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deranger ,

Pegatron sounds like it’d be the sex worker Transformer

deranger ,

This is straight up incorrect. 17 is the age of consent in New York, and many other states are 16. A minority of states have 18 as the age of consent.

I agree it’s fucked up for an adult and a teen to be together, but this is a law we’re talking about.

en.wikipedia.org/…/Ages_of_consent_in_the_United_…

deranger ,

I saw your deleted reply; no I don’t think it’s appropriate, see my comment.

First off: there is no federal age of consent law. You weren’t “going off” anything.

What you said is factually untrue. You’d see that with a quick search. That’s all I’m saying.

No, I don’t think it’s appropriate. It is, however fucked up, still legal.

deranger ,

I see a few claims of spyware in here. Not that I doubt you, but where can I find out more?

deranger ,

Thanks! I’ll take a look this evening.

Ultrasound can push vaccines into the body without needles (www.newscientist.com)

Vaccines can be delivered through the skin using ultrasound. This method doesn’t damage the skin and eliminates the need for painful needles. To create a needle-free vaccine, Darcy Dunn-Lawless at the University of Oxford and his colleagues mixed vaccine molecules with tiny, cup-shaped proteins. They then applied liquid...

deranger ,

What do you think about jet injectors?

a narrow, high-pressure stream of liquid penetrates the outermost layer of the skin to deliver medication to targeted underlying tissues

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_injector

deranger , (edited )

What you get is both downsides rather than both advantages. It can’t fly fast enough for fixed wing, nor can it fly slow enough for rotary, meaning it can’t effectively be escorted. It doesn’t have the range or speed of fixed wing, nor can’t it hover as well as a helicopter. It requires special logistical channels. It’s finicky to fly and high maintenance. Because the rotors are so heavily loaded it creates significant rotor wash and it’s especially susceptible to vortex ring state. It can’t glide like fixed wing and can’t autorotate like rotary for a power loss in flight.

It’s garbage. The idea of using these for rescue or VIP transport is laughable.

deranger ,

Fiber optics aren’t wires, though.

deranger ,

Guinness records and IQ tests - both seem unreliable to me

deranger ,

Pilot error is rarely the actual cause, but is a convenient scapegoat. I worked in rotary accident investigation in the Army and that’s not something you’ll read in a report. There’s other issues; why is this aircraft in particular so prone to pilot error? Perhaps it’s poorly designed?

deranger ,

It’s because it’s a heavy rotorcraft. Not poor design, just rotorcraft physics.

Like I said, poor design. Wrong tool for the job.

It can’t travel slow enough for blackhawks nor fast enough for fixed wing. The V-22 is an absolute turd.

deranger ,

I repeat - tiny heavily loaded rotors are the wrong tool for the job thus making it a bad design

deranger , (edited )

Well, they’re not fast (prop too big) nor are they particularly great at hovering (rotor too small).

It’s the worst of both worlds.

deranger ,

Yes, but slower and less range than fixed wing. Likewise, it can’t do rotary wing things as good as a helicopter. It’s truly a “master of none” aircraft. It’s not great at anything.

Putting it in a rescue role is a terrible idea. You do not want a finicky to fly, unreliable aircraft in that scenario.

deranger ,

I don’t think the answer is an outright ban of dog meat; does this address cruelty against farm animals, or is it a feel good political move from the current ruling party? Korea loves pork, pigs are treated similarly, and I don’t see any calls for reform there.

I’ve never eaten dog meat but it’s not my place to judge. If the issue is inhumane conditions, then address those. The issue is not consumption of dog meat.

deranger ,

Considering aviation is 2.5% of global CO2 emissions, you could get rid of all the aviation emissions and still be very far off from saving anything.

deranger ,

I’m not saying “do nothing”. I’m saying efforts are better spent elsewhere as they’ll have much more dramatic effect.

