I've found that the ones being used by the search engines are generally quite good now. Google search fell off a cliff, but the AI does a better job at pointing to relevant information than their search results do. The problem for Google is that everyone else has an AI that's about as good. There's no reason to use Google's when competitors now give results just as good.

My productivity has improved because I'm spending a lot less time hunting down information on the web about some API or error code. The rest I don't care about. Even dumb chatbots have been decent at frontline customer service for a while now.

So my verbal description confused readers, I get that. I'll try again using examples.

This site hosts an Image-to-Triangle-Converter.

I invite you to play with it. You can see it's possible to convert any 2D image to bunches of triangles. The more triangles one uses, the better the resolution. The defaults on this site are not high-resolution, but high-res can be achieved by using much smaller triangles. (The optimum number of vertices per polygon and polygon sizes is an R&D project.)

So you agree any 2D image is "polygonizable"? Good.

Now extrapolate this idea to a movie. Rather than each frame be an independent triangle (polygon) set, an extrapolation algorithm connects similar "adjacent" polygons in each frame. Think of the frames as stacked on top of each other like a card deck.

In most cases, Frame n + 1 will be very similar to Frame n, giving us gradually-changing candidate connection lines. The extrapolation algorithm will give us a best fit, or best "economical" fit in terms of vertex conservation (depending on chosen resolution settings). The end result would be 3D polygons that together make up a giant cube: the Polycube. Our proverbial card deck is kind of melted together into one big "card cube".

(The boundary between "cut scenes" won't end up sharing very many polygons, but this is not a problem.)

If one digitally takes a "slice" of this cube, they get a frame of the movie. Note there are infinite slice points such that the frames don't have to be displayed in fixed intervals. The slice spacing would be determined by a particular display device, as each is capable of different display rates.

Make sense? If not, which phrase isn't clear?

Just because the writing was not clear doesn't mean it's schizo. It's just very hard to describe the concept using only words.

I invite help. Thank You.

If you wanted clarification of my original message, just say so instead of snarky shit. It is hard to describe without using several graphic illustrations, however.

Glad to see I'm not the only one who noticed that over time Amazon's search feature has enshitified. If that's the correct verb. It used to be fairly good. These days, nah, unless I'm looking for a book or other product from Amazon directly, as a search for the marketplace it's crap.

And since it used to be better, something must be responsible for that. Greed, most likely.

Not 99% but definitely some of the most useful ones. And yes, stack traces are one of the things that only Linux users send you without an explicit request.

And the advantage of debugging a (this specific exception) error in (this specific file) on (that specific line) over a "hey, the game crashed when I jumped out of the car" bug report cannot be overstated.

It seems inevitable that a movie should be stored as a giant cube built with myraid 3D polygons ("polycube" for a working term), where the axises of the cube are X, Y, and time. There would be no need for frames or pixels, those are only things the end-user's display device will have to create based on its particular technology.

Converting it for display would be like rapid "slicing of the cheese". A given second can be sliced into 10 frames or a 1000, there is no limit, other than computer processing of the display device.

Frame interpolation for smoothing then wouldn't be needed because there are no frames. Older movies can be converted to a polycube using conversion and interpolation algorithms. It could indicate a "favored frame rate" to reduce interpolation anomalies, which would make nostalgic purists happy.

It should also make producers happier because it gives display devices less reason to have to guess.

I suspect they'll eventually end up being designed akin to tall buildings with corridors between adjacent buildings ever few floors. The coolant will run in between.

"Intel bricks inside!"

Somehow that's still the least terrible thing he ever did. What a dick that Cheney was.

Do you think when G.W. joins him Cheney will shove his hand up Georgie boys ass again and puppet him around for old times sake?

The beauty of this is that they didn't specify much beyond that it had to be local content. There's nothing stopping Netflix from producing a show using local talent about how the local politicians are a bunch of horsefuckers. I'm not even Australian, but I might even be interested in watching an Australian show that shits all over their stupid politicians. Or since I'm an American Incan just wait for the inferior American remake.

I'm more curious to see how other posters react to this and to contrast it with their opinions on tariffs.

If people wanted it wouldn’t they be buying it of their own volition? Maybe you're interested is some uniquely Canadian cultural art, but most Canadians don't seem to care, just like most American consumers don't actually care about buying American products because they'll gladly purchase the cheaply made Chinese version instead when given a free choice.

If I were to tell you that these were mostly H-1B visa holders being cut would you change your tune and be incredibly happy since you're one of the posters here who seems to have a particularly fiery passion against them?

It'll only be stunted for someone who really should have bought a more expensive and powerful laptop. If it's aimed at students who will be using office apps, browsing the web, and using an email client then it will be more than good enough. I bought my mother a MacBook Air (I think it was a second generation model) that she used for almost a decade to do about as much. That only had a dual core Intel CPU that I think was sub-2 GHz and a lot less than 8 GB of RAM.

Of course we pages have grown increasingly bloated over the years, but a few extensions to block ads and unwanted scripts goes a long way. Even Chrome is reasonable with RAM use in those scenarios. Not everyone needs a 16-core CPU and 128 GB of RAM. I don't even need that most of the time, but it's nice to have when it is needed. Most people are t ever going to need that, at least not until web pages become even more bloated with ads and scripts.

Apple practically already sells this product. It's just that it's an iPad with a separate keyboard attachment. There's nothing stopping them from building it as a single hardware unit and running OS X instead of iOS on it. It could cost about the same $600 that the iPad and keyboard attachment cost if bought separately or even less since it's integrated and doesn't need a touchscreen if it's strictly a laptop.

I think there's a bigger issue at play. A sale is a legal contract involving two parties each exchanging something with each other. If one of those parties is non-human that immediately creates a question as to whether it can form a valid contract in the first place.

I'm sure someone has just had the bright idea to chime in about corporations not being people but being able to enter into contracts without considering why it would be horrible if they weren't able to, while also simultaneously failing to consider that unions aren't people either and would be similarly restricted. Good thing we've firmly lodged the pin in that hand grenade before anyone did anything stupid and had it blow up in their face

Laws can certainly be drafted to govern to what extent an AI agent can legally act on behalf of or at the behest of some actual person, but the laws aren't there yet.