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I reverse engineered The Palace, created Phalanx for BHLabs.
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firebot··on Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD
A small dose of DXM boosts the effectiveness of Wellbutrin by 10x or so. It's not an antidepressant itself. It's a dissociative and cough suppressant.
firebot··on Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test
They have varying degrees of 'inelegance' or 'complexity.'

But generally they closely conform to Einstein gravity/standard model, as they incorporate relativity.

But that's still the thing. No theory can explain gravity across the spectrum of variables (from micro to macro scales, apparent lack of dark matter in some galaxies, black holes, why galaxies don't fly apart, etc.) We have a dark gravity problem regardless of which theory you like best.

firebot··on I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows
PhotoPea works in any browser on any platform.

Also you might prefer gimpshop(or whatever the latest PS-ified gimp is these days), as the default hotkeys in gimp are shit. Ctrl, shift, and alt have universal contexts beyond Adobe products that gimp completely ignores.

Just like Macs and the stupid command button. And don't even think of remapping, say the clipboard, to use Ctrl. Many apps just won't honor it. Because that would just make too much sense.

firebot··on I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows
I think the web page delayed loading is often server-side these days trying to detect bots. Especially with a dynamic IP.... You'll generally be fine after that first detection flags you as human. Also this seems to affect firefox moreso than some other browsers, but that's subjective.

Also, if you're familiar with sysinternals suite for Windows there's a Linux equivalent to all the tools with nice GUIs. So you should be able to track down most process-caused performance issues fairly easily without knowing all the appropriate CLI commands.

firebot··on YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken
As a YouTube app user, these complaints are also part of the core app experience. Notifications often never land, especially if you're _trying to_ follow someone's live streams. Even if you're a mod... (Sometimes appearing hours after the live or even the next day or never.)

It'll even randomly drop subscriptions. Forcing the user to resubscribe.

Thanks vibe coding?

firebot··on Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test
MOND reduces but doesn't eliminate the need for dark matter.
firebot··on Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test
2. It's called relativistic MOND. That exists as a category. RelMOND(for short) includes TeVeS, Einstein–Aether variants, BIMOND, and others.

3. I would wager that what we call the CMB is more of a local effect than a big bang remnant.

I lack the karma to downvote, don't blame me. :)

firebot··on GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
It's absolutely an LBO. The leverage is maximizing debt to equity. That debt is then transferred to the new entity.

It's how they destroy companies while making billions in private profit. They over leverage them. Accrue debts. Sell of equity. Wash, rinse, repeat until bankrupt.

firebot··on Investors pile into clean energy as Iran war drives push for energy security
Yea. That last part is a bit incongruent. My bad.

Modern medicine relies heavily on petrochemical feedstocks (derived from fossil fuels.) These are used to make plastics, solvents, reagents, packaging, and some pharmaceuticals Many of these materials currently have no scalable, cost-effective substitutes.

firebot··on Windows API is Successful Cross-Platform API (2024)
I believe most of the Internet (especially the modern web) is QUIC(UDP/IP)...
firebot··on Investors pile into clean energy as Iran war drives push for energy security
T1 Energy in Texas is producing solar panels and systems including batteries at gigawatt(about 3 currently, but they're expanding) scales.

Illuminate USA in Ohio claims to be going even bigger than T1. Over 5 GW/year (10 million panels). But they just seem to manufacture panels and not batteries.

Some others include: Tesla, Qcells, Mission Solar, First Solar, Ambri, Enphase, Ørsted, TotalEnergies, and Generac.

Not all are fully vertically integrated and many still rely on global supply chains...

firebot··on Investors pile into clean energy as Iran war drives push for energy security
Fossil fuels hopefully aren't going anywhere.

We should absolutely stop burning them, though.

