tonymillion

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by tonymillion 28d ago
We dont need a SciFi story for that, reality is full of "I was just following orders" statements... Whether those orders are from a person, a radio/telegram message or an AI output wouldn't really matter. Edit to add: Ch
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by tonymillion 2mo ago
The fact there is still coal(and oil) in the ground pretty much rules out any "advanced" industrialized civilization that came before us. I also use the Carboniferous Period as a metric as to why "Advanced alien life" is
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by tonymillion 2mo ago
> Thats’s comparable to a single strand of spaghetti holding up about 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar Is that cooked or raw spaghetti?
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by tonymillion 2mo ago
Or the Nixie [1] (actually nixie was earlier, but went out of business in 2017) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixie_Labs_Nixie
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by tonymillion 3mo ago
Life imitates art imitating life: The story [1] of the Brontosaurus is an interesting one... [1] https://obscuredinosaurfacts.com/blog/post/2019/08/31/bronto...
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by tonymillion 5mo ago
Except it’s not… https://codeberg.org/EtchedPixels/FUZIX
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by tonymillion 7mo ago
I believe Microsoft of all people solved this a while ago by using the gyroscope in a phone to produce a de-blur kernel that cleaned up the image. Its somewhere here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/produc
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by tonymillion 8mo ago
That almost looks like a scene from half-life 2
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by tonymillion 1y ago
Or… and bear with me on this… They could just read your text message and browser history
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by tonymillion 1y ago
That actually happened with texts to a grandmothers phone number that was (eventually) reassigned. https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/home-news/family-sho...
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by tonymillion 1y ago
Honestly, the first article about peacock feathers having laser cavities was far more interesting and completely distracted me from the "Cat facts vs AI conundrum" article.
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by tonymillion 1y ago
The best use of the SMS in the MacBook… or should I say SMACKbook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uvQTTPr9Rw
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by tonymillion 1y ago
Schizophrenia is the price we pay for owning a Cat https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38041862/
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by tonymillion 1y ago
And let’s not forget “Ken Lee” https://youtu.be/vUAaHkGpJy8
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by tonymillion 1y ago
At that point you’re almost, but not quite into the realm of “forth”
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by tonymillion 2y ago
Amphetamine Dopamine Ketamine Now thats a party! (and as I said in another reply) Strychnine
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by tonymillion 2y ago
Strychnine side note: It kills you by making all your muscles tense so strongly that you can't breath any more. The muscles in your face tense in a way that it gives you whats called a "Strychnine Smile".
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by tonymillion 2y ago
Or just put mirrors on the ground to reflect the sunlight back out /s
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by tonymillion 2y ago
Also doesn’t help that it’s actual name is “Worcestershire sauce” which is even more difficult to say.
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by tonymillion 3y ago
Enjoy your toxoplasmosis, and subsequent schizophrenic symptoms… but at least your cats got to hunt all the diseased rats they like, right?
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by tonymillion 3y ago
It would still be encoded, assuming your (analogue) POTS call traversed more than one exchange then it would have been coded to g.711 (ulaw or alaw) for that inter-exchange. Although (from memory) that would be 10ms packets.
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by tonymillion 3y ago
What about megatron and sound wave… and in fact most of the decepticons Transformers: Robots in disguise!
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by tonymillion 3y ago
This kind of question is meaningless, and I’m pretty sure it comes from the old view of neurons being somewhat akin to a 1-1 or many-1 digital switch (it isn’t). In fact, we currently don’t even know the full extent of the types of neurons
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by tonymillion 3y ago
Considering they’re superconductors cooled by liquid helium there’s not a lot of scope for “cool-off” lol
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by tonymillion 3y ago
Also in the production of Sodium batteries, which while significantly lower in energy density compared to Lithium, they have bigger cycle counts (and as such are/can be used to buffer grid based wind/solar generation)
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by tonymillion 3y ago
And your point is? Diamonds are a cartel backed, price gouged, selectively distributed, commodity whose only production cost is digging them out of the ground. On top of that they are pretty much the most common gemstone. The cartel I menti
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by tonymillion 3y ago
Didn’t the Beatles write song like that?
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by tonymillion 3y ago
Actually there are (Ebola, haemorrhagmific fever etc) are mostly deadly and easily transmissible - however they tend to be self limiting in part because they are so deadly and (luckily) because they aren’t airborne and thus distance … liter
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by tonymillion 3y ago
Depending on who you ask that variance is 0.1-0.4% which is extremely tiny, so I'm not sure what you mean by "huge genetic variance in humanity".
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by tonymillion 3y ago
The great thing about an Airship startup is that there’s no worries about “up and to the right” growth. It’s mostly just up, and any direction you want to go.

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