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Not finding much else, except they do appear to be hosting ad-block detectionn ( https://unknowntray.com/4430b41e83ded20e5f99d3149b838ba9394d... , ref: https://forum.adguard.com/index.php?threads/resolved-venture... ).

Are they DMCAing about blocking ad-blocker-blockers being a tool to "circumvent copyright access controls"?

There appear to be quite a few of these domains, serving the exact same landing page, with Namecheap whois protection, and hosted on Google Cloud.

That Cyanistes Caeruleus sensitivity graph is beautiful, even without the fourth cone.

Almost all of these companies simply regurgitate NWS information pretending it's their own anyway.

Forecasts are fuzzy enough that they may play in that area; but serious things like severe weather warnings only come from the NWS.

If they're already for sale at brick-and-mortars then the listings won't be far behind (I don't see any yet, though).

Then you can download just the IDE, the Mono framework, and the Xamarin.Mac or Xamarin.iOS pieces if you want them.

Page is available now, but the download link is still broken ATM.

Some of the listed attributes are just odd too: only 16GB RAM? No HDMI? No SD?

Guessing from the relative volumes of complaints that I've seen, a more useful list would probably be something comparable to the previous MBP, but with more RAM and a better CPU, and bonus points for a dedicated GPU.

AFAIK there are only a handful of very specific chips that you can currently get away with not using vendor tools against, like ICE40s.

I would be willing to put a fair amount of money into crowdfunding for better open source -full- toolchains for FPGAs (especially something targeting Xilinx devices). The vendor tools, aside from being closed source, are all huge bloated disasterpieces, and none available for macOS.

The hardware didn't sound like anything too special to me; especially with it only needing to handle audio. Fitting enough processing power to handle realtime "AI" in a package that size is the only thing jumping out at me. I'm sure they would be planning to offload that work to some 'cloud' to crunch though. (I personally dislike functionless, network-dependent hardware, but everybody seems to be doing it...)

Promising to deliver an AI that people could see as a friend is absolutely insane though. I don't see people being friends with something that couldn't complete the Turing Test, which will likely stand for at least another decade. Speech recognition and synthesis are in fairly good places, but not human interaction that isn't transparently shallow.

It's not as much about people deciding whether or not to commit suicide; it is, that all of the benefits of intelligence also come with one potentially huge evolutionary problem, suicide. Given that any natural variance in likelihood to commit suicide should be very heavily selected for or against, what adaptations might we have that were picked up to decrease it's likelihood?

The idea in the post is that some mental illnesses may be connected to these adaptations.

It does look fun and educational! ... But, if you're excited about a "homebrew synthetic biology kit" you definitely want to read the specifics of this kit. It actually has very limited uses. Not to dismiss it though; it probably is the best thing you could currently buy in the area. And the kind of sequence-grow-repeat DIY synthetic biology that may come to mind is still, unfortunately, outside the realm of any realistic affordability.

Obviously there are variations on use; where cases like overuse from being unprepared can be painful to listen to... But when obviously pausing to think of the best way to describe something to a particular/unfamiliar audience, or summarize a broader idea down to a specific area being discussed, I've noticed how helpful it can be in understanding, at least for the way that /I/ listen to people.

When I hear somebody "um", to think of the best intersection between what they know, context, and what I know, my mind is trying to do the exact same thing, or even beat them to it. For me, this definitely engages me more; even if I come to the wrong conclusion, my conscious thought is saturated with putting these pieces together. Any related information is already active, and easier to link together. -- Compared to someone speed-reading a prepared statement, where I may come away with some high level knowledge, but be too busy parsing the flow of speech to contemplate many of the finer points as they come.

The credit union that disappears form the official count usually doesn't see much more than a name change, and adding new services & members. This usually results in better service for both original CUs members; a combination of branch locations, ATMs, and services from both of the original CUs.

I've also never heard of "force them to merge their assets into bigger credit unions". Would be very interesting to hear more specifics about this, if it actually means something more than 'hassle them so much that they find a larger CU to merge into, on their own, just to escape'.

That version is open sourced (https://github.com/plexinc/roku-client-public). The Plex developers have abandoned it, for updating the newer client only; but it's still perfectly usable as the old-version.

The company they're working with, Synbiota, does have a "DNA Tinker Studio" kit that looks interesting. It's not full synthesis either though. It contains specific set of available 'parts' to work with, that you combine and get existing bacteria to take up.

There are services, not difficult to find, that offer actual digital->DNA synthesis. Current state, they are expensive, and are focused-on/able-to create only relatively short sequences. Sequence->Modify->Synthesize->Grow, or even targeted splicing, aren't really available things yet, AFAIK.