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Coca-Cola's New AI-Generated Soda Flavor Falls Flat
  • Apparently Watson, the IBM AI that won Jeopardy, is actually pretty good at making recipes. That said, this is because it analyzes chemical compositions of known good recipes to find the compounds that make us like them and finds things that can produce similar profiles, rather than just sticking strings of text together in new ways.

  • Visual Map plugin - multiple vmaps from one physical device?

    Context: ASRock motherboard with three ARGB headers as well as an on-MB light bar. I am wishing to use three different effects with one pair of the ARGB headers, the other ARGB header, and with the motherboard (specifically using them to Hardware Sync different components).

    However, when I create a Visual Map containing two of the headers, the rest of the headers become unavailable for any new Visual Map.

    Is there any way to have more than one Visual Map with each one containing different headers from the same piece of hardware?

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    Reddit enrages users again by ditching thank-you coins and awards
  • So when a charge is made against a credit card, you have the option to do a "chargeback" - this is meant to be used for fraud. In this case, the argument is that Reddit fraudulently changed the terms of the program after people had already paid - being in "material breach" means they made a binding promise to provide a thing and they failed to do so. Chargebacks are really, really bad for a vendor. They lose the money, and they get a penalty fee, AND if it keeps happening the credit card processor can crank up their overall fees or even drop them as a bad customer.

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    Doggy Daycare Floofoff

    Girl on the right is mine, Sapphire. She is a venerable lady (11 years old), and has minimal patience for obnoxious puppies, like this new one year old puffball that just joined doggy daycare. She also has resting bitch face after having one of her canine teefs extracted last year, so she's not as displeased as she looks here... but would still rather be someplace else (probably begging the workers for snacks or howling at youngsters who are being too rambunctious to tell them to cut it out) instead of having this adorable picture taken!

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    The dominance of cat content VS dog content on Lemmy reflects its current techie userbase
  • My wife got quite offended when I implied that we should consider the spiders pets. Before living in the same place, I would just leave the spiders be as long as they didn't bother me. That is no longer an option, although I do escort them safely outdoors rather than squishing them as is requested.

  • Mod takeover request

    c/dog is currently unmoderated (only mod is banned). Would it be possible to take over as mod for the community?

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    Deep space experts prove Elon Musk's Starlink is interfering in scientific work
  • Thermal management is a huge issue for spacecraft. In atmosphere, the bulk of cooling for things like electronics would be convective, from transferring the heat into a fluid (air/water/etc) which then moves away with the heat. In space, you don't have a fluid for convective cooling, so your cooling is all radiative - essentially just emitting infrared energy. This is far, far less efficient - you need much more material and surface area to get the same cooling.

    Dark objects are better at radiative cooling... unfortunately, they're also far better at absorbing radiative energy. Like the oodles of it coming out of the sun. That's why dark objects are dark - they're absorbing the energy. However, it also means that your thermal management is far more difficult because you're absorbing a lot more heat. It can be worked around, but it makes the spacecraft larger and heavier, which is the antithesis of space work. So spacecraft have traditionally tried to reject as much absorbed energy as possible, which by definition makes them reflective.

  • There's no such thing as a conservative intellectual — only apologists for right-wing power
  • Nope, had to look it up (I think I'm a bit older than Destiny's original target audience), but just from a summary written about his political discussions I could see his brand of a pragmatic take on traditional liberalism being a good fit and am now curious to watch a couple of his videos.

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