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Well that’s very cool, best of luck to em!

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I mean you’re objectively correct, but those states don’t seem like they’re gonna stop capital punishment anytime soon. If current death row inmates ask to be executed by nitrogen, I don’t think there is any harm in trying.

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I hope you’re right, but vr worlds still seem far off to me. I can see it working if either synthetic data is better than expected, or they have the funding to create the training data manually.

To my knowledge, there arnt large free repositories of vr worlds like there are for text and images, so I expect progress to be a lot slower. Still cool tech none the less, I wouldn’t have thought it ti be possible before reading this article.

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I mean how many progressive stars have the death penalty? Most of the pushback towards it is because you could never design an ethical test, and that prisons might make a mistake (such as impure nitrogen).

Lethal injections have a 7% failure rate, so at least 1 in every 14 executions are already botched.

“The odds of being tortured to death by lethal injection are pretty substantial. The odds of a botch with nitrogen hypoxia are uncertain,” Dunham told CNN. “I think it’s a choice to avoid a sure bad thing, as opposed to an affirmative embrace of nitrogen hypoxia.”

These are the same arguments that got the electric chair, and lethal injection approved. So unless we are going back to a firing line (which is practically painless, just messy), why not try to make it more ethical?

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Hiber said the goal of adding AI is to help creators build more expansive online worlds, which are often referred to as metaverse platforms.

It seems like they want to capitalize on two recent trends; hopefully it can provide optimized worlds that can be used for more than just VR chat, but I have my doubts…

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From the creator of arkenfox.js

AF (arkenfox) vs LW (librewolf) AF enables SB (safe browsing) and uses mozilla’s API key. LW doesn’t have a SB key (edit: note AF does block real time binary checks) AF updates same as Firefox. LW has no updater in windows AF can use any language, LW is limited to en-US AF restricts cross-site referrers by default LW ships with uBO - AF users have to do that manually and add/flip the two recommended filters as per the AF wiki So basically everything you see at Arthur’s independent test site at https://privacytests.org/ for LW applies to AF along with referrers (navigational) with a green check as well

https://github.com/mullvad/mullvad-browser/issues/1

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Acrobat has a decent “auto create form fields” feature that I haven’t seen anywhere else and it saves me a lot of time

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Does anyone know if there is a nottheonion community on lemmy?

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Well it sure is a good thing they are making everything smart nowadays….

But seriously I can’t believe how fast the car industry locked previously free features behind a subscription

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Probably not, unless the military is hiding some next level tech.

For example, the current generation of detectors, nearly all of which weigh upwards of a ton, have to be placed within tens of meters of a reactor’s core—inside a facility’s fence.

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v13/36

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