

Vantablack is quite fragile and would quickly disintegrate at high speeds


Vantablack is quite fragile and would quickly disintegrate at high speeds


David has been drawing the Pepper and Carrot webcomic for well over a decade now and his style has been pretty consistent.
He makes them all in Krita as well.


Most people so rarely need to navigate legislation that Ordinance Survey maps aren’t common. Ordnance Survey maps on the other hand are great for navigating the British countryside.


hooray my fuser has jammed, my transfer belt has stretched, toner is smeared everywhere, my printer weighs a ton.


Every program ideally should be in a sandbox and if it wants permission to access something it should have to ask for it.


Ease of management and surveillance (most such tools marketed at schools are Windows only), first class integration into active directory for user and computer account management, hardware agnostic (rules out macos), and it’s already integrated into the IT team’s systems and processes so switching would be a major effort.


This has been my favourite tech story for the past few years, I hope the train company gets put in its place properly this time.
Edit: This article is from July last year.
None of what is considered ‘AI’ is actually AI, it’s just a rebrand of machine learning tech that has been around for a few years now (and is genuinely useful in certain circumstances). It’s all ‘AI’, only the generative AI is worth getting mad about.


Industrial automation dramatically reduced the cost of making cloth and these costs were passed down to the consumer which benefited everyone. The profits however were now only shared with a much smaller group of people, driving wealth inequality. Cotton mill workers weren’t well paid to begin with either.


Then explain Denmark


Local ML translation was pretty cool


Similar concepts have been developed before, Microsoft and Southampton University were working on glass cubes with 3D laser etchings in the centre around 2015-16


Evil has no birthplace, it has always existed in all people. Evil was there long before ‘The West’ or ‘Middle East’ were things. Religions don’t cause evil or intolerance, but some religions can be easily used to justify stoning gay people to death, or killing women for daring to be independant. If the bible didn’t command that gay people be murdered, or if Islam didn’t command that apostates be slain, it would be much harder to justify these evil acts. This isn’t a problem of religion, it’s a problem of cultures that take their religion too seriously.


This pressure is coming from the payment providers without whom no storefront can operate. We need alternatives to Visa and Mastercard.


They could stop paying their CEO so much and hire a few more devs, refocus their identity on privacy and performance (their offline ai translation is actually really useful), and actually give people the sense that their donations will be well spent.


Asking an llm isn’t research, he might as well have been consulting a magic 8 ball.


All I see is *******?


Because the Steamdeck proved there was a market, and didn’t run Windows so Microsoft got nothing from it.


If by ‘more pleasant texture’ you mean ‘no texture whatsoever’ then yes, I suppose so.
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