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Thanks to much practice from my clumsy wife and daughter and their love for highly breakable stuff… I’ve got a few tubes of epoxy, “Challenge Accepted!”

Box Office Update: Transformers One and The Substance struggling to find an audience in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Welp, sounds like I’m giving it a shot then, thanks!

Box Office Update: Transformers One and The Substance struggling to find an audience in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Despite excellent reviews and good word-of-mouth from fans, Transformers One is having a bad time at the box office this weekend.

Is it really any good? Asking as someone who grew up with the Transformers from the 80’s on, every commercial/trailer I’ve seen for One seems lackluster and the animation style really cheap and off putting. Maybe it’s not an accurate representation of the film as a whole (wouldn’t be the first time)? Is the storyline enough to make up for it?

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 needs 64GB of RAM for ideal performance — oddly, the game install size is only 30GB in c/technology

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

30GB plus unlimited data streaming while using it…

That said, I suppose one plus is that this hopefully wont need as many 10+GiB updates literally right when I finally have an hour free and want to play it.

Secret calculator hack brings ChatGPT to the TI-84, enabling easy cheating in c/technology

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I did that but made it return success before it got to the notes. You had to scroll to get to the notes, but it looked innocuous before that.

Melancholy Kitty in c/cat

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I believe the term is Meowlincoly.

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Scathing Federal Report Rips Microsoft For Shoddy Security (lemm.ee)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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https://apnews.com/article/b0901a93cca2ffaf05edacbfb9ecf3da

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BMW uses autonomous cars for boring, repetitive tests (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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On a large empty slab of asphalt, two BMWs take off. They drive in figure eights and along an oval path separate from each other but nearly in tandem, like two ice skaters practicing the same routine on a piece of black ice before coming to a stop.

Neither of the cars has a driver. That's not that impressive; self-driving cars in testing environments shouldn't impress anyone at this point. Essentially the automaker tells the car to drive a route, and it does it. The important thing here is why these cars, outfitted with additional sensors, are driving along the same route again and again, each time depressing the accelerator the same amount and applying the exact amount of pressure on the brakes: They're testing hardware with the least amount of variables you can encounter outside of a lab.

"It's boring for human drivers," says BMW's project lead for driverless development, Philipp Ludwig. When a human is asked to perform the exact same task repeatedly, the quality of the work diminishes as they lose interest or become fatigued. For a computer-controlled car, it can do this all day. And it has done exactly that.

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The US government is taking a serious step toward space-based nuclear propulsion (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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Four years from now, if all goes well, a nuclear-powered rocket engine will launch into space for the first time. The rocket itself will be conventional, but the payload boosted into orbit will be a different matter.