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nom··on Switzerland turned its train tracks into solar power plants
it is less stupid solar roadways, but it is still very stupid
nom··on Timeline Scan – AI fixes the dates on your scanned photos
vibes
nom··on Frieve Vinyl Explained – Microscopic stylus/groove physics simulation
nice, it even squishes the dust particles :D
nom··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
I'd watch that movie
nom··on FanDuel sent personal message from Phillies star to gambling addiction
milking the whales. they all do it.. it's very lucrative and very immoral:

find the most addicted gamblers with big bags on your platform (it's in the metrics) and target them specifically

they assign personal handlers to 'work with them' , to keep them hooked and squeeze as hard as possible

it's profitable to have devs build custom games for individual users, tuned to their specific behavior..

it's a vile industry

nom··on AI Seinfeld is taking over Twitch (2023)
it came back and is still running, now two people watching
nom··on Doma.in Na.me Ha.ck Cl.ub
> s.ai

Game over, Sai wins.

nom··on Study on the effects of listening to podcasts on headphones vs. speakers
no.
nom··on The French are painting their windows with chalk to beat the heat
emergency blankets works great and are cheap too

however, you get even better cooling with a coating that radiates the heat, it cools below the air temperature which feels so wrong

NighthawkInLight on YouTube has explored this and created recipes, the results still feel impossible to my intuition

nom··on Cloudflare teams up with big browsers to help websites detect unwelcome visitors
Hey, do you want one of my poison-free donuts? It's safe and has no arsenic in it.
nom··on Polymarket says hackers stole users' funds
> compromise at a third-party vendor allowed hackers to inject malicious code into its website

this gets often overlooked

Kate from marketing has full permission on Google tag manager.. phish her and inject whatever you want into the website.

And if Kate doesn't have access, the ad agency supporting the marketing department certainly will.

nom··on Android developer verification: Building a safer ecosystem together
I feel safer already.
nom··on Midjourney Medical
Not a joke, they really think that doing billions of full body scans will reduce healthcare costs and make people less anxious.

Any scientist not on the payroll will tell you the opposite. You will get millions of false positives, causing anxiety and unnecessary interventions. This has been studied extensively and we have the stats.

I too wish I could just jump into a machine every month and it declares me free of cancer. Instead it will find new irregularities every time with no easy way to confirm it's benign. This idea does not work.

nom··on U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears
That is exactly what is happening.

Records of environmental data are a huge pain in the ass for those invested in fossil energy and adjacent industries.

The truth is hurting business and they seem to be going on a rampage actively killing it at the roots. Stop collecting and recording data, destroy and hide the existing data and close the institutions.

nom··on Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases
that is not what happened, no.
nom··on Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model
why not?
nom··on You can power on a Mac remotely
It's not about being searchable, it simply gets more clicks because of our stupid human brain. That's why there is a surprised face on half of them.

It makes a noticeable financial difference for creators and almost everyone seems to have accepted it.

Unfortunately, I agree.

nom··on BYD to install 5-minute EV chargers across Europe
They will probably sell more models in the future.
nom··on Germany's €100B bid to make the trains run on time
> Just 60 per cent of long-distance German trains arrive on time, down from 84 per cent two decades ago.

If that's from the official statistics, it's even worse. The definition of 'on time' has expanded (6 minutes late is perfectly punctually and on time, right?) and they stopped counting trains that are too late by simply canceling them. If the train is not running, it cant be late. Brilliant.

nom··on Donut Lab's 'solid-state' battery exposed as regular li-ion in investigation
no no, you see, that's exactly how our super secret chemistry solid state battery would measure! look at it, the curves aren't even similar, very different kink due to secret anode material that's definitely not graphite

it's real guys I swear

nom··on White House considers buying Chagos Islands
what absurd reality are you living in, lol
nom··on Boomurl.com
I have my popcorn ready, keep us posted
nom··on Yon – a topos-oriented language with a content-addressed lattice heap
I'm starting to think AI was a bad idea.
nom··on Counterfeit G.Skill and V-Color DDR5 modules hit Chinese marketplaces
I don't think that is new, the demand is just much higher now.
nom··on Modern Blu-ray drives can now rip GameCube, Wii, and Xbox 360 games to PC
tl;dr

https://github.com/RibShark/OmniDrive

nom··on Dehydration's role in learning and memory
I bet that your body needs more water if you eat ungodly amounts of salty processed food, just to flush all that shit out again.
nom··on GPT Guesses Between 1 and 100
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nom··on An automated A.I. WWE news channel on YouTube tries to pronounce "WWE"
https://youtu.be/LF3URpZcF6s?t=1039
nom··on Deutsche Bahn blocks Linux users
My guess is that they tried to block bot activity and some bots had Linux as UA.
nom··on Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets
Thanks to crypto it can't be enforced and is here to stay, like all forms of online gambling.
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