"Our product takes in a full blow of air and separates it," said team member Leen Alfaoury. "Some of that air comes out as it is, and part of it comes out shifted. The combination of these two sections of the air makes the blower less noisy."
... "It ultimately dampens the sound as it leaves, but it keeps all that force, which is the beauty of it."
Their design cuts the most shrill and annoying frequencies by about 12 decibels, which all but removes them, making them 94% quieter.
Likewise, in 1995 M$ made WinRAR. it took the place of a much better product that was PKZip which existed since 1989.
Since then I always see crooked things in each of their products and predatory commercial moves.
from your link : "WinRAR is a Windows-only program."
... you are right that it was created by someone else in an independent company but then distributed by M$ ... the important part for me is that it came after PKZip and took its place, and is worse.
"Our product takes in a full blow of air and separates it," said team member Leen Alfaoury. "Some of that air comes out as it is, and part of it comes out shifted. The combination of these two sections of the air makes the blower less noisy."
Adds Chacon: "It ultimately dampens the sound as it leaves, but it keeps all that force, which is the beauty of it."
Their design cuts the most shrill and annoying frequencies by about 12 decibels, which all but removes them, making them 94% quieter.
No, not the same ... in your paragraph you describe an increase of the frequency at a level human hearing do not perceive while the other made cancellation of a given frequency using phase shifting and recombination.
... By integrating efficient bidirectional quantum frequency conversion of photonic communication qubits to telecommunication frequencies (1,350 nm), we demonstrate the entanglement of two nuclear spin memories through 40 km spools of low-loss fibre and a 35-km long fibre loop deployed in the Boston area urban environment, representing an enabling step towards practical quantum repeaters and large-scale quantum networks. ...
Basic blender went bad (motor ran but spindle wasn't rotating). I wanted to disassemble to see if it could be repaired. Three of the four screws were Phillips head. I had to cut the casing open in order to discover why I couldn't unscrew the fourth. It was a slotted spanner.
Hi @TCB13,
i will try to meet you half way. Clearly you disagree and might have been triggered by my first comment above which was bold in a sense.
i will agree with you that America also, as a country, has done some bad, terrible things abroad and so did many other countries ... but please tell me this : Do you at least put some blame on russia for the war in Ukraine ?
Yes, I certainly hope that russia decides to stop any of those invasions in Ukraine, Georgia, Chechnya and other countries and this would happened, I hope, if enough countries, including most of Europe, opposes them.
(reading your comment i realized that Transnistria was part of Moldova ... I was mixing it with Kaliningrad Oblast)
GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”) is a step towards much more natural human-computer interaction—it accepts as input any combination of text, audio, and image and generates any combination of text, audio, and image outputs. It can respond to audio inputs in as little as 232 milliseconds, with an average of 320 milliseconds,...
1- Privacy Violations:
Unrestricted use of AI for surveillance will lead to widespread invasion of privacy as individuals' activities will be monitored without their consent.
2-Discriminatory Practices:
Biases in AI algorithms will result in discriminatory practices, targeting specific groups unfairly based on factors like race, gender, and religion.
3-Abuse of Power:
Governments or other entities will abuse AI surveillance capabilities to suppress dissent, control populations, and violate human rights.
4-Security Risks:
As AI surveillance systems will be perverted, they will be manipulated, leading to further privacy breaches and misinformation lead to absolute despotism.
5-Lack of Accountability:
no one will ever be held accountable for all of this.
And those still are understatements.
2nd draft :
Question : Describe the worst despotic society facilitated by artificial intelligence.
Answer : (( ... bad things ... ))
This exact post was already in this community a few hours ago, here : https://lemmy.world/post/15308935
(where i commented : "if you can’t lose by the rules, you can’t win by the rules : you just can’t play." )
Winner has "is that better" smile from "Men in Black"
Before posting, I search for this throughout Lemmy ... there was one for Ukraine winning 3rd place and one for France winning 4th place ... but none about who won 1st place nor 2nd place (!).
