https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03453-1
This study released last year based on samples from cadavers suggests there’s enough in your brain to make a plastic spoon
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The issue is that there is a push to make these machines act as social partners and in some extremely misguided scenarios therapists
But if you don’t add that:
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I believe they are aiming for convergence with AR OS UI and that the widely panned vision pro is something they have much more planned for over the next 10 years
basically the vision pro is the newton, and in 5-10 years when an AR device that looks much closer to glasses than ski goggles with a huge external battery pack and costs closer to $1000 than $3500 (or who knows, maybe $3500 is more normalized as a phone price by then ha) those will be akin to the iphone
If they pull it off it will be a big deal (assuming no one beats them to it, though clean software is very meaningful). It won’t though unless apple changes their operating procedure. Typically they just throw out some pretty polished first party apps and a few key partnered 3rd party apps to show off features. Then they expect 3rd party devs to fill the gaps. This worked for the iphone because there was a built in base; I needed a phone and theirs was objectively better than the competition when it dropped.
But a 4 figure goofy pair of glasses? That’s the vision pro and VR problem all over again. Niche purchase for enthusiasts. If you get the price down to $1000 more people will buy it, sure, but not that many, I bet.
Expensive options: thermoworks smoke-x
1-200 depending on 2 or 4 channel version, legally can only be used in the us and Canada because they use a custom rf protocol. As a result the range is 1.24 miles. Thermoworks is pricey shit but it lasts long, can be calibrated, and generally is one of the most accurate cooking thermometers you can buy
(albeit much much much more expensive than a $10-30 k type thermocouple and a used reader for $50 that is way more precise and usually will do data logging) also granted for most people a $20-40 thermometer would be fine with like 300-500ft range
My issue with “smart” anything is not the inherent concept, it’s the execution 99% of the time. I have plenty of smart stuff in my house but it’s almost never convergence devices. I’ve learned that these types of devices are more than anything designed to be disposable trash. Designed as cheap as possible, cut as many corners, introduce as many security holes as possible, etc. we have 0 consumer rights so even if it’s strong they’ll change the tos after the fact when their profits fall and they need to make the line go up.
So it comes to this. I’m not opposed to “smart” devices. They just have to occur in a dumb, roundabout way. They have to work without being connected to the internet, or in some rare cases by being bridged to the internet via home assistant from an isolated vlan. If I want a smoker I can monitor on the fly I will look at something like that thermometer paired with a standard steel smoker that will last decades. If I need to adjust it remotely I will look at why I need this option first: is it realistic that I would just adjust it without checking the contents? If I would then check open source and if nothing exists make it. It sucks but this where our garbage profit driven society led us, to shitty products that fill landfills and waste resources
You can also just get a normal smoker and a wireless thermometer that works with RF, which has a range of like 700-1000ft, and while it has some theoretical security flaws it results in a situation that is infinitely more secure than a WiFi/app situation. Even if someone bothered to sniff the rf traffic what are they going to do, see the temperature of your brisket? Oh no
Additionally this way the smoker is basically invincible because it’s not digital and as long as you don’t let it rust out it will last forever. If you somehow break the thermometer it’s like $30 to replace but I guarantee you can find models that are somewhat repairable and have user replaceable batteries, which guarantee this thing doesn’t
Sitcoms fucked us up
When it comes to builds my mentality is “save shit from the landfill and spend as little as possible” haha
I feel like there is always a push for consumerism in (basically anything, but especially this) space. You’ll read forums and watch youtube videos that show dumb nerds with sponsorships doing a build with an $1800 budget and for what? Running a nas? Jellyfin? Caldav? This stuff doesn’t take a ton of overhead
If you’re running 5 concurrent users with 2-3 transcoding quicksync should handle that. Research this more but in my experience it works fine. For reference my library is all extremely high quality either 1080 remux or 4k remux with hdr/dv whenever possible (so tonemapping is required) and lossless audio (dts-hd, atmos, etc). If your library is like mine this bumps things up a bit and will use more cores - quicksync will handle the video fine but cores will be needed for the audio and the tonemapping of hdr/dv layer. Additionally if you’re like me and have a ton of anime (or just someone who likes subtitles) another core gets taken to burn those in. For my library with 2-3 users this is fine, could probably even handle 1-2 more (maybe, depends on what they watch).
