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CCTV cameras that are recording on a rolling tape that only keeps a few days of footage that is looked at by no one unless something happens can't be compared to internet connected…

Couldn't agree more. I actually HATE Opus 5. It's not that I don't like it, it's that I would physically attack it if I could, for all it made me go through mentally. Opus 5 is act…

Sorry for the self-reply, I couldn't figure out how to edit the comment. I tried it now, it's very good. I love the fact that you can just move from one suspect to the other quickl…

Congrats, I have not had the chance to try it yet, but what I saw looked awesome and I'll give it a go, for sure. I'll update this comment when I do. I've been working on a similar…

> deterrence works Citation needed.

It's not so hard as you make it seem. If you have experience and are not from India or a third world country, raise your price to at least $50/h, and then just submit human-soundin…

I believe that my bathroom and everything in it is full of germs; I also believe that my body has been perfectly able to deal with those germs for the last 40 years, as I don't rea…

Check if they aren't just xor'ed, I've seen that being used before as cheap "encryption".

Fediverse is the name of a decentralized protocol in which different servers federate with one another, a bit like email. Mastodon is decentralized Twitter, Lemmy is decentralized …

The whole text of wikipedia has been included in training data for basically all LLMs since the start.

It's basically the same risk as learning about the roman empire from random youtubers. When I'm washing dishes and just looking for some edutainment, I'm not too worried about bein…

Bad/unoptimized VR makes people feel nauseous. I've never heard of anyone getting nauseous from a polished and performant VR experience like Moss or Beat Saber.

I've been thinking of the same thing, and I think the ideal thing would be to use the psychedelics as a sacrament in the context of a weekend-long initiation ritual. Participants w…

An AI could generate relevant questions, follow-up questions during the oral, and evaluate the student at the end. The teacher could then review the whole conversarion at a glance …

> Most UFO sightings are completely banal things that are not recognized at the time, like camera artifacts and (unironically) atmospheric phenomena. Completely agree, but in this …

Only one of the four objects shot down earlier this year was a Chinese surveillance balloon, and that was also the only one we got pictures of. The other three were described as "o…

The extrasolar origin hypothesis is based on the reentry velocity, which is known and would have completely vaporized any other known type of meteor. That's what made this one spec…