The United States overtook China as Germany's most important trading partner in the first quarter of this year, according to Reuters' calculations based on official data from the German statistics office....
The K-index quantifies disturbances in the horizontal component of Earth's magnetic field with an integer in the range 0–9 (...)
The official planetary Kp-index is derived by calculating a weighted average of K-indices from a network of 13 geomagnetic observatories (...) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-index
On 9 May every year, Russia celebrates Victory Day, putting on a large parade in honour of the country's victory over Nazi Germany 79 years ago - in what remains an important symbol of the country's national identity....
in a clown suit, next year, putin will be the only attraction and russians will joyfully throw him tomatoes and banana peels : it will be the best military parade ever.
"hallucinations" happens in artificial intelligence systems. Similarly, when you toss a coin, it will usually end either tail or head ... but it can also end standing on its ridge.
The death toll from what authorities call the worst climate disaster ever to strike southern Brazil has risen to 90, after ferocious rain flooded huge stretches of Rio Grande do Sul state, displacing more than 155,000 people and forcing the closure of the main airport in the country’s fifth biggest city....
The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday, May 6, 2024, that it has opened an investigation into Boeing after the beleaguered company reported that workers at a South Carolina plant falsified inspection records on certain 787 planes. Boeing said its engineers have determined that misconduct did not create “an immediate...
tldr :
10 graphics comparing the economies of those countries in various ways and the computer code to generate those graphics on the fly from public data.
It’s a cliché to say that electricity surged through a courtroom — but it did when Hope Hicks took the stand Friday morning for her testimony in the election interference trial of former President Donald Trump....
Pause reading here :
(...) "A telling detail she shared Friday: The public impact was so dominant that the initial 36 hours of coverage pushed a category 4 hurricane" (...) hummm...
(...) French President Emmanuel Macron warned that Europe faces imminent danger from Russia's invasion of Ukraine and urged the continent to wake up to the new threat. He said Europe must reduce its dependence on America for military defense and become more competitive in industries like renewables and artificial intelligence. (...)
Rubberhose (file system) Deniable encryption https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption
The notion of "deniable encryption" was used by Julian Assange and Ralf Weinmann in the Rubberhose filesystem (...)
In cryptography, rubber-hose cryptanalysis is a euphemism for the extraction of cryptographic secrets (e.g. the password to an encrypted file) from a person by coercion or torture—such as beating that person with a rubber hose, hence the name—in contrast to a mathematical or technical cryptanalytic attack. (...)
Unfortunately you are absolutely right and I would say that computing work on an international scale always tend to be a type of war : it was so from the start ( that is to say with the decryption of Enigma machine mesages by the UK and the USA )
Students’ Leaf Blower Suppressor To Hit Retail ( hackaday.com )
US military says first aid shipment has been driven across a newly built US pier into the Gaza Strip ( apnews.com )
Microsoft offers to relocate nearly 10% of China-based staffers to the US or allied nations — AI and cloud engineering exodus from China begins ( www.tomshardware.com )
I Don’t Want To Spend My One Wild And Precious Life Dealing With Google’s AI Search - Aftermath ( aftermath.site )
Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower ( hub.jhu.edu )
Quantum Internet Draws Near Thanks To Entangled Memory Breakthroughs ( tech.slashdot.org )
Obscure screw added so appliance cannot be disassembled ( lemmy.world )
Basic blender went bad (motor ran but spindle wasn't rotating). I wanted to disassemble to see if it could be repaired. Three of the four screws were Phillips head. I had to cut the casing open in order to discover why I couldn't unscrew the fourth. It was a slotted spanner.
Russia finds vast oil and gas reserves in British Antarctic territory ( www.telegraph.co.uk )
Reserves 10 times the North Sea’s output raise fears over drilling in protected region...
