davidgro

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davidgro,

I remember leaded gasoline (and prices under USD$1)

I saw (on TV) the Challenger explosion

On 9/11 I was staying at a friend’s house, and that morning basically every news site was brought to its knees. Like serving static text only summaries. I remember going outside and seeing the newspaper on the porch and thinking “This is going to be the last normal one for a very long time”. It was of course.

Some friends and I took a long road trip and in person we saw this fly the first of the two flights for the X prize (Note: that one actually had some decent reasons to use the name X)

I caught COVID-19. Twice. So far.

davidgro,

To prevent that, just add a magic license statement to the end of all your comments.

/s (sadly, this actually needs it.)

davidgro,

Ah, was guessing that just meant the employee entrance or walkway or something.

davidgro,

Well, there’s this. Source: The YouTube video in another comment here.

davidgro,

Wow, the SSD can hold the charges perfectly while unplugged for ages? Amazing.

Yup. Before flash memory, devices like video game cartridges which had game saves actually needed a battery to power the memory holding the saves.

davidgro,

Neat… What’s the catch?

davidgro,

You’re right, I see that in the article now. Always ruining stuff.

davidgro,

We kinda did that for the genome

davidgro,

Very true. Even though we have more advanced data tools and everything, it would still be orders of magnitude more difficult

davidgro,

So you’re worried about governments forcing brain surgery on people, and think this one particular technology is going to be the big issue if that happens?

I think at that point ‘reading minds’ is no longer the major concern. Like the old statement about apocryphal airport security measures after 9/11 - “if you can take over the plane with fingernail clippers, then you don’t need the clippers”.

(clippers were never actually banned on planes in the USA, but for a short while the metal files on them were and that caused confusion)

This tech seems like a huge waste of money when if they are That authoritarian they could just shove an ice pick up the dissident’s eye socket or simply have them jump out a window with bullet holes in their back. Why bother with actually gathering evidence - if you’re willing to forcefully open their skull, then clearly it’s already beyond that point.

I suppose it could be used to find accomplices and crack passwords and stuff, but still seems like a very roundabout way of going about it and likely can be easily defeated by just thinking “LA LA LA I CAN’T HEAR YOU” in a loop. Or thinking of an earworm song. Or thinking of false statements.

davidgro,

The article said surgery. Also common sense, they are reading individual neurons. Not feasible from outside.

Best we have is FMRI, and it is an amazing technology, but it absolutely can’t do that and never will because of how it works. And besides, it doesn’t fit in a doorway either, and would also be incredibly obvious: loud, super magnetic - requiring all metal to be removed for a long distance, requiring the target to sit for a long time and follow instructions, etc.

Surgery is absolutely the only way this is possible.

davidgro,

Seeing his brother vanish just made him fall apart.

davidgro,

Technically correct, but 7 and 8 were part of Windows 9x.
The last standalone version was 6.22

davidgro,

C compilers (at least on personal computers) weren’t great at optimization back then and every kilobyte mattered - the user only got 640 of them, going beyond that required jumping through hoops.
Similar for MHz, hand optimization was important for performance since there was so little CPU time to go around.

davidgro,

The image says they also exclude + and -.

davidgro,

I don’t know about that… Rebecca Black OS was the first to be Wayland by default, and continues to be a cutting edge test bed for it.

davidgro,

“My God, this is an outrage! I was going to eat that mummy!”

How old is the oldest building in the town you live in?

To those from the Western hemisphere, it’s always fascinating to hear that some homes and businesses from the times of the Greek philosophers still have inhabitants, and then you remember that the Western hemisphere is itself not without its own examples, for example some Mexican villages still have temples from the times of...

davidgro,

Interesting that it was moved to a different lot in 1986.

And looks like any other house, just with fancy window frames.

davidgro,

Nanotubes are still a thing, but most of the hype now seems to be around ‘buckysheets’ (graphene)

davidgro,

Yes, ‘url parameters’ start with a question mark and then any after the first are separated with ampersands. Often some of them may be for tracking, but not always.

davidgro,

Someone explain please?
(I got the title, but not the comic)

davidgro,

In that case… Are you a spy and is your wife unusually strong?

If so, I wish your kid luck earning those Stella.

davidgro,

Here’s a timely video about avalanches from Veritasium last week.

davidgro,

Pretty much so is the author of the article.

davidgro,

I believe true AI might in fact be an extinction risk. Not likely, but not impossible. It would have to end up self-improving and wildly outclass us, then could be a threat.

Of course the fancy autocomplete systems we have now are in no way true AI.

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