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Comment · 9 minutes ago
My brother had a friend who tried to register fuck.com in the early days of the Internet, around 1994, and the registrar was confused and wanted to know why he wanted to register it. This was when the Internet was mostly universities and a .com cost $100 to register.
Comment · 12 minutes ago
I click on the link on Android Firefox and nothing happens.
Comment · 12 hours ago
Can you elaborate on the process? Do you just provide it with the ROMs and it is able to pull apart the relevant sprites and code pieces, and recombine into a new ROM?
Comment · 20 hours ago
I'm not trying to dismiss the gravity of the abuse these camera systems facilitate.

My comment was meant to convey that the headline on this post was missing the context of the locality in which the searches were happening.

The story is really about one dispatcher using the system improperly in one police department.

The truncated headline here implies that one person was responsible for 95% of all Flock camera searches.

Comment · 1 day ago
> Flock camera searches fall 95% in Highland Heights after dispatcher's misconduct caught
Comment · 2 days ago
I hadn't considered that, but I don't think so. I'm corresponding with someone from American Honda Motor Co., Inc.
Comment · 2 days ago
I currently have a case open with Honda corporate customer support, and I have this suspicion that the email responses I receive are being generated with an LLM directed by a human. Either that, or I'm corresponding with a human who has poor written communication skills. The text grammatically correct, but overly verbose and repetitive. It reminds me of LLM text, but from a model that is several generations behind today's models.

Maybe it's like when you can just tell a picture is AI. You recognize the words you are reading, but to your brain, the way the words are put together feel wrong.

Incidentally, I was reading Harry Potter to my kids last night. While waiting for everyone to arrive, I started reading the previous chapter to those who were present. But I read the sentences backwards while using a vocal inflection of regular narration. My 6-year-old recognized that something was wrong and asked me to "stop reading funny". My 11-year-old recognized that I was reading backwards. The same 6-year-old thinks every silly photo that I show him is AI, while my older children can actually spot the AI.

Comment · 4 days ago
You must be in Philly. Every time I visit IKEA, I'd have a meal in the cafe and sit by the window to look at it.
Comment · 5 days ago
Thank you!
Comment · 6 days ago
Is there a way to see the old versions of this page? I really liked the one they did for Encanto. The frame by frame sequence in that one was particularly fun.

That reminds me of a time time. I was visiting a children's museum and they had a exhibit piece where you could use a physical flywheel spinner controller to scrub back and forth in a video. I don't know if that's the standard physical control for video production scrubbing, but it was really fun to use.

Comment · 8 days ago
I remember back when I was heavily into making Doom 2 maps, I had a sort of Tetris effect where I started seeing real world building interiors as the sectors and textures that I could use to recreate the building in Doom.

I tried Quake map making, but the 3D tools were too complex for young me to figure out, also my PC was too slow to use them.

Comment · 8 days ago
Before posting, I always do a ctrl+F, and I was glad to see my search for "not to play" found a hit.

I find a game of Monopoly so boring and it takes too long to play.

And also I was thinking of WarGames.

Comment · 9 days ago
Does Nintendo et al have teams dedicated to jailbreaking their own consoles first before a jailbreak is found in the wild ?

Do they use AI to review their code for exploits?

Comment · 11 days ago
Your CG (AI?) trailer seems to be an homage to the propaganda reels in the Starship Troopers film. I believe StarCraft was inspired by the Starship Troopers book.

I don't recall if the original StarCraft CG trailers had nods to the film.

Also, I remember ordering a demo CD for 3D Studio Max and it came with videos of a few StarCraft trailers, presumably made with 3D Studio Max.

Comment · 12 days ago
I thought the same thing. My back yard is full of huge rocks. Nothing quite that large, maybe 1/3 of that size. A few doors down there is a boulder twice as big as the O'Hare one.

I'm speaking in volume. I'm not sure of the mass of these boulders.

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