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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago

Category: existential horror.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

The dead sea scrolls are old manuscripts, including several Bible books, but they date after most of those books were written.

The dead sea scrolls date from 3rd century BCE to 1st century CE. At that time, most of the OT had been finalized. The value of the scrolls is that they are hard copies of these books that are a lot older than previous copies we had.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That oughta be pretty hilarious for anywhere that's not on the northeast corridor.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Why not just have the app dynamically generate the static with random numbers every time. There is no video file of white noise, and bonus the bumper intro is never exactly the same twice.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

(not a lawyer). If you bought the game copies that the AIs are playing, then it seems like you're not making a copy of the game just to have the AI play it.

That kind of assumes that your AI is playing the game through a mechanism like AutoHotKey, generating keyboard or controller inputs that pass through the operating system to the game.

If your AI hooks into or modifies the game code to "play", then it could run afoul of anti-reverse engineering clauses that are common in the click through license agreements. Those clauses may not be enforceable in your jurisdiction. Legal results on anti-reverse engineering clauses are kind of mixed in the United States.

Edit: for reference, there was a software called "Glider" that played World of Warcraft for you, so you don't have to grind to level up. Blizzard absolutely hated the makers of Glider, but it stuck around for a long time, before it was ultimately sued into oblivion.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Here's my guess. I don't know anything about this particular device, but I have worked with medical devices.

A powered exo-skeleton sounds like it might be a class II medical device. Being a medical device, the OEM was required to produce a safety risk analysis per ISO 14971 in the EU and 21 CFR 820 in the US. I don't know what all was listed, but probably one of the safety risks was thermal runaway from the (assumed) lithium ion batteries.

Lithium ion battery packs have a well known problem with occasionally overheating and catching fire. This famously delayed the launch of the 787 Dreamliner. This is also why you can't put your phone or laptop battery into your checked luggage.

In the original risk analysis, there will be a number of mitigation steps identified for each hazard. For the lithium thermal runway, these probably include a mix of temperature monitoring, overheat shutdown, and passive design features in the battery pack itself to try to keep the impacts of over temperature and fire away from the patient.

So how does the price get to 100k? It could be some kind of unique design features that are now out of production and the original tooling is not available. The 100k cost is probably something like to redesign the production tooling, particularly if you have to remake injection molds.

You can't just use any off the shelf battery pack, because that would invalidate the risk analysis. You'd need to redo the risk analysis, repeat at least some amount of validation testing, and possibly resubmit an application to the FDA.

TLDR: you can get some MEs and EEs together to solve this problem, but once they're on the case, you can blow through 100k real fast.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 days ago (2 children)

How's about you guys spend some of that budget on QA?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (12 children)

So seems like Iran intends this to be a one and done response for everything Israel has done the last few months.

i.e. "Please don't escalate this any further. We prefer this level of escalation and no more."

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This chart doesn't cover non-Jewish, same religion, heterosexual couples.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

the sacred chickens do not approve.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

It used to be that 640K oughta be enough for anyone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

And like the text says they really were useless in a practical sense because of the white surrender-and-truce flag tradition.

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