That idea works in theory where there isn't any negatives. The problem is there always is. Your goal is to consume media. Do you care about quality? Netflix is the antithesis for that. Their goal is for you to consider them the second screen.

Second.

Not first. Not only. They are not trying to engage you. They want to be on in the background so you feel a connection to them to not cancel your service, essential noise while you doom scroll.

They have explicitly said as such and that is the reason many of their shows have fucking horrendous screenplays that would get you an F in a high school drama class. Like really basic don't do this 101 level shit such as expositing what is currently happening on the screen. You know... because they don't want you to actually watch the screen.

While too many streaming companies is a bad thing, nothing good comes from Warner Bros being dragged down to make absolutely fucking rubbish at the direction of Netflix's upper management - which Netflix is objectively doing.

That's great. You get all my competitors together to follow this standard with a minimal amount of opt-in data and I'll just keep hovering up the entire internet. You see why my competitors may not be so keen on your standard idea?

Does your browser advertise itself as a web crawler? But let's math this shit!

You are a human. I suspect when you browse it takes you a good 10-20 seconds to make a connection, wait, receive a captcha, re-evaluate and context switch, and attempt to switch to another website. That's conservatively 6 attempts per minute. I assume you need to eat, drink, shower, shit and sleep so let's say you spend every other moment constantly battling Cloudflare like a lunatic even professionally while you work. That's 16 hours a day, 960minutes, or 5760 attempts per day. Or a total of 875,520. There'd need to be close to 500,000 of you lunatics doing this all day, every day, every waking moment, continuously for 5 months to match this number.

Somehow I think even if you did get get stuck in a captcha, and it did get counted ... I don't mean to belittle you but you're quite insignificant in this number.

I thought Microsoft just shovel money at OpenAI. Do Microsoft even do any of their own model training at all?

Anti-trust violations are not innovation. But thanks for writing the most stupid thing I've read this year, which is impressive given how low the bar already was. I see why you post AC.

I've never seen one run a red light, but I know someone who was hospitalised when it happened to them. This stuff happens all the time. Pretending that humans don't is the same side of silly bias you apply to villainising Waymo.

Yeah Waymos aren't perfect, but what they are is programmatically consistent. It's like people who don't know the law about not doing U-turns at a red light (illegal in my city but you see people do it all the time out of ignorance).

There's a difference between a mistake and ignorance of the rules. Waymo falls under the latter. The difference is when this is addressed it will be done across the fleet, while a human you fix on a case by case basis.

We have that. The very company you vilify has a far better track record than a human driver. Maybe not for breaking some rule, but definitely for actual incidents. Note that as yet a Waymo has never hit a school kid, or person, it did hit a dog and cat at one point though.

No that is false, all incidents involving self driving vehicles need to be reported. What we're talking their word for is that they aren't breaking minor road rules that lead to no outcome.

Precisely zero people have claimed that self-driving cars are incapable of making mistakes. Their power and benefit is in their ability fix fleet-wide problems that can't be addressed even individually with humans. Anyone who has ever claimed these cars would be perfect (especially in their infancy right now) is delusional.

Maybe your post will be relevant in 2035, but not now.

I'd say the safest place to cross would be from a place you're clearly visible, but you do you, rely on that sign that is only there for a brief second specifically for only a tiny subset of humanity.

The fact you consider this as "safe" is the problem with society. You've excepted a horrible band-aid for a dangerous situation covering a small minority rather than addressing the underlying cause: your road design is shit and dangerous that you yourself acknowledge you don't want kids to use. Why would you make excuses for this shit?

What do school busses have to do with anything? Leave them out of the equation. The people who designate street crossings need to do their fucking job. That is all.

Put up, shut up and work around it has never in the history of mankind lead to an ideal and efficient outcome. My point was YOU SHOULDN"T HAVE TO, and your acceptance of this is a major part of the problem with American society.

My experience with 40 Series and 50 Series NVENC is that the AV1 hardware encoder massively out performs their HEVC encoder in terms of speed.

Or download movies. Netflix is completely enshitified on PC.

Have you tried a Chromecast? I mean not the "aging" one you have but the current HD model.

Errr no. AV1 hardware support has been standard in Android phones for 6 years, similar for iPhone. So virtually every mobile device has native hardware AV1 decoding. It has been standard as a hardware decoder for all AMD GPUs and CPUs for 6 years, NVIDIA for 5 years, Intel for 5 years, and video hardware specifically for 6 years as well.

*Most* devices support AV1 hardware decoding. Some older one support software only. At this point the world+dog has no issue with AV1. Your post belongs back in 2022.

If someone is shouting "hey google" through your window in a way that Google hears them it's not a fair point, you've simply left your window open and they wouldn't need to open the garage in the first place.

And what is the alternative? How do you tell the average person how to traverse his IPv4 network behind NAT, possibly behind CG-NAT? Like it or not the cloud is a necessity for anything that extends beyond a few meters from your home.

Why? Well I direct you to us. We are the fucking problem. Just look up any Slashdot story about IPv6 and see the tech heads bitch and moan about the potential change. It may even be you yourself, if so go tell yourself fuck-you in the mirror for breaking the end-to-end connectivity concept pushing us ever more towards the cloud.