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  1. Comment on Fifth American tourist arrested at Turks and Caicos airport after ammo allegedly found in luggage in ~travel

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    And now imagine being imprisoned for 12 years for having a misplaced rainbow flag in your luggage.

    And now imagine being imprisoned for 12 years for having a misplaced rainbow flag in your luggage.

  2. Comment on Students invent quieter leaf blower in ~engineering

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    They'll refuse to purchase because electric.

    They'll refuse to purchase because electric.

    1 vote

  3. Comment on Fifth American tourist arrested at Turks and Caicos airport after ammo allegedly found in luggage in ~travel

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    So, misplacing two stray .22 bullets. Irresponsible? Yes. Warranting foreign imprisonment for up to 12 years? Cruel and unhinged.

    So, misplacing two stray .22 bullets.

    Irresponsible? Yes.

    Warranting foreign imprisonment for up to 12 years? Cruel and unhinged.

    3 votes

  4. Comment on GPT-4o in ~tech

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    This story is extremely iffy, as competent prompters are entirely capable of such adjustments. Inpainting, outpainting, transfers, all that. This is equivalent to hiring artists that can't draw....

    This story is extremely iffy, as competent prompters are entirely capable of such adjustments. Inpainting, outpainting, transfers, all that. This is equivalent to hiring artists that can't draw. I'd say it actually kind of encourages company execs to invest in generative AI if they know that.

    Regarding voice acting, you can instruct adjustments somewhat (I figure significantly more with GPT-4o), and then generate with redundancy to pick the best fitting performance. That's how I do when generating lullabies (with XTTSv2), that's how people do with ElevenLabs. This would mean that a company would still need to hire someone to listen through it all very patiently, with an ear for this, and possibly still require a voice actor to provide and license voice samples for cloning.

    11 votes

  5. Comment on ‘TunnelVision’ attack leaves nearly all VPNs vulnerable to spying in ~tech

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    Several phone makers started advertising with years and years of updates, but I fully expect this to not yield an increase in sales that will justify the expense, so they will quietly stop.

    Several phone makers started advertising with years and years of updates, but I fully expect this to not yield an increase in sales that will justify the expense, so they will quietly stop.

    5 votes

  6. Comment on V Rising 1.0 out now in ~games

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    I was all like ":)" until I realized this isn't a competitor to Kerbal Space Program. This is fine, too, I guess.

    I was all like ":)" until I realized this isn't a competitor to Kerbal Space Program.

    This is fine, too, I guess.

    1 vote

  7. Comment on ‘Ideal’ movie running time is ninety-two minutes, poll claims in ~movies

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    6 movies. Plus 2 more for the extended edition lol

    There's no way LotR would have been able to tell the story it needed in 92 minutes.

    6 movies.

    Plus 2 more for the extended edition lol

    2 votes

  8. Comment on New evidence found for Planet 9 in ~space

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    Obviously a large teapot.

    Obviously a large teapot.

    2 votes

  9. Comment on What if we discover the answers of the Universe, eliminate cancer, halt aging. What's next? in ~humanities

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    We already regularly create new universes with their own secrets. We call them video games. We can only dream how those would work after we solve meat and build a Dyson swarm.

    We already regularly create new universes with their own secrets. We call them video games. We can only dream how those would work after we solve meat and build a Dyson swarm.

    4 votes

  10. Comment on Looking for help scraping and deleting a Reddit account in ~comp

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    My script has a no-CSV mode which is the standard mode for most of these scripts. It cannot delete everything at once per Reddit limits. With the CSV, and so a list of all commend IDs, it...

    there for unknown reasons even with repeated attempts

    My script has a no-CSV mode which is the standard mode for most of these scripts. It cannot delete everything at once per Reddit limits. With the CSV, and so a list of all commend IDs, it systematically eats everything. Probably fails at currently private comments, but the IDs should still be on the list, so a later rerun should mop those up.

