brianorca

@brianorca@lemmy.world
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Thought this was already established precedent.

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Maybe. The EU just ruled on Apple Safari, so they may be forced to allow other browsers in their phones.

Nice reference of https://www.xkcd.com/1172/

The guy that invented time zones was solving a problem where each little town had their own time standard. I don't think that was sustainable.

iPhone is like ChatGPT. But trying to trademark GPT would be like trademarking "Phone"

So you want Ukraine to just capitulate? Just to satisfy your "peace at any cost" desires? Because Russia sure isn't going to.

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Others mention the mouse motion, and monitoring your other traffic to similar sites. When it shows the checkbox, it has already determined you are probably human. If you had suspicious activity, they will give you more advanced tests instead of just a checkbox.

The snakes could go down the drain of a toilet in the other restroom, and come out inside your restroom.

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Because most of what you look at in real life is mundane. But go find a nice sunset or a green forest, and you can appreciate it. When you see a scene in HD or 3D on the screen, there is a heavy selection bias to show you pleasant scenes that most people seldom see in real life. If it was super 4k and 3D, but it was just your same living room you see every day, it would be uninteresting. But the same camera showing a living room in a 10 million dollar house would be interesting. (And the natural views outside even more so, most likely.)

Fun fact: pretty much all the helium we have access to comes from alpha decay of heavier atoms, such as natural uranium. An alpha radiation particle is just a "naked" and fast moving helium nucleus. (Missing the electrons.) When this happens deep in the earth, it quickly runs into something, stops moving, and picks up some electrons to make it helium, which can accumulate in certain rocks.

Or 30% to deliver an app.

No, they don't have pumps or the energy needed to do that all the way to 100%. They do send water from a higher lock to a lower lock until they are both at 50%, but they have to fill the remaining portion from the lake system on top.

It's a third party kernel module, which Microsoft would love to be able to block, but legally can't. It's technically possible to write a virus scanner that runs in user space instead of the kernel, but it's easier to make sure everything gets scanned if it's in the kernel.

Ukraine doesn't want to target Moscow. They are not like Russia, they go after actual military targets, not civilians. They have been using their homebuilt drones for long enough inside Russia to show their priorities.

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That would be different, knowing your fate was sealed and nothing could be done. But this submarine imploded, and the whole event took a few milliseconds. There was no time to even see the water rushing towards you, it was just going from living breathing person looking out the window, to a puddle of goo with no capacity for thought, in less time than an eye blink.

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Pantone suddenly decided to assert copyright and licensing to the literal names of colors in a way the broke art files going back decades.

There have been US court cases where arbitration clauses were voided if they weren't prominently visible outside the box before purchase. Dang vs Samsung

Since the pocket dimension would be sea level pressure, dipping into it for a breath when you're deep is a sure way to get the bends, which would be a painful way to die. (Especially if nobody is there to help you.)

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Everyone gets mad at China for creating a new artificial island in order to claim a huge swath of previously international waters.

It's not your number. It's all the numbers.

Sounds like sleep. Hibernate is when it turns completely off, such that you can leave it unplugged for a weekend and still have battery when it pops you back into your session. It takes longer to save and restore the session than sleep does.

If a tiny chip is embedded in glass or a similar biologically inert coating, and it's still small enough to pass your intestines without noticing, then it's edible. RFID can be very small, has no internal power, and only responds to a nearby request ping, which also gives it a few milliseconds of power.

The skin of that cowling doesn't look thick enough to do more than streamlining. You're thinking of the containment ring found in jet engines.

That would be a charge in functionality.

They added face recognition to the SIM registration process, in an attempt to reduce fraud. (Maybe by limiting or not allowing duplicate faces.) But a monkey face works too, and they are plentiful on the islands, supplying many unique faces.

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It's software. There's literally no reason to treat it like a car lease. There is no overhead or cost on their part which justifies an early termination fee.

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Nearly all such software support CUDA, (which up to now was Nvidia only) and some also support AMD through ROCm, DirectML, ONNX, or some other means, but CUDA is most common. This will open up more of those to users with AMD hardware.

They probably need to be in so many different locations, and so many different network nodes, that they don't want to consolidate like that. Their whole point of being is to be everywhere, on every backbone node, to have minimum latency to as many users as possible.

This actually exists, but for a different operating system. The AS400 (aka iSeries) had a command line where programs had a standard way to specify parameters, so that pressing a prompt key (F4) would allow you to build the proper command line by filling a form. I do miss that, pity it doesn't exist for Linux.

Embrace, extend. What's the next one? Oh yeah, extinguish.

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But Recall is recording screenshots, not data stored on disk. That's not the same as Apple's hourly data snapshot which is just a automated backup of what you have already stored. Recall will be recording the videos or images you watch, even when you don't keep them locally. It will store the things you decided not to save, and every time you have to open your password manager to check a password, or create a new one. It might be limited to your account, but that still means it's accessible to anyone who can figure out your password or access your unlocked PC behind your back. Or to that virus you accidentally downloaded, if it's not immediately detected.

It's like looking through frosted glass. If you're looking at someone, and trying to figure out what they are doing. Frosted glass means you can kinda see their overall posture, and some big movements. That's like the skull cap. In order to use it you would have to make large changes in your brain patterns so it can be detected. But put clear glass, even a small window, and you can see exactly. Even a small window on the right place will let you read their lips, or watch their hands. That's like the implant. Even though the implant reads a very small part of the brain, the data it gets is very clean and gives more precise control to the user.

They have a navy, but most of it is outside the Black Sea, and Turkey is not going to let it in.

That's why most boat power systems use LiFePo4 (aka LFP) batteries instead of LiCoO2 like you phone battery. LFP is immune to thermal runaway, and can't burn even if it did overheat.

You should read everything critically. Which is easier on Wikipedia because it provides sources.

Diffusion AI (most image AI) works differently than an LLM. They actually start with noise, and adjust it iteratively to satisfy the prompt. So they don't tend to reproduce entire images unless they are overtrained (i.e. the same image was trained a thousand times instead of once) or the prompt is overly specific. (i.e you ask for "The Mona Lisa by Leonardo")

But words don't work well with diffusion, since dog and God are very different meanings despite using the same letters. So an LLM spits out a specific sequence of word tokens.

It wouldn't be that hard. Once you get a clock like this with the reverse movement, you can just open the face glass, remove the hands, and print a new graphic for the background.

Which is still not copy and paste.

Article says "the machines are capable of sending estimated ages and genders" so it's not recognizing individuals, but perhaps adjusting the sales pitch for who it sees walking by.

(But it's a collage campus, so most students will be around the same age. Maybe it pitches different things to teachers?)

You mean artificial sapphire, like the iPhone uses?

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