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  • On species names in Mass Effect

  • They're usually named for their home world as well. Klingons are the exception in that their home world used to be Kling, and was then renamed later.

    It's basically the equivalent of Earthlings.

  • Canadian politician forgetting to remove the AI prompt from his speech.

  • That's the standard practice for speeches, where you just power through any mistakes you make while speaking and keep going.

    Stopping, or going back to correct the mistake would interrupt the speech more than the mistake did.

  • How come in the trucking industry they are very against carrying a gun? Some area's my sister went into in new york I would have carried an AK-47.

  • The trucking company probably also doesn't want to have to deal with the extra mess of you trying to give chase and get shot for the trouble, or trying to shoot them, and accidentally hitting something, or someone unrelated.

    Losing the cargo to robbery is bad, but is preferable to losing a driver. Insurance will cover theft, anyway.

    Same that they would if a large boulder the size of a small boulder fell off some place and damaged the trailer.

  • New Framework Desktop Option with AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 and 192GB Memory (Gorgon Halo)

  • You also have the benefit that, since it's a single memory pool, it can be used for other things, and allocated dynamically.

    Where in a conventional machine, VRAM is exclusively for the GPU to use, and RAM is generally for the system. The capacities are usually fixed (I think it's possible to offload GPU memory into system memory for some uses, but that's about it, and your performance usually falls off).

    Downside is that because it's a shared memory pool, everything uses it, so you lose some of the actual capacity for things like your OS.

  • How come in the trucking industry they are very against carrying a gun? Some area's my sister went into in new york I would have carried an AK-47.

  • Weigh bridge that's actually a trapdoor. You go inside to check the weight, and your lorry's gone, never to be seen again.

  • YSK the Tesseract dev made a blacklist of Lemmy users that get filtered from their Frontend

  • It's also a weird place for anti-spam, to have it be client side. That should be done on the server, rather than the various clients handling it.

  • Bane Mask

  • Programming seems like a uniquely awful use case for this.

    Saying "function open bracket close bracket open brace carriage return tab print open bracket quote hello quote close bracket semicolon carriage return space space space space print open bracket quote world quote close bracket semicolon carriage return close brace carriage return" seems much more cumbersome than just pressing the buttons and typing it manually.

  • Drug May Repair DNA at Earliest Stages of Alzheimer’s – And it’s Already Passed Safety Trials

  • Interesting. I had no idea genetic damage was linked to Alzheimer's disease. Thought it was chance/inherent genetics, a bit like cancer is.

  • AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

  • At least in this case, yes. They'd just not get them, since they'd want something they can already easily process, and the source for the quote is a bookseller, who isn't likely to sell something like that to begin with.

    An old book that might disintegrate and damage the scanner and hold things up would be undesirable, compared to either a new one, or a reprint of an old one.

  • AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

  • It's worth pointing out that this is standard practice when digitising books in most places, if they're not irreplaceable. Mass-produced books would fall under that category.

    Turning the page and photographing what's there is really only done for some books, which you can't afford to destroy.

  • Source to 'Post': US President Donald Trump leaning towards escalation with Iran | The Jerusalem Post

  • Mozilla Wants to Build a ‘Rebel Alliance’ for Open-Source AI

  • The reason Firefox still exists is that Google can prove it's not a Chrome monopoly. Now this is just me forming conspiracy theories, but I do believe that Google would stop these payments the day Firefox would really out-innovate Chrome and get more market share.

    I don't know about that. One of the big reasons chrome even got off the ground when it started was that it had the reach and backing of Google. If you opened Google, you had a "Get Chrome". If you did a search on Google, you had a "Get Chrome". You had advertisements, etc. It being faster to start with was nice, but even then, the other browsers at the time caught up pretty quickly.

    Without that help, Firefox might just get left in the dust. We've already been at the point where websites are mainly designed for Chromium browsers, and that you're encouraged to fire it up if something doesn't work for you, and you're using Firefox, Safari, Konqueror, etc, since the majority of users use some form of Chrome.

    Microsoft couldn't hack it when they tried developing their own browser, and they're both much larger than Mozilla, have the reach of Windows, and whatever was left over from IE. They ended up switching over to Blink/Chromium.

