ooterness

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[–] ooterness@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

3.14 acres of enclosed space, and still barely enough to support a crew of eight people. I think OP is going to need a bigger bag of plants.

[–] ooterness@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Bad Apple is a black-and-white music video that gets used for a lot of tech demos. It has the right combination of length, contrast, and recognizability at very low resolution.

As an example, here's Bad Apple running on an NES an 8-bit system that isn't normally capable of deciding video.

The thumbnail is for this video, which renders Bad Apple in the style of the black lines used to redact allegedly sensitive information from the documents released in the Epstein Files.

[–] ooterness@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Remember how Biosphere 2 went so badly that the crew nearly starved to death, but no one bothered doing a Biosphere 3? That might be a good step before attempting long-term Moon or Mars missions.

[–] ooterness@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Ah, the classic "all eggs in one basket" strategy.

[–] ooterness@lemmy.world 70 points 6 days ago (6 children)

ISO8601 / RFC3339 gang represent. You'll have to take four digit years from my cold, dead hands.

[–] ooterness@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

A core problem is that impeachment votes have become a team popularity contest, with the details of charges, innocence, guilt, etc. being irrelevant except for theatrics.

[–] ooterness@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

Nine day hearing, and now the judge will sit on their ass for five months. Apparently the sixth amendment means nothing now.

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial

[–] ooterness@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sixth amendment:

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial...

Just because it's routine doesn't mean we should accept it. The current state of affairs is horrible for defendants (in jeopardy for months or years regardless of outcome, not to mention legal costs) and horrible for the public (justice delayed is justice denied).

Trump's uncanny ability to stall trials for years is a big part of why he's not in prison right now.

[–] ooterness@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

A lot of open-source software uses copyleft licenses like GPL. If a company uses that code to build its own products, then some or all of their new code may also become open source. This is an important part of how open-source projects stay open. Organizations like FSF have taken big companies to court over this and won.

AI companies trained their slop-generators on that open-source code. In many cases, it will reproduce it line-for-line. But courts currently hold that the generated code is no longer subject to the original copyright restrictions. It's nearly impossible to publish open-source software without being scraped for AI training.

[–] ooterness@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That cat looks like they are trying to escape.

[–] ooterness@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

The after-credits scene in "Four and a half Vulcans" is comedy gold.

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