BoxOfRain

Yeah I'd happily pay decent money for a version that wasn't a fun sponge who'd probably remind the teacher they hadn't set any homework at the end of the lesson. I think its '…

That is an amazing shout, I forgot they were a thing!

I have a bit of an idea banging around in my head for a Furby-based project aimed at making it a lot more intelligent while still keeping the uncanny aesthetic: * The furby's motions are controll…

I quite like jury trials personally, they're a good mechanism as an authentic people's check on officialdom in my opinion. A similar concept could also serve as a good check on AI by humans …

>There aren't awfully many use cases for needing to transmit speech at 50 bytes per second, but where you have beefy GPU's on both ends to compress/decompress. Not something I do mys…

> there is at least one person whose brain is set up to constantly hammer them with feelings of hunger Not only was there a fascinating example of this the unfortunate man was documented by a docto…

I remember reading one poll during the pandemic where a quarter of Britons wanted nightclubs to shut permanently even after the threat of the virus had subsided. For the Vernon Dursley archetype it&#x…

Yeah as someone from the UK the idea of crossing the road being a crime is mind-blowing, getting around would be intolerable as a pedestrian sticking to crossings.

>I wish there was a stable diffusion equivalent for ChatGPT alternative. I agree, we'll only really start to get an idea of how far we can push this technology when there's a version of i…

I'll be honest I love radio as a medium but I'm either listening to a BBC station like Six Music which are ad-free to begin with or enthusiast-run stations like Radio Caroline which tend to …

>unless we accept that it's okay to force people from looking away Clockwork Orange-style Black Mirror did a delightfully dark take on this, it might have even been the first episode.

There's a certain irony in the fact a feature supposed to improve safety actually made an already dangerous thing massively more dangerous. That's got to be the most cancerous product ever b…

Interestingly JRM doesn't have any blue blood at all despite the whole 'honourable member for the early 19th century' persona, public image is a fascinating thing!

I've recently applied to a Scala job that was specifically advertised to Java and Kotlin devs because it's hard to hire a Scala dev. I hope I get the role, I'm a sucker for an interesti…

>He just pissed off the Pope and was punished for that, not for any astronomical ideas. It all comes down to politics and power structures in the end.

I quite like embracing the word personally, I suspect it dates back to pirate radio in the 1960s which in parts of Europe actually did come from ships anchored just outside of territorial waters. Anot…

I quite like the concept of information hazards for reasoning about these kinds of risk.

People seem to forget that people as early as Joseph Stalin was all about manipulating images for unpleasant reasons, this isn't a new phenomenon at all.

Not an amateur radio guy myself but from what I understand it's supposed to be a strictly non-commercial undertaking which means it's a bit churlish to keep your code closed-source.

I'm convinced Reddit's run by a cast of Monty Python characters, their grasp of how to run an internet community is shockingly poor most of the time.

>It seems like the ones who are most concerned about nudity are the ones we should be the most concerned about. Moral puritanism in any form seems to be an extremely harmful to any society it shows…

I say old man, I too should jolly well appreciate a fair warning about bandwidth-hungry formats. Too often these days do the rakes and scoundrels of this establishment assault both the senses and the …

>Obviously the last few years have thrown everything out of whack but a bustling urban core is a beautiful thing. For some, I really don't like urban life and the more bustling and hive-like t…

Is this an American thing or something? Almost all the cats I've ever known were outdoor cats in the UK.

The words 'God save the King' in the national anthem are going to feel very alien for a while I think, I feel a genuine sense of loss with the Queen's death. I think it comes from a pla…

Because appeasement worked so well in 1939?