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We already discussed the Musk rescue submarine concept in the context of a potential Vegas tunnel flood (due to freak weather patterns or dousing a flaming Tesla, whichever) like 100 pages ago, pay attention.
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PhazonLink posted:i want to see the power points of techbros re inventing the fire triangle and or basic chemistry. What if we just turned lead into gold?
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Jul 11, 2021 23:49
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The Washington Post Porn Here
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Jul 23, 2021 05:10
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CommieGIR posted:Have him remote into your IoT coffee maker and make it for you. Problem solved. Just configure firewalld on your raspberry pi to allow oncoming ssh, set up your ed25519 key and cat the public key (append piping) to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, then ssh coffee@home && cd ~/brew && make.
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Jul 26, 2021 05:01
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:the charging needs to be real fast because people aren't going to park in a community charging spot then come back out in an hour or two or six to move their car. the charger will be occupied for hours at a time, long after the car is done charging Luckily Tesla autopilot will just drive the car right back to their home with no human intervention whatsoever, just scan your fingerprint here to accept the $16,942.00 charge.
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Jul 31, 2021 17:47
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I'm not sure if this is parody but it might as well be:quote:Just as paid human spaceflights are about to begin, advertising is making a mark in space too. A Canadian startup called Geometric Energy Corporation (GEC) has tied up with Elon Musk's SpaceX, taking advertising to space on a small satellite aboard the Falcon 9 rocket, Business Insider reported. However, the collaboration won't feature a classic advertising billboard that we are used to see around, the ads will run on a pixelated display screen on a satellite called a CubeSat. I mean it seems like a great plan to part idiots from their fake rear end currencies but this is the single stupidest thing I've heard of to be launched into space.
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Aug 10, 2021 05:50
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By a similar token, dead people are demonstrably incompetent at living. I'm not sure how the undead fit into this rubric.
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Aug 13, 2021 14:37
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https://mobile.twitter.com/WIRED/status/1425936410096320515 Remember this bad take we had last year on intrusive AI bullshit to further dick up your tedious meetings? Well, here's a reminder to check back and see if any of these startups amounted to anythonf (I'm guessing not since I still haven't heard of any of them but then I'm not in Silicon Valley so maybe they've run roughshod there).
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Aug 14, 2021 20:43
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Maybe fire trucks shouldn't be painted to look like brick walls covered in stop signs, fooling Tesla AI into ... driving right into them?
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Aug 16, 2021 17:26
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OctaMurk posted:This is America, I assure you there are folks driving Teslas who definitely do not have what you consider "Tesla money". Well of course they don't have the Tesla money anymore, they exchanged it for a Tesla. I just hope they saved enough for future Season Passes. I heard Winter 2022 is going to have some can't miss (emergency vehicles) updates.
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Aug 17, 2021 03:59
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2FA is yesterday's tech. The new hotness is hunter2FA.  Authentication aside, my main annoyance is every goddamn lovely social media site adding elaborate login nags, some of which seem to be activated by cookies so they're not even necessarily reproducible. Second worst are the cookie settings that appear to be GDPR-compliant but are not (I'm looking at you, StackExchange, and others that default to accept all non-required instead of reject all). I do wonder what would come out if we just burned the internet to the ground and started from scratch today, but it would probably be worse.
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Aug 18, 2021 05:37
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Well, uh, I guess there are no popups on Usenet...? In other news, I remember hearing about this before. If it's actually widespread I wonder if Uber/Lyft are planning to rely on similar bullshit and more surge pricing to gouge people occasionally rather than hiking prices across the board. https://twitter.com/NerdyAndNatural/status/1427614996738068485
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Aug 19, 2021 02:42
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Imagine having virtually limitless resources to create an alternative reality of your own imagination and picking a generic office/meeting room with creepy floating legless avatars as your go-to destination. Also, Facebook VR brought us this post: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1409576956828405760
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Aug 19, 2021 18:58
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How is what OnlyFans is doing substantially different from any other porn (or general video) streaming site with subscriptions/tips/other payment options?
