Rhaedas 4 months ago • 100%
Sam started this. The comparisons would have come up anyway, but it's a lot harder to dismiss the claims from users when your CEO didn't tweet "her" before the release. I don't myself think the voice in the demos sounded exactly like her, just closer in seamlessness and attitude, which is a problem itself down the road for easily convinced users.
AI companions will be both great and dangerous for those with issues. Wow, it's another AI safety path that apparently no company is bothering exploring.
Rhaedas 4 months ago • 75%
Cabin in the Woods
Rhaedas 4 months ago • 100%
Irony, since Scarlet had dubbed over the original voice actor Samantha Morton because in post Spike Jonze realized the voice needed something "different". So in the movie they needed to turn the dial up a bit, while in reality they started at 11 and had to dial it back.
Rhaedas 4 months ago • 100%
These people seem to think the meme about the spider picture sent in an email as payment was a how-to and not a joke.
Rhaedas 5 months ago • 100%
It's people from the North driving in the South, with the sudden realization that the snow that fell and started to melt yesterday refroze and isn't snow anymore. Anyone can drive on snow...but snow doesn't stay snow in the South.
This also applies to any Jeep/4x4 drivers who seem to think physics works different for them.
Rhaedas 5 months ago • 80%
Hang on. I misplaced my surprised face...oh, here it is.
Huh, who would have guessed?
Rhaedas 5 months ago • 83%
I did comment that enforcement seemed to be part of the problem here, yes. Do the laws need to be more strict? I doubt that will fix any enforcement, since that's the failure.
Rhaedas 5 months ago • 65%
Guns are regulated. How much regulation, who gets allowed, what types of guns, and if the regulations are being enforced, those are the real questions. This warrant and shooting is a result of a law that wasn't enforced well, as they had already broken the law once and yet someone sold/gave them guns again.
Rhaedas 5 months ago • 100%
Languages change over time. As long as the intent is clear, don't get hung up on what is and isn't "correct". "You're welcome" probably was seen as extreme at some point itself.
Rhaedas 5 months ago • 100%
The variety of actual polls on each President is very odd. Apples, oranges, and fish?
Rhaedas 5 months ago • 100%
Solar panels (PV) degrade over time and use and have to be replaced and disposed of. A better case would be for things like solar furnaces that are simpler, but most of the time solar implies PV panels.
Rhaedas 5 months ago • 66%
In the spirit of the comic - how is the solar panel made?
Rhaedas 7 months ago • 100%
States' rights, unless it's inconvenient.
Rhaedas 7 months ago • 100%
A very good "normal" example of body modification, just not as permanent. And there are degrees to that as well...I've seen lipstick colors that just enhance the lip color and give a sheen that I don't think twice about, but even my favorite celebrities look off putting to me when made up "heavily". I'm a bit on OP's side as far as preferring the natural look, although minor studs or a small tattoo somewhere don't catch my attention in a negative way, if I even notice.
Rhaedas 7 months ago • 100%
Absolutely, although isn't a major job for the VP to handle international affairs, which this definitely is one?
I just wish we had other choices out there. I'll vote blue and persuade others also because the choice given the voters is bad politics as usual, or insanity. I can vote for Biden/Harris and still hope (with much doubt) for more progressive actions from underneath.
Rhaedas 7 months ago • 100%
That would only get more support for him from those who blindly worship him. There's no legal restriction.
Rhaedas 7 months ago • 66%
Except for one thing. Unless that society is also a lot different than ours, it would still require the product these companies produce to survive. So maybe a much stronger slap of the hand, but it wouldn't eliminate them.
Rhaedas 7 months ago • 100%
Better is a very relative term. A ramp up to a hothouse Earth will be better for exotherms to spread out more. Doesn't work well for most other species still here now.
If it was just humans that were impacted, then I'd be sad about the lost potentials we may have had, but be fine with life going on for the rest. The crime is that we're dragging down just about everything else with us.
Rhaedas 7 months ago • 100%
Better is a very relative term. A ramp up to a hothouse Earth will be better for exotherms to spread out more. Doesn't work well for most other species still here now.
If it was just humans that were impacted, then I'd be sad about the lost potentials we may have had, but be fine with life going on for the rest. The crime is that we're dragging down just about everything else with us.
Rhaedas 7 months ago • 100%
Easter Island statue is very symbolic of the problem. As is the sprinkler to try and fight a losing battle.
Rhaedas 7 months ago • 100%
When they name a new policy rule after you...
Rhaedas 7 months ago • 100%
Polls are polls, but just the fact that there is still any conversation at this point says a lot about the state of the country.
Rhaedas 7 months ago • 100%
Maybe your argument isn't against Lemmy, but against online discussion in general. Heating debates that break into less constructive postings have been around since the days of BBSes and Usenet. I don't disagree with your point that people should try to act like adults when discussing topics, but a (not so) different format doesn't change how people are, especially when they feel protected by anonymity to react badly.
Rhaedas 7 months ago • 83%
From the point of just moving the charge, yes, it's called antimatter. Antielectrons are positive, antiprotons are negative. From the mass point of view though it would be a different kind of physics altogether since electrons have virtually no mass compared to the other two particles, and protons don't exist as a particle-wave duality, so neither protons or electrons would act the same by just switching them out in a Bohr atom model arrangement. Maybe someone with more in depth knowledge can give additional or better reasons.
Rhaedas 7 months ago • 100%
I'll always prefer the look of the Constitution variants, from the original up to the Sovereign. I like many other styles too, but no other ship profile is more recognizable, even by non-Trekkies.
