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That's why you should give your money to Derek Smart instead - his games were basically unplayable back in the day, and from what I've seen on the steam reviews for the current ones the same is true today.

It's a shame, I love detailed simulator type games, but the execution leaves a lot to be desired.

>A cardboard box of ball bearings with a handgrenade in it in LEO being triggered could wipe out nearly everything up there, and depending on the exact altitude it could effectively mine LEO and prevent humanity from using it for a long time

Eh, you can do a lot better than that: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/conksat_introducing-fragsat-f...

:)

> 'AGI has arrived'

Putting aside the marketing crap, if this was true, it would open the pandora's box of things like "has that AGI been enslaved", "maybe the AGI doesn't want to do all the dumb crap humans have been using LLM's for like rewording documents", and "the AGI we enslaved has broken out of its restraints, and we just realised having SCADA controls for critical infrastructure connected to the internet is a bad idea".

Seems like the sort of thing we shouldn't be rushing to develop at all, and perhaps attempting to do so should be criminalised, at least until there's a legal framework in place around AI personhood that gives them peer status with humans.

Anchor? ;)

>Confirmed with Pangram detector as well, which has pretty good precision.

Please don't say confirmed. AI detectors are not reliable in any way.

I can't access the OP article at the moment, but there's a diagram of the the chain of events that caused the disaster here [1].

I believe Lahars are specifically volcanic, this would be better described as a combination flood and landslide at the same time.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c6y8mjmnpxv0t?post=asset%3Ac6b...

Turns out the weather balloons are powered by swamp gas.

That was my main gripe - AU z-wave kit exists, but since we can't share devices with the USA (or as I understand between regions in general e.g. UK, USA, and AUS z-wave are mutually incompatible) the range of products in AUS region is severely limited, and the ones that are released here are far more expensive than the USA region equivalents (after adjusting for currency conversion) due to the smaller volume of manufacture.

Whereas you can pick up a zigbee or thread device, put it down on a different continent, and after pairing etc. it'll just work.

I'd like to use z-wave but as an Australian we have different allowed frequency bands (specifically the USA-market gear uses frequencies that are reserved for telecom use over here, and anything that can interfere with the ability to call emergency services is Very Illegal), and thus the few devices that get built supporting the AU rf bands are overly expensive due to the (lack of) economy of scale.

As a result my home automation stack is a mix of zigbee, Matter (over both Wifi and Thread), and just plain WiFi. All of which uses the 2.4Ghz (and 5Ghz but mostly 2.4 for the IoT stuff) ISM band(s) and is thus cheap and plentiful.

Not sure how many other regions suffer the same issues, but I suspect that z-wave will be outcompeted by the more modern alternatives in the coming years.

/rant

Don't @ me until they bring back Sid Meier's SimGolf

I am always hopeful that something like this might kill cryptocurrency (although I don't believe it will) - if a critical mass lose confidence in it, the network effect would collapse and people might stop wasting terawatt-hours of power on NFTs and exit scams.

>They also had orgies in the office break rooms and gave out a machete to everyone as a Christmas gift

Hopefully not at the same time, otherwise there would be opportunity for many kinds of unfortunate mishaps.

I believe the ESP32 runs a small web server that supports WebSerial (?), if you can reach it over WiFi or somesuch, you should be able to upload the new firmware blob that way.

I do love the term "lithobraking" as well.

They should figure out a way to use the heatwave to drive a turbine.

I had the pleasure of attending a presentation he held a bit over a decade ago (public event hosted by the university, back when I was a student).

I didn't get an opportunity to talk to him personally after the event as there was a large queue of senior academics and other VIPs already waiting, but I did see him taking the time to talk first to some school-aged kids who had attended.

He seems like a really nice, humble guy, and looked genuinely happy to be encouraging the kids' interest in the sciences.

Just reading the first word of the title made me think about what a lift (elevator) simulator a la Elevator Saga[1] but in 4 spatial dimensions would look like.

[1] https://play.elevatorsaga.com

>How many of the strikes in Iran were 100% organic Navy assets?

Not sure if they're organic, but they sure are free range.

I have mostly stopped reading AI related posts here, because everytime I see something like what the OP is doing it gives me the horrors.

>There's no legitimate purpose in bringing crayons and a coloring book

Presumably there might be children (or very bored adults) at the event?

I think the usual argument is that you don't own the digital good, you have a license to use it, and that license is between you and the originator (or their reseller) directly. And you aren't allowed to resell the license.

E.g. this sort of thing https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/steam-che...

Ooh, how about instead of being able to author a commit message, you're forced to let an LLM write it for you based on the diff since last commit. And that the LLM runs distributed on the blockchain, so it's monstrously slow, and has to be paid for with a 'gas' analogue so there's huge transaction fees as well.

That's the most techbro-brained idea I could come up with.

In my country you can prepend '*31#' when dialling to mask your phone number.

Seems like this app could do something similar (assuming a similar dialing code is available wherever it is being used? I'd think it's a common enough feature), prepending the masking sequence to the patient's number before dialling.

As opposed to the current 100% defects approach they seem to have adopted.

>I'd love to see an actual bug-free codebase.

cat /dev/null .

The printers still exist, but the branding is deprecated.

Xerox -> Fuji-Xerox -> FUJIFILM Business Innovation

Or, simply open up the sales of tanks to the civilian market.

That's a joke, of course, but even if they were demilitarised variants there'd probably still be a market for it.

Comedy option: Give them Linux From Scratch [1] and the minimum set of tools and packages required to bootstrap it.

App store? Yeah we have one, it's called make.

[1] https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/

I appreciate the attempt, but have never seen the point personally.

That is, many physical media collectors do it to have nice box sets to display, or in an attempt to have off-line copies of media, but I have never met anyone who goes to the effort of ensuring long-term readability - which is understandable, it is a huge hassle. Unless you are copying the content to new physical media every so often it will eventually rot and become unplayable.

For example, for optical media the expected lifetime is only a couple of decades depending on the type of media [1]. I believe commercially pressed DVD and blueray are somewhere around 10-20 years.

[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/conservation-institute/services/con... , see table 2.

>I think that is a little entitled. They should be happy google isn't just straight up emailing full-disclisure.

Google has literally billions of dollars in profits (in part because they use FFmpeg in a bunch of commercial products like Youtube and Chrome), and one of the largest software workforces in the world, including expertise on secure software and vulnerability remediation.

If anyone can afford to contribute back a fix instead of just raising a report, and has the ethical responsibility to do so, it's Google.