Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea
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@cvi said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
Idea: record mouse movements from real users and from various mouse jiggling devices and scripts. Train AI to discriminate between the two. Ride AI buzzword wave and sell for $$$ to large companies.
Edit: and on the side train another AI to generate mouse movements that fool the first one. It slightly misses peak GAN buzzwordiness, but maybe it's worth a few $$ as an app to some people regardless.
Yeah, but you can combine the training into one project, so anything you can get from selling the second part is a free bonus on top of what you get from selling the first part.
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@izzion said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
But was it an enterprise mouse jiggler?
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@izzion said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@remi said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
The two models in TFA are around $100 (despite TFA saying $30-50), that's quite a lot! (the USB thingies are cheaper)
The fuck? I made a mouse jiggler with a piece-of-shit Arduino for like $9...
But was it an enterprise mouse jiggler?
It could even connect to the IoT so you could set the jiggle remotely!
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@Bulb said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@loopback0 said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
Definitely a good idea.
… though I'd just use a rounded consulation rate for everybody (by position) to avoid arguments about who makes how much and that it's showing sensitive information.
Shut your mouth! Trick the corporates into disclosing everybody's salary to everybody else, then watch the numbers even up upwards.
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@cvi said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
Idea: record mouse movements from real users and from various mouse jiggling devices and scripts. Train AI to discriminate between the two. Ride AI buzzword wave and sell for $$$ to large companies.
Already been done. And patented, I think.
Edit: and on the side train another AI to generate mouse movements that fool the first one.
Also done, which is why we now have to recognize boats, cats, crosswalks and residential buildings.
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@dcon said in Official Funny Stuff Thread - Trolleybus Edition:
Product idea:
Candy shaped like crayons. Sold in a proper crayon-like packet. Marketed to Marines as a handy energy-topper for field exercises.I mean, hard candy can be cast in about any shape. And food colorants can make it look just like crayon. Imagine the look on a lieutenant's face when he sees a squad under him munching on a packet of crayons...
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@acrow said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@dcon said in Official Funny Stuff Thread - Trolleybus Edition:
Product idea:
Candy shaped like crayons. Sold in a proper crayon-like packet. Marketed to Marines as a handy energy-topper for field exercises.I mean, hard candy can be cast in about any shape. And food colorants can make it look just like crayon. Imagine the look on a lieutenant's face when he sees a squad under him munching on a packet of crayons...
On that note:
For us in IT.
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@Carnage What a great way to teach children.
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@Carnage said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@acrow said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@dcon said in Official Funny Stuff Thread - Trolleybus Edition:
Product idea:
Candy shaped like crayons. Sold in a proper crayon-like packet. Marketed to Marines as a handy energy-topper for field exercises.I mean, hard candy can be cast in about any shape. And food colorants can make it look just like crayon. Imagine the look on a lieutenant's face when he sees a squad under him munching on a packet of crayons...
On that note:
For us in IT.
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@Zecc said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Carnage What a great way to teach children.
I suspect that's the reason they are sold out indefinitely.
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My wife recently confided in me her secret to not get ogled by men while working out at the gym: wear a cup.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
My wife recently confided in me her secret to not get ogled by men while working out at the gym: wear a cup.
Like a menstrual cup?
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@dangeRuss said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Mason_Wheeler said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
My wife recently confided in me her secret to not get ogled by men while working out at the gym: wear a cup.
Like a menstrual cup?
Cup. Vital piece of cricketing gear, except there it's called a box.
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@Watson Cricket has funny names for everything.
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@Watson said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@dangeRuss said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Mason_Wheeler said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
My wife recently confided in me her secret to not get ogled by men while working out at the gym: wear a cup.
Like a menstrual cup?
Cup. Vital piece of cricketing gear, except there it's called a box.
Pretty sure your wife already has a box and that's where guys are staring at the gym
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@Watson Considering they're American, they're probably wearing a baseball cup instead. A baseball cup looks like this, according to a google search:
And a cricket cup like this:
I'm not sure how you're supposed to wear that. But it's a British Commonwealth thing, so I'm prepared to accept that I wouldn't understand their thinking anyway.
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@dangeRuss said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
Pretty sure your wife already has a box and that's where guys are staring at the gym
I'm more of a chest kind of guy.
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@Zecc But let them out once in a while.
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@acrow said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Watson Considering they're American, they're probably wearing a baseball cup instead. A baseball cup looks like this, according to a google search:
And a cricket cup like this:
That's why cricketers call a cup a box. To prevent it from being confused with a cup.
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@dangeRuss said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Mason_Wheeler said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
My wife recently confided in me her secret to not get ogled by men while working out at the gym: wear a cup.
Like a menstrual cup?
