SoleInvictus
@SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras 3 days ago:
Well, we’re all reasonably intelligent people. Let’s collectively brainstorm!
It looks like masking with a random pattern made to look like dirt or debris is an option.
To negate night reads, how about 2-4 layers of optical polarizing film, each transverse to the previous plane of polarization? Alternately, a coating with a visible light transparent, IR opaque pigment.
- Comment on when ur higher than sagan 5 days ago:
They should be fine anyhow if homeopathy really works. They just need to take a little train material, serially dilute it to 10⁻²⁰ strength, then take it with sugar pills. Train immunity!
- Comment on leading ai company 6 days ago:
Racisms per minute (RPM)?
- Comment on i just think they're neat 1 week ago:
I was surprised to see them called inedible. The young gourds are tender and taste like squash.
- Comment on Shit like this is why we need open source printers! 1 week ago:
Here’s the relevant wiki article:
- Comment on THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments 1 week ago:
We really need a spreadsheet to track all this shit.
- Comment on It's why the thrift store has so many of them 1 week ago:
Use linesman’s gloves and don’t unplug them first for extra effects!
- Comment on Dogs need love too 2 weeks ago:
I’m only more likely to do something like this when high because I’m already likely to do something like this when not high.
- Comment on Which way? 2 weeks ago:
It’s chemical cauterization. The phenol kills the cells responsible for growing new nail.
- Comment on Permian Park 2 weeks ago:
I was going to say the same about Cambrian biota, but it would be faster, cheaper, and less horrifying to simply make more movies based on H.P. Lovecraft novels.
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 2 weeks ago:
Sort by new and you’ll find it’s a bunch of Germans too. Ich liebe meine deutschen Freunde der Nacht.
- Comment on Broccoli Blooms 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s interesting if you’re into etymology or language in general.
Broccolo is the Italian term for the brassica flower crest and is the diminutive form of brocco, meaning sprout in a botanical context. Broccoli as a surname can mean their ancestors were broccoli farmers, soldiers as a brocco is the center of a shield, carpenters as it can refer to a type of nail, or even arborists as it can be the stump left after cutting off a tree limb. Italian is a very old language, the associations get wild.
- Comment on Broccoli Blooms 2 weeks ago:
That’s what the Broccoli family (of James Bond fame) claims, but it’s contested. The James Bond IP is the source of their wealth.
- Comment on VIC-20 cassette stash - what's worth backing up? 2 weeks ago:
I’m unemployed, I have ALL the time. Looking forward to watching tapes slowly play…
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- Comment on Larry Ellison Just Quietly Became the Most Powerful Man in America 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Transgender, nonbinary and disabled people more likely to view AI negatively, study shows 3 weeks ago:
Disabled, vehemently anti-AI enby here. The only thing I’m good at professionally is being a great big brain, so taking knowledge work away from me makes me angry.
- Comment on Alexa, how do I remove cooties? 3 weeks ago:
I like us building alternatives on the internet. The fediverse makes me hopeful again.
- Comment on This 81-year-old still works at Home Depot to support herself and her 90-year-old husband 3 weeks ago:
Don’t forget that capitalism is literally the only viable economic system, full stop. Before its advent in 1463 by Bernard H. Capital, nothing worked, anywhere, for tens of thousands of years. The world was in turmoil. Cats associated freely with dogs, the Keebler elves were not properly enslaved, and humans lived on a diet of pine needles, grubs, and sea water. Pure madness.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 3 weeks ago:
No no, you don’t get it. Every single person in the world must love it for it to be the greatest game. Until that day, they’re just pretenders.
/s
- Comment on Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world 3 weeks ago:
Microscopes are crucial for diagnosing infections but can cost millions of pounds, making them entirely inaccessible for many people across the globe.
Good article but this stood out as a massive exaggeration. They can cost millions, much like a car can cost millions, but I can pick up a microscope sufficient for most clinical laboratory work for around $200-300. A cheap epifluoresence microscope can be acquired for around $2k.
Still an inaccessible amount for many, but it’s several orders of magnitude cheaper.
- Comment on Jury orders Tesla to pay $329m to plaintiffs in deadly 2019 Autopilot crash 4 weeks ago:
Reading an article on Musk’s erratic, ridiculous behavior from over a year ago makes me pine for the world’s previous level of insanity.
- Comment on FBI uses facial recognition technology, online photos to identify and arrest ICE Portland protester 4 weeks ago:
Temporary tattoos can help confound identification.
- Comment on How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday? 4 weeks ago:
It depends - are their arms broken?
- Comment on US pushes to revoke scientific ruling that underpins climate regulations 4 weeks ago:
If I had known I was going to be living in the Clown Country, I’d have gone to clown college so I could be better prepared.
- Comment on sharks are older than polaris 5 weeks ago:
Plant bard would be the best, assuming you can avoid predation.
- Comment on After 4 years my banana tree decided it was time to fruit! 5 weeks ago:
Disclaimer: I’m a microbiologist, not a botanist, although I took a bunch of botany and mycology courses to fill my elective requirements and for… recreational reasons.
There are a few cultivars, like double mahoi, that’ll produce fruit twice before dying back, but 5-6 is unusual.
The usual cycle is a single “trunk” (pseudostem) will grow, flower, fruit, then die. As it grows, it’ll produce daughter plants which appear as additional, initially smaller trunks which follow the same cycle, just offset in time from the parent plant.
Did your plant have multiple trunks? If so, it was actually multiple plants. If not, you possibly had a plant with a novel mutation that could have been very lucrative.
- Comment on well? 5 weeks ago:
I gave it some thought and got vertigo. I’m going with counterclockwise.
- Comment on well? 5 weeks ago:
Get hooked on meth, it’ll wildly change your priorities.
- Comment on well? 5 weeks ago:
It meshes well with my occasional feeling that reality is just circling the drain.