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1 day agoThe Humane Society was getting tired of dealing with Tamagotchis.
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0·2 days ago$ git clone -q https://github.com/karlforshaw/opengamedb.git $ cd opengamedb/ $ cut -d, -f1 names.csv |xargs -i% cat %.csv|cut -d, -f1|sort|uniq|sed 's/^"//'|sed 's/"$//'|grep -E '^(.*)\1+$'|uniq[snip]
*** 1010 101010 222 999 Ape QuestApe Quest BeatBeat DingDingDing GUNGUNGUN JUJU KARAKARA MochiMochi MokMok niconico OlliOlli QbQbQb ROCKETSROCKETSROCKETS ROWROW RRRR RUNRUNRUN TripTrip VVVVV VVVVVV YamaYama zzzzz $There do appear to be games like that (though “Ape QuestApe Quest” appears to be a typo).
I strongly suspect that the surname predates the automobile.
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https://www.familysearch.org/en/surname?surname=carless
Carless Name Meaning
English (Staffordshire): variant of Corliss .
Carless is most likely found in:
England: 1,769 people in Family Tree
United States: 141 people in Family Tree
Australia: 56 people in Family Tree
I wonder if they could use it as a testbed for launching hypersonic ramjet-driven weapons that are optimized for high speed to the point that they can’t function below very high speeds. Wasn’t designed for that, but it’d be an application where survivability in enemy space wouldn’t matter, they wouldn’t need many, and speed would be important. We are doing work on hypersonic weapons.
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It sounds like there were plans for a plane that filled something along the lines of that role:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_SR-72
The Lockheed Martin SR-72, commonly referred to as “Son of Blackbird”,[1] is an American hypersonic concept intended for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR). It was proposed privately in 2013 by Lockheed Martin as a successor to the retired Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird.
In November 2018, Lockheed Martin reported that a prototype of the SR-72 was scheduled to fly by 2025 and would be equipped to launch hypersonic missiles.[26] As of 2026 no such prototype has been launched.[27] The SR-72 could enter service in the 2030s.[28]
In September 2026, Jared Isaacman, Administrator of NASA, during his presentation, “A New Era for NASA and American Space Exploration” at the All-In Summit he mentioned rebuilding NASA’s X-Plane portfolio. On the slideshow, it shows a image of a unknown plane similar to the SR-71 Blackbird.[29][30]
EDIT: Scramjets apparently have a floor speed that’s higher than the SR-71’s ceiling speed, so I don’t think an SR-71 could be used to get a scramjet-based hypersonic weapon up to operational speed; it’d need to be a ramjet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramjet
A scramjet (supersonic combustion ramjet) is a variant of a ramjet airbreathing jet engine in which combustion takes place in supersonic airflow.
Because they can only operate in hypersonic airflow (>Mach 5), the aircraft to which they are attached must attain a hypersonic airspeed before the scramjet can be enabled.
EDIT2: It sounds like Mach 5 isn’t the scramjet floor (the article is probably just giving the floor for “hypersonic”) but it sounds like past scramjets still had to be boosted to close to that, a higher speed than the SR-71 could manage:
The X-51A was carried aboard a B-52, accelerated to Mach 4.5 via a solid rocket booster, and then ignited the Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne scramjet engine to reach Mach 5 at 70,000 feet (21,000 m).
I like its lines, but realistically, I don’t know what you’d use it for unless you need extremely high-resolution images.
We know, from Trump’s probably-ill-advised tweet back in 2019, that we can do 10-centimeter resolution from reconaissance satellites like USA-224.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA-224
Perigee altitude: 270 kilometers (170 mi)[1]
Apogee altitude: 986 kilometers (613 mi)[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird
During missions, the SR-71 operated at high speeds and altitudes (Mach 3.2 at 85,000 ft or 26,000 m)
The SR-71 operates at a tenth to a thirtieth USA-224’s altitude, so assuming comparable imaging systems (which I could believe) and that there aren’t stability or thermal issues (which I’d be less-certain of) it can get ten to thirty times the resolution of a USA-224-class satellite from the lower altitude. I’m not sure how much utility there is in reconnaissance to getting 1 cm or ⅓ cm resolution images instead of 10 cm.
I’d rather have numbered titles in the series so that I don’t have to memorize the order.
There was an earlier era, when <NOUN> hadn’t been already taken.
Human Contractors Are Seeing All Your Horny — and Creepy — AI Prompts
I doubt that. My horny and creepy AI prompts go to a local model.
I’m not familiar with GeekBench, but I assume that, as with benchmarking software that Ilve used in the past, its benchmark runs for more than two seconds to help make numbers reproducible.
My impression—I don’t use it myself and my few experiences touching it have not impressed me—is that the major selling point is that it provided several different forms of communication that gamers wanted to use in a single package. Like, instant messaging, VoIP, video calls, chat, etc.
You could set up all of these individually, but this was free and all-in-one, is managed, and it didn’t require much technical expertise to use. Any user with an account has access to all the components.
