It stopped being a joke the moment they actually built the product and accepted money for it. As far as I’m concerned, those testimonials are just AI generated as well and the agent didn’t get the memo that this wasn’t sarcasm. It gives off real “Just a prank, bro” energy

It says in the article they tried stripping and reconnecting the cut cables but the wires were too thin and they shorted something out. I don’t think they had enough wire left to work with because of how short they were cut

Shit, I left my 2FA device at home!

I recently got my custom game engine running on an M4 Macbook, and it was definitely a pain. Using MoltenVK to translate the API works, but there’s a bunch of device features that are missing still I had to work around.

Off the top of my head it’s missing drawIndirectCount, linePolygonMode, and the ability to set line thickness above 1 px, which are Vulkan 1.2 features. I also had to do some tweaking since several device limits are lower (can only reference ~500 textures at once instead of 64k like most systems)

I think part of the difference is the amount of output being measured. Maybe a single statement has a 10% chance of being wrong, but over the course of a whole response the likelihood of there being an incorrect statement goes up. After only 5 statements at 10% error, that’s a 40% chance of being wrong in some way.

I don’t have any real numbers, just personal experience using AI for programming at work, and all of these numbers (10%, 40%, 70%) seem plausible depending on exactly what you’re measuring.

It seems to be off by default if you’ve already opted out of Copilot entirely. Definitely still a reminder I should set up my own git though

It looks like it might be possible. Someone’s done it before on a VIC-20
https://github.com/Kweepa/vicdoom

I would be very surprised if they decided to install top lighting in their sky-painted ceiling that has no other lights in it and is clearly designed to be lit from below to give the impression of outdoors.
It’s possible there was a leak that caused a section of the roof to collapse, or maybe there’s something above they have no other way of accessing. It’s weird seeing it in this half-repaired state

I should put “Bachelor’s in Waffleology” on my resume

If the squares are half the size, you get 4x the number of squares, assuming you’re measuring side length and not area.

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This was linked in the discussion there, and I think I’m a fan: https://sciactive.com/human-contribution-policy/

I’m definitely considering adding something like this to my projects.

The law actually specifies a maximum wattage, which back before all the new technology like LEDs and Xenons actually did limit the brightness… But the laws haven’t been keeping up with technology for quite a while…

Probably because most of them aren’t even under the same rules as cars: https://www.jalopnik.com/2111008/how-non-passenger-work-vehicle-became-family-car/

I disagree, depending on the animation. There was this BMW SUV (I’m not really sure which model) driving around here and their turn signal looked nearly indistinguishable from a sunlight reflection. It faded both IN and out, with a slow transition across, and I personally barely could tell it was on unless I was staring directly at it. It doesn’t catch your eye like a turn signal should.

I think animated signals are fine, but there should be some rules to it, like requiring it to flash on, but allowing fade outs or transitions.

Signal gets me all the privacy I need. I don’t care if they know my phone number uses Signal, I don’t use it as anonymous chat, I use it with friends and family.
As others in this post have said, Signal handles privacy perfectly fine, it does not provide anonymity.

Unlike several other users here, I actually view Signal’s contact discoverability as a feature, not a security flaw. All it means is if someone I know installs Signal, they can easily send me a message without a complicated back and forth through some other medium.

Signal is actually good, still, but there are even better alternatives.

… Would you care to list some of these alternatives and how they are better?

Every alternative I’ve looked at has some major drawbacks that would prevent me from getting any of my friends to move. Having to selfhost my own chat service isn’t really a positive in my mind due to the maintenance required and the higher possibility of outages.

The audits determined they don’t have any user information to provide. You can see this in previous government requests where the only thing provided was a timestamp of last connection to the network.

The government already has access to every phone number in existence. They can already track every phone to figure out who attended a protest or whatever. Filtering down to “all phone numbers who’ve ever connected to Signal” doesn’t exactly narrow anything down. They don’t have any metadata about who you were chatting with.

The critical part is that the electrons moving consumes energy from the incoming light, reducing the heat being generated while current is flowing. A disconnected solar panel will heat up a bit more than a connected one, but the difference in Watts per area is low enough the panel can just dissipate the extra unused heat to the surrounding air without any issues (unless you’re in the desert, maybe it’s possible they could overheat there, but this would likely be an issue even when generating power).

Modern solar panels are only about 20% efficient, so the panel would only heat up an extra 20% if disconnected in direct sun