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There’s a military history channel I follow that did a special on this topic. I remember that nerve gas initially came out of the pesticide research: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=…

I recently installed the STM32 Cube IDE from ST [1] and discovered that it contains a stealth binary of Google's Chrome in my home directory. The fans started spinning and I found …

The downside is that it would probably just end up increasing fringe and dangerous behaviors This reminds me of a different type of “banning” I heard about some 20 years ago. There…

The world of publishing is certainly seeing the attempts for such an llm: https://www.npr.org/2023/02/24/1159286436/ai-chatbot-chatgpt... And I do wonder how difficult it is now. W…

I suggest we add its origin to the SETI list. One of my pet theories is that the Fermi paradox is due to cloaking of extraterrestrial civilisations. We’re not entitled to observing…

One of the comments got me intrigued, and wow: "OptiNAND uses a large non-volatile memory on the drive. It optimizes write performance by using DRAM as a cache. So, when the drive …

If there's even a diode worth of band-gap technology in there: yes, ageing would be demonstrably different in a device that lived a couple of decades longer. The crystal lattice is…

The car would be authentic, built in 1967. What the person is asking is whether there's a technique to distinguish a car from 1967 from a sibling that was brought back from 2036.

Why is this subject giving me Silicon Valley season 2 flashbacks with every update?

It sounded nice

So every plane, train and automobile that went missing in the past 9 years did so without this system offering help?

In Europe the entire mains grid is synchronised - the smallest deviation in fase & frequency is the same. It’s fairly straightforward to sync them with this distributed reference c…

I thought that antibiotics would have a detrimental effect on an animal’s growth since it wreaks havoc with the intestinal ecosystem. Has there been any research to determine why g…

...our validation pipeline produced an interesting assertion... What is a validation pipeline?

Oblig. Aphex Twin Easter Egg mention: https://forum.watmm.com/topic/8121-another-hidden-aphex-imag...

Even the toilet water is heated https://www.wired.com/2012/03/google-sewer-water/

processing speeds in devices based on them could reach femtoseconds That would also mean switching times that allow rectifying infrared light. I.e. capturing light energy with um-s…

First, I think it would be a great idea for any future Single Board Computer or Router designer -- to design their product such that it will work with any power supply from 5V to 1…

Thank you for pointing this out. Unfortunately, this becomes $64 Unit price:€32.59 Total price:€32.59 Subtotal€32.59 Estimated shipping (42gr):€16.76 Taxes (21.0%)€10.36 Total in E…

In 2017 this popped up: https://kottke.org/17/04/incredible-low-light-camera-turns-n... and the quality of nightvision is much better than the one shown in this video. Or am I miss…

“ The following items cannot be shipped to your country and have been removed from your cart: UPduino v3.1 low cost Lattice iCE40 FPGA board” Great

I think this is more about the offline aspect of open source LLMs. If someone with bad intentions does his research to harm a group, he’ll leave breadcrumbs that can be sniffed up …

Entered the forum title in google, google refuses to show content and shows a single link to "findahelpline.com" I'm in Belgium, btw - suicide capital of Europe.