For instance, modern medicine requires petroleum and there's no real alternatives at this time.

firebot··on Investors pile into clean energy as Iran war drives push for energy security
They've found some of those in the wild. They weren't that deep.
firebot··on The Claude Delusion: Richard Dawkins believes his AI chatbot is conscious
That's the fun part. One revolutionary discovery and every "expert" becomes a mere bonafide fool.
firebot··on The Claude Delusion: Richard Dawkins believes his AI chatbot is conscious
Can anyone here prove they're not a "stochastic parrot?"

I didn't think so.

firebot··on The Claude Delusion: Richard Dawkins believes his AI chatbot is conscious
> most animals don't even have (language)

Sure they do.

Almost all speak the universal language: body language. Spoken language is built upon patterns and rhythms, or simply music in short.

Woodpeckers can communicate with pecking noises. Whales and other birds have their songs. Dogs have wags, barks, whines, and howls. Cats have purrs and meows. Insects have pheromones in some cases, while bees have jigs that can relay the distance and direction to a source of food, others like crickets make symphonies (have you ever heard them when they're slowed down?)

The evolution of the ear is quite fascinating.

There's even evidence to suggest plants enjoy music and being talked to. And they don't even have ears, as far as we know. And there's also evidence that some plants can communicate with symbiotic ants with pheromones signaling "hey come help me I'm being attacked." Which triggers the ants to go and defend the plant.

firebot··on Bitmap and tilemap generation from a single example
That's pretty satisfying to watch.
firebot··on How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]
Sure. Nothing surprising in and of itself.

But allowing law enforcement to access that system without a warrant is a clear 4th amendment violation.

firebot··on $500M for Virtual Biology Initiative, Funded by Zuckerbergs
Worked for AlphaFold, ostensibly.
firebot··on The Hearts of the Super Nintendo (2024)
Blast from the past. Love content like this (tech porn). Well done.
firebot··on Israeli forces raid Global Sumud Flotilla boats in international waters
Damn. If Bibi was like Trump... he would treat that flotilla like it was a bunch of Venezuelans.

I guess this luser doesn't know politics don't belong here?

firebot··on How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]
Also it's important to know that it was a private company 'technically' doing it.

Like they still do (just buy the data instead of getting warrants for them.)

Apparently, if the government did this directly that would be a breach of our constitutional rights and blah blah blah blah. But if a private company does it's fine (there's probably something in the terms of service or license agreement waiving your rights) this and then they go buy that data from the private company and that's apparently okay.

firebot··on How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]
Hackers 2: operation takedown is based on a true story.

https://www.cybereason.com/blog/malicious-life-podcast-kevin...

> his brother introduced him to a hacker named Eric Heinz, who told him about a mysterious piece of equipment he came across while breaking into Pacific Bell: SAS, a testing system that allowed its user to listen in on all the calls going through the telephone network. SAS proved to be too great of a temptation for Mitnick, who desperately wanted to wield the power that the testing system could afford him.

Then of course other people started finding similar black boxes at other telecoms and data centers.

Ghosts in the wire (his book) mainly focuses on the FBI using the system for wiretaps. And if they can, I'm sure the NSA could just as easily.

firebot··on How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]
Kevin Mitnick also discovered this.. ages ago.
firebot··on Creating a Color Palette from an Image
Interesting design choices.

Have you ever tried allrgb.com? The idea is to use every 24-bit RGB triplet once and only once. Many people naturally choose 4096x4096 as the final image size.

firebot··on Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things
Anyone remember The Palace? 1996 to uhm. Early 2000s they went bankrupt. Some people made their own clients to various degrees. The two popular ones being PalaceChat(still around, barely) and Phalanx(dead.)
firebot··on Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things
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firebot··on Vera: a programming language designed for machines to write
Why not prolog or one of the other logic languages? It's really old, should be lots of good training data for it and the declarative nature would seem to be a great fit for llms.
firebot··on Making AI chatbots friendly leads to mistakes and support of conspiracy theories
Yea, Mecha-Hitler is a real bastion of truth. /S
firebot··on Show HN: My retired dad and I made a daily, somewhat difficult, quiz
That's the one I missed. I recall it was around 1300-1400... I guessed the wrong one. But 2 out of 3 ain't bad.
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