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Speaking of Amazon moving more into low-tech space, they're apparently just installing lockers on sidewalks in public parks because ???  This one too, the gently caress?? 
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Aug 20, 2021 21:00
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The Sausages posted:looking forward to seeing the after pics They were removed, so enjoy.  BiggerBoat posted:Anyone here ever dealt with Adobe Creative Cloud? Can't you roll back to specific versions, assuming you can find out which one the artist used? A google search suggests that you can. Not that that isn't a pain in the rear end, but hopefully less so than the alternative.
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I'm having a great deal of difficulty trying to square 'everyone learn2code' with voice-only input. Good luck with that. Same with efficient data entry, as much as we like to pretend that it can all be automated.Roadie posted:I have to wonder how many people in this thread whining about the decline of tech literacy lack the car literacy to safely replace a bad intake valve. Why would I need to fix the car I've never owned? Also, soon (TM) the TSA will approve FSD Tesla roaming the streets as automated taxis, killing personal vehicles and also ushering on a renaissance of urban renewal towards less car-centric suburban hellscapes and hey stop picking at the contradiction there.
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Aug 24, 2021 11:49
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:the core argument at about 5 minutes in is also critically flawed. to paraphrase, "old patterns of development simply raise more tax revenue than new patterns of development", which is a pretty weird thing to say if we consider the highest and best use of land. what did the new thing replace? probably some commercial property which wasn't as lucrative in terms of revenue to the landowner, because otherwise, they'd keep collecting those rents. the same problem carries through to talking about how big boxes dont generate as much revenue as downtowns, which... yeah? the big box is replacing empty or agricultural land probably, not developed downtown commercial The big box is more lucrative to the landowner (why do we care about this anyway?) because the suburb is heavily subsidizing all of the infrastructure supporting it, which fine, this particular video doesn't say outright (I think it's foreshadowed as coming in the next video in the series) but is too important of a point to just ignore given the tweet that inspired this conversation. Also if it's replacing fertile agricultural land that's even more of a disaster.
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Aug 24, 2021 19:01
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Mister Facetious posted:You mean all those fly by night Amazon sellers from China with an algorithmically generated name? I would like to know more about the algorithm generating those gibberish names, and exactly how they're supposed to be confidence-inspiring. I tried to look this up before but got nowhere.
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OctaMurk posted:These are such essential skillsets in mechanical engineering (particularly folder management where you have to deal with PDM systems, and assemblies of products that depend on each other top down or bottom up) that I cannot imagine how these engineers function or how they graduated college tbh. My parents have been using computers for 30ish years (starting from DOS and mainly for AutoCAD) and the internet for 20+ years and it's amazing how little they've learned about the technology they've probably averaged 4+ hours a day on. Fixing startup and memory issues and poo poo like that in DOS and Windows 3.1 wasn't trivial, but somehow despite managing then they still struggle with even the most basic problems today (a lack of patience and unwillingness to Google anything doesn't help).
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Mister Facetious posted:Do you really want to be eaten by a grue? You just need an older model grue gun from before they had forced OTA software updates.
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Someone should write a paper on how the autopilot AI is miraculously non-racist (no really it can't see colour) but instead is prejudiced against first responders and emergency services.
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I had a glass cooktop over electric coils and it scratched very easily and was a pain to clean. I don't know what purpose it served over having exposed coils. In principle I guess it's supposed to give you a larger, flatter area to cook on, except it wasn't actually very level and made less contact than coils would have. Some electrical part in it failed after maybe 4 years and my landlord had to replace the entire cooktop because they don't do repairs (Bosch brand, in case it matters). I don't think anything about it was smart so stupid design is far from unique to smart poo poo.
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If you want extended high heat that won't turn off suddenly, have you considered buying a Tesla?
