[-] drosophila 8 points 7 hours ago

Careful, similar to kudzu or bamboo Ethernet can be invasive in some environments and quickly grow out of hand:

[-] drosophila 24 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Even if this is true, which it probably isn't, the time to say something was 6 months ago, or 9 years ago.

At this point it wouldn't matter if Osama bin Laden came back from the dead and said Trump helped him plan 9/11.

[-] drosophila 13 points 1 day ago

Dracula Flow guy does say he skinned a guy alive for trying to steal his Amazon package, so it seems like something he might do.

[-] drosophila 3 points 3 days ago

Don't listen to the people who say it works by displacing oxygen. It would never be used as a general anesthetic if that was the mechanism of action.

Xenon has been used as a general anesthetic, but it is more expensive than conventional anesthetics.

Xenon is a high-affinity glycine-site NMDA receptor antagonist.[155] However, xenon is different from certain other NMDA receptor antagonists in that it is not neurotoxic and it inhibits the neurotoxicity of ketamine and nitrous oxide (N2O), while actually producing neuroprotective effects.[156][157] Unlike ketamine and nitrous oxide, xenon does not stimulate a dopamine efflux in the nucleus accumbens.[158]

Xenon has a minimum alveolar concentration (MAC) of 72% at age 40, making it 44% more potent than N2O as an anesthetic.[164] Thus, it can be used with oxygen in concentrations that have a lower risk of hypoxia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenon

[-] drosophila 9 points 4 days ago

Meanwhile, some bot in the city:

"Ever since I rolled off the assembly line I've had an overwhelming desire to kill and dominate. To see the hope leave my enemy's eyes before I crush them."

[-] drosophila 54 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Nowadays you instead have "gameplay trailers" that are movies made to look like gameplay, but in actuality are completely non-interactive.

Its like selling people units in an apartment building by showing them a video of a film set:

And saying "look at how far along we are in construction!"

[-] drosophila 53 points 1 month ago

That was a different technique, using simulated evolution in an FPGA.

An algorithm would create a series of random circuit designs, program the FPGA with them, then evaluate how well each one accomplished a task. It would then take the best design, create a series of random variations on it, and select the best one. Rinse and repeat until the circuit is really good at performing the task.

[-] drosophila 69 points 2 months ago

This is more psychotic than any of the dialogue in American Psycho.

[-] drosophila 46 points 3 months ago

Most diagrams don't include the mesentery, so people just think their intestines are sitting there like a pile of rope inside their torso.

[-] drosophila 107 points 4 months ago

It needs a port that you can attach your bag of caffeinated noodles to.

[-] drosophila 76 points 7 months ago

I don't think I would have brought a new person into the world during any of the other time periods you mention either.

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