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vGPU··on Parkinson's patient able to walk 6km without problems after spinal implant
To be fair, regrowing neurons tends to be a good bit more difficult than throwing a DSP on some electrodes. Oversimplified explanation, obviously, but it helps illustrate the point.
vGPU··on Tesla drivers can now disable remote access in privacy win
This is a feature for Tesla repair - Tesla has always been able to remotely start your car without your keys. Adding in a toggle to disable it is new, and appears to be in the A/B testing stage currently.

I wonder if there was an “incident” we aren’t aware of that prompted this, like the snafu with Tesla employees sharing videos.

vGPU··on Dengue rates plunged after release of lab-altered mosquitoes
Well, widespread spraying with DDT did essentially create a permanent reservoir of DDT-resistant mosquitoes, which also made them resistant to pyrethroids. Bit of a problem. Fun fact - DDT makes spider mites extra fertile.

I do agree however that the eradication efforts of both caused significantly more good than harm, no question.

vGPU··on Cooking and bird safety
From what I’ve seen iron deficiency seems far more common, especially in women.
vGPU··on Cooking and bird safety
Cast iron perhaps? With an enamel coating?
vGPU··on Dengue rates plunged after release of lab-altered mosquitoes
I can’t help but feel like I’ve heard this before.
vGPU··on Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly
Sure, but this is Paradox, a company that constantly makes buckets of money on DLC for Stellaris, Europa universalis, crusader kings, etc. I doubt they were about to run out of money. They just had to release a new race of scantily dressed aliens for stellaris and they’d be good for another half a year.
vGPU··on Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly
> This mesh of a pile of logs is similarly only used in the shadow rendering pass, and features over 100K vertices.

But… why?

vGPU··on Bayer hit with $332M judgement in Roundup cancer trial
This makes no logical sense. If a heavy penalty is established for the use of roundup, an even more prohibitive one would be appropriate for anything more harmful, making it extremely cost-inefficient to use them.

This would drive the development of new farming methods and research into different classes of chemicals.

vGPU··on Intel Itanium IA-64 Support Removed with the Linux 6.7 Kernel
This reads like it was written by a discount version of chatGPT.
vGPU··on Drugmakers are set to pay 23andMe to access consumer DNA
Willpower won’t fix a congenital heart defect.
vGPU··on Software that supports your body should always respect your freedom
> users of the proprietary software app LibreLink

Bit of a misnomer.

vGPU··on 'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love with dating apps
The problem being that what people say they want and what people actually want are often two entirely different things.
vGPU··on Drugmakers are set to pay 23andMe to access consumer DNA
> his genetic profile indicates a high probability of several disorders and an estimated lifespan of 30.2 years.

That seems to be a very valid reason to not send someone on a space mission.

vGPU··on Quadcopters can now visually track targets more effectively
So the constant shelling of crimea by Ukraine prior to the war never happened?
vGPU··on Samsung disables customer phones remotely, holds data hostage [video]
The company that just pushed an update that marks Google play services as malware and tries to break android is “better than iPhone”?

Get out of here.

vGPU··on Nitrogen electroreduction with almost 100% current-to-ammonia efficiency (2022)
You can buy ammonium nitrate in bulk. Much easier to turn into an explosive if that’s the point you’re making. Just say you’re opening a farm and off you go.
vGPU··on Quadcopters can now visually track targets more effectively
The problem is that each 30mm projectile costs ~5k. Not a good trade off if you swarm it with $300 Chinese drones. And as soon as it starts firing, artillery will start raining down on it. Plus, the Russians have already demonstrated the ability to attack AA systems from multiple sides to get through the blind spots. Any attempt to cluster multiple AA guns or radar systems will make for an incredibly attractive target. Modern production lines can make what, a few hundred of them a year at best? Russia has purchased several thousand drones from Iran alone last year, and they have supposedly produced several hundred thousand lancets.

The US desperately needs to stop feeding the MIC and Wall Street and to reindustrialize the US economy, because we are simply not able to produce anywhere near as much missiles, shells, tanks, etc to fight the war the US wants to fight. The current combined yearly shell production capacity of Germany and the US is less than half of Russia’s alleged production capability, and they just signed a deal with NK that will likely increase their production capacity by a good 50% at least.

vGPU··on Quadcopters can now visually track targets more effectively
Too expensive in terms of cost, materials, and time. Also too vulnerable to swarm attacks. A gepard costs what, 400k? Lancets are 20-40k. I can almost guarantee that it won’t take anywhere near 10-20 lancets to kill one, maybe 3-5. And a non-SPAAG AA gun is a non-starter with modern ISR.
vGPU··on Quadcopters can now visually track targets more effectively
No, the best way to kill a drone is with a cheaper better drone that you can make more of.
vGPU··on Quadcopters can now visually track targets more effectively
The better way was in not starting this war, or not undermining three attempts at peace negotiations before it ever got to this point.

The US has been involved in one proxy war after another with Russia for decades. It’s just standard US foreign policy, and it simply can’t be denied - US ISR is providing actual strike targeting information.

Regardless, it’s just more of the same. See: Vietnam, Ethiopia/Somalia, Afghanistan, and half a dozen others.

Proxy wars are just the way that wars are going to be fought between peer/near-peer powers, because a full blown confrontation risks global catastrophe.

Ukraine was just foolish enough to sign up for the role of “US’s cannon fodder” in the never ending US-Russia war.

When - not if - when, China ends up getting involved, we will likely see a shift from a unipolar world to a multipolar world and the end of US hegemony and European colonialism.

I’m sure I’ll get flagged for going against the Russia bad US good narrative though.

vGPU··on Quadcopters can now visually track targets more effectively
What you’re asking for isn’t possible since the development of non-gps & ai based navigation. Any system capable of launching physical strikes will be taken out by counterbattery fire almost immediately, and with the hardening against EW the drones have received you essentially can’t really do much without the equivalent of an EMP, which would likely cause you more damage than the enemy.
vGPU··on Quadcopters can now visually track targets more effectively
The problem is that the orlan only needs to survive long enough to give approximately coordinates for a lancet or artillery strike. Revealing the position of a Gepard in exchange for taking down a drone is a… poor trade, at best.
vGPU··on Cortex X2: ARM aims high
Google is trying that and it’s not working out so well.
vGPU··on Police raid mosque in Moscow, forcibly take worshippers to enlistment office
Fired != exiled.
vGPU··on CVS ditches common cold meds after FDA advisers say they're useless
They literally decriminalized the possession of meth. Not. Single word of what I said was inaccurate in any way.
vGPU··on I2P: End-to-end encrypted and anonymous internet
The last time I tried it out I found that it had all of half a dozen websites and that was it. Nothing to see or do.
vGPU··on I2P: End-to-end encrypted and anonymous internet
Doesn’t that make i2p less vulnerable to an issue tor suffers from - that of hostile-owned relays and exit points? I remember reading something about how a large part of them were controlled by US intel.
vGPU··on Animated AI
What are you browsing on, a blackberry bold?
vGPU··on SumatraPDF Reader
> This comes back to Jeff Bezos’ wisdom: there will never be a time when users want bloated and slow apps so being small and fast is a permanent advantage.

A nugget Bezos seems to have forgotten.

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