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>it can be run on external hardware that uses a capture card to analyze your video feed and alter your mouse inputs to the computer.

I think at some point defeating this becomes impossible. This sort of cheating isn't much different conceptually from just having someone who's really good at the game play for you.

Yeah I don't think this would work for hardcore competitive gamers, but it would be nice to have as an option for those who are more casual. Definitely better than not being able to play at all.

It doesn't even seem very hard to implement, steam already has the ability to stream games, they could add this pretty easily as an option for any game (although there is the concern of the extra cost of running the servers).

This is one use case where I think the idea of cloud gaming (e.g. google stadia) could make some sense. Having this as an alternative for linux users would be nice.

It's much harder to cheat if the game isn't running on your computer.

I feel like this has a much better chance to succeed than lab-grown meat for two reasons:

1. It's grown using bacteria, which are much faster to reproduce and cultivate than animal cells. 2. The intended products are a homogeneous mixture, which means you don't need to worry as much about texture

From what I've seen, it doesn't seem like AI is very good at keeping track of events in a way that makes a logical narrative.

I tried "The Hobbit" and it started with me having tea with Gandalf the wizard. There was a knock at the front door so I opened it and outside was Gandalf the wizard!

I'm familiar with the idea of "brandishing" being illegal, but I looked it up anyway. I found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menacing which says "Self-defense is often explicitly given as an exception."

It seems like then it would be legal to draw a gun without firing if it was in self defense? I have a hard time believing that there are any cases where shooting someone in self defense would be legal, but scaring them away wouldn't.

I know only an average amount about guns/gun laws (which is to say, not very much), but this seems pretty off to me.

If someone is going to attack me with a knife, but then I draw a gun and they run away, surely that's not illegal because I didn't shoot them.

As a vegan, hard disagree. I prefer impossible because it tastes even more like meat.

I love vegetables and grains too. Tofu and lentils etc. are delicious but sometimes I just want a burger.

I get that LLMs are a black box in ways that most other technologies aren't. It still feels to me like they have to be okay with abstracting out some of the details of how things work.

Unless they have a lot of knowledge in electrical engineering/optics, the average user of this isn't going to understand how the camera or projector work except at a very high level.

I feel like the problem with LLMs here is more that they are not very predictable in their output and can fail in unexpected ways that are hard to resolve. You can rely on the camera to output some bits corresponding to whatever you're pointing it at even if you don't know anything about its internals.

That's pretty cool. I figure this is explained in some of the videos but I can't watch them right now.

I'm reading more about the "OS" Realtalk

>Some operating system engineers might not call Realtalk an operating system, because it’s currently bootstrapped on a kernel which is not (yet) in Realtalk.

You definitely couldn't fit the code for an LLM on the wall, so that makes sense. But I still have so many questions.

Are they really intending to have a whole kernel written down? How does this work in practice? If you make a change to Realtalk which breaks it, how do you fix it? Do you need a backup version of it running somewhere? You can't boot a computer from paper (unless you're using punch cards or something) so at some level it must exist in a solely digital format, right?

I'm only just now reading about Dynamicland for the first time, so maybe I'm not understanding something obvious. The text description is not very helpful, as far as I can tell from pictures it's a place where you can move around physical objects and papers to do computer programming type stuff?

Under visibility they say:

>To empower people to understand and have full agency over the systems they are involved in, we aim for a computing system that is fully visible and understandable top-to-bottom — as simple, transparent, trustable, and non-magical as possible

But the programming behind the projector-camera system feels like it would be pretty impenetrable to the average person, right? What is so different about AI?

As a non-scientist, I am not really any more qualified to give an opinion on this than any random person, but the fear around food dyes seems way overblown IMO.

You can read the statement from the FDA where they banned red dye 3, it's very short. [1] Here's a relevant quote:

>claims that the use of FD&C Red No. 3 in food and in ingested drugs puts people at risk are not supported by the available scientific information.

[1] https://www.fda.gov/food/hfp-constituent-updates/fda-revoke-...

>How it works: To participate, patrons must show ID at a participating bar or restaurant and receive a branded wristband

Ugh, I don't want to get raging drunk on a bar crawl, I just want to be able to sip a beer that I brought from my house as I walk down the street.

I have only vaguely heard of this substance so I may be missing some important context, but I don't think this attitude really holds up under scrutiny.

There's plenty of research done on things which can't be patented or used to turn a profit in some way. People do research on diet, exercise, vitamins, and pharmaceuticals which are now generic like aspirin etc. just to name a few off the top of my head.

