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Comment Re:Warned us? He promoted it... (Score 5, Insightful) 144

Terminator 2 was 1991.

The original Terminator's plot explains that SkyNet was an AI developed by humans to more efficiently control assets of war, making the military far more effective. It became self-aware and decided to use its ability to control warmaking to eliminate humans, eventually creating the Terminator cyborgs.

So, even in-universe in The Terminator, it's originally a computer AI created by humans that eventually creates real-world soldier cyborgs. SkyNet never was "a robot holding a shotgun." SkyNet was, from the very beginning in the Terminator universe, an pretty classic AI that was given control of real-world resources and used them for its own, internally logical, purposes.

Comment Re:Radio and a CD player (Score 2) 110

Not really enough with modern cars that have all sorts of fancy features. For example, here are a few things off the top of my head in my wife's new Subaru that basically require a pretty robust interface:

Driver recognition system (figures out who's sitting in the driver's seat and adjusts various things to their personal settings)
Lane departure warnings
Adaptive cruise control
Automatic braking
Backup camera
Front view camera
360 degree camera
Multi-mode X-mode
Auto-downtilt side view mirrors

Then there's Android Auto/Carplay which you may not want but I do. I don't think my car's infotainment system is great by any means, but there are a lot of things in this new car that I really miss when I drive my 14-year-old car.

Who listens to FM radio and CDs anymore anyway? Saying those are enough in a modern car is silly. You might not want all these features, but being dismissive about literally all of them is just stupid.

Comment Re:They Were Too Expensive Anyway (Score 3, Interesting) 67

As someone else noted, these are beloved in the home lab market. They are small and low power, which means you can put several of them into a small space in a rack or cabinet and not have problems with heat or power consumption. Great for running Docker or Proxmox or whatnot. Put one on the network as a low power Plex server, one has a pfsense router, and another running bunch of Docker apps and you have a highly capable home lab in a very small space.

Comment Re:It won't die. (Score 2) 266

They're not even talking about "another moderating system." These protests are all community-supported. None of the protests I'm aware of are being imposed on the subreddits by power-hungry mods. Most have had, and are continuing to have, ongoing discussions within the communities and various polls and votes.

These protests are almost invariably community-supported. Replacing current moderators has nothing to do with overhauling the moderating system or getting rid of power-hungry mods.

Comment It won't die. (Score 5, Insightful) 266

I spend a lot of time on redddit, and I really hope these protests succeed, even though they won't. This new move (intentionally eliminating third party apps by introducing comically high API fees) is incredibly anti-user and has pissed off most of their core users and mods. The mods are volunteer workers who basically make reddit able to exist.

So a lot of subreddits, big and little, are protesting. They are continuing to protest. That's great. But there are two reasons, IMO, that it won't ultimately work:

1) Reddit will simply replace the mods of those subreddits with ones who will agree to open them back up to business as usual. There's nothing the current mods can do to stop it. Yes, this will piss off some of the most active contributors and workers, but this leads us to the second point:

2) There's nowhere else to go. When Digg did something similar (implementing extremely anti-user policies that pissed off their core user base), Reddit already existed. It was a relatively easy transition for the users to slide over to Reddit. However, at the moment, nothing else exists for Reddit users to move to. There's nothing in the pipeline, no up and coming social post/discussion sites. There's nothing else really like it that can absorb the culture.

This is a shrewd move by Reddit. It was the right time, from a business perspective. However, while Reddit is not actively dying, I do believe this will lead to the ultimate downfall of the site. Driving users to the official app and new site is an effort to boost "engagement" is going to kill a lot of the appeal of the site. Reddit is actively trying to fight against the way that most users actually interact with the site, instead trying to boost popular "content creators," monetize views, and push sponsored content and ads.

Redditors don't want TikTok and don't want Instagram, but Reddit sees the money in those sites and wants to move in that direction. Reddit wants to be ready when TikTok is banned to absorb those content creators and sponsors.

Comment Re:Most Charging at Night (Score 1) 418

If you commute about 15 miles a day, what's the problem? Your car will be virtually 100% charged at all times, whether it tops up at 6 PM or 2 AM. What situations do you find yourself in where it's an issue?

My next car will likely be electric. It's a quite rare instance that my family hops in the car and exceeds the range in a single day. For such instances, either we charge at a charging station or we take the wife's gasoline car while charging stations are still relatively rare. It's not nearly as big a deal as people make it out to be, and exceedingly few people actually travel in a way that surpasses a modern EV's ability to handle.

Comment Re: Foolish (Score 1) 121

AFAIK the 2007 iPhone doesn't have CarPlay at all.

That's the wrong question, though. People keep cars longer than phones. The question you should be asking is whether older CarPlay devices still work with new iPhones.

And the answer is yes.

So, your brand new iPhone in 2030 will probably still be CarPlay compatible with your 2023 Toyota.

Comment Re:Are you fucking nuts? (Score 1) 54

Again, used in plastic production but not actually plastic.

"Acrylonitrile styrene acrylate, also called acrylic styrene acrylonitrile, is an amorphous thermoplastic"

Dunno man Sounds pretty plasticy.

Also:

"A plastic by the name of acrylates copolymer, on the label of several body wash, cosmetic and cleaning products, may be harming human health and the environment. Massey University Political Ecology Research Centre co-director Dr Trisia Farrelly said products containing acrylates copolymer carried health risks, yet they fell outside of the current microbead ban."

"They are not biodegradable and will eventually end up in the ecosystem."

If you're claiming that these plastics break down quickly, are biodegradable, or are definitely not harmful to the environment or health, I'd like to see some pretty strong evidence of that before we literally start filling all of our roads with them.

Comment Re:Political talking points to help the governer (Score 2) 63

At current rates, the S9 can generate about $2.50 worth of BTC per day at current rates.

At an electricity price of 10 cents per KWh, it costs about $3 per day to run.

The S9 is a 7-year-old money loser. The city is better off simply buying $3 worth of BTC every day than they are running the S9.

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