granadesnhorseshoes t1_jdv8tnv wrote on March 27, 2023 at 1:28 PM

Reply to comment by DneSokas in Bill Gates warns that artificial intelligence can attack humans by ethereal3xp

simplistic, not dumb. I have met people all over the bell curve. It's pretty on-point philosophically for "average" folks reasoning.

granadesnhorseshoes t1_jdv77x8 wrote on March 27, 2023 at 1:15 PM

Reply to comment by Infinitelyodiforous in TIL the musician and songwriter D'Angelo not only recorded a song, "Unshaken", for Red Dead Redemption 2, he also served as a playtester during the videogame's development due to his love of the series by grizzburger

Yeah, nah. This dude is so far out of my orbit it ain't funny.

edit: but 'preciate the honest answer...

granadesnhorseshoes t1_jdullok wrote on March 27, 2023 at 9:17 AM

Reply to TIL the musician and songwriter D'Angelo not only recorded a song, "Unshaken", for Red Dead Redemption 2, he also served as a playtester during the videogame's development due to his love of the series by grizzburger

I'll chum the waters; Who the hell is D'Angelo? I was mildly disappointed it wasn't about 80s/90s milf titties and didn't read it.

granadesnhorseshoes t1_jduez80 wrote on March 27, 2023 at 7:38 AM

Reply to TIL James Nasmyth discovered fine scale solar features, which he painted in detail and called 'willow-leaf-shaped objects in 1860. Now known as solar granulation, their existence was disputed for many years by Ok_Copy5217

Nothing ever instills a deep sense of thalassophobic abyssal dread like orbiting a star at closer ranges in games like Elite Dangerous, No mans sky or Kerbal...

granadesnhorseshoes t1_jabop40 wrote on February 28, 2023 at 7:14 AM

Reply to comment by El_Zorro09 in TIL that the Slurpee was invented by accident when a Dairy Queen owner would provide frozen soda, from a cooler, to customers when his soda fountain would break down. The owner, Omar Knedlik, improvised the Icee machine out of car parts, which was eventually licensed by 7-11, to become the Slurpee. by jdward01

having spent far too much time researching this; Malt-a-plenty. However Ray Croc sold the mix as a salesman before McDonald's... i mean krusty burger. And McDonald's... i mean krusty burger, never sold it as their milkshakes.

granadesnhorseshoes t1_iy24ayf wrote on November 28, 2022 at 3:59 AM

Reply to comment by Ash-Catchum-All in Google pushes emergency Chrome update to fix 8th zero-day in 2022 by GroundbreakingGur930

They are common but 2 io_uring exploits for the linux kernel in this time frame don't make riveting reads about affected consumer products.

granadesnhorseshoes t1_itgr6kf wrote on October 23, 2022 at 3:11 PM

Reply to comment by so_good_so_far in Formation of Namibia’s fairy circles isn’t due to termites. Plants are "ecosystem engineers" that survive by forming optimal geometric patterns. by marketrent

I mean, kinda, right? We call fire "alive" even when we know it isn't strictly alive. I'm willing to buy plant "intelligence" in roughly the same kinda-but-not capacity.