There's also public funding available for research which isn't intended to make money for any particular corporation.

Damn, I just had one of those moments where you go from thinking you understand something to realizing it's really complicated and you don't understand it at all.

>as a US resident it seems completely inappropriate to be telling people who emit far far less carbon that they need to stop eating beef, before people in the US have stopped far far worse activities

Why does it need to be one or the other? It's definitely true that the US has higher greenhouse gas emissions per person than most other places. Shouldn't we focus on reducing emissions anywhere we can?

I've spoken to lots of Americans who are under the false impression that food miles are the most important factor when it comes to sustainable food, this article makes the case that it's actually meat.

I think it's reasonable to say people should eat less meat (especially in the US) and we should also reduce emissions from transportation and energy.

Thanks for the link.

I get that copyright is a bit of a minefield, and there's some clear cases that should not be allowed, e.g. taking photos of a painting and selling them

That said, I still get the impression that the laws are way too broad and there would be little harm if we reduced their scope. I think we should be allowed to post pictures of Pokemon toys to Wikipedia for example.

I'm willing to listen to other points of view if people want to share though

Yeah that's fair, I'm trying to create an analogy to other services which are similar to help me understand.

If e.g. Patreon hosts an artist who will draw a picture of Indiana Jones for me on commission, then my money is going to both Patreon and the artist. Should Patreon also police their artists to prevent reproducing any copyrighted characters?

I'm honestly trying to wrap my head around the law here because copyright is often very confusing.

If I ask an artist to draw me a picture of Indiana Jones and they do it would that be copyright infringement? Even if it's just for my personal use?

Yeah I don't really understand what the thesis of this article is. Copyright infringement would apply to any of those images just the same as if you made them yourself.

I don't think it's possible to create an "alien which has acid for blood and a small sharp mouth within a bigger mouth" without anybody seeing a connection to Alien, even if it doesn't look anything like the original.

Wow I had no idea this existed

>Disadvantages

>Weight: a bus which can carry 20 persons and has a range of 2 km (1.2 mi) requires a flywheel weighing about 3 tons.

>The flywheel, which turns at 3000 revolutions per minute, requires special attachment and security—because the external speed of the disk is 900 km/h (560 mph).

It's truly a mystery why they never caught on

Great quote, although the nitpicky part of my brain immediately thought "They must have days though?"

The article is interesting, but I didn't come away with it feeling like I have any idea how to replicate the flavor of alcohol in a non-alcoholic drink.

>If you've been following along, you may have concluded that you should be brewing up a batch of bitter, spicy, slightly sweet tea the next time you serve as designated driver. Gross.

>But, there's no need to do that.

Ok, so what do I actually do lol?

I think this advice is useful for mixed drinks which already have a lot of flavorful non-alcoholic ingredients like a bloody mary, but I doubt anybody is going to come up with a good substitute for a dry martini any time soon.

I've been working towards my private pilot license at San Carlos and I don't know what's going to happen if they can't find someone to do this job. The airport can get very busy sometimes and it seems like it could be dangerous to have nobody working the tower.

I sympathize with the ATC workers though. It's ridiculous that they can't pay them a decent wage for the area, there's only two of them as far as I know.

Can you elaborate on point 4? Your comment is interesting but I don't entirely follow.

I remember looking into this and it seems like a lot of motherboards/graphics cards don't support HDMI CEC for some reason.

That would be the ideal way if it worked though

Yeah I just thought of this, gonna give it a try today

The problem is that when it's asleep a key press won't wake it up. Only pushing the power button or using wake-on-lan will.

One thing I just thought to try is using an app on my phone to send the WOL packet.

Related: I have a setup with a PC connected to my TV, it would be nice if there was some way to wake up my PC from sleep using a remote control of some kind. The best way I can think of is using wake-on-lan on another device like a raspberry pi. I could configure it to send the signal when it sees me push a button on my remote.

This doesn't feel very optimal though. Having a whole other device constantly running just to wake up my main device feels like a waste.

While I was scuba diving in Belize with some friends we encountered some Goliath Grouper which would follow us around. Later we were amazed when we saw another diver hold out her arms to one and it swam right up to her so she could hold it and pet it. Keep in mind this was a massive fish that probably weighed as much as a person.

We asked her about it afterwards, turns out they just like being petted :). Eventually got to try it out ourselves on another dive, fish can be really friendly.