Air travel should be addressed after massive emitters like industrial sources. Otherwise we’re going to greatly disrupt the lives of normal people trying to see their grandma for very little benefit.

deranger ,

It’s better at spotting patterns, but without knowing the why and how the machine arrived at its conclusions, I think it’s going to be fairly limited in application.

Your detective example is just as likely to reveal our biases as it’s going to find a clue. It’s all in the training, and we can’t eliminate our own cultural biases. What’s the data set for suspicious behavior consist of? Who chooses it?

There’s a ton of AI hype and it’s barely had any impact in actual real life despite billions of dollars invested. I’m still not convinced. It was very cool for a few weeks until the limitations became very obvious to me.

deranger ,

The headline seems much more sensational than the numbers lead me to believe.

deranger ,

That’s a flippant response when you were asked specifically to pretend they were your monkeys.

deranger ,

This isn’t fear mongering. You cannot participate in political rallies etc in uniform.

Edit: this is more of a weekend safety brief thing

At issue was a planned Nov. 17 event dubbed the “Dakota Patriot Rally” at the state fairgrounds in Minot, and the text warned personnel “to be cautious” if they were in the area, especially because some rally-goers “could be confrontational to military members.”

deranger ,

That was stated to the people who outed him.

deranger ,

iPhones aren’t any better

Anyone got a source for this claim? I see it repeated often in this thread with no supporting evidence.

I’m not disputing it, I’d just like to know more.

Google has a direct financial motivation to track you through their business model. Just based on that I’d assume Google is performing more data harvesting.

deranger ,

You don’t need 23&Me to do sketchy stuff for this to happen. They’ll just get your DNA from another blood test. They could simply provide a sizable discount to those who enroll and make the premium for “non genetic” insurance rather high in comparison.

It’s one of the most stable physical data formats. It’s not hard to get someone’s DNA, nor is it hard to analyze these days. You also don’t need DNA to discriminate; they can just find parallel traits and use those.

I dunno, none of this worries me that much. DNA is not that special in my mind. I leave it everywhere I go. It’s not private data - most people just don’t know how to read it.

deranger ,

Enemy at the Gates is a decent flick, but it’s pretty inaccurate. I wouldn’t be citing it as a source on what actually happened on the eastern front.

deranger ,

I’m not disputing the content of order 227, I’m disputing the historical accuracy of the film. Yes, they did have supply issues, penal battalions, and blocking units in the Soviet army, but not like it was depicted in the film.

All in all, the most likely way that a soldier or officer would interact with a barrier troop was not through being cut down by a Maxim, but through arrest and drumhead court martial. Especially in the case of the NKVD detachments, they wouldn’t be set up right at the line of battle, but some ways to the rear, where they would apprehend retreaters, run a quick show “trial”, execute a few to make an example, and sentence considerably more to serve time in a penal unit.

www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/…/cw54qf3/?context…

deranger ,

none that prevent an explosive-laden drone from wiping out hundreds instantly.

We have nets, you know. Drones are easily snagged.

This is not an unsolvable problem.

deranger ,

Plok for SNES

10/10 soundtrack on this quirky platformer

deranger ,

Are you kidding me? What the fuck

deranger , (edited )

How do you figure that’s worse than random? Randomly attempting to predict crimes would likely be 0% accurate. I’m not supporting predictive policing at all, just curious what brought you to that conclusion.

There are near infinite failure conditions and few successful conditions.

deranger ,

Better video link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev9U4ARQzos

Apple blames iOS 17 bugs and apps like Instagram for making iPhone 15s run hot (www.theverge.com)

Apple blames iOS 17 bugs and apps like Instagram for making iPhone 15s run hot::Apple says iPhone 15 and 15 Pro phones are getting too hot, but says it’s a software problem in both iOS 17 and third-party apps that is already being addressed

deranger ,

That’s what was happening. Apps were stuck and consuming resources; there was no hardware failure. All limiters worked as expected.

Phone still gets warm at 100% utilization and thermally limited. What do you expect, no heat emission whatsoever?

deranger ,

This is exactly what’s happening. It’s “warmer than expected”, not overheating. It’s properly limited, just being pegged at 100% by misbehaving software.

