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Re:You Wouldn't Steal a Font on Thursday April 24, 2025 @06:04AM (#43780922)
An AI font generatooorrrr!! (whoop whoop horn sound effect:)
Re:Yoshua Bengio: How Rogue AIs May Arise on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @09:37AM (#36044068)
If it is hurting one human, it is not "rogue AI" then. It is "mean AI"? Pff.

Asimov wrote first law of robotics in 1942: "A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.". Why not start from here?

Ask HN: Martian Organisms

Hello all,I was reading about the eukaryotic cells and this thought popped up: What if either one of bacteria or archaea evolved on earth and the other one evolved on Mars and the one on Mars travelled to Earth with an asteroid? That would speed up the evolution of eukaryotic cells on Earth and would make the life we know of possible (within our time frame).Anyone has any knowledge on the...

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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage your calendars? on Thursday December 08, 2022 @04:43AM (#33906131)
I also wanted to avoid Google calendar and ended up with this setup: I have a little linux server home with Nextcloud running on it, where caldav and carddav can be used. In order to sync the outlook calendar at work with the home server, I installed a sync tool to work PC: https://caldavsynchronizer.org/.

With this setup, I can sync my calendars and contacts between personal devices and work pc. With iphone, one can use cal and carddav out of the box. I remember using https://www.davx5.com/ on my android phone last year. I am not sure if it would still be necessary though.

Cool, any results, validation cases that we can have a look?