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Chimps kicked our weak asses off the trees. They should regret how that turned out for them.

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Reminds me of the episode of "Scavenger's Reign" with the creepy-ass plant-clone thing stalking some of the survivors.

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I love the look of the guy on the bottom left. That's one hell of a "holy fucking shit!" face.

The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)

Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....

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Microsoft pledged to be carbon neutral by 2030. Remains to be seen how much greenwashing that is versus actually doing things.

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Gonna catch'em all!

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The "people usually both this with this product" suggestions can be pretty good to cover this.

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Looping back to feudal lords spending their money mostly on luxury goods.

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You don't inherit a lease to a house your parents rented.

Not that I'm happy with "buying" a game actually being "getting a license" instead of actually owning it. Gamepass and the like should be the renting model, not when you pay a game full price.

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I was thinking of the Pearl Jam song: "I'd rather be with an animal".

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There's AI and there's AI. I really like that Firefox has local models for translating content.
Them adding AI that describes images for visually impaired people is pretty cool.

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I kind of hate how machine learning and LLM and a whole bunch of other things are thrown together into "AI" to leverage the hype cycle but that's tech life.

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Since a decade or more? Machine learning-based text translation is the reason we get such fantastic automatic translations these days.

It's not an LLM. LLM is AI but not all AI is LLM.

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The article's author was the Editor-in-chief of Vice's Motherboard as stated in his bio.

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What kind of crazy competition would this guy fit into?

He needs to read up on what a "3 gun competition" really means because it's not this.

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He'll never recover after the death of his running mate: VP Brain Worm.

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It has a chatbot you can interact with separately. It doesn't uses AI in its search engine as far as I know.

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I've never used a check in my life. I can't imagine who would accept one in my country.

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I had doubts until I saw that. Very reassuring!

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Reminds me of a scene from the movie Ichi the Killer (fucked up movie). There's a little old man in a coat seen for most of the movie who eventually doffs the coat to reveal he's swole and wrecks some guys barehanded.

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With extra testosterone. I bet one of the YouTube grindset cons could make a fortune taking steroids and selling bull semen powder as the way to get swole.

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And they'll argue "you don't need [all the things that make this company great]". And then we'll wonder how a once leading company is dying on their now crappy products/services.

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Maybe an acorn fell nearby?

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Yep, download perfect quality FLACs from Bandcamp and self-host them.

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The company is known for making quirky hardware, usually niche musical instruments with creatively chosen knobs, switches, cute UIs and such.

They figured they could ride the AI hype wave based on their expensive niche audience but it's blowing up in their face.

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Which is the point of Gorillaz, so they've succeeded once more.

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The more you think about it, the better/worse it gets.

They couldn't fly from Japan to Hawaii even using the more reasonable route. They were brought nearer using aircraft carriers.

The Doolittle Raid launched longer-range bombers from US carriers to hit Japan and they were lightened up to the max (dumped their guns and anything else non-essential) and planned from the get-go to ditch over China because flying back would be impossible.

Being able to fly a bomber halfway across the World was beyond WW2 tech.

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People are quoting sci-fi examples but they have been tried (and many failed) in the past. They are cities built, owned and operated by a corporation like Ford with Fordlandia in Brazil. Rent? Shops? All company-run.

Technically Disney has their own special district in Florida and have a lot of Government-like powers over it.

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Good on you guys, corpofascist bullshit shouldn't be tolerated.

As for Disney and DeSantis fighting it out over each other's bullshit and the special district, "let them fight" comes to mind.

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Fordlandia failed but that was the idea: work, live, and spend your money there.

All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week (arstechnica.com)

Below is a look at the most exasperating news from streaming services from this week. The scale of this article demonstrates how fast and frequently disappointing streaming news arises. Coincidentally, as we wrote this article, another price hike was announced....

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The joke is on them, piracy was motivated by the extreme convenience of streaming to make it as convenient as ever.

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The bubble is bursting.

Competition caught up with Tesla's lead while Elon was too busy with his many side projects while somehow also micro-managing the company to death (e.g. Cybertruck).

He should have focused on scaling up manufacturing and driving the price per car down. But no, he had to chase the self-driving pipedream, launch a ridiculous pickup truck, and wreck the "genius" person he had built to replace with an alt-right one.

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☀️ My Heart Goes Out to the Aztecs ❤️

BONUS PANEL[S] ⬇️
https://www.historyshapes.com/my-heart-goes-out-to-the-aztecs/

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Panel 1 - Mel, an orange pentagon holding a large knife, runs toward Sam, a red circle, who is holding an Aztec Calendar stone. "Sam, I just saw the temple. Guess what the Aztecs do to appease Huitzilopochtli the god of the sun?"
Panel 2 - Mel waves her knife. "They rip people's hearts out!"
Panel 3 - Sam ponders. "Well, I suppose it could be worse."
Panel 4 - A closeup on Sam. He's upset. "...they could date you for six months first..."

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That's one polyvalent god: agriculture, spring, metallurgy and war to name a few. In the context of skin wearing, the god of war role might be more relevant.

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That's some hardcore agriculture! They really put the agro in agriculture.

And the actual god of war represented by a bloodthirsty hummingbird. Fantastic.

Thanks for the Aztec facts.

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Fingerprint ID does not work with hashes, you need images. I've worked with NGOs and integrated biometric identification systems.

I haven't had to pull the iris data out but I'm certain they where also stored as bitmap images. In any case, the iris scanners most certainly sent images to us and not hashes. Why send an image if all you need is a hash?

In any case nobody outside can tell what some crypto scam is doing with those scans and I sure wouldn't trust them.

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Yeah but the longer term doesn't looks good.

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In the grim dark future, there is only waffles.

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But they are chaos waffles. With warp syrop.

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It is technically correct.

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Probably already got rugpulled.

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It refers to a punishment for bad performance in ancient Roman armies: 1 in ten soldiers was killed.

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Yeah, they could put the ads in the same stream but it would be too costly or inflexible. Ads have to be targeted to the specific market or even user so that would kill their advantage and turn them into generic TV ads.

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And the people maintaining the lists his work depends on.

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uBlock Origin explicitly says he refuses donations and to give it to the list maintainers instead.

A true hero acknowledging the other heroes on which his work rests.

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It's the reasonable thing to do.

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I'll pass on this bet. It's the Pareto law at its worst: impressive advancements in the first years and now progress halted by a million edge cases.

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In this case yes but as an example Linus Tech Tips has put companies in trouble by botching their reviews: using the wrong GPU with a prototype cooler (despite being provided the GPU...) and not removing the protective film on a gaming mouse.

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Yeah, but controls are... unreliable.

Training tends to fall out the window when Lacy sees the flames spewing from her backpack.

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The X has the detachable cable and comes with 3 different ones (long, short, and the long corkscrewed one).

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