Isn't the main showstopper issue to solve for brain implants is scarring response or something similar? That is when body responds to the implant and surrounds electrodes with some sort of tissue reducing its effectiveness. Has Neuralink made any advancements in that area?
Readit Newsjeff_vader commented on A Year of Telepathy neuralink.com/blog/a-year... · Posted by u/julianh65
Subscribed! I have a severe subscription fatigue, so I was avoiding Kagi. But with this change, it makes it much less problematic.
That reminds me, I need to cancel my 24 Hour Fitness subscription.
When most of services nowadays seem like a hostile subscription, this brings joy.
edit: use of Yandex on the other hand.. yeah that's a no go for paid subscription.
Tried going all out at ~45deg angle until fuel is finished hoping to go into orbit, but no luck.
I've done something similar but it was only a 7 segment display showing how much I ran. It sat on a shelf and it was pretty fun to watch number go up every time I came back to my apartment after a run.
To make everything really simple I scraped my public profile directly from esp8266 controller (so there's no need for extra steps of setting up Strava app to gain access to the API). Worked relatively well.
jeff_vader commented on Video-Guided Foley Sound Generation with Multimodal Controls ificl.github.io/MultiFole... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
The spacebar is there and gets used, it's just dark. Looks like an old Russian typewriter and nothing suggests it's AI generated.
Yup. And the other (green/teal?) typewriter has a spacebar on the edge, same colour as the typewriter body. Ends of it sometimes visible between fingers, it's also used.
jeff_vader commented on California teacher dies from suspected rabid bat bite ktla.com/news/california/... · Posted by u/Bender
The modern vaccine isn’t that bad. I went through it in 2012 after a bat weirdly decided to mess with my scalp at an outdoor concert. Treatment was a series of four shots (in the arm, not the stomach) over a few weeks of drop in visits to an LA hospital. NBD, way better than worrying about impending death.
The bigger deal can be finding who has the vaccine and is prepared to administer it.
My father got it after an injured looking/unusually behaving cat scratched him up. Cat ran away - so it was impossible to test for rabies. 4 shoulder injections - no drama, no noticeable side effects other than maybe sore shoulder.
jeff_vader commented on Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband networks techdirt.com/2024/11/07/1... · Posted by u/speckx
A hundred years ago on irc someone from Russia was describing their internet connection, which was ethernet, while I had only ever heard of dial up outside of large companies.
It was just people had set up their own hubs and switches in their appartment buildings and strung cables between buildings.
This blew my mind. They just ran themselves ethernet and everyone got a drop from a switch in their building.
It wasn't clear how it got from a neighborgood level upstream.
But just the idea that they could all just decide to give themselves internet, and ethernet no less, string ethernet outside the walls of their own appartments to other appartments, and outside the building from one building to another? Unimaginable in the US. I was boggled and jealous.
Not from Russia, but nearby.. It was very common - kinda wild east and nobody cared. As soon our telecom started providing DSL - we (neighbourhood kids) got a commercial DSL into my apartment and shared it between 2 five story apartment buildings. Our set up was tiny and not very reliable. Some local networks like this grew and became almost proper internet providers. But they continued this gray practice of pulling cables in the air, between buildings. They'd also do other sketchy stuff like installing hubs/switches into electrical boxes and tapping supply from the building. We learned about it when a technician from a provider like this dropped a screwdriver on live wires and knocked out power for half of the building.
jeff_vader commented on Ask HN: What would you preserve if the internet were to go down tomorrow? · Posted by u/gooob
English Wikipedia and some Linux distribution which can be downloaded as a full set of packages + sources.
Asking just out of curiosity/ignorance. The author mentions that the F35 has a completely digital touchscreen to basically do anything on the aircraft (I assume). I can also image a powerful gun damaging it, then how does pilot manage if that screen stops working at all? Compare the same situation in the F4. The hit would only break/damage the instruments on that line of fire, correct? So in one case you would be totally screwed while in the other one you would partially lose some instruments, right? I must obviously not be taking into account something (or many things) for the F35, but in my mind having a 100% digital aircraft seems pretty scary.
Basic flight instruments almost always have a backup. In case of F-35 there's a small square screen in centre console which shows attitude indicator and flight parameters. Needless to say, if main screens are out you are turning around and looking for the nearest airport.
jeff_vader commented on What we can learn from vintage computing github.com/readme/feature... · Posted by u/ibobev
i have been slowly designing a fantasy retro terminal/computer idea. imagine something uncomplicated enough that kids could learn the entire architecture on, without the diatractability for the web. and maybe a fantasy network that would be more like what could have happened if we extended fidonet out instead of getting IP (overlayed on the modern internet of course)
Somewhat related: https://x.com/id_aa_carmack/status/569658695832829952
> Teaching my kids programming on an Apple //c is like kung fu training in the primitive wilderness.