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silence_kit posted:RF radiation levels are so much weaker than solar illumination levels. ... this isn't really a relevant comparison, though? Nobody is contesting that solar UV can give you skin cancer, but the proposed sensical mechanism for cell phones damaging your brain is just gently microwaving the tissue (or blood, I suppose). Seemingly credible studies have been done to measure the effect (that's a recent one for 5G). None of them suggest that cell phones will cook your brain, or that any given amount of heating will give you brain tumours, but it's perfectly reasonable work to inform safe limits on broadcast power for Cuban microwave guns, obviously. Anyway, if you're really concerned, first, your cell phone is vastly more likely to kill you by distracting you when you're crossing a street or (don't do this for gently caress's sake) driving. If you're still worried, don't hold it against your head and/or gonads for hours at a time when you have a weak signal. Also, don't give cellular towers long and tight hugs. e: the original question was about Bluetooth anyway, and as you said, headsets/earbuds are even less powerful than phones and again, vastly more likely to kill you by distracting you. And on that note, if you or someone you know likes engaging in dangerous activities like cycling on busy roads with earbuds blasting loud music, please use bone conduction headphones instead. Precambrian Video Games fucked around with this message at 03:22 on Sep 6, 2021 |
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ANIME AKBAR posted:Just to clarify, this study (both links go to the same thing, and it doesn't mention 5G) is indeed legit. But the only effect explored in that study is heating in the tissue due to being blasted with up to 2W of continuous RF power for ten minutes straight. They state clearly that they are not addressing any health-related effects of the exposure. Sorry, I accidentally posted the same link twice; this was supposed to be the second one. It seems to be fairly straightforward in terms of what they did and how, but not so much why. silence_kit posted:Read the rest of my post! I think it is a great comparison to make. Not at 2.45 Ghz! Also, the article you linked measured RF exposure at 30‑300 GHz, which is not as commonly used for telecommunications.
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In non-well actually news, the NYT is on the case of crypto banking. I was amused by this bit:quote:But to regulators, BlockFi’s offerings are worrying and perplexing — so much so that in California, where BlockFi first sought a lender’s license, officials initially advised it to instead apply for a pawnbroker license. Their reasoning was that customers seeking a loan from BlockFi hand over cryptocurrency holdings as collateral in the same way that a customer might give a pawnshop a watch in exchange for cash. ... but then: quote:Undeterred, she returned to the state’s banking regulators and persuaded them BlockFi qualified as a lender, albeit of a new variety. The company now has licenses in at least 28 states to offer dollar loans and transacts in cryptocurrency with more than 450,000 clients — many of whom are outside the United States. In the first three months of this year, the value of crypto held in BlockFi interest-bearing accounts more than tripled to $14.7 billion from $4.4 billion, a jump driven in part by the rise in the price of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Le sigh.
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I lost access to a 20-year-old hotmail account because I forgot to update the backup email, and after moving overseas the only other way to verify my login was to correctly re-enter all of my biographical information from approximately the year 2000 (which I'm sure I also entered truthfully at the time). I've also seen hilarious stories of people being locked out of two gmail accounts forever because they didn't enter a phone number or other bio info, went travelling, and had one send a verification email to the other. I just can't wait until someone comes up with a better authentication method than all of this poo poo. If it's a physical token, so be it. (Also puzzling - Duo Mobile being used as 'two-factor' authentication when you log in from your phone's browser...)
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RFC2324 posted:trying to figure out whats puzzling about this? is it the fact that the 'something you have' factor is your phone whether or not thats what you are actually using to login? Yes. I get that the point is to need a password and access to a physical device but in the case of logging in from your phone, there's no added benefit from the Duo app. Does this matter in practice? If you leave your phone unlocked - okay, you'll be in poo poo anyway because you probably have emails readily available, apps with saved passwords, etc, but also even logins saved with a secure password manager are vulnerable. I'm not sure what I'd propose as an alternative second factor that's not available from a phone because email clearly isn't going to work, but presumably a physical key would as long as you don't leave it plugged in to your phone too.