  11. Comment on Looking for help scraping and deleting a Reddit account in ~comp

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    I don't have time now so just posting a link https://rentry.co/unreddit Not sure if it still works. Worth a try. Let me know if something's unclear :)

    I don't have time now so just posting a link https://rentry.co/unreddit

    Not sure if it still works. Worth a try. Let me know if something's unclear :)

    2 votes

  12. Comment on Meet Llama 3 in ~tech

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    I know, I use Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral on the regular. I'm saying censoring them is... discomforting.

    I know, I use Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral on the regular.

    I'm saying censoring them is... discomforting.

  13. Comment on Meet Llama 3 in ~tech

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    Claim to own it and censored it up. Screw commercial applications of everybody's personal content, I want a compressed version of the internet as it is.

    Claim to own it and censored it up. Screw commercial applications of everybody's personal content, I want a compressed version of the internet as it is.

    4 votes

  14. Comment on Transformers One | Official trailer in ~movies

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    I don't like Transformers, but I do like Transformers One.

    I don't like Transformers, but I do like Transformers One.

  15. Comment on New Brexit checks will cause food shortages in UK, importers warn in ~food

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    Tories want an even higher separation from EU, even if it makes people starve... so I'd say that firmly falls under "evil".

    too ashamed/evil

    Tories want an even higher separation from EU, even if it makes people starve... so I'd say that firmly falls under "evil".

    5 votes

  16. Comment on What cooking techniques need more evidence? in ~food

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    I freeze sliced, then just remove slices for consumption, so it only ever suffers one cycle. The kind I get handles it no problem, it's great.

    I freeze sliced, then just remove slices for consumption, so it only ever suffers one cycle. The kind I get handles it no problem, it's great.

  17. Comment on Norwegian bridge collapsed ten years after it was built – all because designers focused too much on making it look good in ~engineering

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    It seems to me the goal was the "beauty" of "minimalism", and reusing two existing foundations, so they skipped on adding a third support. At least that's what I gather from the article. Ended up...

    It seems to me the goal was the "beauty" of "minimalism", and reusing two existing foundations, so they skipped on adding a third support. At least that's what I gather from the article. Ended up with two asymmetrical supports instead of awkward 2+1. But I don't know, I don't do bridges.

    7 votes

  18. Comment on What cooking techniques need more evidence? in ~food

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    Freezing most types of bread doesn't harm it. However, fridge is another matter, as you'll have starches retrograde—basically order themselves—which indeed could lead to full crystallization. I'd...

    Freezing most types of bread doesn't harm it.

    However, fridge is another matter, as you'll have starches retrograde—basically order themselves—which indeed could lead to full crystallization. I'd say "bread crystallizing" would be a fitting expression for it in a pinch. Either way, this does in fact accelerate going stale. Ordered starches mean firmer bread and loss of moisture. You'd have to reintroduce moisture and heat it to revert the process a bit.

    4 votes

  19. Comment on How to fix the dreaded 'package appears to be invalid' error when installing APKs in ~comp

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    You create a new version on Google Play or Apple AppStore, and create an internal / alpha test group. You add your team to that group. Android testers need a link to the Google Play store page...

    You create a new version on Google Play or Apple AppStore, and create an internal / alpha test group. You add your team to that group. Android testers need a link to the Google Play store page only they can see, and Apple testers see it all in TestFlight. If all is fine, you can actually publish the version, or just step up the test to a second-level group.

    Both platforms' testing first happens in an emulator, but Apple's is much worse, so sooner or later you need to link a phone to your IDE, and it will build straight to it. I see no real reason to avoid using a personal device honestly.

    Also in my experience 99% of all install errors are caused by signing issues.

    13 votes

  20. Comment on What AI tools are you actually using? in ~tech

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    Can easily make a bot for that. I made one that periodically asks if I watched the shows it recommended to me earlier etc.

    I've also wondered how much value could be gotten out of LLMs that talk at you unprompted. Like, for body doubling or any sort of assistant, they would sometimes initiate the conversation too, right? Or give encouragement unsolicited. I'd actually love it if I told ChatGPT I was doing something, and then an hour later it asked "so how is that project going?"

    Can easily make a bot for that. I made one that periodically asks if I watched the shows it recommended to me earlier etc.