also, player movement could be analyzed server side to attempt to distiguish between cheating and legit.
I think client side invasive anti cheat is likely more effective than this, but its a cat and mouse game. if the anticheat was server side and good, there isn’t anything to attack
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 6 months ago:
server side anticheat is the only ultimate solution.
all client side anticheat measures will have vulnerabilities that will be found and people will cheat. (look at DMA pci cards, for instance)
- Comment on New Orleans Likes to Drink. They Spotted a Huge Recycling Opportunity 6 months ago:
sure yeah, we need sand for erosion control, but getting it from glass that has already been manufactured (a carbon intensive process) and turning it back into a raw material, instead of remelting it into more useable glass, is a strange idea.
normally we take a raw material, and (with effort) turn it into a product people use, and if it can be reused after its first use, it makes a lot more sense to work on that, rather than turning it right back into raw material.
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 6 months ago:
such a stupid thing to whine about. what if they got surgery and they are externally identical to a cis woman, do they still need to go in the ward for men? just let people be.
- Comment on New Orleans Likes to Drink. They Spotted a Huge Recycling Opportunity 6 months ago:
this is not a very good idea for the enviroment. recycled glass CAN BE remelted into more glass products, and crushing usable glass (that took lots energy to produce) and literally dumping it into the ocean is hilariously counterproductive. I like the sentiment though, just not what they are doing.
- Comment on Teen Girls Confront an Epidemic of Deepfake Nudes in Schools 7 months ago:
Yeah, although that example kinda is one of the older, not very commercialized, tech demo uses of ai. It still could be misused, but the harm that could come from that specific app is very very minimal, compared to most uses of ai now.
- Comment on Teen Girls Confront an Epidemic of Deepfake Nudes in Schools 7 months ago:
Feels like the advances in AI are generally bad for everyone except nvidia and cloud providers. (You could argue its great for someone who can’t code, but chatgpt and others are quite misleading, and I think they might be better off just learning to code.) AI was interesting when it was a bunch of researchers showing off cool demos, now its just horrifying.
- Comment on does this mean I'm getting in???? 7 months ago:
allen pan. looks like him though, and allen almost became a mythbuster!
- Comment on "looks inside, individually packaged" 9 months ago:
i think that might be a suicide prevention measure, i remember something about blister packaging helping reduce suicide rates.
- Comment on The full source code for GTA 5 has been publicly leaked 10 months ago:
oh interesting. kinda impossible to ensure all the contributors have never seen it though.
- Comment on Will youtube eventually run out of storage? 1 year ago:
lol you can store petabytes in one rack, much less an entire data center.
- Comment on We RECREATED the Nuclear Explosion from Oppenheimer with ZERO CGI 1 year ago:
yeah, for nuclear explosions I don’t think practical effects will ever look right. CGI can look incredibly realistic if they have the money for it.