2023 was the year the US finally destroyed all of its chemical weapons (www.vox.com)

The United States’s Chemical Warfare Service readied hundreds of thousands of mortar shells and artillery rounds filled with mustard gas in the 1940s. During the Cold War, even more lethal chemical weapons followed: artillery and rockets filled with VX and GB, better known as Sarin, nerve agents that, with as little as a few...

deranger ,

Regarding biological weapons, we’re not really “keeping them around” aside from smallpox; biological weapons are naturally occurring. Anthrax, glanders, all those biological warfare potentials are right outside your door.

Your local hospital / clinical microbiology lab has an entire stack of plates with QC organisms that could absolutely fuck shit up. O157H7 E. coli, Yersinia pestis, Shigella sp., and so on. They need these to ensure they can detect such organisms should an outbreak occur.

deranger ,

Important to note quote is referring to the last flood.

No fatalities with this flood, people heeded the warning.

What could have been a life-threatening event was averted, she said, because many people heeded early calls to stay put or head for higher ground before it was too late. As a result, Hochul said, “No lives were lost.”

deranger ,

Why exactly does this suck? It’s not like Epic Games was that great of a company. Idk about this company; got any links?

deranger ,

Ah shit. That blows.

I run a small vaporwave cassette label as a hobby, and that was my fear. I just hadn’t ever heard of that company before.

deranger ,

We sell some tapes off our Bandcamp page, and have free digital downloads there.

mysticspools.bandcamp.com

Depending on what changes occur, it could really fuck with the vaporwave & barber beats genres, given they uses a lot of samples. We might have to change to using a Shopify or Bigcartel storefront. Hoping we don’t, but seeing that Songtradr wants to IPO makes me think enshittification is at hand.

15 Underrated Indie Games (youtu.be)

The AAA gaming space can often lack innovation, so people usually turn to small indie studios for something fresh. Whether it’s for unique gameplay design, beautiful aesthetics or satisfying combat, these 15 overlooked indie games stood out to me. This is my top 15 list of underrated, hidden indie gems for PC that I enjoy more...

deranger ,

Could have been a text list

deranger ,

That’s the thing, I don’t want to go to the video.

Running AI is so expensive that Amazon will probably charge you to use Alexa in future, says outgoing exec (www.businessinsider.com)

Running AI is so expensive that Amazon will probably charge you to use Alexa in future, says outgoing exec::In an interview with Bloomberg, Dave Limp said that he “absolutely” believes that Amazon will soon start charging a subscription fee for Alexa

deranger ,

You can do this with a Siri shortcut.

It still falls short because LLMs aren’t smart, they’re just approximately not wrong most of the time. I thought it would be a lot cooler than it actually is.

deranger ,

Bit depth affects noise floor, not frequency range.

You are correct that the noise floor of 16 bit is well within the limits of human hearing, making 24 bit redundant outside of production.

Spotify maxes out at 256k, so you’re just wrong there.

support.spotify.com/us/article/audio-quality/

deranger ,

I’ve been using it for quite a while now… it’s fine. This happens literally every single time a new windows version comes out.

The only genuinely bad Windows IME was ME. Vista had driver teething problems, and 8 had a weird UI, but outside of that… they’re all just fine.

I’ve been building PCs since the late 90s and have pirated Windows from 98 on up.

deranger ,

“Cogs” - did you really just use a slur they invented for Deus Ex game as a real slur? Gonna call them clanks and hanzers too?

Even if you did, you realize those are in universe slurs and indicate the person is ignorant, right?

deranger ,

Did you listen to the clip? It’s barely recognizable as any song.

deranger ,

That’s where I disagree, it’s not recognizable as music - at least not without prior prompting.

deranger ,

Middle one is slightly better but far from music. It’s not mind blowing to me. If I didn’t have the suggestion I’d not guess this even a song.

deranger ,

Great read, thanks for sharing.

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