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New account since lemmyrs.org went down, other @Deebsters are available.

  • Suggestions for Canvas and future events!

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  • I didn't love it tbh. I had the canvas up in half of the screen and was doing something else but would look over too early then just be waiting for x seconds for my next pixel.

  • Suggestions for Canvas and future events!

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  • Extra editing features:

    • Colour picker (from canvas)
    • Show symbols/numbers on palette when using that template display style (e.g. label colour 23 so you don't have to count)

  • Kurt Russell Had To Drag James Spader Out Of His Trailer For Stargate

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  • When it works, it's Arby's. When it doesn't, it's hour-old Arby's.

    This is too American for me - Arby's sells food? Is fresh Arby's great or merely ok? I assume hour-old is bad.

  • [2024] Thank you for participating!!

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  • Congratulations on an excellent event, and I look forward to next year's. The codebase should be more settled then and hopefully you'll manage to get a decent amount of sleep, unlike this time.

    Also, happy birthday!

  • AI Go bots not so superhuman after all

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  • You're arguing against a point I'm not making.

    I play Go, and have since I learnt about the game when it was discussed in my Computer Science degree course (then computers were considered 50+ years away from beating humans).

    Overall, AlphaGo has been a good thing for human players, with it validating a lot of what we thought was right, but also that some tactics we'd thought not worth playing do work out. Having a superhuman, free advisor has made improving much easier.

    The negatives include that there's less individual style amongst those that play like AIs, and also that it's easier to cheat at the game.

    As in chess, humans have been outclassed by computers in Go for years now, but that doesn't stop us playing and enjoying it.

  • Suggestions for Canvas and future events!

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  • One effect of this is that someone steadily editing got more pixels than someone editing in batches, which felt like a feature when defending against trolls.

  • New Technical Difficulties is coming!

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  • I've been rationing these out, thinking there wouldn't be any more. I'm glad to see Tom doing more quiz stuff again (yes I know about Lateral).

  • AI Go bots not so superhuman after all

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  • Humans can't beat AI at Go, aside from these exploits that we needed AI to tell us about first.

    Lee Sedol managed to win one game against AlphaGo in 2016 (and AlphaGo Zero was beating AlphaGo 100-0 a year later). That was basically the last time humans got on the scoreboard.

  • A Word About Private Attribution in Firefox

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  • designing something that Mozilla and Meta are simultaneously happy with is a good indicator we’ve hit the mark.

    I think that's true. I trust Mozilla, based on their statements and their actions, and I distrust Facebook for those same reasons. Compromise is the only path forward, despite those who argue we should reject anything that's not perfect.

  • Audiences Want More Independent Cinemas, According to Art House Convergence Study

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  • People say they want that, but do those independent cinemas get enough people through the doors to stay open?

  • Erica picked up a rock by chance 10 years ago. It might hold the oldest form of complex life on Earth

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  • In a parallel universe there's an Erica Barlow that decided she was too busy with her thesis and that sample remained just a pet rock.

  • Lemmys unite! We're buildig a huge "FUCKSPEZ"

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  • I was quite happy not doing this this time - I've moved on.

  • Bill Gates-backed startup makes ‘butter’ out of water and carbon dioxide

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  • “The big challenge is to drive down the price so that products like Savor’s become affordable to the masses—either the same cost as animal fats or less. Savor has a good chance of success here, because the key steps of their fat-production process already work in other industries,” Gates said.

    Sounds like it's not currently price competitive but it might be in the future. I expect economies of scale would be helpful too.

  • Bill Gates-backed startup makes ‘butter’ out of water and carbon dioxide

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  • If it's chemically identical, what does it matter if it's come from dairy, this process, or a Star Trek replicator?

  • Alec Baldwin's manslaughter trial over Rust shooting has been dismissed

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  • A bunch of people got away with the Panama Papers stuff because of chain of custody shenanigans.

  • The Canvas has started, feel free to add your country flag!

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  • This year's Canvas is open to all the fediverse, so it could be from a Mastodon/Misskey/whatever server.

  • Microsoft is reportedly banning Palestinians in the U.S. for life for calling relatives in Gaza

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  • Voting on Lemmy isn't private (and is probably for sale on closed platforms) so just upvoting an opinion might be enough to get you on some lists.

  • Arecibo message next time?

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  • Thames Water fails to complete 108 upgrades to ageing sewage works

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  • Effectively they took that money and gave it to the execs and shareholders. No way should they be allowed to take more money to pay for these upgrades - why should they be trusted to do the right thing this time around?