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Comment #49252045
When the glut of GPU arrives I'm sure humanity will find a good use for all that excess compute, like finally getting back to signing monkey pictures and excreting endless hash bas…
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Comment #49237446
https://specs.ipfs.tech/ipfs-uri/
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Comment #49205393
Building anything is a good way to learn. It’s the industrial design / manufacturing equivalent of perusing or hacking on a good open source project.
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Comment #49204358
With a USB-C cable tester tester, of course.
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Comment #49177394
Is is a perfectly cromulent use of capital.
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Comment #49143494
> Even if it's 50% worse, it's 90% cheaper, so the economics argue against producing any new physically made content. That is an unfortunate pattern I fear is become applicable to …
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Comment #49131071
The data is already there. This also gets more interesting when you expand the scope from just elevators to general building occupancy and movement. In the simplest sense, I've see…
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Comment #49118394
Yes, but just imagine all the paperclips we’ll have.
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Comment #48768955
Those wax cylinders are a modern hack. The curved surface distorts the real artistic intent. The only way to appreciate the true beauty of sound is a the purity of soot etchings on…
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Comment #48745407
The reference in the parent comment was already suitably frabjous.
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Comment #48742218
IMO the power of NixOS is at the other extreme. Set it up with Impermanence ( https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Impermanence ) and reboot often. Also worth flagging if you are only ever …
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Comment #48731553
Great examples. The English lexicon is continuously embiggened by the adoption and expansion of terms.
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Comment #48729753
.id.au already has some similar requirements for associating a domain with a real world (human) identity: https://www.auda.org.au/au-domain-names/the-different-au-dom...
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Comment #48685483
This is the most dystopic use for that bandwidth I could possibly imagine.
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Comment #48501639
https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr
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Comment #48486121
It was a bit of humour. It would be much for feasible to have an LLM generate programs that solve those problems rather than solving directly. I tried to make a start, but I couldn…
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Comment #48468764
The Riemann hypothesis, PvNP, and the Collatz conjecture.
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Comment #48453574
It’s the linguistic equivalent of the loudness wars.
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Comment #48322522
Black Mirror already did that episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_People_(Black_Mirror) .
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Comment #48322231
You mean like this https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aef5697 , or this https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8354557/ .
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Comment #48322151
Great to see VR gigs getting a Second Life .
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Comment #48217762
Nope. 2007 is like 2 or 3 years ago, tops.
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Comment #48217341
What do you mean Windows Vista "nostalgia"? That makes me feel a little long in the horn.
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Comment #48203004
For the music application, Max Cooper uses items that appear in the OEIS catalogue pretty heavily. IMO, his works sound amazing. Tracks like Aleph 2 ( https://vimeo.com/367747083 )…