And it didn’t cost anything to set up.
If I were going to set up, say, a VoIP server, I’d probably use, oh, Mumble. I’d get my own VPS for it, which would cost something. I’d only have VoIP at the end of that. If I wanted to use say, text-based communication or have some mechanism for sharing files, I’d have to go cobble something together from other components.
Slate is still going to be constantly connected to the internet
No, it’s not. It doesn’t even have a cell radio.
Every single EV is a privacy nightmare.
I’d love a dumb EV, but there is none.
Slate Truck. I mean, the base model is also stripped of basically every luxury that’s been on a vehicle since the 1980s to bring the base price down. It does have airbags. There are no privacy issues because there is no entertainment computer, no GPS radio, no cell radio. Just a mount point for you to provide your own computer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate_(vehicle)
Designed around a starting price of US$24,950, the vehicle uses a simplified design with fewer parts and omits features such as an infotainment system, speakers, and power windows. All vehicles are to be produced with an unpainted gray plastic exterior and support customization through accessories and vinyl wraps.
The Slate’s base configuration, called the “Blank Slate”, will not include an infotainment system, speakers, or power windows. All units will be produced with the same unpainted gray polypropylene exterior, with vinyl wraps as the only offered way to change the exterior color.[13] A smartphone mount will be standard, and a tablet mount optional. The Blank Slate configuration will have fabric armrests and physical climate control knobs. The company plans to offer a large number of accessories for professional or DIY installation.[14]
There isn’t much there to have privacy implications. I haven’t looked at the (now government-mandated on new cars) tire flat detection system, whether it uses radio to talk to the wheels. Some people are concerned that vehicles that use radio TPSes broadcast a unique ID, and that that facilities ALPR-like logging of vehicles, though I’d guess that for most, that’s a pretty secondary concern to things like manufacturers harvesting data via phone-home.
That being said, it’s got a shorter range than, say, a Tesla Model 3, which could be an issue for some users.
EDIT: And just to be clear, since OP’s article is talking about the UK, I have no idea whether it’s available in the UK. Serial production should be starting in the US shortly, late this year.
Buy your graphics card NOW
I’d be waiting until 2028 and substantial additional memory supply hitting the market myself if you can wait.
If you’re trying to decide between buying a video card in, say, mid-2027 or now, okay, yeah, maybe then it’d be better to buy it now. But if you don’t have a really strong need to upgrade in late 2026 or in 2027, you’re probably going to get more bang for your buck by waiting.
If you’re connecting from a system that’s a long distance away from your server in terms of latency, mosh can be more comfortable to use than ssh.
The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
—John Gilmore in TIME magazine, 1993. Gilmore is one of the three founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the creator of the alt.* Usenet hierarchy.
I mean, they probably don’t need to. If they run across an existing Threadiverse instance, I’m sure that there are countless that will be just fine with them communicating via it.
I’d say that it’s actually harder from an enforcement standpoint, because if you catch someone going to a speakeasy or running one, you can punish them to deter consumption.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Increased_Penalties_Act
The Increased Penalties Act was a bill that increased the penalties for violating prohibition. Enacted on March 2, 1929, it is also called the “Jones–Stalker Act” or the “Jones Act”. The legislation was sponsored by two Republicans, Sen. Wesley L. Jones of Washington and Rep. Gale H. Stalker of upstate New York State. It stipulated that wherever any penalty was prescribed for the illegal manufacture, sale, transportation, importation, or exportation of intoxicating liquor as defined in the Volstead Act of 1919, the penalty imposed for each such offense should be a fine not to exceed $10,000 or imprisonment not to exceed five years, or both. The Act did not repeal any minimum penalties then prescribed by law. It further declared that it was the intent of Congress that the courts, in sentencing offenders, “should discriminate between casual or slight violations and habitual sales of intoxicating liquor, or attempts to commercialize violations of the law.”
It’s probably not going to be politically acceptable to apply criminal penalties to kids to stop them from chatting with each other.
Give it WiFi
A cell radio would permit for more travel range.
According to another former agent, there is widespread shock that such a breach could happen at one of the world’s best-resourced law enforcement agencies.
“You would think this information would not be internet-exposed. It’s disturbing, actually,” he says.
Maybe it’s time to start passing laws a la HIPAA that crank up handling standards for certain classes of data.
Yeah, I’m sorry, but this is on the business. There are business-class services where you will pay to have someone available to talk to you and deal with your data integrity. Facebook is not that.
And this isn’t a “hate on Facebook” comment, either. I’d say exactly the same thing if someone set up a business on lemmy.today and then was outraged that the server had data loss and that the server admin wasn’t providing personalized human tech support. It’s not that lemmy.today is a bad service when used for its intended purpose, but that it’d be an extremely bad decision to make it your business’s identity.
If someone has irreplaceable photos (or any other data) that they absolutely cannot lose, sticking their sole copy on some free online service is a really bad decision.