Moldova defies Russia with EU security pact ( www.ft.com )
In case of paywall: https://archive.ph/C3um4
Hello GPT-4o ( openai.com )
GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”) is a step towards much more natural human-computer interaction—it accepts as input any combination of text, audio, and image and generates any combination of text, audio, and image outputs. It can respond to audio inputs in as little as 232 milliseconds, with an average of 320 milliseconds,...
You can now bridge Fediverse and Bluesky Accounts! ( wedistribute.org )
Bridgy Fed's Bluesky integration is now in beta, and makes it possible to connect your account from the Fediverse to Bluesky, and vice versa....
Small, well-built Chinese EV called the Seagull poses a big threat to the US auto industry ( apnews.com )
A tiny, low-priced electric car called the Seagull has American automakers and politicians trembling....
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Switzerland's Nemo wins 68th Eurovision Song Contest after event roiled by protests over war in Gaza ( www.thestar.com )
Eurovision 2024 : one country got booed by the crowd ! Croatian rocker Baby Lasagna got 2nd place.
Will You Accept the Election Results? Republicans Dodge the Question. ( www.nytimes.com )
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US overtakes China as Germany's top trading partner ( www.reuters.com )
The United States overtook China as Germany's most important trading partner in the first quarter of this year, according to Reuters' calculations based on official data from the German statistics office....
Strong solar storm could disrupt communications and produce northern lights in US ( apnews.com )
An unusually strong solar storm headed toward Earth could produce northern lights in the U.S. and potentially disrupt communications this weekend....
Russia Victory Day parade: Only one tank on display as Vladimir Putin says country is going through 'difficult period' ( news.sky.com )
On 9 May every year, Russia celebrates Victory Day, putting on a large parade in honour of the country's victory over Nazi Germany 79 years ago - in what remains an important symbol of the country's national identity....
What the h*ck is going on here?
https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/97643468-baae-494f-bfcf-b1e7e6986f10.jpeg
The right to bear firearms ( lemmy.world )
Brazil flooding death toll rises to 90 as more than 155,000 people displaced ( www.theguardian.com )
The death toll from what authorities call the worst climate disaster ever to strike southern Brazil has risen to 90, after ferocious rain flooded huge stretches of Rio Grande do Sul state, displacing more than 155,000 people and forcing the closure of the main airport in the country’s fifth biggest city....
Trump Posts -- Then Deletes -- Rant About Stormy Daniels Testifying ( www.rollingstone.com )
Defense moves for mistrial over Daniels' testimony ( abcnews.go.com )
Trump's defense team has moved for a mistrial over Stormy Daniels' testimony...
2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Actual size is supposed to be 1.5 ( kbin.run )
I dont know why they have to lie about it. At $5/8ft board you'd think I paid for the full 1.5. Edit: I mixed up nominal with actual.
The FAA investigates after Boeing says workers in South Carolina falsified 787 inspection records ( apnews.com )
The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday, May 6, 2024, that it has opened an investigation into Boeing after the beleaguered company reported that workers at a South Carolina plant falsified inspection records on certain 787 planes. Boeing said its engineers have determined that misconduct did not create “an immediate...
Economy of Russia, Ukraine, China, Europe, USA ( www.kaggle.com )
GOP official argues in favor of child marriage: Girls are ‘ripe’ and ‘fertile’ ( www.nj.com )
Hope Hicks’ testimony was a nightmare for Trump ( www.cnn.com )
It’s a cliché to say that electricity surged through a courtroom — but it did when Hope Hicks took the stand Friday morning for her testimony in the election interference trial of former President Donald Trump....
Emmanuel Macron’s urgent message for Europe ( www.economist.com )
He is a ghost ( lemmy.basedcount.com )
It started with a tweet. What if Harry Potter attended an HBCU? Now it's a book series ( apnews.com )
(HBCU - historically black college/university)...
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron says Ukraine can use UK weapons for strikes inside Russia ( www.euractiv.com )
Addition for the archived link....