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Apparently the exposure to peanuts is often harmful. Definitely not something you would want to try without a doctor.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/peanut-allergy-immunotherapy-...

Ethcadon A.I. Companies Agree to Safeguards After Pressure from the White House

We need regulations requiring mandatory watermarks on the outputs of troll bots

Ethcadon A.I. Companies Agree to Safeguards After Pressure from the White House

Yeah, if they put watermarks on generated images then everyone will just immediately stop using their product and switch to a competitor.

There's some interesting work using steganography to mark generated text (https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10226), but I'm not sure if that's what they're talking about here.

Ethcadon Tokyo Is the New Paris

The archive link has a paywall notice at the bottom

Ethcadon Taurine deficiency as a driver of aging

It's 0.1%

Ethcadon Introducing Electron Fiddle

There is a grammar error in the first sentence of the README...

> Electron Fiddle let's you create and play with small Electron experiments.

Ethcadon Worms frozen in permafrost for up to 42,000 years come back to life

No, it said oldest living animals.

Ethcadon Python 4.0 Confirmed in 3.7 Documentation

> Since this change breaks compatibility, the new behavior needs to be enabled on a per-module basis in Python 3.7 using a __future__ import:

  from __future__ import annotations

> It will become the default in Python 4.0.

Ethcadon Apple Will Go All-OLED in 2018

This title is misleading. The article suggests that all iPhones will use OLED displays in 2018, not all Apple devices including Macs and iPads.

Ethcadon Librem 5 design report

Yeah, that’s a bit of an odd way to write it. I guess it’s intended to be easy to compare to 16:9, 21:9, etc.

Ethcadon Mecanum wheel

Same problem we had this year (Power Up). We built two drive bases, and when we tried the Mecanum one against our 2017 robot, it just got pushed right out of the way. No friction.

Ethcadon Apple’s 2019 Mac Pro will be shaped by workflows

There was. Apple shared it in the WWDC keynote when talking about changes to Xcode.

Ethcadon KotCity – an open-source city simulation game written in Kotlin

Seems like bad news that the programming language it’s written in is one of the main selling points...

Ethcadon Jupiter is deep

This is Hacker News, not 4chan.

Ethcadon Understanding word vectors

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but wouldn’t it be a medium gray in RGB? Or are you talking about HSV?

Ethcadon Vulkan is coming to macOS and iOS, but no thanks to Apple

Agreed. It’s awesome that you can write a game once with Unity and not only have it run on all platforms, but have it run with the native, optimized rendering framework.

Ethcadon Kactus: Design version control without changing tools

The website looks exactly the same as that from GitHub Desktop: https://desktop.github.com/

Ethcadon Atom 1.24

Try VS Code. It works well out of the box, plugins are easy to install, it's faster than Atom, and very actively developed, with major feature releases coming out every few months.

Ethcadon Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure”

Right back at you. How is buying an iPhone over an Android giving up essential liberty? I always have the right to sell it, go to the store, and buy a device that lets me do whatever I want.

Ethcadon Server-Side Swift from Scratch

I wish them the best! I really enjoy Swift, as it takes the best of concise, "dynamic" languages like Python and adds a static type system and a smart compiler that catches lots of errors. Really a much better choice than Ruby in a lot of ways. Now if only the machine learning community would take notes...