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nitrohigito t1_j9dain5 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in German man remains free of the HIV virus years after receiving stem cell treatment. by Drewcifixion
I guess this is some heated political stuff I missed? But like holy shit dude, chill out...
Edit: ah, it's about the suppression of stem cell research over religiously rooted arguments. Guessing this is US politics, republicans?
nitrohigito t1_j9b45cr wrote
Reply to comment by giedosst in German man remains free of the HIV virus years after receiving stem cell treatment. by Drewcifixion
what now?
nitrohigito t1_j8mq429 wrote
Reply to comment by Ranger5789 in NASA's "evolved structures" radically reduce weight – and waiting by Maxcactus
If you mean they're using topology optimization instead of generative design, how would you know?
nitrohigito t1_j7bb18w wrote
Reply to comment by trumpcovfefe in Echolocation could give small robots the ability to find lost people by thebelsnickle1991
I'm sure state actors can hack a breadth of devices to achieve such a goal, was just meaning to point out that while cyberattacks tend to be highly scalable, there's enough variation across devices like this that you still need to be moderately lucky and put in some serious work hours to be able to pull this off. It's definitely not a "they just go an' haxx all devices in der" type deal, and it's needlessly alarmist to claim so.
There's also a number of other imaging techniques they can reach for. You mentioned infrared, but they can even use something like WiFi to image behind a wall. All much more circumstance-agnostic and cheap than having to build and maintain an assortment of exploit chains merely for use on a short-notice for echolocation.
If any group has such capabilities developed, they almost certainly use it much more practically (such as for surveillance). And those exploit chains won't be developed by "MIT scientists" who can certainly find a better way to spend their valuable time.
nitrohigito t1_j7b5drx wrote
Reply to comment by trumpcovfefe in Echolocation could give small robots the ability to find lost people by thebelsnickle1991
That friendly write-up features zero mentions of any kind of hacking.
nitrohigito t1_j7b49mr wrote
Reply to comment by trumpcovfefe in Echolocation could give small robots the ability to find lost people by thebelsnickle1991
see my second point then
nitrohigito t1_j7ax9h5 wrote
Reply to comment by trumpcovfefe in Echolocation could give small robots the ability to find lost people by thebelsnickle1991
>to hack into any speaker or microphone
aren't most speakers and microphones analog?
if they are digital, won't they all be running wildly different software stacks, with all kinds of versions, forks, and configurations?
nitrohigito t1_j46b6z5 wrote
Reply to comment by ennuinerdog in The Fairphone 2 will hit end-of-life after 7 years of updates by ennuinerdog
Did you grasp the conversation above?
They implied Fairphone is ending software support for the device because of corporate greed borne planned obsolescence. I reminded them that upkeep has costs: Fairphone wasn't charging for their software updates, so (since upkeep has costs) they'd eventually run out of money to blow on it, even if they were a saint and a non-profit.
This is even ignoring how the costs of said upkeep is not a constant or even a linearly increasing curve, but an exponentially surmounting one, since you keep losing the levels of support from earlier and earlier on in your software supply chain (see the article).
Neither the production of outdated and specialized hardware, nor the indefinite maintenance of specialized software is economically sound. This is why standardization and reuse driven design is key, otherwise you get people screaming muh capitalism and related circlejerk. And even then there are limits, which humanity tends to ignore using the famous "double down" and "looking away" strategies.
nitrohigito t1_j45vxeu wrote
Reply to comment by CthuluTheGrand in The Fairphone 2 will hit end-of-life after 7 years of updates by ennuinerdog
me
nitrohigito t1_j45vv37 wrote
Reply to comment by EsuBlack in The Fairphone 2 will hit end-of-life after 7 years of updates by ennuinerdog
This may blow your mind, but upkeep is not free.
nitrohigito t1_j44pxm3 wrote
Reply to comment by namesarenotus in Intel breaks the 6GHz barrier with $699 Core i9-13900KS processor by Avieshek
Sounds suspect, even my 13600K goes up to 230+ watts under P95, according to hwmon.
nitrohigito t1_j3qnunn wrote
Reply to comment by kreukle in Walmart cashier, 82, retires after TikTok raises $100,000 by greatestmofo
I think they could use a single quotes version as well, I'm not confident you got through.
