Pretty much. Open AI doing an IPO will be the canary. Unfortunately for them it's taking a while as they have to shake off the whole non-profit thing first.

It's like during one of the earlier bitcoin bubble, where the financial services industry was busy trying to get a crypto options market up and running. Like clockwork, once you could short BTC then it had an almighty crash.

There are a lot of people who want to exit Open AI to make a lot of money. They will exit, then make money on the crash, then make money when the Fed predictably starts pouring cheap money into the markets to try to prevent a wider crash.

It's hard to see how this is even fun for them anymore. They have more money than you can spend in a lifetime, and have rigged so much of the financial system that it's like playing a slot machine where you're choosing when it should pay out. Surely these guys are bored out of their minds by now.

Is there much of a difference between limiting your number and duration of breaks, and clocking you in/out while you run to the bathroom?

Yes; there is a huge difference. Limitations on breaks must be reasonable, and employees must be allowed to bathroom when they need to: for example, the employer can't say you don't get to use the bathroom or can only do once or twice per shift. Limits can be applied, but there are limits to the limits. Generally employers are not interested at all as result in accounting for every little break you take as a result and would only start to notice If you are taking several breaks an hour. On the other hand; employees who are sick or have medical conditions such as Crohn's or IBD may need access to the bathrooms several times per hour, and the law is that employers must accommodate.

The key thing to understand is that an hourly rate of pay is for time the employee spends for the employer - Not amount of time the employee is actually completing useful work. If you are required to be available or be somewhere or do something, then you are on employer time, and that includes time you are there waiting for access, or waiting for the employer's process to allow you work, But it also times While you are there that you are on the job but incidentally require a temporary relief or pause due to your human needs and bodily functions.

This is just in the same way that If you are on an assembly line - the employer Can't pay you on a micro-timeclock which only counts up while you are touching a workpiece. The employer has to pay for All time you are occupied and not free to be at home, or wherever you wanted to be due to the employer.

There is no "NLP layer".

This HMD doesn't work at all without steam. You need an account to use it.

This is absurd nonsense.

No shit of course everyone wants untethered VR. The problem is untethered VR in the real world means shit graphics, shit battery life and a bulky HMD that generates more heat than the sun. There are enough people using VR for flying/racing/space SIMs for there to be a market for tethered VR.

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All I can tell from this video is they're trying new things which, in this era of technology, is a good thing. It seems like it's missing what in humans would be called reflexes.

Toyota makes cars that last in factories that last. They're preparing for January 2029 when the Troll-in-Chief leaves office.

Developers of iOS native apps have to know what TLS is because the App Transport Security policy of iOS requires all web APIs used by the application and controlled by its developer to use TLS since 2015.

Why does Microsoft care what browser you use? Why do they even make a web browser? Revised: Why do they bother taking someone else's open-source browser and rebranding it with their logo?

So it's good.... except for the bad shit.

I have an 8" Fire for playing basic strategy games, looking at manuals, and light web browsing. It's good for that, and cheap. I side-loaded the Google store, which is much better than the Amazon store. I used to have a Nexus 7 that I loved, but I don't think they make Nexus tablets any more.

Yeah, it would probably take legislation forcing all of them to post and advertise prices including taxes. If everyone had to do it no retailer would be disadvantaged by being the first.

That said, I think it's a bad idea, unless retailers also have to itemize out the taxes on receipts so that consumers can see how much tax they're paying, which typically doesn't happen in Europe, as far as I've noticed (other than VAT, which is often itemized out on some purchases so that foreigners can get a VAT rebate). I think it's important that people see the taxes they pay so they can evaluate whether they think they're getting good value for their tax money. This is why I also oppose corporate taxes and any other sorts of taxes that are ultimately borne by individual taxpayers but are hidden by layers of obfuscation. Actually, there's another reason to oppose corporate taxes: Corporate taxes delegate to corporations the decision of how to allocate the cost of the taxes between customers, employees and shareholders. That allocation is an important public policy matter, and it should be decided by legislation, not by corporate bosses.

To be clear, I think there are a variety of public services that absolutely should be funded by taxpayers, and wholeheartedly support taxation for those purposes. But exactly what should be taxpayer-funded, at what level and with what efficiency are all important questions that voters should have input into, and that requires that they actually see what taxes they're paying.

Seems like VR technology is moving backwards. All I want in an HMD is something that runs OpenXR and plugs into the GPU in the back of a PC. Last HMD on the market to do that was the G2... great hardware shit optics.

Now they all have their own hardware on board which needlessly adds cost, heat and weight of course proprietary walled garden app stores. Even shit like Pimax requires a goddamn "account" just to install.

If you want to connect to PC you either have to fork out another $100 for a proprietary cable or suffer with needless quality and latency hits over shit wireless transmission schemes. This isn't even some ultra low latency high bandwidth 60ghz scheme but just plain old WiFi. They don't even care.

Instead of foveated rendering we get foveated compression and tripling down on proprietary walled gardens and data collection.

I think Gilgarom means either a uhd bd player, or that said device will be plessed by streaming services to receive 4k streams, or perhaps both. Or I might be wrong they ware a bit unspecific m but there is no need to be agressive about it, that helps no one