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It's a waste of time to think about whether an LLM has a subjective experience of reality, and this handily sets aside issues like AI rights. But the fact remains that these next-t…

Many of us use site analytics software that can watch what our users are doing in our apps. Also, Truth Social has a feature where you can schedule a post (that feature is part of …

I'm no expert, but since it acts as a keyboard wedge it's likely to be unpopular with security software.

The human experience of linear time predates clocks, yes. But before clocks, we used natural phenomena as trigger events for our activities - the rising of the sun to wake up, the …

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Shameless plug colon my company does this for cities. http://burlington.openbook.questica.com/

Yes, I'm the author. Happy to share. The dispenser is a "dry food/cereal dispenser" like the kind you would see at a hotel breakfast bar. They can be found on amazon in various con…

Squeakernet FLP is not a cat feeder, it's a feline lifestyle platform. Current features are largely focused on kibble deployment though. https://github.com/buzzcola/squeakernet/

In the parent's case this latency includes time from a human key press (piano key). The other cases you mention can be compensated for but of course the human input is non-predicta…

* 64.7989 mg of salt

shameless plug :) lightspeed, the sightreading flashcard game. http://buzzcola.github.io/lightspeed-music/ Requires windows and a MIDI keyboard.

You can install Tomato ( http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato ) on a compatible router. It has a bunch of options for routing all/some/groups of devices through various VPN's. This mig…

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It would be really cool if the mast could retract, either using some kind of collapsing structure or a hole dug out underneath the structure. Great for repairs, also would allow a …

So I can clearly not choose the drink that is in front of you!

The titles already exist. The excellent clerk at my local comic store made me a long list of american and international series for my daughter to check out and I've been very impre…

Whether rural life in Canada is brutal depends on where you're from. And your definition of brutal. Between 20 minutes north of Toronto and the start of the Arctic Circle there is …

The cambrian explosion is really interesting but I'd rather read about the thing itself, not framed as a polemic against creationism. I don't care about creationism.

I'm currently halfway through "Introduction to Improvisation" on Coursera, offered through Berklee college and taught by the great Gary Burton. The enrollment is around 39,000 and …

I want the second thing. Where do I get that?

Unfortunately it's not a matter of sticking fingers in your ears, I can tell you. If you've got 50-100,000 workstations to worry about, and a couple of intranet apps that only run …

The app I work on dropped IE7 a year ago, and is dropping IE8 in January 2013. Therefore this is the opposite of a disaster, pretty timely actually. They're pretty clear that 1.9 a…