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Apple sues OpenAI alleging trade secret theft, says scheme was 'at every level'(cnbc.com)
18 points by nope96 2mo ago|2 comments
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by nope96 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game)
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by nope96 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_N "Nickname for Nintendo" I remember it being frequently used as far back as the 80s by Electronic Gaming Monthly
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by nope96 2y ago
I see "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)" when zoomed in all the way. "Gulf of America" when zoomed out.
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Meta Acknowledges 'Software Update Issue' Affecting Quest 2, 3 and 3S(uploadvr.com)
2 points by nope96 2y ago|0 comments
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by nope96 2y ago
This is a first step towards "the holodeck". You describe a scene and it exists. Imagine you could jump in and interact with it. That seems like something that could happen in 10-20 years.
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by nope96 2y ago
Does this mean I can write a print function and be able to print"hello world" without parentheses again, like in python 2.x ?
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by nope96 2y ago
https://www.ztree.com/ a clone of the old DOS Xtree. Quite the learning curve, but very powerful.
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by nope96 2y ago
"Apple announced that its board had authorized $110 billion in share repurchases, a 22% increase over last year’s $90 billion authorization. It’s the largest in history, ahead of Apple’s previous repurchases, according to data from Bir
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by nope96 3y ago
Does the heat treatment damage electronics? Can you leave your computers in the house while your house is baking?
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by nope96 3y ago
If "the singularity" is a real thing that can happen, it seems like there is an incentive for species that fear "the singularity" to preemptively wipe out any civilizations they find which seem close to achieving AGI
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SEC blames 'SIM swap' attack for compromising X account ahead of ETF approval(finance.yahoo.com)
3 points by nope96 3y ago|1 comments
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by nope96 3y ago
How good is error handling on USB 4? The rare times I've had data corruption it was almost always when transferring lots of data using USB (this happened to me on multiple drives, computers, usb ports or cables. this was in the early U
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by nope96 3y ago
Video's description : "Sep 15, 2023 -- In 2021 the FORCEDENTRY sandbox escape introduced the usage of NSPredicate in an iOS exploit. This new technique allowed attackers to sidestep codesigning, ASLR, and all other mitigations to
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by nope96 3y ago
As a kid I always admired AVATAR ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Attribute_Termi... ) and wondered why more people didn't use it for art. It was far more efficient. I'd use it wherever I could,
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by nope96 3y ago
The first Pi (2012 release) was $35, this release is, when inflation adjusted to 2012 dollars, $44. So in the same ballpark-ish
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by nope96 3y ago
I am sad because Paul Reiche III has left the project, though it seems he did write a story before leaving -- https://pistolshrimpgames.com/2023/09/uqm2-update-summer-202... From Fred: "Well, after 30+ years
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by nope96 3y ago
I've been using computers since I was a pre-teen, it wrecked both my forearms (and later, my neck) in my early 30's. There was NO WARNING, the issues just happened out of nowhere. I always thought RSI, if it happened to me, would
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by nope96 3y ago
Al Lowe (the game's author) is still kickin'! https://twitter.com/allowe/ https://allowe.com/
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by nope96 3y ago
Re: #2 - The UEFI bloatware/rootkit checked the Windows version: if you used Windows 8 or up it used the "feature" called "Windows Platform Binary Table", but Windows 7 didn't have that, so for Windows 7 it ove
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Can You Boil an Egg Too Long?(nytimes.com)
2 points by nope96 3y ago|1 comments
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by nope96 3y ago
This space is moving so fast my jaw drops every time I read something about it. For example this line: "... has discovered empirically that the capability for moral self-correction emerges at around 22B parameters. For more scientific
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by nope96 3y ago
I remember watching one of the final episodes of Connections 3: With James Burke, and he casually said we'd have personal assistants that we could talk to (in our PDAs). That was 1997 and I knew enough about computers to think he was b
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by nope96 4y ago
This is not about ACH. It's about ACATS: https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=381060&
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by nope96 4y ago
He also lost a lot of Bitcoins on the Mt Gox hack b/c he thought it would be safe. He's just one person and I wouldn't draw any big conclusions about it. (One person who has been a massive target for something like this for m
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by nope96 4y ago
There is an "Official 30th Anniversary Celebration" of Star Control 2 with the game's creators, today at 4pm EST at https://twitch.tv/x33n
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The Box of Now and Forever: three decades of memories(pistolshrimpgames.com)
1 points by nope96 4y ago|1 comments
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by nope96 4y ago
Interesting! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-Glucose
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by nope96 4y ago
This was 10+ years ago, but I had an issue with my motherboard not liking my RAM when in dual channel mode that memtest/memtest+ could not find, but Windows Memory Diagnostic (advanced tests) did find. So it's worth running both i
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by nope96 4y ago
If anyone is curious, here are the numbers: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SA0 Last 4 months have stayed steady-ish at 296

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