And consumers will find a better method of getting their product, probably without all the garbage drm. Piracy universally helps everyone, including the company. The worse the drm gets, the more money they lose and thats about it.

Nah, it wasnt anything truly revolutionary. It was just some weird impedence effect we didnt fully understand how it was utilizing. AI doesnt really produce NEW stuff, but its really good at taking advantage of physics weve already worked out. Its not going to design a NEW chip, but it can pretty easily optimize existing chips or design a “new” layout that might be more efficient.

Do this is ALMOST an actual thing. Seems like this guy tried to use an LLM to do something useful, lol. Meanwhile actual scientists are using actual AI to design actual conputer chips that actually perform better than their human competitors. That being said, the new chips are not “end-to-end” AI, theyre designed by AI and a human does the final touches. Theyre also highly unique, i cant find the article now but their AI designed a chip that seemed to use extra parts, i remember there was a diode and transistor that were literally completely seperated from the traces of the rest of the chip, and yet they were functional pieces and the chip wouldnt work if you removed them.

I believe the preamble was when we elected a pedo, and then news came out that, SURRPISE! He’s a pedo.

I was listening to the song when i made the meme, its really ups the oof factor for me

Holy shit how did i fuck that up, you guys are being too gentle! I appreciate it lol

I understood some of that.

Man, finances sound like they suck.

I don’t know enough about browsers to really know anything about chromium. But I did see a statement from Google which I believe stated that they were removing support for adblockers from chromium based browsers. It was at that point that I decided I did want to continue having a usable browsing experience, and immediately swapped.

Maybe it’s just shitty phones ¯_(ツ)_/¯ either way though, if your feature makes my phone unusable it’s def gonna trigger me. Obviously that’s very self centered, but I believe accessability should be for everyone. Far too often devs remove beloved features from their software and it breaks so many legacy features.

Except when laying down and your blanket touches your screen and it loses its God damn mind.

Fuck I hate gestures

To your last statement, the answer is always yes lol. Admittedly, without despining it your going to have difficulties scanning in the text closest to the middle of the book, but any knowledge or media being archived is amazing.

Damn, turns out the only one willing to bomb Israel is isreal

Looking at pictures when trying to read is absurdly distracting, I wouldn’t recommend just taking pictures. Instead, you can use a tool to convert a photo into a pdf document. It rips the text from the photo and types it for you. That enables you to just upload the text, which makes for a much smaller file size while having higher quality for the things that matter. But it’s still very involved, you will definitely want to proofread the entire PDF to ensure it didn’t make any errors.

Unlike that other guy, I think the less valuable a book is the more it needs to be digitized. An incredibly valuable book will be stored in a museum, and will likely be digitized if it needs to be and is capable of being. Whereas there are millions of books that don’t get many copies and no one thinks to digitize them because they’re not “important”. That results in immeasurable amounts of lost media. Plus, if the book is cheap, then there shouldn’t be any issue getting a second copy just to tear off the spine and scan it in, right?

Also worth noting, if the book is valuable and you do tear off the spine, there are a ton of places you can send the papers to and they’ll make you a custom spine for the book and rebind it for you.

I have this exact hard drive, it only cost about $30. If I cared about the light, I would be at least willing to attempt to mechanically disable it. Judging by OP asking, I’m assuming they are too.

Just look at billionaires

Pretty crazy how Israel is trying to label antisemitism as a good thing

Glad youvmade that connection lol

Hmm, i dunno, when people start yelling at me suddenly everything techy stops functioning oddly. Its not my fault the conputer mysteriously rebooted. I also cant be blamed that the wifi is down, so we only accept cash. But also I cant accept $100 bills. Also in order to accept any denomination above a 5 i have to use a counterfeit pen. Oh no! Our pen is gone, oof. Oh dang, you dont have 75$ in ones? Thats a real shame, mate. Also due to an issue with our security system were closing early today, in about 30 seconds.

Someone called in to corporate to falsely complain about me, so the next time they came in i told them they were banned. They complained to corporate about that too, so when corporate came to check on us. They proceeded to offer us a free rug cleaning service, but other than that had nothing to say. Im not sure if its just my current job or what, but I have a startling amount of power to completely shut down peoples ability to utilize my store. So be nice to workers, you never know how difficult they can make things for you. Also yknow just dont be a dick

The first issue is definitely solvable, thats just a material science issue. The second one is also definitely possible, but depending on the payload it might be very difficult. Seems easier to just accelerate a tungsten sphere to mach 4 than to bother with a warhead.

For the intense heat, thats a waste product. Get rid of it by not producing it in the first place. Which means your rails are now cryocooled superconductors.

For the immense forces, i might need to look into railguns again. Afaik the only force that isnt being counteracted is the force on the projectile. I might be wrong at those power levels, while the net force should be zero the force on the arms could be opposite, ripping the railgun apart or crushing it. The solution i would think is coiling your rails around the barrel, now the rails effectively act as their own support with a minor bracing.

For the record, i didnt put it together that he was referring specifically to the large models. I just knew i made a rail gun back in high school and its wasnt difficult, so the idea that the US govt cant copy my project struck me as absurd.

Finally, im a hobby electrician with my passions lying more in technology and futurism, so i have looked into railguns in passing but I do not work for the military nor have i looked into the specifics of the large scale models, so corrections are more than welcome.

Uh, what? Railguns are a tech as old as time, i highly doubt the US was the first to create one. I could throw a railgun together in about 30 minutes with the stuff i have laying around the house. They are INCREDIBLY simple, literally 1 moving part and no circutry whatsoever. Just hook your positive to one rail, negative to the other. Right hand rule tells you which direction your projectile will fire.