    I can't imagine Mozilla would fare any better, after losing a decent chunk of their funding. The fact that they've done decently so far is a minor miracle in and of itself.

  • Mozilla Wants to Build a ‘Rebel Alliance’ for Open-Source AI

  • For example, I've already had a decent bit of resistance just trying to encourage friends, and family to use an ad-blocker.

    That's basically a recommended standard for using the internet these days, like pop-up blockers were. Government agencies use and generally recommend them.

  • Mozilla Wants to Build a ‘Rebel Alliance’ for Open-Source AI

  • Part of the report is also a contingency for when they need to find alternative income.

    They're hardly abandoning all Firefox development and dumping it into this.

  • Is starlink internet worth it or shit for gaming?

  • Being a satellite link, it's also susceptible to weather (though that said, my old DSL line wasn't any different). You probably won't want your network connection rendered unusable because of a storm, or large cloud/smoke cover.

  • Whats an image that AI still can't generate?

  • You might be hard-pressed to find something a human can make, but an AI cannot. (It also doesn't preclude an old-fashioned scam).

    An AI would struggle with something like depicting the melancholia of having your partner die to a wasting disease, and when they do die, their estranged family comes in, taking almost everything you had in you shared apartment while you're helpless to stop them, because your relationship isn't legally recognised.

    But so would a human. It's not impossible, mind, but 'twould certainly be difficult. Something abstract may work, like that piece, but I can't imagine most people would think of that off the bat.

    What about going the other way? Ask for something that an AI can do easily, but a human can't.

  • Chat, new silverware just dropped

  • I'm fine with the knife (it being almost one shape the whole way through is very pleasing), but the fork is no.

  • You Know About Flock Cameras, Meet Nema Nodes: They Turn Streetlights Into A Surveillance Network

  • Unfortunately due to the inverse square law, they don't have a very long range.

    Possibly for the better. Last thing you need is people accidentally hitting a plane with one of them.

    People already do it with lasers. Something that destroys the electronics would be even worse.

  • Also waiting on insurance to tell the hospital that they won't cover it.

  • There's a horror in having to haggle for the price of your healthcare whilst in the hospital.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    If there are motherboards and daughterboards, are there fatherboards and sonboards?

  • Voyager @lemmy.world
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    Feature requests

    Reopen thread if the app is closed while editing

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    What happened to Kbin.Social?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    How do you ask for a haircut?

  • asksciencefiction @lemmy.world
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    Ace Attorney

    Why are spirit mediums treated as fake, when they are a very real thing?

  • Worldbuilding @lemmy.world
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    What would inorganic species call themselves?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Why is "Dear X" considered more formal than "To X" in e-mail/writing?

  • asksciencefiction @lemmy.world
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    Doctor Who

    How do the Doctor's enemies keep track of which Doctor is which?

  • asksciencefiction @lemmy.world
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    Harry Potter

    How long does a wand last?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    What caused the change in electronic terminology?

  • Fitness @lemmy.world
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    Stupid Question

    Why cut/bulk in cycles instead of doing it all in one go?

  • asksciencefiction @lemmy.world
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    Doctor Who

    How much of a TARDIS is essential to its function?

  • Daystrom Institute @startrek.website
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    Was the Federation right to grandfather in Earth's laws against genetic modification?

  • asksciencefiction @lemmy.world
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    Harry Potter

    Why don't mages use subconscious magic when they get their wands?

  • asksciencefiction @lemmy.world
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    Stargate SG-1

    Why doesn't the SGC upgrade the dialling computers?

  • Worldbuilding @lemmy.world
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    What's the food like on your world?

  • asksciencefiction @lemmy.world
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    Spy Kids

    Why does the OSS use children as spies?

  • asksciencefiction @lemmy.world
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    GTA

    Why does anyone even live in the cities?

  • asksciencefiction @lemmy.world
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    DC

    Why doesn't Superman learn to use magic?

  • Daystrom Institute @startrek.website
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    Was the USS Discovery upgraded completely, or does it still keep its original technology?