Lugh

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A Harvard/Oxford team of researchers has developed a tool to predict viral mutations. They say that had it been available at the start of the pandemic, it would have correctly predicted all the Covid mutations that evolved to dominate.

[–] Lugh 2 points 1 year ago

pipedvideobot.

Thanks for that info, it very useful. I've been wondering about bots, we'd talked about writing one to cross-post the subreddit's content to the fediverse site.

[–] Lugh 2 points 1 year ago

Lots of batteries promise lots of things.

Sure, but in fairness to CATL, they are arguably the world leaders in EV battery tech, so their claims rank more seriously than most.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CATL

[–] Lugh 2 points 1 year ago

Bring in people to fix them.

The problem from now on is that robots will do things cheaper and better. When robo-taxis are widespread, who will want a $20 fare with a human driver, when the robo-taxi fare is $5.

At some point, we'll have to reorganize how we support people, and pay for things. The day is coming AI & robots will be able to do most work cheaper than humans.

[–] Lugh 3 points 1 year ago

We beta tested it for a while & went live today.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/15wi75l/rfuturology_is_now_in_the_fediverse_at/

It will be interesting to see how it does. r/futurology has 19 million subscribers, but I don't know what that means for the lemmy site.

[–] Lugh 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I hope the Lemmy devs sort out email verification soon. We had so many problems we switched it off at futurology.today & went with limiting new sign-ups to a set amount per hour to combat bots instead.

[–] Lugh 1 points 1 year ago

Interesting, although this is down to a tiny amount of shares being available, so its more a temporary pricing anomaly, than a true value.

[–] Lugh 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice to see that go through. Lemmy is playing far better with Kbin, than it is with Mastodon.

[–] Lugh 6 points 1 year ago

Shame nothing works the other way around yet. The only option Lemmy seems to give is to DM a mastodon account & even that doesn't seem to work (at least it didn't for me).

[–] Lugh 2 points 1 year ago

incoming reddit users could be a huge benefit (familiarity) And maybe add those options (a. & old.) on the side panel with a link for tutorials how to use Lemmy and its apps

Yes, I've been thinking about how to make it as simple as possible to understand for reddit users. Where we explained it here, is an attempt to reduce things to the simplest language - https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/15pbknv/do_you_have_some_time_to_take_a_look_at/

[–] Lugh 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks, hadn't thought of that, we'll look at it.

[–] Lugh 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks. It seems email verification is what is causing most of the problems.

[–] Lugh 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Thank you. This is very helpful. Someone else questioned why we are even using email verification as they said few other instances are using it.

We'd assumed it was important from the perspective of bots, trolling, spam, etc But it seems to be at the root of the problems we've been having.

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