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Miller

@ Miller @lemmy.world

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    Midnight facts

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  • Words that end and start with the same letter are called proculinaries and are thought to be comforting and are commonly used in the haberdashery business, words like draped, enrobe, rewear and lionel. The continents were officially delineated in 1812 ostensibly by one man, Wilken Blithely who was heir to the Flying Weaver estate, haberdashers to the royal houses of Europa since 1713.

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  • Seeing second suffix made me think of a group of people sitting around a table drinking tea and saying these suffixes are really useful but really we need a second layer. And then someone says we could have a second layer of prefixes too and everyone says for Buddha's sake Lobsang that would be much too complicated.

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    Neanderthals used stone drills to treat cavities 59,000 years ago, tooth suggests

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  • It is a lot of time and it is possible in trying to knock a bad tooth out with a rock they inadvertently gouged the infection out and the penny dropped.

  • A security researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker, releases an exploit to prove it

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  • There is that, but in a more general sense I think people like conspiracies because they have a deep need to believe that there is an intelligent direction to human affairs, even if it is malign, and that the world is not actually chaotic and uncontrolled at the largest scale. It stems I suppose from infancy when even while we pushed at them we needed to know the unfathomable rules our parents set came from a better understanding of things than was available to us.

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    Neanderthals used stone drills to treat cavities 59,000 years ago, tooth suggests

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  • I wonder if this is a good interpretation of the fossil because I can understand pulling it out but without knowing the science drilling into a painful and infected tooth is quite counter-intuitive.

  • Scientists reverse Alzheimer’s in mice with breakthrough nanotechnology

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  • It is a destructive disease so true reversal is not possible, brain capacity might be restored but memories and prior connectivity generally once lost is gone forever.

  • What are some fun liquids I can put in jars/bottles for decoration?

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  • Have you considered Spiegel im Spiegel.

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    OpenAI now wants ChatGPT to access your bank accounts

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  • The only containers I have are Tupperware, are they secure do you know.

  • Humanity collapsed

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  • The inventor was bullied at school and honestly I can see why.

  • TIL that Caligula’s real name was Gaius. When he was 2-3 years old, he accompanied his father on a military campaign wearing a miniature uniform devised by his mother, complete with little army boots.

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  • And Herod's first wife was called Doris.

  • A security researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker, releases an exploit to prove it

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  • Certainly at the time there was talk of coercion, there was talk the developers had been asked to put in a backdoor, had refused and then been encouraged to cease and desist their work on TrueCrypt and provide written recommendation of BitLocker, the wording of which did not seem to be their own. But people like conspiracies, maybe the authors did just move on, and if that was encouraged it probably was not as sinister as suggested. Security and privacy will always be duking it out.

  • Banane logic

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  • They freeze those best buy feckers in transit that is why they crunch and are pulpy at the same time, bananas should not have that texture. And the banana is smart, banana knows it lost time, banana speeds up its death cycle once released from cold place, banana not fooled.

  • A security researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker, releases an exploit to prove it

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  • You mean that thing everyone knew about since the authorities derailed open-source TrueCrypt and forced them to message their users that they should migrate to BitLocker?

  • I'm the reason your wifes seeing the dry cleaner

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  • Qantas flight diverted after man bites flight attendant

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  • Almost man bites dog story.

  • LLMs are like cars in one aspect

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  • I don't think they are attacking our brains they are learning from our brains how to manage the world we have created. We are happily training them to inherit our institutions and any stupefying effects these models might have are probably around the least of the problems they will present to us. And we stopped running not because of cars but because of calories.

  • What are your thoughts on people who are pro-self preservation?

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  • Sugar is used as a preservative but until you make your own jam you have no conception of how much sugar is used, jam is just jelly for adults.

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    OpenAI now wants ChatGPT to access your bank accounts

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  • This has a real Darwinian feel to it, if you open your finances to AI models just generally then you probably have it coming. That said twenty years ago giving free access to your bank account to something like Google Wallet would have been unthinkable yet here we are.

  • What are your thoughts on people who are pro-self preservation?

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  • Self preservation is a natural high priority instinct in all organisms so most people are fairly pro about it and any few that are not will not last long enough to comment here. If you are referring to cryogenics when you say self preservation then I regard that as just a slightly desperate and unscientific example of the instinctual self preservation I mentioned first.

  • Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors

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  • Would that it were so simple.