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kadoban
·16 hours ago·discuss
You're being sarcastic but you're not far wrong. Scent is a big part of attraction and sex. It's somewhat subtle, but important.

Artifically capturing that sounds...doomed though.
kadoban
·23 hours ago·discuss
I think there's some setting to restrict the number of them, or maybe turn them off. Doesn't happen for me ~ever and it's not my $$ (work) so I haven't really looked at it much.
kadoban
·2 days ago·discuss
Not every possible thing has real situations where it's better. There are legitimately terrible solutions to problems, that are dominated by better ones in every situation.

Like this, for example.
kadoban
·2 days ago·discuss
It's possible, it would just be _very_ dumb. It'd also turn into just...shooting them all down, restrictions of who anything is over wouldn't survive.
kadoban
·2 days ago·discuss
It could only ever increase by the surface area of the satellite lens things. It'll be a rounding error compared to the surface area of Earth (or compared to the effect of greenhouse gasses over the time period you're setting up these things).
kadoban
·2 days ago·discuss
Is it ever, ever going to be cheaper or easier or more effective than just launching a missile? Seems...unlikely just on the face of it.
kadoban
·2 days ago·discuss
That would be fairly nonsense. There's _very_ few orbits that can stick over a particular place, and it's only places on the equator. We'd be giving up 99+% of useful orbits.
kadoban
·6 days ago·discuss
Thanks! Nice findings.

Is the output, that others can use, the research and findings, or is there a tool or something that came out of this that I can plug in to one of the common harnesses?

I guess that brief note in the twit is that it'll be part of that harness you're opening up in the future?
kadoban
·11 days ago·discuss
It could still be the UI for this, if they wanted to, and they just implement the guts behind it with that in mind. It's not everything, but the UI is still something you can ~skip.
kadoban
·16 days ago·discuss
> Is it really false?

Even your own analogy for it is buying a lottery ticket.

Does buying a lottery ticket "lead to success"? Only if your picture of what that looks like focuses on only the winners.
kadoban
·16 days ago·discuss
Is that true? I don't know of really any medicine that has side effects 25 years down the line. Would we even know? We don't test new meds that long before release.

Isn't it more because meds are cheaper to test on animals and liability is much lower?
kadoban
·16 days ago·discuss
Thanks for the info, I'll track down that interview. That is an interesting strategy that I didn't consider.
kadoban
·16 days ago·discuss
It was an honest question.
kadoban
·16 days ago·discuss
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kadoban
·16 days ago·discuss
I assume you're talking about "slow and expensive" like sending tens of thousand of troops to occupy at _least_ the ~entire shore around the narrow part of the Strait, indefinitely?

Yeah, shocking there's no political will for that.
kadoban
·18 days ago·discuss
Not OP but one thing you can do is boil or lightly-pan-fry (don't use any spices, or at least check that they're dog-safe, _do not_ use garlic) chicken thigh or chicken breast, cut it into small cubes and freeze it in sandwhich bags.

Dogs love it because it's just little meat cubes. Thaw it before you give them.

You can do the same thing with hotdogs.
kadoban
·19 days ago·discuss
I haven't done this model yet, but comfyui will definitely support it and I've found it a nice interface once you get used to it. Copy/paste a workflow to start with if you're lost.
kadoban
·22 days ago·discuss
AI is actually useful, in the strict sense. It can do things. If you consider its eventual effects good or bad for humanity is fair either way, but it's still different from NFTs or the "metaverse" nonsense. It's a categorically different thing.
kadoban
·23 days ago·discuss
If Iran was in more pain than the USA, they wouldn't be getting $300 billion, sanctions relief and ongoing fees for the Strait. That's how wars work.

They're getting favorable terms because the USA can't win this war as it was started.
kadoban
·23 days ago·discuss
Stupid question: does the computer or whatever the monitor is hooked up to need to know to do something special to then show those colors, or it's just normal rgb color levels and in a less-good-color-space monitor those would have been shifted to less accurate colors?