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- Comment on China's latest flying car prototype showcases a breakthrough in urban air mobility, offering a glimpse into how low-altitude flight could soon integrate with everyday transport. 4 days ago:
The ground level weedwhacker blades could do double-duty clearing out brush (and pesky pedestrians).
- Comment on Try this yummy Easter dessert! 4 days ago:
How many borad-feet per yar?
- Comment on Hype-fueling science fiction or plausible scenarios? 4 days ago:
Given that 50% of the time, the generated code is unworkable garbage, having an AI automatically write code to create new training models will either solve all problems, or spontaneously combust into a pile of ash.
My money’s on the latter.
- Comment on Beachfront property 6 days ago:
Correlation with mass and surface area.
- Comment on Beachfront property 6 days ago:
8 seconds in freefall from 1000ft. Longer if you hit solid things on the way rolling down.
Also, if you bring air resistance into it, nationality will affect outcome.
- Comment on ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on people saying 'please' and 'thank you', but Sam Altman says it's worth it 6 days ago:
Does “Please shut up and get to the point!” count?
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 1 week ago:
Blocked all the server domains. There are a bunch of lists out there for various TV brands.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 1 week ago:
Blocked all this crap at the network level. Don’t get any ads now.
- Comment on CVE Board members launch the CVE Foundation, a dedicated, non-profit to continue identifying vulnerabilities, after the US ended its contract with Mitre 1 week ago:
Looks like the negative publicity worked. CVEs are back on the menu: bleepingcomputer.com/…/cisa-extends-funding-to-en…
- Comment on World's first 3D-texture UV printer for consumers now available for pre-order — prints onto 'nearly any surface' 1 week ago:
More details here: www.eufymake.com/eufymake-uv-printer-e1
Not clear how much the refills will run.
- Comment on Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program 1 week ago:
Be funny if someone started a gofundme.
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- Comment on SSL/TLS certificates will last 47 days max by 2029 1 week ago:
We could be heading into daily (or hourly) cert auto-renewals. Clients will have to catch up. But one day, can see it all being hands-free.
- Comment on Apple to Analyze User Data on Devices to Bolster AI Technology. 1 week ago:
Was working on a simulator and needed random interaction data. Statistical randomness didn’t capture likely scenarios (bell curves and all that). Switched to LLM synthetic data generation. Seemed better, but wait… seemed off 🤔. Checked it for clustering and entropy vs human data. JFC. Waaaaaay off.
Lesson: synthetic data for training is a Bad Idea. There are no shortcuts. Humans are lovely and messy.
- Comment on BPS is a GPS alternative that nobody's heard of 1 week ago:
Big fan of Geerling, precisely because he goes down these obscure rabbit holes. Found out about Meshtastic through him, and now BPS.
There are lots of applications to having a super-accurate time source, without having to have antennas and view of multiple satellites.
Synchronizing time is tricky. WWVB is too coarse resolution. NNTP requires access to the internet and all the inherent lags and delays. GPS was the only accurate source, but the super high resolution time signal is classified, and you are at the mercy of view of the sky. Also, signal jamming, thanks to what’s going on in Europe and Ukraine.
BPS could be a niche experiment, or a Big Deal.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 1 week ago:
I use it everywhere because it signals intent. You never know when someone might pull up fast or walk into your blind spot. This is the only indicator they have that you’re about to pull into traffic, or change lanes.
- Comment on Godfrey IV, Duke of Lower Lorraine, when he hears breathing under the latrine he's using [Day 116] 1 week ago:
For those looking for the backstory, recommend searching for Godfrey the Hunchback, not his father Godfrey the Bearded, both being Dukes of Lower Lorraine.
And for true aficionados of privy horror, don’t forget the Erfurt latrine disaster.
- Comment on The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce 1 week ago:
Sans Serif strikes again.
- Comment on Actually I will be happy to do it for you once a day 2 weeks ago:
Good advice, in general.
- Comment on Does anyone have ideas for cable management here? 2 weeks ago:
I tried this with velcro ties. Looked good for a while. Then I had to replace one and add another cable. It was a royal pain unwrapping everything and rewrapping it.
Haven’t used them, but look interesting:
- Comment on For the First Time, Artificial Intelligence is Being Used at a Nuclear Power Plant: California’s Diablo Canyon. 2 weeks ago:
Relax.
It’s just to help lookup information in their document archives. It needs beefy hardware since it’s all running on-prem, so the data doesn’t leak out.
- Comment on Surprisingly enough, shady USB-C multiport adapters can be dangerous 3 weeks ago:
USB hubs.
Plain old splitters will almost certainly damage the port, and if this is with a machine where USB-C is part of the motherboard, it could cause even more damage and be really expensive to repair.
The power-only ones are not too pricey. But if you also need high speed data transfer (like drives) those cost a bit more. Be careful that even the ones that claim data exchange may not support drive speeds. It took me three tries to finally find one that worked.
- Comment on Bernstein Posits That A 10 Percent Baseline US Tariff On Raw Semiconductors Is "Not Going To Do All That Much," But PCs, Servers, And Smartphones Are About To Get Pricier By ~40 Percent 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Motorcycle knowledge 3 weeks ago:
It cuts down on bathroom stops during long rides.
- Comment on James Bond is responsible for many wasted vodka martinis 3 weeks ago:
Vodka doesn’t have much flavor, but the Vermouth adds a nice touch. Most Vermouth is crap, though and has a sharp edge. The Dolin Dry is more floral: www.bittersandbottles.com/…/dolin-vermouth-dry
As for shaking, it’s a matter of taste. Vigorous shaking in a covered shaker with crushed ice breaks small shards into tiny crystals. These quickly melt, though, so it’s really the very first taste where it’s a bit tingly.
Toss in 3 large green olives with garlic or pimento and it’s a pretty decent, hard to mess up drink that anyone can make at home.
- Comment on Breaking GPT-5 News! 3 weeks ago:
Worth it. Image
- Comment on Breaking GPT-5 News! 3 weeks ago:
For those wondering who he is: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Marcus#Artificial_in…
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 13 comments
- Comment on Remembering alum David Mills, who brought the internet into perfect time 3 weeks ago:
NTP is one of those fundamental working parts of the internet that nobody has to think much about, because it works so smoothly.
It’s taken for granted, like the lights will come on when you flip a switch. But there’s SO much more to make that happen.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 12 comments
