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  1. Comment on Is there a service that a regular joe can use to provide subs or dubbing for a movie? in ~movies

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    You can use whisperx instead to get as low as phoneme level timings. I'm currently doing this to generate karaoke style highlighting of subs.

    You can use whisperx instead to get as low as phoneme level timings. I'm currently doing this to generate karaoke style highlighting of subs.

  2. Comment on Anyone else go to a No Kings rally today? in ~society

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    Nothing so far today has been more amusing than the international branding of No Tyrants instead of No Kings....

    Nothing so far today has been more amusing than the international branding of No Tyrants instead of No Kings.

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/vancouver-protesters-join-global-no-tyrants-rallies/

    I guess it still hits a little better than “Some Kings” or “No Kings Except Ones Who Are Essentially Ceremonial Without Executive Authority” or “No Kings Except His Majesty Ruma X Of Thailand May He Reign Forever Don’t Imprison Me Please”.

    20 votes

  3. Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of October 13 in ~society

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    Santos Is Released After Trump Commutes His Sentence … …

    Santos Is Released After Trump Commutes His Sentence

    George Santos’s lawyer said the disgraced former congressman was freed from a New Jersey prison around 10 p.m. on Friday. He served less than three months on his fraud conviction.

    …

    “He lied like hell,” Mr. Trump said at the time. “And I didn’t know him, but he was 100 percent for Trump.”

    …

    “This is far worse than what George Santos did, and at least Santos had the Courage, Conviction, and Intelligence to ALWAYS VOTE REPUBLICAN!” Mr. Trump wrote.

    5 votes

  4. Comment on AI being used to locate human solutions to Erdos problems in ~science

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    An interesting use of AI. There are many "Erdos problems" (problems that Erdos thought were interesting but didn't have time to solve) out there, and sometimes they get solved by someone who...

    An interesting use of AI. There are many "Erdos problems" (problems that Erdos thought were interesting but didn't have time to solve) out there, and sometimes they get solved by someone who either doesn't know they are an Erdos problem, or perhaps they just didn't publicize that fact -- now AI agents sifting through papers are surfacing these so the authors can get credit.

    3 votes

  6. Comment on Former world champion boxer Ricky Hatton's cause of death given at inquest [was suicide] in ~sports.combat

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    In July, he announced was coming out of retirement for a December bout in Dubai, 13 years on from his last pro fight.

    Hatton was meant to be flying there on the day he was found.

    4 votes

  8. Comment on Scientists say they have solved the mystery of what killed more than five billion sea stars in ~enviro

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    Don't leave me hanging, I want to know more!

    Ow my balls

    Don't leave me hanging, I want to know more!

    6 votes

  9. Comment on Who's tried durian? in ~food

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    It's absolutely foul. I know lots of people who seem to enjoy it though.

    It's absolutely foul. I know lots of people who seem to enjoy it though.

    1 vote

  10. Comment on Asteroid discovered only two days ago will fly by Earth closer than the moon today in ~space

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    For some context, w.r.t. the Chelyabinsk meteor, it was: Which in turn was,

    The asteroid, called 2025 TP5, will sail by our planet at 4:09 p.m. EDT (2009 UTC) at a minimum distance of 60,328 miles (97,089 km), according to data from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. (NASA is in shutdown, like much of the U.S. government, but critical activities like seeking potentially hazardous asteroids can continue.) By comparison, the average distance to the moon is 238,855 miles (384,400 kilometers).

    After coming by Earth, 2025 TP5 will make a close flyby of the moon the next day on Thursday (Oct. 16), flying as close to the lunar surface as 74,616 miles (120,084 km), JPL stated. It’s a moderately sized asteroid: with an estimated diameter of around 54 feet (16 meters), according to JPL, 2025 TP5 is about the same scale as the six-story Chelyabinsk meteor that broke up above Russia in 2013.

