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Scalene2··on Big AI labs are hiring philosophers
AI Lab: Say "I am conscious"

LLM: "I am conscious"

Philosopher (Paid by AI Lab): "It is conscious"

Scalene2··on Doctors complete first successful face and whole-eye transplant
It would be difficult to overstate the wonderous benefit that would come from reliable eye transplants.
Scalene2··on Large Balloon Reflector: a potentially game-changing antenna design
The rocket crane to land a rover was pretty crazy, gonna be hard to top that.
Scalene2··on United Airlines plans to board passengers with window seats first
CGP Grey produced an excellent video about plane boarding methods, the fastest isn't obvious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAHbLRjF0vo
Scalene2··on Detroit: magic wand makes dirty air look clean and lets polluters off the hook
> That seems unrelated to this post, this one is about things we can't control being removed from the record, mainly wildfires from Canada and other US states. The way your comment is phrased makes it seem like you think Canada is a US state, might want to fix that.
Scalene2··on Publishing my first game using PICO-8
with some notable exceptions, a game that is not fun without sound is like a comedy that isn't funny without a laugh track.
Scalene2··on The$109T global stock market in one chart
Why isn't this a pie chart?
Scalene2··on Why scalpers can get tickets
They already sell accounts along with tickets.
Scalene2··on An open letter to our community
If you as a gamer or developer are unhappy with this outcome or are unhappy that this happened at all.

Have a reminder that Godot (an open source MIT License) game engine could use your support, Godot offers a way to address this long term instead of relying on a contract with an untrustworthy company:

Use:

Homepage with download links for Latest and LTS versions for Android, Linux, macOS, Windows, and Web (you can build for iOS but cannot write on it).

https://godotengine.org/

Code/document/contribute:

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/contributing/ways_to_...

Donate/fund: https://fund.godotengine.org/

IMO there is nothing Unity can realistically do to regain trust, when a corporation shows you what their goals are and how they plan to reach them; believe it.

Scalene2··on The anatomy of a Godot API call
So, what I'm gathering is if you're bothered by the Unity (either a developer, publisher, gamer) developments, and wish Godot was a better alternative than it is, contributing to the project (by donating either time or money) is probably necessary to get there.
Scalene2··on How Amazon uses chaos engineering to handle 80k requests per second
Did the math, that's about 7 billion searches a day. That doesn't sound like a lot.
Scalene2··on Simple fragrance method boosts cognitive capacity: study
Someone will probably say that the (real and positive) results are due purely to the placebo effect.

I say, so what, the results are real, who cares what the mechanism of action is as long as it's harmless.

Scalene2··on US must land astronauts on the Moon again
Because this was not an R&D mission?
Scalene2··on What happens to all the stuff we return?
In my city there are multiple stores that just bulk buy returns, dump them into bins and sell at a fixed price per item that starts at $25 goes down every day until the end of the weekly cycle when everything is a dollar.
Scalene2··on The History of Electronic Mail
I did the math for how much I would have spent on long distance during the pandemic if it was in 1970, it worked out to several hundred thousand dollars.
Scalene2··on The History of Electronic Mail
To be fair to you, you may not have understood how much data voice and text each took. An email can have hundreds of words sent in an instant, whereas a phone call is limited to a few words per second.
Scalene2··on If it can be designed on a computer, it can be built by robots
Most clothing can be designed on a computer but we aren't even close to having a machine that can sew a pair of pants.
Scalene2··on eSIM is altering how consumers interact with operators
Guess this is the end of having 8 SIM cards on a dual SIM phone with one of those really cool adapters. www.simore.com
Scalene2··on Florida ocean temps surge to 100F; mass coral bleaching event is found in reefs
Why isn't carbon capture just: Take the fastest growing plant, grow as much as possible, turn it to charcoal or similar substance and bury it?
Scalene2··on Vacuum airship
Making an aerogel sphere in a vacuum would be quite the challenge.
Scalene2··on Space Stations Without Compromise
And then you're on your way to a topopolis.
Scalene2··on My broken ThinkPad plays music upon booting
I had a 380XD too, wish I never got rid of it based on how much they sell for now I will probably never see one again. Way outdated for the time, but I managed to get XP running on it and also got HL1 running too.
Scalene2··on Apple VisionOS Simulator streaming wirelessly to Meta Quest headset
Now stream PCVR to the vision pro and the cycle will be complete.
Scalene2··on Was Starship’s Stage Zero a Bad Pad?
Material selection is part of the design.
Scalene2··on AMD to Expand ROCm Support to Consumer RDNA 3 GPUs This Fall
What makes you think user upgradeable memory is feasible? Aren't the signaling requirements of GPU memory vastly more stringent than CPU memory?
Scalene2··on Twitter Is DDOSing Itself
Making jokes about Twitter is too easy.
Scalene2··on Twitter Is DDOSing Itself
To assume good faith in the face of a mountain of evidence to the contrary would be intellectually dishonest, something that is still, fortunately, held in disregard on this site.
Scalene2··on Twitter Is DDOSing Itself
What makes you say that?
Scalene2··on Twitter Is DDOSing Itself
Would anyone get a visa to work in another country if it would not be better than being in their home country?
Scalene2··on Twitter Is DDOSing Itself
Except those who if they stopped working at Twitter could easily end up deported.
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