T156

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[–] T156@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

It's pretty difficult for it to go wrong in a way that isn't just nothing happening.

The eyes don't just grow randomly, you need to give the brain blob a chemical signal that grows eyes in-utero to make the eyes grow.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

There's also the question of why would it experience horror? It's not exactly in pain, and they way they make the eyes grow is just to add the hormone signal that makes eyes grow when developing.

So from its perspective, it just got told to make eyes, so it has rudimentary eyes now. Hardly the most horrifying existence.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

perhaps some people have eyes in their brains and just don't know it.

Your eyes technically are part of your brain.

But it's certainly not unheard of. Parietal eyes have existed for a good while now.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I wonder if they do. That seems like a lot of effort to go to for the average person for a scammer.

It seems easier to have a generic voice, rely on the fact that phone audio quality isn't great to bridge the gap, and use a shotgun approach.

Some places do, since there were a few high profile attacks, but they were nearly all targeting organisations by pretending to be the CEO or something.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

So prices may not actually drop, (even after the pop), because the companies still won’t be producing more hardware than they currently are.

There's also the risk that they simply may not drop the price even after, because the customer base can bear that price, so it becomes the new normal.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Or for things like video editing. Video editors tend to be quite RAM heavy.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Though this is more targeting retrieval-assisted generation (RAG) than the training process.

Specifically since RAG-AI doesn't place weight on some sources over others, anyone can effectively alter the results by writing a blog post on the relevant topic.

Whilst people really shouldn't use LLMs as a search engine, many do, and being able to alter the "results" like that would be an avenue of attack for someone intending to spread disinformation.

It's probably also bad for people who don't use it, since it basically gives another use for SEO spam websites, and they were trouble enough as it is.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Delivery might be part of it. The advice sounds very similar to the typical "if you want to be less depressed, just don't be depressed" or "you don't need bottle of something that rattles, you need a pair of sneakers and fresh air" business, so a lot of people automatically file it away under the same category.

Something like what the researchers suggested, where even moving a little bit helps, and it doesn't replace medication, though it may make it more effective, is better, but a lot of people will just read the headline and move off.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

now they quit supporting old windows?

That's not too surprising, since Microsoft stopped supporting it earlier this year.

Not much point supporting an OS the manufacturer no longer updates in any capacity. Similar to how Firefox no longer supports Windows XP or Vista.

You can still use the old version, they're just not going to bring the newer ones to Windows 7, or fix issues for it.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

It's the same process. Mpv uses yt-dl or yt-dlp on the back end when loading YouTube videos from the URL.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 58 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Even if they were, would it not be better to give the car better senses?

Humans don't have LIDAR because we can't just hook something into a human's brain and have it work. If you can do that with a self-driving car, why cut it down to human senses?

[–] T156@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

I don't know, TNG could be up there, but it was also generally influential as a whole, so both its good and bad ended up getting carried over.

The entire exploding bridge trope came from it, as did evil admirals. It also set up the Enterprise as the flagship, with the best and brightest of Starfleet. Which also meant that people generally assumed it to be the norm when it was the exception, and that the hero ship was some special ship, when it was a normal ship of the line in TOS.

VOY Borg are really bad compared to TNG Borg.

They are, but more due to issues with overuse more so than anything. In TNG, we saw the Borg for all of 4 times. In Voyager, they were shown much more frequently.

But as far as the timeline goes, it also wouldn't make sense to show an earlier iteration of the Borg, not when they were severely affected by the actions of the Borg.

I heard PIC stinks because it makes VOY Borg the main villains

I'd honestly argue that which version of the Borg to be a minor issue in Picard. Picard's bigger problem was that it didn't seem to know what it wanted to be, and kept leaping between multiple different plots and story lines, which confuses it a bit.

It arguably have been better if it has taken one of those plots, and run with it for the entire show. Like the matter with Synths and former Borg drones being treated as subhuman, vindicating the concerns Guinan and Picard had in the Measure of a Man, or visiting the TNG crew and seeing where they are now. As it actually was, it seems like the writers/producers felt that now they had Patrick Stewart, they wanted to do everything before it was too late, and the result was a bit of a mishmash.

The issue with the Borg tends to be more that they really aren't very much of a threat by the end of Voyager, and were dealt such a blow that it would be almost impossible to ignore.

Their greatest threat, assimilation, is trivially curable, and it's now known that their assimilation abilities are one of their greater weaknesses. The Federation might have issues with infecting someone with a pathogen to make the Borg assimilate them and self-destruct, but others have no such qualms, and we know of at least one species that did use such methods (Icheb's parents).

Their adaptation is a greater issue, but even older Federation ships, like the galaxy-class saw good effect just cycling their weapons frequencies. The Voyager's ablative armour would be well-studied after they returned to Starfleet, and dedicated anti-Borg weapons would have both been in active development, and also use.

As of the events of First Contact, it's also known that not only are there Borg ruins on Earth that may still be intact and active, but that Borg ships are not as truly uniform as they seem, with Picard pointing out a weakness in a Borg cube that dealt catastrophic damage to it. Local signals, what he felt, scans of what remains of the area, and everything would have been thoroughly studied to determine how to both find and exploit those weaknesses on other Borg cubes, without a former privileged Borg unit at the helm.

It would be difficult for them to retain much of the mystique and terror of their TNG appearance, with all of that now.

 

Why is there a mother-daughter thing in the first place?

 

While kbin.social's site mentioned that they were migrating to a new provider, and as a result, the site might be experiencing some issues, kbin.social has been serving up a similar HTTP 50x errors, and that migration message for well over a month, if not more.

What happened?

 

While ordering a crew cut is easy, since it's on the menu, what about other kinds?

Can you just go "I'd like a men/women's haircut" and leave it at that, or do you need something more specific, like saying you want a Charlestone done by a No. 3 to the sides, and a 4 up top?

 

You wouldn't start off an e-mail with "My Dear X", or "Dearest X", since that would be too personal for a professional email, so "To X" being more impersonal seems like it would make the letter more professional-sounding, compared to "Dear X".

 

What caused the shift from calling things like rheostats and condensers to resistors and capacitors, or the move from cycles to Hertz?

It seemed to just pop up out of nowhere, seeing as the previous terms seemed fine, and are in use for some things today (like rheostat brakes, or condenser microphones).

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