nitrohigito t1_j3k33hq wrote
Reply to comment by silas67r in Deep overturning circulation collapses with strong warming, which could cause a "disaster" in the world's oceans. by sibti
To clarify this isn't their subjective remark.
nitrohigito t1_j3dpvjh wrote
Reply to For the émigré philosopher Imre Lakatos, science degenerates unless it is theoretically and experimentally progressive by ADefiniteDescription
> escaped to Nagváryad
Nagyvárad (pronounced as ˈnɒɟvaːrɒd)
nitrohigito t1_j2ljr5v wrote
It's interesting the gymnastics the mind is capable of.
nitrohigito t1_j22ro3w wrote
Reply to comment by alcatrazcgp in 11 years ago Michio Kaku talked about mind upload into Machine - Big Think by keghi11
If you lose consciousness before the copy, perceptually you'll receive a new body. The original won't be aware of it dying.
nitrohigito t1_j11ve5l wrote
Reply to The Finalmouse Centerpiece is a keyboard with built-in CPU and GPU, and its screen animations are powered by Unreal Engine 5 by thebelsnickle1991
are they trying to maximize the waste?
nitrohigito t1_izw5h4j wrote
Disingenuous coloring, as always. It's for a good reason, but still.
nitrohigito t1_izqiw6x wrote
Pretty funny you capped out inflation at 10%, esp. in cases like my dear country Hungary...
Oh well, maybe it matches the official lies.
nitrohigito t1_iwxkt2b wrote
Reply to comment by ledow in Meta has withdrawn its Galactica AI, only 3 days after its release, following intense criticism. Meta’s misstep—and its hubris—show once again that Big Tech has a blind spot about the severe limitations of large language models in AI. by lughnasadh
As far as any scientific notions of intelligence go, everything you claim is just flat out bollocks. There's nothing magical about intelligence, you're doing yourself and others disservice by deifying it needlessly and without reason.
nitrohigito t1_iwvl9jv wrote
Reply to comment by 22OregonJB in Social media makes us feel terrible about who we really are. Neuroscience and philosopher Guy Debord can explain why – and empower us to fight back by ADefiniteDescription
I really don't understand why the focus on comparisons, Reddit and Discord generate the exact same level of apathy and depression, and there are no "personalities" being followed or misrepresented here.
nitrohigito t1_iu8krpy wrote
Reply to comment by Public_Juggernaut997 in Kurt Cobain in the 90s with a .... cell phone? by R0osteryo
Really? You need sources to debunk/confirm this?
nitrohigito t1_iu75tgb wrote
Reply to comment by llluka0103 in Assuming reincarnation is real, dementia is likely premature reincarnation by tpb772000
> You're allowed to express your opinion but there's no need to be a dick about jfc. You ever heard of the word "ignore"? Especially if you can say that it's not causing problems, then you're literally just going out of your way to say your opinion and be mean about it.
No, I didn't. I didn't bring up religion until you and the other person pressed on, I didn't elaborate on my opinion until I was explicitly asked to, and if you think
> I'm just glad I'm not an ass about it when I do
you're not only being dishonest to me, but to yourself as well.
> I can't imagine ignoring something you don't like takes more energy then to go out of your way to be mean about it
Considering I didn't go out of my way, and the extent I "didn't like this thing" was quite severe, yes, it would have absolutely been more effort. By your logic, you could have "just ignored" what I wrote, I would have been justified telling you to "just go away", and it would have apparently been far easier for you to do so than typing out two massive comments about how miserable you find me.
The absolute hypocrisy you're putting on display is incredible. Go do some soul searching before picking fights with people who you're absolutely in no way superior to, thank you very much.
nitrohigito t1_iu6m0os wrote
Reply to comment by whenwillitbenow in Assuming reincarnation is real, dementia is likely premature reincarnation by tpb772000
I meant it mentally, was thinking about my family member who passed away from Alzheimers. He was visibly not present most of the time, less and less over time.
Could work different for dementia patients, thought the effects were similar.
nitrohigito t1_ja5e2pj wrote
Reply to comment by orangeibook in Linux Now Officially Supports Apple Silicon by Avieshek
ZDNet is a Linux/FOSS propaganda outlet, they do stuff like this all the damn time.