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Cocodapuf

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  • Are you ready for what it takes to stop ghost guns? New laws in California and New York might stop anyone from 3D printing guns — and create entirely new kinds of surveillance.

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  • New laws in California and New York might stop people from 3D printing guns

    It absolutely, positively, will not do that. If someone wants to print a gun, no legislation is going to stop them. It could at best, slow them down by maybe an hour, as they find, download and install different firmware for their printer.

    If you want to prevent people from printing guns, you'll need a different tactic, because that won't do it.

  • Your Favorite Place, Your Actual Budget

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  • I gotta say, north from San Francisco is pretty amazing. I did a road trip years ago, we were in a hurry for this section, so took the I-5 rather than the coast road. That was a shame for the LA to SF section of the trip, but my god when we got north of SF... Driving through Shasta National Park was perhaps the most beautiful scenery I've ever witnessed.

    At some point we passed a lake beach that was truly unreal, the vibrant greens of the pines, the red clay of the shore, and rich blue of the water, the color was so intense, so saturated, it was like an alien world in the best possible way.

    When you look to the east, you can see Mount Shasta. Now, being from New England, up in the Appalachians, I thought I knew what a mountain was, I was wrong. Shasta loomed over the terrain, a solitary giant, with a perfect cone shaped lenticular cloud overhead. The scale was truly awe inspiring.

    Note: I didn't have to search for "lenticular cloud" to find that image, I just searched for "Mount Shasta".

    Should you make this drive, up toward Portland, don't forget to stop in weed CA. It's an old logging town, probably not a lot to see, but there's a lovely, kitschy little diner, a great place to stop for lunch. The food was good, and you get the opportunity to pick up some merch like a shirt that says "I got high in weed CA".

  • Pigeons live ‘at the edge of chaos,’ researchers confirm

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  • Oh yeah, I see the red tailed hawks all the time, and I'm not far from the city. We even have some bald eagles these days. We don't see them often, but there are some.

  • Meta's solution to the global memory shortage is to use DDR4 in a DDR5 server, with a custom chip making the impossible possible

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  • Yeah, that's fair. I don't really have my finger on the pulse of AI tech, but llama was a thing I remembered.

  • Meta's solution to the global memory shortage is to use DDR4 in a DDR5 server, with a custom chip making the impossible possible

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  • Well they're developing llama I believe. Which (credit where credit is due), is one of the few open source gpl language models. And you can run it locally, without imposed limits or sending tons of data off to Meta servers.

  • Tesla driver charged with manslaughter after car in FSD mode crashes into Texas home

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  • They can call it whatever they want, the bottom line is that a human is behind the wheel and ultimately they're responsible.

    And I think it has been well established at this point that fsd isn't ready yet, that it's not safe. The fact that they call it "full self driving" is cute... but it's marketing, it's not a get out of jail free card.

    Edit: Hah. So many down votes! Well go ahead, down vote personal responsibility! I mean, suggesting maybe people are responsible for the choices they make, fuck me right!

  • What kind of things do you think movies are most dishonest about?

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  • Well their way around it in Star Trek is to say that the ships aren't moving at fantastic ftl speeds. They're warping space to make the distances between those points shorter, and then traveling at a reasonable speed across that (briefly) shorter distance. So they don't need to expose humans to extreme g forces.

    Warp drives are loosely based on a real theory, an Alcubierre drive, but as far as I know, while the idea is mathematically sound, it's practically quite impossible. They would require some unfathomable amounts of energy to operate as well as matter with negative mass (which is not a thing).

  • What kind of things do you think movies are most dishonest about?

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  • We assume all of that.

    We really don't know how common objects are between stars. We've observed a couple of interstellar visitors passing through our system, old asteroids from origins unknown. But we can only track the really large ones. We can see mid sized objects when they come very close to earth, but we can't track small objects at all, we literally have no idea how much of that exists in deep space. (Or for the most part, in our own solar system)

    Still, you can see just from the evidence that our deep space probes have never really (hit) anything, that it would in fact be a quite rare event. It's just hard to say how rare.

  • Cheap Chinese chips could offer way out of RAM price crisis, Apple suggests

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  • *Tim Apple

  • Cheap Chinese chips could offer way out of RAM price crisis, Apple suggests

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  • No...

  • Pigeons live ‘at the edge of chaos,’ researchers confirm

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  • Well, it does tend to happen with rats/monkeys/people.

    If 5 buttons all work the same way, you just hit whichever one is closest or whatever, over and over again. You spam it, hit it as fast as you can.

    I can wake up my computer by hitting any key, I have something like 50 keys to choose from, I click the mouse every time.

  • Pigeons live ‘at the edge of chaos,’ researchers confirm

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  • As articles go, this isn't a long one, just saying.

  • Pigeons live ‘at the edge of chaos,’ researchers confirm

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  • Let me introduce you to the peregrine falcon

    You'll notice their range includes essentially everywhere on earth, though they really thrive in cities.

    Due to their greater abundance in cities than most other birds, feral pigeons support many peregrine populations as a staple food source, especially in urban settings.

    The peregrine is a highly successful example of urban wildlife in much of its range, taking advantage of tall buildings as nest sites, and an abundance of prey such as pigeons and ducks.

  • US House of Representatives passed the KIDS Act, Which would basically require age checks for Americans to get online

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  • It's worth noting that this isn't a distraction, this is the main event.

  • What is your favourite album of all time?

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  • I definitely like seeing Picaresque up here, fantastic album.

    Hey if you like that, well I can't really explain why this album is similar, but try "England Keep my Bones" by Frank Turner.

  • Detective: Suffolk man accused of damaging Flock cameras said they’re ‘unconstitutional’

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  • Ok, that is a really fun Wikipedia link! I'm reading in bed and nearly woke up my partner by laughing.

  • Mt. Olive Pickles withdraws from Great American State Fair after Confederate flag at NC booth

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  • I'm not a complicated man, I put the sliced dill pickles on my deli meat sandwiches.

    Although, I've also started eating a new sandwich of my own devising... Black forest ham, 2 fried eggs (I keep it all together, like an omelet), pickled jalapenos, all on a buttered everything bagel.

    I'm not sure it's healthy, but it's tasty.

  • Mt. Olive Pickles withdraws from Great American State Fair after Confederate flag at NC booth

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  • xkcd #3265: Asteroid Threat

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  • Hey, you know birds aren't real, right?