davidgro

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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,

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

davidgro,

The image says they also exclude + and -.

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,

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,

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

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

davidgro,

Pretty much so is the author of the article.

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,

I gotta go for now, but one quick note:

“While the man hunted the deer ran into the forest”

Actually looked too good to be an original creation from an LLM to me, and sure enough it’s not. (About half way down)
I was actually looking up the one about the horse when I found that page.

davidgro,

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

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,

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,

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

davidgro,

We kinda did that for the genome

davidgro,

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

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,

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

davidgro,

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

davidgro,

Neat… What’s the catch?

davidgro,

Seeing his brother vanish just made him fall apart.

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