2021-04-30 Nerd Roundup
It's nerds having fun, talking about the latest technical news, but is it really?
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| Verilog to factorio |
Easy fun trivia. have we created a universe of video games to code? |
| Verilog to minecraft |
It's the circle of love! |
| NET ML ready? |
Is NET ML ready or not? |
| They Hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines—and Started a Cold War |
OMG, McDonalds and these Taylor guys are screwing over their own distributors |
| This tool can make your pics undetectable to facial recognition without ruining them |
AGAIN again. Now we're all going to need our own AI to make our pics unrecognizable? Radar vs radar detectors, only at warp speed |
| Ransomware gang threatens to expose police informants if ransom is not paid |
Wowser. This crap is freaking seriuos as hell |
| Please, Systematically Enforce Your Constraints |
It's a good point, but frack if I know what the actual application would be. messy essay construction |
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| Digital Needle - A Virtual Gramophone |
Neat. Seen some other applications along these lines |
| Linux bans University of Minnesota for sending buggy patches in name of research |
This is easily the #1 story of the past week so far |
| Using inflation tracking methods from 80s and 90s, inflation would be ~10% |
Number looks bad? Change the definition! |
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A good point or an attempt to make a silk purse from a sow's ear out of a lot of Rust butthurt? |
| Resurrecting James Dean: The Ethics of CGI Casting |
They looked everywhere for the right actor for the role. Who cares if he's dead or not? |
| Farming Robot Kills 100,000 Weeds per Hour With Lasers |
Farmers. Who are robots. With frickin' lasers! |
| Deepfake satellite imagery poses a not-so-distant threat, warn geographers |
Deepfake satellite pics. Who knew? How many other places are vuln to deeprakes that aren't immediately obvious? How far off is the completely immersive deep-fake web? |
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