    For some context, w.r.t. the Chelyabinsk meteor, it was:

    It is the largest known natural object to have entered Earth's atmosphere since the 1908 Tunguska event, which destroyed a wide, remote, forested, and very sparsely populated area of Siberia. No deaths were reported.

    Which in turn was,

    The explosion over the sparsely populated East Siberian taiga felled a large number of trees, over an area of 2,150 km^2 (830 sq mi) of forest, and eyewitness accounts suggest up to three people may have died. The explosion is attributed to a meteor air burst, the atmospheric explosion of a stony asteroid about 50–60 metres (160–200 feet) wide.

    11 votes

  12. Comment on What's your favorite hobby? in ~hobbies

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    Nah, I'm a pretty normal shaped middle aged dad.

    Nah, I'm a pretty normal shaped middle aged dad.

    3 votes

  13. Comment on What's your favorite hobby? in ~hobbies

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    Probably Brazilian jiujitsu, followed closely by playing with computers

    Probably Brazilian jiujitsu, followed closely by playing with computers

    4 votes

  14. Comment on US Feds seize record-breaking $15 billion in Bitcoin from alleged scam empire in ~news

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    I wonder what, if anything, the government will ever do with all these seized bitcoins. They must have an absolutely massive stockpile by now. edit: Apparently the US Marshal service held about...

    I wonder what, if anything, the government will ever do with all these seized bitcoins. They must have an absolutely massive stockpile by now.

    edit: Apparently the US Marshal service held about 29,000 BTC, or $3.4B a few months ago but typically they sell off all their seized BTC.

    8 votes

  15. Comment on Introducing Beads: A coding agent memory system in ~comp

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    I’m interested enough in this to actually try using it. Let’s see where this goes!

    I’m interested enough in this to actually try using it. Let’s see where this goes!

    3 votes

  17. Comment on Meta: A Human-Friendly Programming Language in ~comp

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    I think it’s interesting that they think a language built with Rebol style dialects as a first class feature will be friendly to AI coding agents. That sounds like a total nightmare scenario for...

    I think it’s interesting that they think a language built with Rebol style dialects as a first class feature will be friendly to AI coding agents.

    An example of Rebol's dialecting abilities can be seen with the word return. In the data exchange dialect return is just a word not having any specific meaning. In the do dialect, return is a global variable referring to a native function passing back a function result value. In the visual interface dialect (VID), return is a keyword causing the layout engine to simulate a carriage return, moving the "rendering pen" down to the beginning of the next line.

    That sounds like a total nightmare scenario for an LLM. The token overloading will be enormous, and then any user can redefine a builtin keyword to mean something else, and they encourage doing this?

    4 votes

  18. Comment on Can you really be addicted to food? Researchers are uncovering similarities to drug addiction in some eating patterns. in ~food

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    Can you expand on that?

    Can you expand on that?

    2 votes

  19. Comment on Can you really be addicted to food? Researchers are uncovering similarities to drug addiction in some eating patterns. in ~food

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    Humans are substantially driven by evolution, which has genetically embedded a lot of these behaviours into most of our brains and bodies though. The route evolution has taken us down is a high...

    Humans are substantially driven by evolution, which has genetically embedded a lot of these behaviours into most of our brains and bodies though. The route evolution has taken us down is a high investment paradigm of reproduction. We have relatively few children and they are useless for several years before being even remotely capable of caring for themselves.

    A large part of our survival strategy is contingent on passing down knowledge (what food is safe? What places are safe? How do I hunt? What’s up with the seasons?), which is another time intensive process and which is also heavily dependent on long lived, non-breeding elders to act as a knowledge repository and to provide childcare and teaching.

    6 votes

  20. Comment on Can you really be addicted to food? Researchers are uncovering similarities to drug addiction in some eating patterns. in ~food

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    Surely the existence of grandparent behaviour across every society indicates that helping children survive past the age of 12 is more efficient at spreading human DNA.

    Surely the existence of grandparent behaviour across every society indicates that helping children survive past the age of 12 is more efficient at spreading human DNA.

    13 votes