People say, "write what you know". They are wrong.
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@acrow said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Watson Considering they're American, they're probably wearing a baseball cup instead. A baseball cup looks like this, according to a google search:
And a cricket cup like this:
I'm not sure how you're supposed to wear that. But it's a British Commonwealth thing, so I'm prepared to accept that I wouldn't understand their thinking anyway.
You're going to need a LOT of lube
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Guard baboons.
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@Gribnit Ekwensu ocha!
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Gribnit Ekwensu ocha!
It's been done, you say?
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@Gribnit Merely enthusiastically remarking. I don't think quite fair to condemn the whole program because of a single slip-up.
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Check the cables on the right...
Saw it on Discord, might be from here on
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@JBert Don't SSDs get hot during operation?
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@PleegWat Not very. SATA SSDs don't have the insane speeds. A400 even less so than most.
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@PleegWat Last Kingston like that I installed stated 5V 1A as the power requirements. I doubt it actually requires half that. And even then only during writes.
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@JBert said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
Check the cables on the right...
The screws in the middle aren't half bad either.
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@remi Sure, but they're only there for supporting the graphics card and don't do much otherwise.
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@JBert Yeah but I love the idea of not using any random box for holding the card.
"Yes, my graphics card is held by screws, of course."
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@remi Yes, but graphics card designs have become excessively idiotic for quite some time now. And this problem:
- Was not caused the the user
- Could not be solved in any reasonable capacity by the user
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@remi said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@JBert Yeah but I love the idea of not using any random box for holding the card.
On one of my old PCs, the fan fell off the radiator on the GPU. 7300GT, so not much cooling needed, but it was still needed. I was like 12 years old at the time, and I lacked both the skills to get it fixed and the funds to get the whole GPU replaced, so instead I grabbed one of unused case fans I had lying around, built a support structure out of Legos and put it under the GPU. But the airflow was kinda terrible, so I ditched the Legos and simply made the fan sit on top of 4 Jenga blocks. I also had my little sister blow on the radiator to bring down the temp every so often.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
Could not be solved in any reasonable capacity by the user
Most users lack any reasonable capacity to solve anything.
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@Gustav said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
I also had my little sister blow
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@Applied-Mediocrity @Gustav
you're both missing my point herelearn 2 read!!11!not using any random box
Using a box of screws to hold something that is usually held by screws is like rain on your wedding day.
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@remi Ok, I got your point
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@remi said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Applied-Mediocrity @Gustav
you're both missing my point herelearn 2 read!!11!not using any random box
Using a box of screws to hold something that is usually held by screws is like rain on your wedding day.
It's an NGK spark plug in a box.
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@Gustav said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
I also had my little sister blow on the radiator to bring down the temp every so often.
Did the spittle help?
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@loopback0 said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
It's an NGK spark plug in a box.
My interpretation was funnier.
I guess didn't help.
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@Gustav Back in my university days, I had GPU whose cooling was heavily optimized for silence, and refused to spin very fast even while the card was cooking itself.
So I jury-rigged a fan and duct to bring in fresh cool air through the IDE card openings in the PC case, right below the GPU. Being a student, I didn't have much money to spare. So the ducting material was bread bags. That is, the small plastic bags in which bread is packaged in the market.
Of course, to keep the limp duct open, the fan had to be mounted in the far end. With tape. Wish I'd kept a photo.
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And now that we're on the subject...
Back when I was 12, I had a computer whose only fan moving air in or out was in the PSU; it had no chassis fan at all. I felt this was insufficient. There was an empty place for an 80mm fan, and I happened to find one that I could use. However, I didn't have any screws that would fit. So I used folded Q-tips in place of screws. Back then, the Q-tips had a shaft of plastic, and it was rather springy, so they held for years until I got a better PC.
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@acrow My current PC uses a fan to hold a fan.
Or rather the fan (a spare) acts as a correct-sized duct to allow the fan connected to the water-cooled GPU to vent heat outside despite some switches being in the way of mounting in the only otherwise-suitable location to put the fan (because the water cooler has some extra stuff on the side; it's a little bit bigger than a standard case fan in one critical direction). It's all held together with solid-core copper wire; it's not being moved around, so that solution has worked really well.
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@dkf For water cooling, can you not just route the water tubing outside the case and use as big an external radiator/fan as you want?
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@HardwareGeek The tubing isn't really long enough and cutting holes in the side of the case would be a lot of work. I had a spare case fan (because I'd replaced it with a lower noise version) and plenty of wire so this was a really easy option.
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@dkf said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
My current PC uses a fan to hold a fan.
Don't they get tired?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@dkf said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
My current PC uses a fan to hold a fan.
Don't they get tired?
Eventually? Maybe. Not yet though.