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    Comment #46030800

    I recall lots of unicode obfuscators were popular turning letters to similar looking symbols to bypass filters/censors when the forum/websites didn't filter unicode and filters wer…

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    Comment #45855460

    Crime is mostly individual and income-driven, so its both not community-policed and inversely proportional to income level. Laws against crime require police to effectively enforce…

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    Comment #45855359

    What is the real-world fidelity of this "decoding both perceptual and mental content"? Can it record dream as video?

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    Comment #45836599

    > The Firefox brand is getting a refresh and you get the first look .

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    Comment #45836529

    Except those who have to solve reCaptcha and leave it instantly.

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    Comment #45836507

    > Release the hypnodrones If you are not building the next paperclip optimizer the competition already does!

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    Comment #45832558

    it was part of this crypto scheme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_(blockchain)

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    Comment #45823658

    The only thing that passed the test of time,so far is specificity: if you ask for multiple things or vague things, you receive half-baked answers trying to cover all bases. If you …

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    Comment #45809315

    The macros are fine as concept, i've used something similar before for reducing code size,e.g. defining hundreds of similar functions and stuff. What is incomprehensible and puts t…

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    Comment #45537953

    CorticalLabs uses Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells, but human cells might be more effective due human neuron superiority. Just some ethical problems with harvesting and you can build a h…

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    Comment #45536331

    The only thing that could pop the bubble is an alternative architecture for inference that doesn't need GPU clusters and datacenters to compete within the ecosystem. AI itself isn'…

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    Comment #45500836

    max-width: min(70ch, 100% - 4rem); Results in one tiny column of text on desktop, both sides are empty margins. Its an interface exclusively for mobile phones.

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    Comment #45196867

    AWS-based youtube would be astronomically expensive and much slower than dedicated video servers. Youtube shapes the entire internet total bandwidth.

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    Comment #45196144

    So if you succeed, how the terabytes of content and bandwidth will be sponsored - by what? The only way i can think of it is some super-efficient neural codec with extreme video co…

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    Comment #43876918

    I've been seeing that anime girl pop-up in some websites, mainly because i use "rare" browsers.I prefer it over captchas and cloudflare "protecting websites from real traffic", wha…

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    Comment #43742934

    How its exactly 100hz? Nature doesn't follow arbitrary measures, its likely the approximations of some nearby frequency in range that has maximal effect(likely something resonating…

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    Comment #43742607

    This is interesting concept, if there was more variety it could be some like timeguessr.

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    Comment #43737494

    Looks like latest chatGPT likes to hallucinate code segments that don't work or wrong API calls. Simpler instructions work fine, but at some point it starts to diverge and experime…

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    Comment #43735113

    The part of story where Co2 absorbers were incompatible between two modules sounds really dumb. What was the cause?

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    Comment #43632177

    What is the point of this over e.g.arguing on Reddit?

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    Comment #43629304

    Very impressive, it could allow for closed-cycle systems to replenish the soil that normally requires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_fixation

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    Comment #43298113

    DMCA alone reshaped the internet, with DMCA copyright notices becoming a shady industry of supression and fear. GDPR is the source of all those "mandatory cookie consent" banners t…

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    Comment #43255521

    The current AI music apps have a certain chunking problem: they force extending the song with segments that may or may not fit, which users likely choose as "good enough" and get F…

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    Comment #43124766

    (the large switch table replacing a lookup) Its not that esoteric, maintaining switches is more intuitive and flexible than dealing with rigid lookup table logic.

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    Comment #42820613

    This strange reliance on Discord as some sort of "escape from web3.0" is silly to anyone who knows what Discord is(modern AOL) and how centralized it is. Its just the same corporat…