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 But in all seriousness, the last time I checked, Github Copilot was a complete shitshow for numerous reasons - not the least of which is that it was trained on every public repository regardless of licensing, making it a lawsuit honeypot. I don't know anyone who has even tried to use it productively after tinkering with it for an hour or two.
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Jose Valasquez posted:I’m surprised this thing hasn’t murdered any pedestrians yet Do you mean that particular Tesla? Because otherwise, I have news for you.
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Jose Valasquez posted:I haven't seen anything about Tesla autopiloting into pedestrians, just other cars. I absolutely believe it, I just haven't seen it You might be correct that this is the first reported case of a Tesla plowing directly into a person while on autopilot, at least in the US. There was a lawsuit filed last year for a fatality in Japan way back in 2018, where a Tesla accelerated into some motorcycles parked in front of a van and killed someone standing nearby in the process. It's unclear whether it hit the person or the motorcycles first, but since that alleges that the autopilot failed to recognize the pedestrian and parked vehicles, I think it qualifies. There was another incident just last month where a Tesla hit a parked car and killed someone. Skimming the article, it doesn't seem clear as to whether the victim had just gotten into the driver's seat or was still partly outside. At any rate, the novelty of smashing into people standing on their own rather than next to parked vehicles is not a point in Tesla's favour.
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FANMAG company towns are truly a land of contrasts: Amazon’s New ‘Factory Towns’ Will Lift the Working Class quote:Plentiful new jobs at higher wages in places with cheaper housing sounds like a solution to inequality. You can pretty much stop reading there. Meanwhile, over in a different publication entirely: Amazon Is Creating Company Towns Across the United States quote:A thesis: Amazon’s warehouse zones are “the major working-class space of suburban and exurban socialization. So even if you’re building a tenant union or a political party, this is a major social space. It has a broader importance.” This comes courtesy of organizer and geographer Spencer Cox, quoted in the New York Times.
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smellmycheese posted:Everything Zuck owns is currently down the shitter So what's the news here? Or did somebody finally flush?
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Maybe this will finally get people to migrate to Google+.
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Oct 5, 2021 00:29
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But you can already watch Hard Quiz, Get Krack!n, Utopia and more on ABC's iView; what else could you want? And Have You Been Paying Attention? is region locked. You're spoiled, frankly.
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The NYT reports that Nuclear Fusion Edges Toward the Mainstream (You Have Never Heard This Before). Apparently, "Long-shot money is flowing into start-ups that seek the energy of the stars. Driving the investments is a rising alarm about global warming."quote:No one knows when fusion energy will become commercially viable, but driving the private investments is a rising alarm about global warming. Look, I know there's still plenty of serious fusion-related plasma physics research going on around the world but maybe a healthy dose of skepticism would be warranted here since the only novelty here seems to be VC money desperate for returns anywhere there's even a minuscule chance of finding them. I'm pretty sure the DOE spends a bucketload more than $100M on this sort of thing annually.
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Apparently there are smart basketballs that will set you back $60 (on sale) and pair with a $10/month app subscription. I was expecting built-in accelerometer/gyro/bluetooth for that price but in fact it just seems to be a yellow ball.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/anna_c_kramer/status/1453471470148112391 Oh well that's a real shame. Meanwhile, over at the competition: https://mobile.twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1453825579921420294 Yeaaaaah suuuuure.
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Mister Facetious posted:So they hired the AI ethics people Google fired right? That is in fact directly addressed in the article: quote:These hires are a massive coup for a social media platform desperate to escape the waves of vitriol and criticism enveloping Google and Facebook's work around algorithms, machine learning and artificial intelligence. While Google was forcing out prominent AI ethicists and researchers Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell and Facebook was trying and failing to persuade politicians and researchers that it did not have the power to manipulate the way algorithms amplified misinformation, Twitter was giving Font and Jutta Williams, the product manager in charge of helping operationalize META'S work, the resources and leeway to hire a team of people who could actually act on Twitter's promise to listen to its researchers. I suppose it's better than the alternative if capital decides that ethics might be in its own interest.
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