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Comment · 5 months ago
See also: https://jqwik.net/docs/1.10.0/user-guide.html#note-to-coding...
Comment · 8 months ago
Follow-up on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022952
Comment · 9 months ago
"Ultrasound can also be used to stimulate neurons. When multiple beams are focused on one spot, the waves change the pressure around the neurons, altering their firing rate."
Reminds me of the Expanse where a magnets were used to inhibit empathy in humans...
Comment · 2 years ago
Reminds me of these two short stories:
- "I Always Do What Teddy Says" by Harry Harrison
- "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury
Comment · 3 years ago
Here is the technical data of what is really going on - it is not sinister, rather these are files needed by the GPS chipset:
https://wwws.nightwatchcybersecurity.com/tag/qualcomm/
Comment · 4 years ago
Key point:
“It’s a voluntary program,” Emmett Romine, vice president of customer solutions and innovation at Xcel, told local news station KMGH-TV. “Let’s remember that this is something that customers choose to be a part of based on the incentives.”
This is fairly common with other utilities as well, my local utility did the same thing a few years ago.