Sometimes experimentation is the only thing standing between you and certain death. None of us would be surviving cancer if not for patients being experimented on.

Beyond terminal illnesses, the regulatory burdens should be very high and not lowered because something shiny and new comes along.

No doubt this AI will become the centrepiece of a tax free grift

There is plenty of downside to ditching Windows if your express purpose is to play games since Windows has the largest selection of games for any platform by far. Even with Steam or a dedicated Steamdeck this is the case. That isn't to say some random Steamdeck wannabe Windows thing is going to cut it either since it could suck for a variety of reasons like bad firmware, drivers, bloatware etc. that have nothing to do with running Windows and everything to do with poor implementation.

The accuracy may as well be summed up as minimal. If they can't be bothered to hire a presenter then they sure as hell can't be bothered to hire journalists, fact checkers or anything else. They have no reputation to throw into disrepute, no organisation to be held to account, nobody accountable at all. At best it's just some frontend aggregator that mangles stories it scrapes from elsewhere, or it hallucinates them, or it's deliberately spreading clickbait or outright disinfo.

In addition to the slop which is narrated by AI I've seen multitple channels masquerading as news reports where the "person" is very clearly AI. Something normally gives it away like the facial expressions not emoting, or the body movements seeming not quite right, or the way they face the camera, or some kind of plastic / tone issue. But sooner or later these things will be imperceptible.

Government really need to get on top of this and require AI generated content to be watermarked and very clearly labelled on social media platforms.

Delete "4) public services, i.e." above

Waymo and their ilk are trying to replace public transport with their own for-profit self interests. When their cars kill occupants, or pedestrians, or other road users, or generally become a nuisance, driving slowly or unpredictably or violating laws then why should anyone accept it?

They might claim safety but they have an obvious conflict of interest in being truthful. While I trust Waymo more for transparency that Tesla, the reality is all of these things should be held to regulatory scrutiny and independent research and there should be a statutory obligation to provide data that makes independent appraisal possible. And those appraisals should become published safety ratings for the service based on things such as 1) safety for occupants, pedestrians and other road users - not just road accidents, but robberies, attacks, 2) making progress, i.e not dawdling or driving erratically, 3) adherence to the law, 4) public services, i.e.

In addition, cities and governments should limit the fleet size of these services, tax them to fund public transport, compel non-discrimination of service, and amend road traffic laws to prosecute & criminally charge companies and board members if they are found negligent. And maybe, just maybe with all that in place then fatalities might be deemed acceptable, counterbalanced by the reputation and criminal liability these companies are under.

"being compelled to truthfully report our environmental impact is hurting our free speech!!!"

People usually sit so far back from the screen they cannot distinguish individual pixels. After that point it hardly matters if the TV is 4K or 1080p because either way it's the same. A modern 4K TV doesn't just bump pixels of course and probably has better colour reproduction, depth, contrast, backlighting, latency etc which improves the picture in other ways. And satellite / streaming might offer a higher bitrate which means less visible artifacts. But for video games I think I'd drop the resolution if the console is able to deliver a higher framerate, or more effects by doing so.

It's one thing to make their vehicle software better so people have less reason to use their phone. But taking away the choice is just greed. It is obviously intended to monetize the user - analytics gathering, ads, upselling,"premium" services & subscriptions and a shittier experience for anyone fool enough to buy these cars.

No, it's the Oculus 3 and the way it supports PC - it compresses video and that degrades the image and introduces latency. It's not uncommon to see blanks around the periphery motion tracking from the way it does this. In addition to that, tethering is almost impossible because of the way the USB cable in the Oculus is designed with the cable sticking out the side. Fortunately it does wifi which works but only for people right next to their router. Not to mention the overall clunkiness of having to boot into Oculus, wait for that to launch, navigate to SteamVR, then wait for that to connect and finally launch games. Not to mention that some games clearly haven't been tested very well with the Oculus display / controllers and have issues. Not to mention having to install Meta Quest Link and the added bloat of that.

Does that mean it can't be used? No. As I said, the experience is okay but its not great for all the reasons above. If you really wanted to game with Steam VR and didn't care about mobile gaming you'd be better off buying a dedicated headset which is properly supported.

the core challenge of renewable energy is it's inconstancy. Physical batteries are a bandaid and long distance grids are a council of despair. The real solution for reliable renewable energy is to just build out four or five times the peak load. Then when it's cloudy or not windy you still have way more power than you need to supply the peak load. But of course this has the problem that you just spent four of five times as much capital. And that's a non-starter. But the easy, though bad solution, to this is bitcoin batteries. Just mine bitcoin with the excess and shut off the mining when it's cloudy .

Now along some AI. What a match made in heaven. A completely portable task. Move the calculation to whatever data center currently has power whether it's Norway or Texas. You can soak up all that excess renwable power. Plus there's plenty of non-real time batch jobs you can run that can adapt. For example training.

Perfect.

Shame the US decided to lose the AI power race by nixing renewables

HA. The whole point of being retro is the hipster aspect of being cooler. But no one can be cool if they are not socially observed as being cool. It's the tree falling in the forest. You are only cool if people know you are cool. Affectations of retro style require humble bragging.

I really need to get some self discipline. As much as I try I keep checking Reddit. I loath myself. The only good thing to happen in the last few years was Elon buying twitter. That made getting unhooked on that time waste easy. But Reddit became my methadone.

I've resolved that I'm going to start hitting you tube for educational videos. Gonna learn Lie Group theory!

The problem is Trump. Everyday I have to see what fresh hell he's caused. Life was so placid when we had Biden or Obama or George Bush. Like them or loathe them it wasn't insanity.

I have an Oculus 3. The PC gaming experience is okay but it's not great.