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    Crows are intelligent birds and learn quickly – even from each other. In Sweden, they are used to collect cigarette butts and bring them to a machine that automatically rewards them with peanuts.

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  • What a great scheme.

    Crows are susceptible to chronic liver disease if they live in urban areas (particularly near restaurants or markets). I looked it up because it's happened to a few crows in my urban area who have grown long, thin deformed beaks, and I was curious what was causing it - apparently a fat-heavy diet which leads to chronic disease is the most common cause. They can also get sick or diseased from scavenging tainted or toxic food.

    I can't find any info for crows being able to contract diseases from humans, so it's low risk for them collecting cigarette waste.

    So this scheme is win-win - crows adapted to urban areas pick up litter with no (or very low) risk to themselves, get safe and nutritious food.

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    Crows are intelligent birds and learn quickly – even from each other. In Sweden, they are used to collect cigarette butts and bring them to a machine that automatically rewards them with peanuts.

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  • That's what we've tried for hundreds of years and it didn't work.

    Turns out it's easier to turn to a more intelligent species 😉

  • builder.ai has been tricking customers and investors for eight years – selling an advanced code-writing AI that, it turns out, is actually an Indian software farm employing 700 human developers

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  • But now instead of blaming a junior dev they can hit you with the, "Our apologies for this issue - we are modifying the prompts for the model and re-running in-unit AI tests, will revert back to you", and charge slightly more.

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  • My optimist: surely Musk will not be able to get away with being caught in this obvious lie.

    My realist: he's gonna get away with it again.

  • Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway

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  • I'm willing to bet the crying laughter from people around him came after his glasses got snatched off his face and snapped.

  • New Starfeet Academy poster released

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  • I'm as fatigued with bad Star Trek as I am with bad Star Wars now.

    I'm honestly not excited to hear of any new Star Trek until they have a major change to show runners, or enough people who enjoy classic and 90s Trek come out and say, "oh wait this new one is great".

  • Giving men a common antidepressant could help tackle domestic violence: world-first study

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  • "Look what you made me do!"

  • Giving men a common antidepressant could help tackle domestic violence: world-first study

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  • I'm reading the study to find the part where it says that these participants didn't have any social or societal support to attempt to deal with their other problems.

    Oh right - sorry I see now that you were just vocalising the chip on your shoulder.

  • Ultrasonic device dramatically speeds harvesting of water from the air

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  • Yes, correct. User was claiming "water condensation" is energy intensive - not just the particular tech in the post.

    I pointed out how silly of a claim that was.

  • Ultrasonic device dramatically speeds harvesting of water from the air

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  • Haha claiming the sun is "energy intensive" is some new mental gymnastics that I'd not heard before.

    Will ignore you now 👍

  • Israel remains in Eurovision

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  • "Commissioned in March by Pennsylvania State University and conducted by Tamir Sorek for the Israeli polling firm Geocartography Knowledge Group, the survey polled a representative sample of 1,005 Jewish Israelis. It posed a series of "impolite" questions – topics typically avoided in mainstream Israeli polling – about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."

  • Ultrasonic device dramatically speeds harvesting of water from the air

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  • Ultrasonic device dramatically speeds harvesting of water from the air

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  • UK and Norway team up to hunt Russian submarines and undersea sabotage

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  • Begun, the very cold war has.

  • Israel remains in Eurovision

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  • 82% of them are happy to expel all Gaza's Palestinian residents, that doesn't sound like people who experience shame for their governmeng killing ~40k civilian women and children over the last few years.

    A further 56% favour expelling all Israeli citizens with Palestinian bloodlines and a lovely 47%..

    agreed that "when conquering an enemy city, the Israel Defense Forces should act as the Israelites did in Jericho under Joshua's command – killing all its inhabitants." Sixty-five percent said they believed in the existence of a modern-day incarnation of Amalek, the Israelite biblical enemy whom God commanded to wipe out in Deuteronomy 25:19. Among those believers, 93 percent said the commandment to erase Amalek's memory remains relevant today.

    https://archive.is/nNzq4

    I'm not seeing much conscience or shame in those numbers.

  • HELLDIVERS 2 Tech Blog #2 - Opt-in install size reduction beta (from 154Gb to 23Gb)

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  • Yeah, very reasonable. I updated my original comment to highlight that I was overstating the problem. Thanks for your comments.

  • Steve Bannon’s Surprisingly Key Role in the Epstein Scandal

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  • There are significant patterns with Israel's government protecting those who abuse minors, and more widely in the US within the orthodox Jewish community - not unlike the Catholic Church abuse systemic protection. It's all rarely reported on, however this article & video discusses how the institutions are so disinterested in helping that citizen-run foundations are resorting to travelling to Israel and performing citizens-arrests to get any kind of justice for the victims - and this is only successful if the accused have offended in Israel as well as abroad.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-jewish-american-pedophiles-hide-from-justice-in-israel/

  • HELLDIVERS 2 Tech Blog #2 - Opt-in install size reduction beta (from 154Gb to 23Gb)

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  • I've looked, what you say is mostly accurate but getting a bit dated - the NVME performance gap with SATA SSDs keeps widening especially with DirectStorage games (eg Spider Man 2 - triple the load speed vs SATA).

    This gap will continue to widen as devs focus performance improvements on the tech available to them, and as the price difference between SATA SSDs and NVME is diminishing rapidly (only a 5% difference in common mid tier models now) there is very little reason to recommend SATA over NVMe for cost reasons - which was kinda the focus of this thread. I'd not advise anyone today to buy a SATA SSD over NVMe for gaming unless the cost saving was large.

    First article I could find from a website I recognised (there are so many SEO-stuffing AI-generated trash sites today to wade through its truly frustrating) - https://www.techspot.com/article/3023-ssd-gaming-comparison-load-times/

    The performance improvements outside of load times, eg during gaming are significant but harder to benchmark, because pop-in of assets during gameplay is not something we can currently easily measure, it's something you need to compare side by side videos of and there are many that show significant stuttering and pop-in for DirectStorage games like Ratchet and Clank. Another analysis with some videos double, triple or longer wait times in-games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl8wXT8F3W4

  • Valve compatibility layer for running Android games on Linux gets official name in Steam documentation

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  • I'm hopeful this leads to being able to play older Android games.

    One of the things that sucks about Android is that as the versions march on they raise the API requirements (ostensibly for security), which leaves old games being unable to run on new devices.

    I have a bunch of games purchased om Humble Bundles over the years that now just refuse to run on my Android devices as their API target level is too old.