There is a really good comedy skit from the german youtube channel Bohemian Browser Ballet, about what if heroin was used like beer in germany. Including the social stigma of not consuming. That really speaks of my experiences not drinking. Youtube Invideous

Though helicopters are not what was envisioned as flying cars most of the time. Including their usability.

I should have mentioned, where I got this from. I’m not an AI researcher myself - so AINAAIR. I’m referencing this youtube video from TheMorpheus (News and Informations/Tutorials about various IT stuff, including AI research)(Video is in german). For example the diagram at 3:00.

The german government had an interesting idea for that. Collecting all the emission taxes into a common fund (like sales tax on each item) and then paying that back to the citizens, the same amount to everyone. If you get the emission pricing right, then rich people (who emit more through their life) will pay more tham they get, while poor people will profit from it.

Though the system is not yet active (because of shit financing tricks that got stopped by the courts and the current inability of the government to actually pay that money out to the citizens)

The optimization in mass production should meet chickens at least roughly for this to work out. Though also interesting would be the health of the insects. I know nothing about that, but maybe we wouldn’t need that much antibiotica as with meat mass production.

I don’t think banning meat will ever happen. Thats not really how that usually works. Though it will get more expensive. And actually currently the meat industry is heavily supported by governments to keep meat cheap enough for poorer people.

And we won’t solve climate change just with eating insects in the same way we won’t solve social justice issues just with keeping meat prices low.

We need to do multiple things at the same time. Finding and developing good food options, that are not as taxing at the climate as meat (especially cattle) is one good step, while doing other things against climate change. And we can work towards social justice by heavily taxing the rich, using that money to fund public goods and services mostly used by the workers.

Eating meat vs insect based products is not the socialist hill to die on, I think. There are better ones.

The hallucination rates with current models are quite high, especially the reasoning ones with rates like 70%. Wouldn’t call that accurate. I think most times we are just not interested enough to even check for accuracy in some random search. We often just accept the answer, that is given, without any further thought.

Pretty much like everyone expected flying cars to have taken off by now (pun intended)

Why are you even asking here? Why not directly go to twitter or truth social? That seems the obvious choice based on all the red flags in your post.

Eh, I’m pretty sure it is. Haven’t had Kodi running for a while, but I used it on a Raspberry Pi with an USB HDD with my content long before I had Jellyfin. Though it cannot stream the content over network, just display it on the machines video output (which is what media PCs do)

You will have to do some work yourself (or hire someone to code the solution for you).

If the intended use is on linux, you could also write a bash script for it. If the position in the file (as in exact number of bytes till that position) is known, then you could use dd to cut the video file in two pieces, use gpg to encrypt the second part and then probably also use dd to put both pieces together again.

A video player like VLC should still be able to play the first part of the file (though other players might have bigger problems with such a file). To play the full file, you need to use your script to again seperate the two pieces, use gpg to decrypt the second part and put them back together.

You can also do this in python. Doing it cross platform (Linux, Mac and Windows) will be more difficult.

When renovating our house we bought new room doors. Though they took weeks to be delivered and we already lived in that house without room doors (also no door for the bathroom).

But we had loads of big cardboard pieces from furniture, so I used them and a lot of glue to build temporary doors. I added handles and used screws to fix them in the frame (I mean the big wooden beams, that are holding the actual nice doorframe in the wall).

They mostly worked surprisingly well, holding in the frame by friction from cardboard blocks, that I glued to them. Though they opened everytime, we had an open outside door, that caught some wind

Sorry, you totally overestimate how loud they will sing, how much people already sitting are willing to move and underestimate how loud the surounding talking can be. If it where that easy I wouldn’t ask this question here. I’ve often received feedback, that they really like, that I push the singing in the group, though that doesn’t mean, that many people would step up and sing loud with me (at least as long as there is no huge crowd singing, or where they can just bawl instead of sing). Peoples inertia is unbelievably big. And in 2 months I will be at a camp with 120 people, so not as small as normally.

Thats an interesting idea. Might really try this. Though I’m not sure about the sound quality for singing in contrast to just speaking (that being the core purpose of these systems)

Thanks for trying it out. Thought, that this might be a problem

Do you know, how the latency is for that typically? Any noticeable delay would create problems with the normally transmitted voice.

For a long time I was a group leader at our scouts troop, at that time for the age group of 13 to 16 years (myself being like 28 at that time). This happened on our summer camp. We had small rituals for morning and evening, just something to get the group together and starting/ending the day with everyone. As I have enough creativity to write decent short stories and the overall theme of the camp being knights and castles, I wrote a short story about the knight Kunibert, who accounts to the reader about how he slayed a dragon and rescued a maiden from it. So, what does a dragon have? Big teeth, fire breath, sharp claws,… and of course a horned tail. So I also wrote about the horned tail. But in german the word for tail is also slang for penis. While writing I really wasn’t aware how it sounded. Until I read the story to the kids.

That was a bit weird, but also fun. Next day we let the kids write the next episode of the story. They included Kunibert putting his “big horny tail” on the table at the castle, trying to brag with its size, despite it starting to stink horribly, since he didn’t clean it before.

And on the splash zone

You are getting old, when you start specifying a whole century when talking about past experiences XD