Old Style Coder

Computer Graphics, Algorithms, C/C++, Synths, Retro. Got into programming in the 8bit/C64 days. Working on software and games since.

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@digijordan If taken with a digital camera/sensor, it might pick up the body heat over the two hour period, given they can pick up infrared (IR).

If you look for example at your TV remote with a mobile phone camera while pressing a button, you can see the (to the eye invisible) IR light.

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@Rainmaker1973 Some AI giveaways to me:
-The "typical" AI palette.

Set playback speed to 0.25x
-Watch back legs when cat comes into view, moving towards the person.
-When the cat moves into dark area, it seems to receive enough light to cast shadow, yet slowly fades out (tail and then body).

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@PalisadeAI Any type of emergency commands shouldn't even go to/through the "AI".
Be the emergency input text, audio or a camera feed, when detected, it should bypass the "AI" entirely and be processed in a separate piece of code.

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@MakeAugusta https://t.co/rIyqI66weI

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My two favourite programmable HP calculators I've used in the past. The 48SX and 42S.
While they are not the fastest at running programs, they have most of the functionality you could ask for and a great keyboard. For anything they can't do, you can write your own programs.

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@BrianRoemmele Drone technology is around longer than many people might remember.
Here's the Sikorsky Cypher from decades ago, still impressive today.
https://t.co/4yDDWsNdeB

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Found the box of my Voodoo5 5500AGP graphics card which I haven't seen for a very long time.
I got this card from some friendly people at the 3dfx stall at a trade show back in the day when I had the chance to try my 3d engine I was working on, on their newest hardware. #3dfx

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It seems like one of the follow up OS updates now also broke the airplane mode on my laptop, which always worked fine. I only found out when music continued streaming after I put Windows into airplane mode.

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Nothing like turning on your computer in the morning and all your desktop icons have rearranged themselves (again).

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@BrightInsight6 Everything that "could" rewrite history seems to be a taboo now and must be kept a secret. Be it who was where first or who invented what and when first etc.
Some don't want to rock the boat because it could affect politics and religions or they want the knowledge for themselves.

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@JasonWilde108 Many possible unknown beings, primitive or even technologically advanced that might have lived hundreds of thousands or even millions of years ago would probably also never have made it to be fossilised.

Here is an interesting article about fossilisation:
https://t.co/5Goqnba2XE

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@IntNostalgia I am still using PaintShop Pro now as my main paint program since I got a copy of it back in the day on a CD-ROM as a bundle with a flatbed scanner.
Currently I'm using the 2022 version. There's no subscription, just buy and use.

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@engineering 2. Alternatively in order to keep likes separate/private, a new category like for example "Shared" could be introduced for accounts which would like to share interesting posts, just like they were previously shown under "Likes"? Unlike a repost this wouldn't clutter the timeline.

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@engineering It would be great though to have in future an option to turn likes back on for accounts who want to share their likes. Having seen an account's likes was always great way to find interesting content and I'm sure many actually would like to share their likes.

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@TheProjectUnity 2/2) However, I think those were just smaller groups (a city, island or underground) focusing on tech & science while the rest of the world was busy with constant wars. We would highely likely find geological evidence if there would have been past worldwide industrial societies.

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@TheProjectUnity 1/2) I wouldn't be surprised if there were (are?) technologically more advanced humans/beings right here from Earth, given the planet's age. Look at the short time it took for our current people/society to figure out science and technology.

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@BrianRoemmele Don't think image is fake. However, I would expect shadow to point in same direction as all the other ones and to be as dark (unless the "structure" is transparent). Personally I think sun and geology are playing games with us.
There's a similar "anomaly" in image @ x516, y2215.

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Happy New Year everyone!

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@Alien_Scientist 2/2) There was amazing drone tech already a long time before quadcopter drones, like the Sikorsky Cypher (video below). If development on this type would have continued (?), kept secret and used today's tech, it would probably look out if this world.
https://t.co/4yDDWsNdeB

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@Alien_Scientist 1/2) Makes sense if you want the advantage. The best is to pretend your tech is on a similar level than everyone else's. You only get the special toys out in an emergency.
Showing off anything too advanced would also show others that it can be done and they would try to copy it.

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Went last Weekend on a trip on the paddle steamer Waverley in Glasgow.

An amazing piece of engineering. I wonder where steam engine tech would be today or what would have taken its place if combustion engines would have never been invented?

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