This is where scalability comes in. Pick a case and psu where you have the option for a discrete gpu if it ever becomes necessary. You extend to 15 users or decide you want to run deepseek locally? Picking a motherboard with an extra PCIE x16 slot is helpful. since you’re offloading NAS to the synology you can just get a motherboard with a pcie slot, though getting one with multiple opens the option that down the line you could add an HBA and a second array should the synology run out of space. Again, depends on your long term plans
Look on marketplace, Craigslist, eBay, etc for older hardware. Full desktops use a lot of power, which sucks, but the advantage for you is that they are expensive to ship so they can get sold a bit cheaper sometimes. Sort by distance and filter by used
Read truenas, unraid, proxmox, serve the home forums for lots of info on example builds too. But don’t worry too much about getting it perfect. Remember it can always be a little better (or a lot better) but most of the time the extra power is just going to waste your money. Unless you specifically have a need for like multiple VMs at once, serious LLM stuff, etc something seriously demanding like that?
It’s basically the same thing as a ring fit adventure, a strain gauge, though research ones are far more sensitive
These things are used in really sketchy therapy like conversion therapy. They were also used in pedophilia treatment in the 90s which was basically conversion therapy to track outcomes, basically exactly as what’s written here (though they wouldn’t present actual illegal material, just risqué material like pictures of kids at the beach or something). Penile plethysmography is the area and it’s still practiced in some places, though it’s pretty controversial because they’re evaluating sex offenders for risk of recidivism and viability of release which is always inherently controversial and other more obvious reasons
No way. Do you buy produce? At least around me the produce in supermarkets is absolutely garbage and it has been for quite some time. This predates trump. I’m not talking about “oh they put out the ugly onions jeez” I’m talking flavorless, mushy, literal moldy and rotting sometimes.
Alternatively you can go to the farmers market. It’s only open on Saturday from 9-1, convenient, and costs 30-40% more, but your food isn’t flavorless mush at least that rots within 3 days because they aren’t rotating stock anymore. But even the options here aren’t as good as they were
Global warming will continue to devastate supply chains and make food worse and worse until we finally have to just eat literal slop that has barely any nutrients and was imported from halfway across the world
To speak your mind on the viability of something does not necessarily make you an asshole although how you deliver the message is probably a big factor
Your friend seems to have a very inflated sense of her own importance that doesn’t match reality. The delusional unchallengeable grandiosity and attention seeking are red flags.
You have to work on acceptance, maybe. You can’t fix someone else, you can just put information out there for them. Obviously it is impossible for one to master all those fields and to be worshipped be everyone.
The caveat of course is how you are communicating this: it is very much possible to learn about many of those fields to a reasonable degree. This requires compromise of course (“jack of all trades, master of none”). It is possible to have a wide variety of people who care about you deeply. To this point to be loved regardless of orientation is probably the statement of the most contention and nuance, I do see what she could mean there. It is possible to be loved by people of all orientations and genders if you find people with an open mindset, though there is a great deal of debate to be had here. This is dependent on how she interprets that statement and I do understand why it may come across as confusing
Vanity paper, author just wanted to go on about Naruto and their dissertation topic. Any media franchise would work and the paper could be written in a more generalized manner as a result that would probably be more helpful instead of some weebs gushing about an (overrated) franchise
Case in point: in the works cited there is another paper from the author about how Naruto helped them understand CMT better from 2 year prior to this publication. Just a weeb shoehorning that shit in. At least shoehorn in the superior stereotypical shonen (dbz)