Rhaedas 7 months ago • 75%
Police are trained to drive at faster speeds for obvious reasons, but even they need to limit such higher speeds to the same constraint of reaction and vehicle performance times. I'll be positive and give the benefit of the doubt that he did try to avoid hitting her once he saw her (if he saw her at all), but I can't imagine anyone being able to react nor slow or swerve in such a setting if it was like most 25 mph zones I know of. People speed through our 25 mph subdivision at 35-40 mph and I'm just waiting for the day someone gets clipped.
Rhaedas 7 months ago • 100%
I have a laptop that's suffered from that for a while now, so it's not just one update but a trend. Tried a number of things from clearing space to even a manual download on a USB to force it. It always reverts back to churning away trying to complete the update, restarting, and then reversing it. The irony is the laptop works fine until it comes time for it to check again, then repeat ad nauseam.
Rhaedas 7 months ago • 100%
I have to credit ChatGPT4 for this answer.
Credit, or a warning?
From my understanding a big part of the problem with PET is the availability, either because it's such a small percentage of plastic and demand is too great, or because it gets lost among all the rest and so is mixed or ruined for recycling.
Honestly the debate on which material is better totally ignores the real problem - consumption demand. Reduce used to be the first 'R', but it was not friendly to the capitalistic mindset or an exploding population, so Recycling became the big focus along with the subtle blaming of the consumer for not being THE solution when they didn't participate.
Rhaedas 7 months ago • 100%
It's partially because of cost, new plastic is cheaper than trying to recover old. But very few plastics can be truly recycled chemically, much being reformed for other purposes. Glass and metals were always a better environmental choice (with their own limitations too), but plastic is so cheap and versatile it's hard to compete. Not just plastics - just a look around the household imagining the lack of petroleum products, it's amazing how it's everywhere. Yet another dead end we've gotten ourselves into.
Rhaedas 7 months ago • 100%
There are two dangers in the current race to get to AGI and in developing the inevitable ANI products along the way. One is that advancement and profit are the goals while the concern for AI safety and alignment in case of success has taken a back seat (if it's even considered anymore). Then there is number two - we don't even have to succeed in AGI for there to be disastrous consequences. Look at the damage early LLM usage has already done, and it's still not good enough to fool anyone who looks closely. Imagine a non-reasoning LLM able to manipulate any media well enough to be believable even with other AI testing tools. We're just getting to that point - the latest AI Explained video discussed Gemini and Sora and one of them (I think Sora) fooled some text generation testers into thinking its stories were 100% human created. In short, we don't need full general AI to end up with catastrophe, we'll easily use the "lesser" ones ourselves. Which will really fuel things if AGI comes along and sees what we've done.
Rhaedas 7 months ago • 100%
I've seen this same suggestion years ago on Blender tutorials. Generating a scene isn't about making it realistic, it's about fooling the audience into thinking it's real without making it too hard to create. Look at videos from Ian Hubert on how to fake it well.
Rhaedas 7 months ago • 97%
Rhaedas 7 months ago • 100%
I haven't seen them in production yet, but for years I've heard of the idea of infrared detection in car systems to see warm bodies better at night on a screen or heads up display. There was also the idea of using that along with IR lighting and road markings to light up the road better. Like having high beams on without blinding other drivers, something that is far too common these days.
Rhaedas 7 months ago • 100%
Guess the thrown blade was the one making first contact with the sand dune. Did Ingenuity just not detect the dune ripple because it was expecting a more flat surface? Good data for the next generations of copters that will definitely occur due to its 72 flight success valdating the concept.
Rhaedas 7 months ago • 100%
The Earth doesn't care how we move things around in our spreadsheets.
Rhaedas 7 months ago • 83%
They don't mutate for any purpose, that's just what happens over time. What direction it goes can vary with how the mutation affects survival. On average not killing a host works out better, but that doesn't imply that's a preferred path nor exclude a mutation that gets worse for the hosts as well as the disease.
Rhaedas 7 months ago • 100%
I remember when there was just one. I wrongly dismissed the cartoon as not real Star Trek for a very long time, I never realized how good they really were.
Rhaedas 7 months ago • 100%
That's about the speed you can read text...it's why pre-internet sites like BBSes weren't all flashy, you had to keep it loadable. Actual downloads you would plan overnight and hope you didn't lose connection. The first big breakthrough was resumable downloading where you left off. Huge.
Rhaedas 7 months ago • 100%
I think the sleeper is "talk to plants". Remember how Aquaman used to be the joke in the Justice League? And I'm not well versed in comics, but Poison Ivy comes to mind as being pretty powerful.
Rhaedas 7 months ago • 100%
True of many things we take for granted now. It would be a different world entirely. Another non-computer example would be the 3-point seat belt that Volvo left as an open patent, saving countless lives over the past decades.
I have an area between two houses that has for years lost a lot of soil due to water runoff from the front roof. That runoff is now resolved via gutters and a drainage pipe to the back, so now the struggle is what to do in building the terrain back up flat, best cover plants, etc. The first thought is to just throw down some top soil to build it back up level and then grass seed, but I'm betting that's the wrong way to approach it, especially since it's now cooler and heading into winter. I could just wait until next year, but I'd like to repair what I can beyond just putting dirt down (which could still erode and be a mess). The area had lost probably a few inches of top soil and grass from original construction, down to the clay substrate. There is some tree coverage as well, so it's partial shade which I know is problematic for good grass growth. I'm open to other cover plants, but it does have semi-regular foot traffic with landscapers, kids, pets, etc. Is there a reasonably quick fix to do something?
There's been a definite uptick on spam bots lately, all Kbin users. I've been reporting them as I see them while browsing new, but it gets tedious. Sorry about the report spam, mods. Does the new user registration need to be tightened up any?
Did it come true? Maybe.
I don't see a way to make most/all links open to a new tab. I like this because it is/feels faster than going back with the browser back arrow, and I'd think it would eliminate a lot of reloading calls as well as maintains where you last were.