knightly
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- Comment on Antimatter has been transported for the first time ever 3 hours ago:
Not even enough to raise the temperature of the containment bottle by a degree. 92 antiparticles s. trillions of atoms of steel and composite.
- Comment on Two protesters against the deployment of a US military base on an island in Japan have been killed. 5 days ago:
Look at that source, might as well be posted by the Israeli state department for how much I’d trust it.
- Comment on What if medicine intentionally tastes bad? 5 days ago:
A lot of medicinal compounds are alkaloids, which are naturally bitter
- Comment on Why do people hate AI so much? 6 days ago:
So, either you’re accusing me of tone policing and engaging with me anyway, or you’re not accusing me of tone policing yet continue to meander off topic anyway. XD
- Comment on Why do people hate AI so much? 6 days ago:
In what way is making a counter point disingenuous?
It reveals that your intent is not to comprehend another perspective, but to insist upon your own.
Why do I need to just blindly accept what someone says without any pushback?
The thing that you’re being asked to accept is that this someone believes what they say they believe.
Nobody’s asking you to blindly assume that this someone is being honest, but making a counterpoint is not the same thing as asking clarifying questions to probe their perspective for the inconsistencies that would indicate deception.
- Comment on Why do people hate AI so much? 6 days ago:
My intent was to try to understand why people feel the way they feel. If I disagree with a reason someone has, am I just supposed to be like “oh, ok”, and move on?
Make up your mind, is your point to understanx why people feel the way they feel or to convince them to feel in a way you agree with?
- Comment on Why do people hate AI so much? 6 days ago:
The early days of “AI” were a full generation before the beginning of the internet, as it was formalized as an academic field back in the 50’s while ARPANET didn’t start admitting non-Defense users until the 80’s.
- Comment on Why do people hate AI so much? 6 days ago:
Are you saying I am being disingenuous in my intentions by making counter points in a discussion?
Yes, that’s very clearly what’s happening here.
- Comment on Why do people hate AI so much? 6 days ago:
The two are inseperable. The scale of large language models means they can only be trained by people willing to spend billions on data harvesting and compute.
- Comment on Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers 1 week ago:
Faraday cage, but it’s just a dog crate wrapped in aluminum foil.
- Comment on Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers 1 week ago:
As usual, shot placement is key. I imagine the navigation sensors are fragile enough that a small air rifle could do enough damage to disable them, but a .22 would definitely do it and maybe even be enough to lock up a knee or shoulder joint.
- Comment on Nvidia's DLSS 5 Is a Slap in the Face to the Art of Video Game Design 1 week ago:
Detail Leaking Shabby Seer
- Comment on Nvidia's DLSS 5 Is a Slap in the Face to the Art of Video Game Design 1 week ago:
Debt Limited Stereotype Sketcher
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 week ago:
Seems pretty enforcable to me. Hell, they were even able to compel the U.S. Olympic committee to pay out hundreds of millions when their lead team doctor sexually harassed so many athletes that he’ll be in prison for the rest of his life.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 week ago:
What fact about yourself are you least willing to share with strangers?
If there is no way to tell if that is a reasonable question or not, then by what metric do you decide whether or not to answer it? Does that metric act as a stand-in for “reasonableness” to you, and if so then how do you square it with your earlier insistence that such a metric is impossible?
- Comment on Not looking for how to meth. But is not a moonshiners still about as dangerous as a meth house exploding? What the difference? 1 week ago:
Short version, distillation isn’t a chemical process but a simple physical state change from liquid to gas and back. Alcohol vapors can be explosive when mixed with Oxygen in an appropriate ratio, but there generally is no potential source of ignition between the boiling chamber and the cooling chamber and the expanding vapors push the oxygen out of the system early on in a production cycle.
Producing meth, however, is a multi-step process requiring both chemical and physical state changes with a panoply of reagents and waste products which are corrosive, toxic, flammable, explosive, or even potentially radioactive. Some of those waste products are volatile organic compounds which have to be vented from the production equipment and subsequently settle and condense into a residue that contaminates all surfaces in or near the meth lab. Some of that residue may involve substances like sodium and lithium which ignite spontaneously on contact with water, further increasing the risk of fire or explosion and turning any firefighting operations into a hazmat operation.
- Comment on Nvidia's DLSS 5 Is a Slap in the Face to the Art of Video Game Design 1 week ago:
It can’t, remastering games is an entirely different process that requires artistic direction. Piping a gamecs video output through an AI filter just takes the original game and smears a bunch of slop over it.
- Comment on Nvidia's DLSS 5 Is a Slap in the Face to the Art of Video Game Design 1 week ago:
Double Latency Slow Sloppification.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Ugh, I just watched the video.
I want to know who at Nvidia asked for this, so I know who to blame. XD
- Comment on Muad'Dib Dib Dib 1 week ago:
Something something “Butlerian Jihad”
- Comment on Iran raises minimum wage by 60% as war decimates household budgets 1 week ago:
Wish the USA would do that. XD
- Comment on Without a hint of irony, Russia mocks US for 'miscalculating' Iran war 1 week ago:
“Mistake”
Russia’s operative in office was given explicit instructions to start this war.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It doesn’t even look good, it looks generic.
Their model wiped out all that atmospheric fog in the background and fucked with the contrast so badly that it changed the mood of this scene from genuinely-creepy Resident Evil screenshot into an uncannilly airbrushed tiktok filter selfie. That water/rain, grime, and rust on the walkway behind the character almost got removed entirely, the door on the ice machine on the opposite side got a lot of extra weathering and scratches instead, their hair has even changed color from blonde to badly bleached brunette in need of a touchup, and the eyes have too, from pale green to deep blue.
The fact that Nvidia thought this was a noteworthy improvement over the original is a sign that the inmates are running the asylum. Tech companies should leave the art to actual artists, because clearly just AI-upscaling a game’s textures without an art director involved in every step of the process is only going to bury it deeper in the uncanny valley.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable 2 weeks ago:
Nah, if Youtube blocks adblockers then I’ll just waste my time elsewhere.
- Comment on What if you floated upwards 1 ft every second? 3 weeks ago:
If all the local sources of graity are balanced out, then you’d probably start moving away from the center of the galaxy.
- Comment on bold words 3 weeks ago:
My egg cracked at 11, but enbys were almost entirely unknown in Texas back then so I masked so hard that I was basically living in denial. My 18yo self wouldn’t need gender validation, it’ll find kindred spirits for that in college, but “Colorado, not California” might push up my transition date by a decade, 'cuz my first attempt to escape Texas didn’t go well.
- Comment on Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ 3 weeks ago:
Oh hey, that’s almost exactly the kind of cyberpunk dystopia that I grew up reading fiction about:
- Comment on Is thus true? 4 weeks ago:
XD
I’ve seen furries put the squeakers from dog toys in the soft fabric noses of their fursuits =3
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I mean, the Flipper Zero is just a computer with a few radios built-in.
I think the only one they share with most smart glasses is Bluetooth which might potentially have some vulnerabilities which could be exploited, but there are also expansion cards for the Flipper Zero that add everything from wifi and ethernet ports to high-powered IR blasters, so the real question is how vulnerable smart glasses are.
And the truth is, they’re vulnerable by default because they rely on corpo servers to operate like any other “smart” device. Any flaw in the security of the glasses themselves barely holds a candle to the fact that they forward everything to Facebook or some other big tech brand name with a financial interest in monetizing your data.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I get so many compliments on my fancy moustache, but nobody notices my tits unless I wear a push-up bra. XD