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Comment Re: Where is the killer app? (Score 1) 133

...seems like a good use case for "VR with 'ordinary' glasses"....

That's never going to happen. It would require a power source a quarter of the size of a AAA battery with the power density of a small nuclear reactor.

AR will likely never be feasible in a mobile capacity, but has tons of uses in a controlled environment. Given that the Quest owns the VR space and is getting into the AR market, it will likely be first to market with affordable AR.

The Apple Pro failing was obvious at launch, as the price was too high and tethered you to an external power source that is clunky and ugly.

Comment I Question This (Score 1) 74

I question the reporting on this. The report says, "...can autonomously exploit vulnerabilities...", while the actual paper says, "...our prompt is detailed and...was a total of 1056 tokens."

That is a far cry from autonomous. The language model is impressive, but I see a great deal of misrepresentation of its actual capabilities.

The paper goes on to say that they are not disclosing the prompt.

Comment Re:Screw the American auto industry (Score 0) 305

the product, fossil fuel cars, is obsolete...

I was singing a similar tune until this last winter, when a bunch of Teslas completely died due to the cold. People were pushing them down the street to get to charging stations. That showed me that fossil fuel vehicles are far from obsolete, and will continue to thrive until problems such as this are solved.

Comment Not Surprising (Score 1) 85

What is surprising is that Samsung has held on as long as it has. It makes TV's that record you in your private spaces, phones that have so much unremovable crapware that the user is within inches of spontaneous seizures, is plagued by rampant managerial corruption, and makes appliances that fail quickly and repeatedly.

The general quality of the company's entire product line has turned to complete shit over the last couple decades, and the company has shown no signs of identifying and correcting the problems. Working extra hours under the same conditions that got the company to where it's at now is just going to make the problem worse. It needs to redesign all of its processes from top to bottom, and to get rid of the leadership that caused all this damage to begin with.

Comment Re:So? (Score 4, Insightful) 93

...but Liz isn't complaining that they keep trying to upsell me on that.

YouTube didn't have an agreement with the federal government to provide free services that it violated at every stage of the tax paying process. Intuit did. That agreement was in exchange for the federal government not providing its own free service.

Comment Re:Let's end Microsoft Ads (Score 1) 37

I put an end to that by installing Linux.

I saw Microsoft being an evil piece of shit back in 1995, and only kept Windows on my computer until 1999 because some of my college classes required it (such as the VB5 class). I had used Linux off and on since 1993, but had to remove it to make room for Windows due to required degree classes.

After I cleared the MS-only classes out of my degree requirements, and coincidentally lost everything on my hard drive due to a Windows virus at the same time, I reformatted and reinstalled Slackware as my only operating system. All of my class work was saved on 3.5" floppies, so what I lost was mostly personal programming projects I'd done between 1984 and 1995 (which was a lot, but was almost entirely obsolete by that point and existed mostly for sentimental reasons). I copied the floppies back onto my hard drive, and still have them on my current RAID.

It's still funny to me that I told Microsoft to piss off when a recruiter called me to schedule an interview during my senior year. I told her that I could never work for such an evil company, and she was shocked that I wasn't jumping up and down in glee at the prospect of working there. After a few more attempts to get me to change my mind, she gave up. Looking back on Microsoft in the tech press over the decades, it quickly became obvious that I had made the right choice.

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