Mullvad browser is just a copy of Firefox that’s designed to work with their VPN.

Do we know enough about how our brain functions and how neural networks functions to make this statement?

Yes, we do. Take a university level course on ML if you want the long answer.

When we learn we aren’t building a form a capital; when models learn they are only building a form of capital.

What do you think education is? I went to university to acquire knowledge and train my skills so that I could later be paid for those skills. That was literally building my own human capital.

“The Chaser” is a satire site. This never happened.

“The Chaser” is a satire site. You’re getting really angry over something that never happened.

Unless you’re a game by Bethesda, most people (and most reviewers) are going to assess you at release. If the release is shit, they’re going to stop playing and forget about the game. A patch 12 weeks later won’t help, because everyone has moved on.

The brakes in a Tesla are move powerful than the motors. If the guy in China had actually been hitting the brakes, the car could have never reached 150kmh. The chance of a simultaneous failure of the mechanical brakes, the electrical interlocks and the drive software is FAR less likely than the chance the driver was pushing the wrong peddle.

Being worried about CCP controlled apps is a sensible concern. Banning a single app (because Mark Zuckerberg is upset that it’s stealing his customers) is not a helpful solution.

B and H photography in New York? With their sales, I’ve found it cheaper to order from the other side of the world than to buy locally.

Apple TV and Plex both do this already.

These ”gaming” companies are even worse than Casinos, because they’re unregulated and are studying the psychology of addiction to exploits peoples weaknesses to maximise their profits.

They use techniques such as an “early win” to hook people and override their common sense. (It’s illegal for Casinos to do this in most places.) Examples of other techniques are using artificial in-game currencies to dissociate it from real money; and soft-gating, where something is technically free but it has a delay, so you pay a little bit to skip the delay. It’s super predatory.

Also, exposing kids and teenagers to this is wiring their brain to crave gambling as an adult. It’s the same reason we don’t let 13 years olds smoke - by the time their brain has finished maturing, the desire for nicotine is hard-wired for life.

If you don’t already have a private tracker, this is a good one to start with. Easy to maintain ratio even without a Seedbox. I often download common torrents on DCC because it’s so easy to maintain ratio (I was over 100:1 for a while.

This is such a nothingburger.

class action

It’s literally 3 people in California

The trio claims their cars fell well short of their estimated ranges

Teslas are tested to the EPA test cycles, same as every other car in the US. They’ve been audited multiple times, and always passed.

The lawsuit follows a Reuters report that Tesla began modifying EV ranges about a decade ago.

Ah yes, an unverified report from a single unnamed source with 10-year-old knowledge.

Its cars would supposedly show inflated figures when fully charged, and would only start showing accurate numbers under a 50 percent charge. … It’s not certain that Tesla still uses these purported exaggerations.

If the “investigative” reporter wanted to test this, they could literally just go and find a new Tesla and see what its fully-charged range says. Trivially simple. But it would show the EPA range which goes against their story, so they don’t mention it.

To head off complaints, the automaker is said to have created a “Diversion Team” that would persuade users to drop range-related support calls.

In tech (and Tesla is a tech company) it’s called L1 support. Try calling your ISP and getting them to send out a technician, and they’re going to make you do a bunch of other tests on your end first. It’s annoying, but it turns out most complaints can be solved over the phone (because most complaints come from people who are terrible with technology).

That’s just progress. People have been saying the same thing since the start of the Industrial Revolution. Every time we free up human capital by automating an old task, we find new things that only people can. Half of the children born today will be employed in jobs that don’t yet exist.

They started high-school just after Columbine, they were trying to get through high-school when 9/11 happened, they were trying to start their careers when the GFC came along, and they were trying to get married when COVID hit. Late-80s babies can’t catch a break.

Are you port forwarding? You’ll have more possible peers if you have a port open, so better speeds on average.

Reverse-cycle ACs have had >100% heating efficiency since the 1990s. America just seems to take forever to embrace anything environmentally friendly (reverse-cycle AC, solar hot water, rooftop solar, etc…).

Why not give the user a choice? The last 3 games I’ve played all let me create my character. And now I think about it, I played as a girl in all 3.

I see more ads on Lemmy than I saw in Apollo.

Helium is a crypto based on LoRaWAN, which is essentially a wireless long-range low-bandwidth network designed for IoT devices. The idea is that helium coins/tokens are awarded to users based on how much traffic their node carries.