[-] abfarid@startrek.website 14 points 6 days ago

Idk about "so many" other instances, but this post is clickbait. Company just hired 2 cosplayers for entertainment and didn't claim they were robots. It's no different from what Musk did for his robot reveal.

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 85 points 6 days ago

Nobody was busted, this is a clickbait post. Even the article just says they hired 2 cosplayers as entertainers, company never pretended that they were robots.

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 28 points 6 days ago

Huh. Thanks. I didn't even know he was a libertarian, only knew him as an atheist skeptic guy (besides the illusionists part). And according to Wikipedia, seems he's no longer a libertarian:

In a 2024 interview, he said he renounced his libertarianism […] adding "Many times when I identified as Libertarian, people said to me, 'It’s just rich white guys that don’t want to be told what to do,' and I had a zillion answers to that — and now that seems 100 percent accurate."

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 6 points 6 days ago

Why Penn Jillette though? Is he for some reason popular with libertarians?

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 51 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

"E Ink" is a company, producing displays with a very specific proprietary technology. I think you mean to say more "e-paper", which is a generic term for "paper-like" displays. And unfortunately, right now the only real competition is RLCD (reflective LCD), which is arguably not paper-like enough to qualify. Yes, it's reflective, but other than that, it's just a higher density Game Boy screen. Which is great and all, but it can't compete with E Ink in a lot of aspects. It doesn't have retention, you gotta power the screen, so no signage and stuff. It has LCD-grade bad viewing angles.

RLCDs are cool for certain uses though. For example, I sometimes choose to play on my AGS-001 over my Analogue Pocket if I'm outside in bright daylight.

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 123 points 2 months ago

Scientific method is the best tool we have to achieve "pure objectivity and truth", but it's not perfect. The primary point of failure being application of it by extremely subjective creatures.

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 146 points 2 months ago

Here's a lifehack:

  1. Quickly switch your gender to woman.
  2. Womansplain her everything that needs to be explained.
  3. (optional) Undo the gender switch.
[-] abfarid@startrek.website 136 points 7 months ago

But for real, it's probably GPT-3.5, which is free anyway.

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 156 points 7 months ago

That Firefox logo was simplified, but not oversimplified. Even with a very small icon size you can still tell it's a fox that is (on?) fire. The Firefox Family logo is oversimplified, just being a swoosh, basically.

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