Readit News logoReadit News
trackofalljades commented on macOS Packaging for Ungoogled-Chromium   github.com/ungoogled-soft... · Posted by u/keepamovin
trackofalljades · a year ago
What would be a driving reason to use this versus Brave?
trackofalljades commented on The Nursery of the Mac – Apple Computer factory in Cork, Ireland (1996)   rgaros.nl/computers/apple... · Posted by u/Lammy
wkat4242 · a year ago
Ireland is Apple's European Headquarters (also in Cork). Yet Apple cares so little about Ireland that they don't even bother to make a real apple store available.

The only thing they care about Ireland for is tax avoidance.

trackofalljades · a year ago
So, like Bono, then?
trackofalljades commented on 13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted   github.com/wasi-master/13... · Posted by u/darknavi
karmakaze · 2 years ago
Missed opportunity to call it 2ft, as in standing on one's own.
trackofalljades · 2 years ago
...or 11ft8, which can open anything
trackofalljades commented on Why do people believe true things?   conspicuouscognition.com/... · Posted by u/Michelangelo11
BriggyDwiggs42 · 2 years ago
What are you even trying to say?
trackofalljades · 2 years ago
They're trying to say that they've never studied philosophy, or perhaps even discrete mathematics, and possibly that they don't understand the inherent value in breaking down and very methodically and rationally trying to explain ideas or answer questions that may seem "obvious."
trackofalljades commented on Scarlett Johansson Said No, but OpenAI's Virtual Assistant Sounds Just Like Her   nytimes.com/2024/05/20/te... · Posted by u/axiomdata316
some1else · 2 years ago
It should be possible to find a voice artist for hire that sounds like Scarlett Johansson in "Her" when you can fingerprint voices, model them, and quantify the differences.
trackofalljades · 2 years ago
That's literally what they did.
trackofalljades commented on Full body scans for the people   nytimes.com/2024/04/27/bu... · Posted by u/sieste
petercooper · 2 years ago
I get a significant medical every two years for various reasons. Some things are always worth measuring (weight, blood pressure, blood work) but conservatism is the status quo with proactive scanning beyond the essentials for good reason.

Without the right preparation and counselling (or, at minimum, a systematic, logical approach to risk), people can get thrown by findings and struggle to weigh up the risks. Is that new cyst on your kidney a problem? Is that small brain aneurysm (with a very low risk of rupture) going to play on your mind? Might you opt for an operation with a higher mortality rate than simply ignoring it? Even worse: when that 'thing' they found isn't really a 'thing' at all but you got treatment for it anyway.

This tech is great to have available and for motivated individuals to have the option to use, but as something to benefit the mass market, I suspect it'll take a lot of time to shift the needle, and not for technological reasons. I think things like a-fib and blood pressure detection on wearables is more likely to have an impact in the medium term.

trackofalljades · 2 years ago
This is just photography not radiation or magnetism, so some of those examples wouldn't come up...but I imagine skin cancer and some other preventative concerns might be addressed?
trackofalljades commented on Tesla Cybertruck deliveries halted for 7 days   barrons.com/articles/tesl... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
goodoldneon · 2 years ago
trackofalljades · 2 years ago
Some news outlets are reporting that as fact, yes.
trackofalljades commented on Pretty Eight Machine   leadedsolder.com/2024/04/... · Posted by u/zdw
trackofalljades · 2 years ago
not to be confused with the awesome chiptune cover of NIN:

https://inversephase.bandcamp.com/album/pretty-eight-machine...

u/trackofalljades

KarmaCake day269October 2, 2011View Original