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Re:Poop.is – A Crappy Link Shortener on Sunday March 27, 2022 @01:59PM (#30822399)
I like this
Re:Deepfake in Russia on Friday March 25, 2022 @03:09PM (#30805972)
When I saw the deepfake of zelenskyy on the news I was really surprised to see how poor quality it was since realistic deepfakes can be done more easily with current advancements in AI. My question is that is it posible that the deepfake was not done by the Russian government? Or maybe they were too lazy to put quality into the deepfake?
Currently, most people when they hear James Webb, they think of a telescope named after some random guy. They dont think of some guy that was insensitive or whatever to gay people. You change the name and people will then think: the telescope named after they guy that fired the gay people but was then changed to the current name. Names are names, NASA maybe shouldn’t have named it after Webb and was a mistake. How much money and controversy to we need to pay when we can just apologize or something and move on with discovering more about the universe.
What does it mean to learn a natural language? Absolutely nothing unless you have a significant understanding of it to be useful. Its like how people “know” tens of second languages without very much fluency in any of them to be useful besides bragging. I suppose because programming is easier to learn this might not be true.
You can run linux servers for years without reboot. Want to hear a joke? A secure windows server.
Re:Russia considers accepting Bitcoin for oil and gas on Friday March 25, 2022 @01:13AM (#30798845)
Russia becomes like Venezuela and switches to bitcoin
Re:Why doesn't my brain turn off? on Friday March 25, 2022 @01:08AM (#30798818)
Yes hence the quality of the post at a time i couldn’t turn off my brain
Re:So, you want to be a darknet drug lord on Thursday March 24, 2022 @01:58PM (#30793330)
I do how did you know that?
Re:Ask HN: Why aren't devs making desktop apps any more? on Thursday March 24, 2022 @01:54PM (#30793291)
Because a web application is cross platform and much easier to develop most of the time
How would knowing about a popular text editor discredit a “security guy”
Re:Uncle Vanya Replaces McDonald's in RU on Thursday March 24, 2022 @12:46PM (#30792372)
I feel like some companies that have dropped business in russia will simply be replaced internally by some Russian company which breaks more ties with the west. Also wouldn't it also mean that profits would stop going to the west and those Russian companies could in the long run generate more revenue within russia. Or maybe the long run is irrelevant with the crisis.

Why doesn't my brain turn off?

Why does my brain refuse to turn off? What purpose is my brain if cannot preform such a basic function as turning off. How is it that my consciousness never seems be repressed. The moment consciousness is programmed to go out from the chemical hormones and biological systems, my consciousness is there to interrupt this. I give up on believing that my conscious thoughts and actions have any...

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Re:Improving DuckDuckGo (2019) on Sunday February 20, 2022 @02:16PM (#30408415)
The duck email addresses are really something but they should stop the waiting list and just open it up to anyone.
Web apps but this is already getting easier. Mobile web apps like in the App Store needs to become easier