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astral_avocado
astral_avocado @ astral_avocado @programming.dev
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The price of rice is skyrocketing, and it's pushing millions more people towards starvation

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  • How dare you advocate for national stability through hard times

    • The price of rice is skyrocketing, and it's pushing millions more people towards starvation

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  • Where do you people come from

    • The price of rice is skyrocketing, and it's pushing millions more people towards starvation

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  • I agree with you that India doesn't need to take sides, but I'm pretty sure Russian/West cooperation had been increasingly positive since the cold war ended, right until Putin decided he wanted to be an imperialist again. The West didn't make him invade a sovereign, non-threatening country.

    • [meme] Daily reminder that cars are heavy machinery

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  • In what way?

    • [meme] Daily reminder that cars are heavy machinery

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  • Hot take i haven't seen anywhere else, I love it

    • Lemmy is slowly getting better

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  • I felt like it was working briefly on my instance and now it's not again...

    Just checked the issues and I don't see anything about context for the latest version. I think the devs are unaware.

    https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues

    • How a road changed over thousands of years

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  • I had to look up this road, it goes right by Stonehenge in England. Absolutely wild.

    • Women in China are telling each other to bring their boyfriends to see 'Barbie' — and to use it as a litmus test for their thoughts on feminism and patriarchy

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  • Ehhhhh, sequel??

    • Women in China are telling each other to bring their boyfriends to see 'Barbie' — and to use it as a litmus test for their thoughts on feminism and patriarchy

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  • They're allowed to watch Barbie in China? How censored is it?

    • So, Neuralink got FDA approval for human trials, and a certain fanbase is VERY excited about that

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  • Space launches were "much cheaper" a half a century ago? You don't really follow any space news whatsoever do you? That's patently false.

    • So, Neuralink got FDA approval for human trials, and a certain fanbase is VERY excited about that

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  • This comment doesn't make it sound like you have much real world experience. Maybe read literally anything about Neuralink and BMIs, I've been following this for years.

    • So, Neuralink got FDA approval for human trials, and a certain fanbase is VERY excited about that

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  • All very good questions. The only one I think I can answer is that I think it was inductively charged but I forget what the pigs had on them. It may have been an external battery pack. The implant itself is definitely not external accessible.

    We could probably look at existing BMI devices to get our answer, I'm sure it's even less pretty.

    • So, Neuralink got FDA approval for human trials, and a certain fanbase is VERY excited about that

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  • By all appearances yes, it's an appreciable jump in the technology compared to current brain interfaces that are used for the immobile. They did a whole live tech demo with pigs as well as the people he's hired to work on it there. He has top level surgeons and neuroscientists all working on it who choose to be there. Oh and also it just passed FDA approval for testing in humans.

    It would be hard to bullshit this passed all the people involved. I have the belief it's quite a different situation compared to the continuing failure of FSD.

    • Does this instance have a stance on right wing disinformation communities?

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  • Speaking of disinformation...

    • So, Neuralink got FDA approval for human trials, and a certain fanbase is VERY excited about that

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  • I guess they may have come into existence without him. Unfortunately with the way capitalism has a death grip on the world.. it seems like the only way risky ventures get off the ground is through the whims of megamaniacal filthy rich motherfuckers.

    • So, Neuralink got FDA approval for human trials, and a certain fanbase is VERY excited about that

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  • I agree with your assessment except saying that SpaceX's advancements are "not that bad" is a massive understatement. They've completely disrupted and forever changed the space launch industry, with the help of government subsidies.

    Everyone also forgets how Starlink is serving remote indigenous communities and scared the pants off shitty dominant ISPs that have been screwing rural communities over since forever.

    I'll re-emphasize my point that I think the results of some large companies, which comprises the efforts of many many smart people, can have facets of it be considered overwhelmingly good.

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    • So, Neuralink got FDA approval for human trials, and a certain fanbase is VERY excited about that

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  • Neuralink is an excellent advancement for brain science and it is greatly going to help disabled people and those with little function left over their bodies. It's okay to celebrate this technology while also hating musk.

    Like SpaceX, they've both been excellent ventures that he so far hasn't ruined (probably thanks to the people he delegates to). Just because it's fashionable to hate him for how he's absolutely fucked over Twitter (which i'll remind everyone we've always hated and agreed is bad, use Mastodon instead) doesn't mean his other companies largely spearheaded by others, and their results, are also bad.

    That's not even to mention that the kind of dystopian technology people are imagining isn't anywhere close to what the Neuralink device is actually capable of. What everyones fearmongering over is still just science fiction. It's just barely able to interpret brain signals, it's not as powerful as everyone makes it out to be.

    2nd edit: forgot what instance I'm on, this comment probably ain't going to do well lol

    • [Discussion] Devs and Devops: if you have running containers in production, how are you upgrading those containers?

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  • AWS is expensive and confusingly structured, but I've been impressed with the ECS stuff. The UI for all of it is also way overcomplicated and stupid, but once you have it working it works.

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  • That's what happens when Reddit unilaterally bans everyone but those with milquetoast opinions. Those people have to find somewhere else to go. It'll change over time as people migrate.

    • Lemmy.world Hexbear Statement

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  • We really should have a method of banning remote individual users from your own instance. I'm as anti tankie as they come, but defederating isn't the answer. It's just continually shrinking and sharding the fediverse in a way that will hinder our growth.